Math Dept 2021-2022 Newsletter 12
Monday, 28 March 2022
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
TUESDAYS
Clifford Algebra Seminar
Meeting at 3pm on Tuesdays.
Contact coordinators for zoom link
Coordinators Dennis Davenport and Tim Myers
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Combinatorics Seminar
Meeting at 3pm on Tuesdays.
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link
WEDNESDAYS
Applied Math Reading Seminar
Wednesdays online from 12 to 1pm.
Students will get to practice studying papers and working on research problems. This semester the topic is Machine Learning. Session 2 to N will be recorded.
Please write the coordinator for original handouts or for the recording link.
Contact coordinator for zoom link as well.
Coordinator: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Lou Shapiro (math team)
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Number Theory Seminar
Select Wednesdays, 4-5pm, on zoom
(If departmental meeting is scheduled for that time, seminar will be moved to following Wednesday).
Seminar will continue on Wednesday, 30 March.
Francois Ramaroson is giving talks on some problems involving elliptic curves.
Coordinator: Sankar Sitaraman
THURSDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Neil Hindman has been talking about “Sums and products in N and piecewise syndetic sets.”
10-11 am on zoom on Thursdays.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Coordinator: Noel Bourne
FRIDAYS
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm.
Friday, 4/1/2022
James Gates, Brown University.
Title: TBA.
On 3/25 Giuseppe Gaeta of University of Milan talked about the mathematics of bological evolution.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
SPRING 2022 HOWARD UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE, MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, APRL 23
Organized by Katie Gurski, Joon Ha, Yeona Kang and Aziz Yakubu
The Conference theme is Mitigation of Future Pandemics : Lessons Learned from Covid-19 and Other Global Pandemics
Speakers include Avner Friedman of Ohio State, Morgane Rolland of the US Army Medical R & D Command, Carson Chow of NIH,
Cecile Viboud of NIH/FIC, John Glasser of CDC, Zhilian Feng of NSF/Purdue, Michael Reed of Duke and Katie Gurski.
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) NAM Regional Faculty Conference on Research and Teaching Excellence
The conference is geared for faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). May 13-14 at Norfolk State University. More information at Conference Website. The conference consists of four components:
The Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid Lecture
This is an hour-long talk which proceeds the Friday banquet.
Recognition Banquet
This dinner takes place Friday evening.
Contributed Talks
Eight faculty speakers may present on topics of their choice. Each faculty speaker has 20 minutes to present with 5-10 minutes of questions and answers
Regional Panel Discussion
A discussion to focus on issues relevant to the region in which the conference is held. The conference will close out on Saturday with this discussion.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Our congratulations and best wishes to Dan Williams on his retirement after 26 years of distinguished service as Director of the COAS Honors Program and as our colleague in the Mathematics Department enriching the lives of students and faculty alike.
2. Katie Gurski writes: “We are starting an Applied math Journal Club for Students and Professors. We'll have people to sign up to present a paper and everyone will join the discussion...We plan to be virtual this Spring semester and for the summer.”
3. Howard University Research Month
April 1 to 29 has been designated as research month. To present at the research symposium or to volunteer please go to http://researchmonth.howard.edu
4. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Howard Math Dept REU
Department of Mathematics was awarded a grant to hold an REU on campus this summer. This is a small program we only need four students. If you know any students who may qualify, please share the below link with them and encourage them to apply. Website: hureu.org
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) Summer-Internship with DOE's Minority Student Program
10 week internship opportunity under the Minority Educational Institution Student Partnership Program (MEISPP)
with the Department of Energy.
2. (Thanks to Katie Gurski) NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowships
The program helps early career, non-tenured faculty to travel and collaborate at eligible institutions.
3.
DOE
electric vehicles charging fellow
Work in department of energy's joint office of energy and transportation and gain experience in this emerging field.
4. NIH/NIAID Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is the largest funder of infectious and immune-mediated disease research and globally plays a major role in responding to disease outbreaks and pandemics. This fellowship is for graduate students.
More information and application
In past newsletters
NIH/NIDDK Summer of data program
CMU data analytics summer workshop
Various summer programs
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Proof of the Logarithmically averaged Chowla Conjecture
Article from Quanta Magazine about the proof of this important conjecture concerning behavior of prime numbers by Maksym Radziwill and Harald Helfgott.
2. (Recommended by Roberto De Leo) The sorry state of teaching ODEs
3. (Recommended by Louise Raphael) Takeaways from the latest UN climate report