Math Dept 2023-24 Newsletter 1
Monday, 11 September 2023
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[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
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Welcome back everyone. Hope you had a great summer!
Special welcome to our new faculty and graduate students.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Talks will resume soon.
Time and day TBA.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
WEDNESDAYS
Graduate Student Seminar
1pm, wednesday.
Contact Shakuan Frankson for more information.
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Applied Math Reading Seminar
Coordinator: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizer: Jill McGowan
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FRIDAYS
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm.
On friday, Sep 1, Sohail Farhangi of University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland spoke about the partition regularity of ax+by = c(w^m)(z^n).
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (From our former colleague Talitha Washington via Shakuan Frankson) AUC data science symposium
The Atlanta University Consortium (AUC) invites Howard students to present their data science work during their one day symposium on Sep 22, friday.
Information, Application for talks and Resume submission
2. NAM Undergraduate mathfest (Sep 22-24, 2023)
Talks by leading researchers geared for students, Poster opportunities, Student talks, and many other events, happening at Clark Atlanta Universities. HBCU students especially.
3. (Thanks to Tim Myers) Southeastern Atlantic regional conference on differential equations (SEARCDE)
The URL below connects to information pertaining to the 41st SEARCDE.
This year this annual conference will take place at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee during the weekend of Nov 18-19.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Tim Myers writes:
a. My paper entitled An Ordered Tuple Construction of Geometric Algebras has been accepted for publication in La Matematica, the official journal for AWM (The Association for Women in Mathematics).
b. Since June 1 I have been conducting research with two mathematicians in the field of nonlinear PDEs in one of the four research groups in ADJOINT 2023,which is hosted by the research institute SLMath(formerly MSRI).
This endeavor included a two week residency at SLMath in Berkely, California.
c. I have been invited to give a talk at JMM 2024 in the special session entitled Recent Trends in Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems.
2. Mohammad Mahmood writes:
We have received a new NSF research grant of amount $511,230, Investigation of Chemical Transformations in Host-Guest Systems at Extreme Conditions on 06/30/2023 (07/01/2023-06/30/2026) with Dr. A. Goncharov, Senior Staff Scientist (CoPI) of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C .This is in addition to our existing NSF grant ending in 2025 on Exploring Frontiers in Novel Material Synthesis at High Pressures: Synthesis and Recovery of Superhard and High Energy Density Polynitrides, and has also been supported by DoD through their multiple research grants since 2009.
3. Awn Alqatani Ph. D defense
Congratulations to Awn Alqatani who successfully defended his thesis titled “Quantum groups and their invariant thoery” on June 8, 2023. His thesis advisor was Xinting Wang.
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. Opportunities at DHS
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) Visiting Scientist Program is offering postdoctoral fellowships for recent graduates. Fellows will join the TSL in a new endeavor in threat detection technology and applied research, specifically related to synthetic data generation. The need to develop synthetic methods to evaluate new Deep Learning algorithms is paramount and the proposed research is new and innovative.
The project involves a team of TSL staff and researchers. The program is seeking recent graduates that have experience in modeling and large data sets and have a foundational knowledge of the physics or engineering applicable in learning to create high-fidelity synthetic data.
More information and application
2. Opportunities at Wells-Fargo
Both graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to apply for the many data and analytics related opportunities.
3. DOE – Energy efficiency and Conservation fellowships
Under the guidance of a mentor, fellows will support the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program while learning about the role of a Project Officer in managing Federal grants to state, local, and Tribal governments. Applicants must be US citizens/residents who received their degrees (Bachelor/Masters/Doctoral) within last 60 months.
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Interview with Andrew Granville on the nature of proofs (and AI and future of mathematics)
In this article titled “Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact” Number theorist Andrew Granville talks about what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach.
The article is based on the following essay by Granville on the same topic, but with more detail about the new theorem proving virtual engines.
2. How Aristotle created the computer