Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 4
Monday, 28 October 2024
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
Newsletter is sent out when there is something new.
Please send entries by the end of the workweek–Ed.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
Data Science Seminar
Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to present their research at the Data Science Seminar. This includes research in other areas that involves data science.
On Oct 17, our alumna Valerie Nelson spoke on "Understanding Data Science in Practice to Use Data the Right Way to Inform Strategy."
Contact coordinator for more information.
Co-ordinator: Edmund Ameyaw
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TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, 10 am on zoom.
Dr. John Johnson of Ohio State has been speaking.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Math Biology Seminar
Tuesdays, 12.30 to 1.30pm, Room 205, Annex III.
On Oct 29, Christopher Kim will talk about “Learning to generate brain activity in biologically plausible neural networks.”
Coordinator: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
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WEDNESDAYS
Number Theory Seminar
Wednesdays at 3.30pm, on zoom.
Daniel Mamo is speaking about basic theory of modular forms.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
Coordinators: Francois Ramaroson and Sankar Sitaraman
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizer: Jill McGowan
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FRIDAYS
Undergraduate Math Seminar
Seminars will resume soon.
More details – contact Bourama Toni
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm. Room 213 and zoom.
Friday, November 1
Mohamed Omar, York University
“Search for the Lost Determinant”
Friday, November 8
Ricardo Conceicao, Gettysburg College.
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) NYU information session on BioStatistics Graduate Program
The Department of Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Public Health is engaged in three inter-related activities that aim to improve Public Health through rigorous research and that educate future practitioners, leaders and researchers. The department currently offers a number of degrees including an advanced certificate in Public Health Data Science, a MS in Biostatistics, a MPH with a concentration in Biostatistics, and a PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Biostatistics. During the summer months we host the Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research (PQAR) summer program, which invites underrepresented undergraduate students to NYC/NYU to learn quantitative public health methods!
Registration website for virtual meeting
Chicago Symposium Series
The symposia are joint with The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab. The symposium starts with a special event aimed at providing participants with practical coding and data science skills suitable for all levels of education. This short course in earth data science will focus on regional topical data and will be led by Indigenous members and affiliates of ESIIL
Chicago Botanic Garden on Friday, November 8
In previous newsletters
NSF STEM Education CAREER Webinar Series
Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference 2024
AWM 2025 Research Symposium
Simiode challenge for differential equations modeling
Matlab and Mathworks webinar
Disability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. More about our colleagues who are starting this semester
Sayomi Kamimoto, Assistant Professor, research area Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis.
Sayomi received her B.S. from the University of the District of Columbia with Honors and her Ph. D from George Mason University in Mathematics, under Evelyn Sander. She did post-doctoral work at NYU and the US Naval Research Labs. Her research includes modeling of behavior of groups of animals using dynamical systems and machine learning.
Christopher Kim, Assistant Professor, research in Data Science, Machine Learning, Numerical Analysis.
Christopher got an M.A. degree in Computational Neurosciences in 2007 from U. of Chicago and then graduated in Pure Mathematics at U. Minnesota in 2013 under Robert David Gulliver. Before arriving at HU, he was PostDoctoral Fellow at U. of Minnesota (MN) and Bernstein Center in Freiburg (Germany) and then Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Biological Modeling at NIH. He is the author of several research articles ranging from neural networks to differential geometry.
Jermain McDermott, Full-time Lecturer.
Jermain received his Ph. D from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2024 where his thesis was “Eventually Stable Quadratic Polynomials over Q(i)” with LawrenceWashington. He got his B. S. from George Mason University, Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors.
In previous newsletters
AIM request for proposals
MAA invites workshop proposals
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. Graduate Student Research Experience Spring 2025 in Cancer Research
MD Anderson's Cancer Science Program sponsors Howard graduate students for this 10 week program. Application form (deadline Oct 31).
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
Visiting faculty program at FermiLabs
Opportunity for faculty and up to two students to spend a summer at Fermilab.
3. Bridge to Ph. D program at Columbia University
The Bridge to Ph.D. Program is designed to eliminate barriers that students may encounter on their path toward graduate education in STEM fields. Through intensive research, academic training, and personalized mentoring, the program equips post-baccalaureates with the tools they need to strengthen their graduate school applications and transition smoothly into Ph.D. Programs. Competitive stipends available. Applications start Nov 11 and priority deadline is Feb 1.
4. American Association of University Women
AAUW provides fellowships and grants to women pursuing graduate education.
Deadline is Nov 15.
In previous newsletters
Data Skills Fellowship for minority students
National Cancer Institute Summer Internship
Brookhaven National Lab Summer Program
Homeland Security Department (DHS) summer program
Summer Research at NRL (Naval Research Lab)
Department of Navy HBCU/MI Student Internship Programs
Solar Manufacturing Internship for Leaders in Energy (SMILE) Program
Hydrogen Energy Education program
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Documentary : Why Democracy lives and dies by math
In this very interesting documentary Vicki Abeles explores how the lack of math skills in the general population, especially under-represented minorities, threatens our democracy. One of the highlights is the Algebra project by civil rights activist Bob Moses.