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Announcements for Fall 2016

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• NEW DATE! Friday, October 21, 5:30 pm: The annual fall picnic at Sand Run Park Mingo pavilion (map) will be hosted by the math department faculty and student groups: PME, WIM and SIAM. All are invited--students and guests are free, faculty should bring a dish to share. RSVP (not required but appreciated) to Stefan Forcey.
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet Fridays September 16, 23, and 30 from 4:25 to 5:15pm in CAS 220D.
  Dr. Hung Nguyen of the University of Akron will speak on:
  Rational-valued and real-valued characters.
• Join Pi Mu Epsilon! Anyone can join the student org as a math club member (no requirements except loving math!) and then apply for honor society membership.
• More Seminars and Colloquia are currently scheduled in algebra, combinatorics and PDE's.
• We have now an official SIAM Student Chapter.
• The Women In Mathematics group is hosting seminars this semester by female mathematicians on their research and career opportunities.

Old Announcements for Spring 2016

• The PME induction ceremony and the Math Department banquet was hosted by PME, WIM and SIAM in May 2016.
• Wednesday April 6th 2016 at 3:15-4:15 pm in CAS 144: Wanda Strychalski, from Case Western Reserve University, will speak on: Mathematical Modeling of Cellular Blebbing
• PDE and Applied Math seminar Thursday 03/17/16. Artem Zvavitch of Kent State University will continue to speak on "Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for different measures." The seminar starts at 1:00pm in CAS 220 D.
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet Fridays March 18, April 1 and April 8 2016 from 3:20 to 4:10 in CAS 220D. Jeff Riedl will speak on Doubly-invariant subgroups of an abelian 3-group of 3-by-3 matrices.
• Pi day celebration: 3:00 on Monday March 14 2016 in CAS 220 (but in order to appropriately celebrate, we will not start the party until 3:14 pm). Also at 4:00 pm The Imitation Game will be shown in CAS 240.
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet Friday March 11 2016 from 3:20 to 4:10 in CAS 220D. Dr. Hung Tong-Viet of Kent State University will speak on Brauer characters of q'-degrees
• Tuesday 03/08/16. Artem Zvavitch of Kent State University will speak on "Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for different measures." The seminar starts at 2:30pm in CAS 220D
• A Major Award has been received!
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet Friday February 19 and 26 2016 from 3:20 to 4:10 in CAS 220D. JP Cossey will speak on "The minimal number of characters in a block of a finite (solvable) group"
• WIM Lecture Series
  Lola Thompson from Oberlin College
  February 24th 2016 at 3:15pm, CAS 144 Title: Twin primes and their kin
• SIAM Student Chapter Seminar
  David Martin, Chief Data Scientist at ROOT will come to UAkron and give a presentation in the SIAM Seminar on Friday March 11th at 3:30-4:20 pm in LH 312.
  The title of the talk is: What does a mathematician do at a car insurance company?
• WIM Lecture Series
  Wanda Strychalski from Case Western Reserve
  April 6th 2016 at 3:00pm
• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 at 5:30pm, CAS 108 American Greetings is planning a visit to UA to discuss intern and job opportunities for graduate students in Statistics and Mathematics.
• Women in Math Valentine’s Day Outing! Join us for food and fun on Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 5:30pm. Meet in the CAS Atrium and go to The Lockview from there! RSVP to Makayla Tyree.
• Support your peers!
  Mackenzie Jones and Oliver Evans will give talks at the PME YSU Regional Conference on Feb. 20th 2016.
  They will practice their talks on Friday Feb. 12th at 3:30pm in CAS 240.
• REU Summer Programs 2016
  Still looking for Undergraduate Research Opportunities this summer, here is a link to a list of REU programs with topics and deadlines. Notice that some application deadlines are coming soon.
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet Fridays: January 29, Feb 5 and 12 2016 from 3:20 to 4:10 in CAS 220D. Corey Lyons of Kent State University will speak on: Induced characters with equal degree constituents.

Old Announcements for Fall 2015

• The Department of Mathematics hosted a career seminar by Ms. Ginny Gegick of Aon Hewitt on December 3rd 2015 from 3:30 to 4:30 in LH 312. Ms. Gegick, a UA alumna, works as a retirement actuary for Aon Hewitt. She will talk about what retirement actuaries do.
• Thursday November 5th, 2015 at 3:30pm Where: Leigh Hall 312 Speaker: Michelle Clem, NASA Glenn Research Center Title: The Critical Role of Math in Flow Visualization Techniques
• Friday October 2 2015, 5:30pm. The annual fall picnic at Sand Run Park Mingo pavilion (map) was hosted by the math department faculty and student groups: PME, WIM and SIAM. Thanks to all 41* attendees for making it a terrific event! *This number includes at most 3 deer.
• September 23 2015, 12 pm. Progressive Insurance: Big Data in the Workplace Speaker Series. Student Union Room 335, *Refreshments and snacks will be served!*
• The UA Algebra Seminar will meet on Friday September 25 2015 from 9:55 to 10:45am in CAS 220D. JP Cossey will speak on ``Nilpotent blocks of solvable groups'' All are welcome.
• The UA SIAM Student Chapter hosted UA math alumnus Jacob Trombetta for a talk on Friday, Sept. 11 2015, at 1:30pm in Schrank Hall North 354 (SHN 354). Jacob will talk about his experience working at Applied Vision and the problems he has been working on.

Old Announcements for Spring 2015

• Friday, May 1 2015 (CAS 220, 3:30pm) Hung Tong-Viet of the University of Pretoria will speak on p-Parts of character degrees.
• Friday, May 1st 2015 at 5 PM Ballrooms D and E in the Student Union. Joint PME/WIM/SIAM math department banquet. (RSVP to J.P. Cossey)
• Friday, May 8 2015, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. College of Business Administration’s Murphy Room (Room 258). Mario Garzia will be a guest participant in the IT Executive Exchange May Forum.
• April 16 2015 (CAS 220, 3:00-4:00 pm) Vitaly Moroz (Swansea University, UK) will speak on Ground-states of a Schrodinger-Poisson-Slater type equation.
• April 2 and 9 2015 (CAS 220, 2:00 pm) Fedor Nazarov (Kent State University) spoke on Mass kinetics and the persistence problem.
• Friday March 6 2015, 3:30pm in CAS 220 Lubjana Beshaj of Oakland University spoke on ``Binomial forms of minimal height.''
• February 19 2015, CAS 220, 2:30-3:30 pm Ihsan Topaloglu (McMaster University, Canada) spoke on Minimizers of Purely Nonlocal Attractive-Repulsive Energies via Interaction Regularization.
• Career seminar: Feb. 19 2015, Kolbe 51, 4:00 pm.
  Maria Mandlis from Google. Sign up at "Cool things that matter!"
• PME Career seminar Feb. 26 2015, 3:30 in CAS 139. Dave Johnson, chief scientist at Michigan Aerospace and alumni of our applied math PhD program spoke on his experiences in the industry.
• Career seminar: Feb. 05 2015, CAS 142, 3:00 pm.
  Michael Kulis, Michael Hicks, Marit Meyer and Lauren Best from NASA Glenn Research Center will give an overview of their research and share their experience of work at NASA. They will also discuss programs and internships available for students (both graduate and undergraduate) at NASA Glenn.
• The Women In Mathematics group is hosting seminars this semester by female mathematicians on their research and career opportunities.
  • Recent talk: Nguyet Nguyen, Youngstown State University: Hidden Markov Models for Financial Economics; Jan. 22 2015, 2:45pm in CAS 142.
  Title: Hidden Markov Models for Financial Economics