Week of February 18, 2008
Free Individual Nutrition Counseling session offered
Faculty and staff may contact Registered Dietitian, Sally Barclay at 4-9625 or barclay@iastate.edu for this offer that expires January 1, 2009. Faculty and staff members receive three free visits per calendar year as part of their health benefits.
Math TA's
Early evaluations need to be completed this week and turned in to the main office.
xPrelim
xxFebruary 20: Rana Mikkelson PhD preliminary exam
xx3:10 p.m. in 390 Carver Hall
xxMajor professor: Leslie Hogben
February 20 at Hilton Coliseum from Noon to 6:00 p.m.
NSF IGERT preliminary proposals
The National Science Foundation is continuing the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. Proposals for new IGERT projects as well as for renewals of existing IGERT projects are invited. The IGERT program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education with interdisciplinary backgrounds.
An institution may submit no more than four preliminary proposals either as a single institution or as a lead institution in a multi-institution preliminary proposal. One may participate as PI or co-PI in only one proposal submission.
Guidelines are available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08540/nsf08540.htm
Preproposals should be submitted to the VPR office by close of business on Monday, March 3, 2008. Preproposals may be submitted to Dorothy Pimlott (dpimlott@iastate.edu) via e-mail.
A review committee will choose the projects to be forwarded to NSF. Those selected will be notified by March 13. Preliminary proposals are due to NSF April 24, 2008. Below are the guidelines that should be followed in preparing your preproposal for the internal review:
1) Prepare a brief description of the project - no more than two pages.
2) Provide a discussion as to who at ISU will be involved, who will be benefited, and how they will
benefit – no more than a page.
Iowa MAA Meeting
The Iowa MAA meeting this year will be held at Simpson College Indianola, Iowa April 25-26, 2008
For graduate students these meetings are a good place to give a talk in a supportive and convenient location. For faculty these meetings are a good place to meet faculty from other Iowa universities and
colleges. Consider giving a talk at these meetings.
We are fortunate to have as our featured speaker Carl Cowen, past president of the MAA. Prof. Cowen will speak Friday night on ''Connections Between Mathematics and Biology'', and Saturday morning on ''Rearranging the Alternating Harmonic Series.''
We also hope for a varied collection of talks from our own members.
If you would like to give a talk at the meeting please, if possible, use the electronic submission form at:
http://www.central.edu/maa/ProposalSubmit.asp
Proposals for talks are due by Friday, March 21, 2008.
If you are unable to use the submission site please send the following to Larry Naylor at one of the addresses listed below:
Title of your talk
A short abstract
Speaking day/time preference: Friday afternoon; Saturday morning; Saturday afternoon
Technology needs
Larry Naylor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Drake University Des Moines, IA 50311
Phone: 515-271-2855
FAX: 515-271-2055
Email: lawrence.naylor@drake.edu (please include in your email the subject heading Iowa MAA Meeting.)
For more information, please use the Meetings link at the Iowa MAA web page http://www.central.edu/maa/
Friday 11:00 a.m. Carver 204
Marko Djoydjevic, Ohio State University on Modeling and bioinformatics of gene regulation
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Siu-Hung (Richard) Ng on Group cohomology and quasi-Hopf algebras
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Scott Hansen on Modeling and control of a cochlea
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Ryan Martin The vertex remsey problem
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
Ananda Weeasinghe Fractional Brownian motion (continued)
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Tim Huber, Eisenstein series and hypergeometric functions
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Fritz Keinert Tools for mathematical calculations
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Kenneth Driessel, Hilbert's theorem on the finiteness of the full invariant system
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
To be announced
