VIGRE

Pi Mu Epsilon Events Up Coming

The "Meet the Majors" lunch will be held this coming Tuesday from 11:00am to 1:00pm in the Skiles lounge. I would like to invite all of you to stop by, meet some people, and have some food and drink.

Alan Michaels, President of PME, has told me that the Pi Mu Epsilon (Math Honor Society) would like to sponsor several events. One of them is a math seminar series for undergraduates. If you would like to give a talk, please let Alan know. He'll greatly appreciate it.

Brief Note from Yakov Kerzhner at NYU

Yakov Kerzhner graduated from GT last year, after three years of study.
He is has just started his Graduate studies at the Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

What follows is a brief message from him:

"I took the written exam in august and got an A in the complex variables
and linear algebra, and a B in advanced calculus. The two A's means that
I have to retake only the advanced calculus in January. I really like the
number theory class taught by Sarnak. I am also taking another
analytic number theory class being taught by Iwaniec. Besides the number
theory classes I am taking Real Variables and Limit Threorems, a probability
class. Both of these last two are review classes since I have already
taken similar classes at Tech. Also auditing Complex Variables, and
planning on attending a number theory seminar being run by Courant,
Columbia, and CUNY.


"Having only been an undergraduate for three years, I am somewhat surprised
that my overall knowledge of mathematics is at least as good as the
knowledge of the students coming from places like MIT, Yale, Berkeley etc.
Perhaps this is an indirect thank you to all the teachers I have had at
Tech.

Grad School Workshop

Workshop for Undergrad considering Grad School will be held

Sept 12, 3pm, Skiles 255

Last year, the GT undergrad won 5 graduate fellowships, and were studying, or admitted to schools like Berkeley (Andy Wand), NYU (Yakov Kerzhner), Princeton (Blair Dowling), Duke (Jenny Law), MIT (David Vener), Northwestern
(Clark Alexander), among other examples.

This workshop is to help the next group of GT Graduates do as well as this bunch in being placed in Graduate School. Slides for the presentation are
here. Also see the Timeline at the same web page.

SoM support for Seminars

The School of Mathematics seeks to have a
strong and broadly based program of colloquium
speakers and research visitors.

To this end, the School has commited several
tens of thousands of dollars to support the colloquium
and seminar budgets. The seminar support has
engendered several new seminar series.

1. Hamiltonian Systems: P. Mucha, M. Symington, Y. Yi

2. Numerics and Dynamics: F. Bonetto, L. Dieci, Y. Liu

3. Wavelets: C. Heil, Y. Wang

4. PDEs: W. Gangbo, A. Sweich
5. Mathematical Physics: E. Carlen, M. Loss
This listing identifies the organizers but it is anticipated that a much broader spectrum of
SOM faculty will be participating on a regular basis.

Integers Conference at West Georgia

INTEGERS CONFERENCE 2003

On the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Tom Brown 

October 31 – November 2, 2003 Carrollton, Georgia 

The Department of Mathematics at the State University of West Georgia is pleased to announce the Integers Conference 2003 in combinatorial number theory. The purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians, students, and others interested in combinatorics and number theory. We will also be honoring Professor Tom Brown, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, for his significant contributions to the field.  

Registration: There is no registration fee. However, all participants must register in advance due to limited seating. To do so, send an e-mail message to integers@westga.edu, no later than Monday, September 29, requesting your name be included in the list of registrants for the conference. You will receive a reply to your e-mail; if the reply states that you are registered, then this confirms your registration (we hope we are able to accommodate all who wish to attend). 

Speakers: Among the Plenary Speakers will be Ronald Graham (UC-San Diego), Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth), Melvyn Nathanson (Lehman College, CUNY) and Jaroslav Nesetril (Charles University, Prague). There will also be many Invited Papers; if you would like to present an invited paper, send the title and a .tex or .pdf file no later than Monday, September 29. We welcome talks from any of the mathematical subject areas covered by the journal Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory. Aside from the Plenary talks, all talks will be scheduled for 20-minute time slots. (Note: as there is a ceiling on the number of speakers we are able to accomodate, we recommend you get this information in as soon as possible – requests to present papers will be honored in the order in which they are received; we cannot guarantee that all requests to present papers will be honored).

Proceedings: Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory. Completed texts must be submitted by January 8th, 2004, and will be handled according to the journal’s usual refereeing process. 

Schedule: The conference talks will take place within the hours of Friday, October 31, 9:30AM-5:30PM; Saturday, November 1, 9:00AM – 5:30PM; and Sunday, November 2, 9:00AM-2PM. A more detailed scheduled will be sent out later. 

Location and Parking: The conference will be held on the campus of the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton. The city of Carrollton is about 45 miles west of Atlanta. Those coming by air should fly to Atlanta. Directions and maps of the campus will be sent to all those who register. On campus parking passes will be provided to those needing one. A block of rooms will be set aside for a special reduced rate at the Holiday Inn Express in Carrollton. Please let us know as soon as possible if you wish to be counted in this block. 

More Information: Please direct your questions to Bruce Landman, via e-mail (landman@westga.edu). Please keep in mind that this is only an initial announcement, and that more detailed announcements and information will be sent out later.  

Prasad Tetali addresses Mental Health Concerns

In this semester's first Departmental Colloquium, Professor Prasad Tetali spoke as a layman about mental health concerns. He is motivated by his belief that knowledge about mental health and mood disorders, like depression, and bipolar disoder, should be more broadly known.

These can be extremely painful to that person and those who love them. At the same time the diagnosi, treatment and understanding of these disorders has never been better. There is no reason not to seek help!

Professor Tetali has the slides from his talk at a web page that is a jumping off place to find out more about mental health.

Loraine Ruff and Celia Grams Retire

The Scool ofMath says goodbye, and a long healthy retirement to to Secretaries,
Lorraine Ruff, who worked for the Center for Dyanmical Systems, and Celia Grams.

About
50 Pictures of their Reception are up for your viewing.

Constructive Functions Conference, November 2004.

This conference, honoring the 60th birthday of Ed Saff, will be an international conference covering all aspects of constructive function theory, potential theory and approximation theory. Ed Saff has played a key role in building scientific cooperation between mathematicians of many nations. Accordingly, the conference aims to attract mathematicians from all around the world, especially young graduate mathematicians and graduate students.

The confernece will be November 7-9, 2004.

Two GT Professors, Jeff Geronimo and Doron Lubinsky are on the organizing Committee.
The Conference Web Site is up and accepting registration.

NSF/CBMS in Analysis At Georgia Tech May 2004

                         Objectives

 The subject area is in the area of multilinear singular integrals,

 and some related maximal operators, with a particular emphasis on those

 with some invariance properties with respect to modulations.

 This is a new branch of Harmonic Analysis that has arisen within the last

 decade.

 A distinguishing feature  of this area is the use of wave packet

 techniques which have  roots going back to seminal  work on convergence

 of Fourier series by L. Carleson, and C. Fefferman about 40

 years ago. Yet the use of these techniques was hardly felt outside the

 subject of convergence of  Fourier series until 1995.   It was then that

 M. Lacey and C. Thiele used related techniques to a long standing

 conjecture of A. Calderon concerning  the bilinear

 Hilbert transform.

 It is now understood, through the efforts of a sizable number of

 mathematicans, that these techniques are crucial to the study a wide

 class of multilinear singular integral and maximal operators. The timing

 of these lectures occurs when there is already a body of sophisticated

 results, from  which are emerging signs of a beautiful theory.

 Connections to other fields of mathematics are at the horizon.

 Professor Thiele's will present this recent development in a series of

 lectures and there will be a few additional lectures by leading researchers

 in the subject.