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NYC Regional Math Alliance Conference
Sept. 27, 2019
The NYC Regional Math Alliance organized a one-day conference
highlighting the research of students being mentored by the NYC
Math Alliance. The conference was held at the City College of New
York on Saturday, September 21st, 2019 and featured short
contributed talks by undergraduate students, poster sessions, two
plenary talks, and a panel discussion on preparing for graduate
school. Parallel sessions for the contributed talks will brought
together students and faculty with shared interests in smaller
groups. The poster sessions offered an opportunity for informal
mathematical discussions. A special thanks to the organizers
Prof. Gautam Chinta (CCNY), Prof. W. Patrick Hooper
(CCNY), and Prof. Louis Beaugris (Kean University)
Prof. Gideon Zamba (University of Iowa) - keynote
speaker.
Panelist (from the left)
W. Patrick Hooper, Professor of Mathematics and Director of
the NYC Math Alliance, CUNY City College of New York.
Aihua Li, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair
State University.
Ilya Kofman, Deputy Executive Director of the Mathematics
PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center
Zheng-Chao Han, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers
University
Melody Goodman, Professor of Biostatistics, NYU College of
Global Public Health
Thaddeus Tarpey, PhD Program Director Division of
Biostatistics, NYU School of Medicine
Vincent Filardi (CCNY)- General Electric Aviation Material
Wear Data Analysis
Anastasiia Timashova (CCNY) - Introduction to Residual
Finiteness Growth Functions
Junjie Chen (CCNY) - Residual Finiteness Growths of
Lamplighter Groups
Marino Echavarria (CCNY) - A Low Memory MPC Algorithm for
the Minimum Cut
Math Club Welcome Back Party
Sept. 18, 2019
The Math Club will have a welcome back party on September 26th from 12:45PM-1:45PM in NAC 6/310 to discuss what kinds of events you might want to see the Math Club host, as well as various opportunities for undergraduate students like the department's new 4+1 joint Bachelor's/Master's degree program. Come grab some pizza and meet some other math enthusiasts!
Math Club & AWM - Rich Internship Math Presentation
Sept. 13, 2019
Tuesday, Sept.17th, 12:45-1:45 in NAC 6/310 Rich Summer
Internship participants, Joe Winter and Samuel Young, will be
giving presentations on their work in two exciting fields.
Joe Winter
My work focuses on the dynamical system known as the perturbed
doubling map, a function on the complex plane that maps a complex
number z to z-squared + c, where c is a complex number known as the
perturbation constant. My talk will detail computational approaches
to estimating and visualizing the Julia set of this map. I will
also discuss strategies used to estimate periodic points of the map
which are then used to explore the relation between c and the
maximization of a particular potential.
Samuel Young
The abstract commensurator of a group, Comm(G), generalizes the
notion of the automorphism group Aut(G). We study a new variation
of Comm(F_2), which embeds in Comm(F_2), which we show is not
locally residually finite.
There will be pizza and refreshments!
Brisilda Ndreka accepted to the University of Connecticut for her Ph.D
June 25, 2019
I came to City College as an international student about two
years ago. I can perfectly remember the first day at CCNY where I
struggled with the smallest things such as finding the classroom I
was located in for that day. From that day, I see myself continuing
my PhD at the University of Connecticut, where I will continue my
studies in the Statistics Department.
Looking back at these past years, when I put the memories I have
together, it is clear that I have been very lucky. I have had the
privilege to work with amazing professors, have helpful friends,
and overall been surrounded by great and welcoming people.
I am beyond grateful for all of my professors whom I would like to
say thank you to the following people
Professor Shirshendu Chatterjee who was my statistics professor and
mentor in the summer research project. Thank you, for giving me a
hand when I needed it the most! The patience you possess and trust
you give were two qualities that made my journey with you an
honorable and important one. You believed that I had potential even
when you struggled to understand my ideas, since my communication
was extremely poor. Your assistance and dedication inspired me to
work even harder.
Professor Zajj Daugherty - Thank you for your support that has
lasted since the first day of being in your class all the way to
giving me amazing advice you gave for the PhD application.
A warm thank you to Professor Blair Davey, Professor Bianca
Santoro, and Professor Jack Hanson. Thank you so much for your
recommendations, advice, and for being such an inspiration to me.
Honestly, I feel since I am now a part of the academy, I look up to
each of you as a role model.
I also want to thank Professor Thea Pignataro and Professor Stanley
Ocken for believing and giving me the opportunity to be a lecturer
in the Math Department. I will keep this with me throughout my life
as one of the most valuable experiences I have been through.
Thank you so much to Jason Redman for informing me about multiple
crucial moments including a scholarship, job opportunities, the
teaching process and more. Jason, I truly admire the patience that
you possess. When I kept asking you an extensive number of
questions each day you always calmly explained, even if it took
multiple tries for me to understand it. You are definitely one of
the people that made my life easier at CCNY.
A great thank you for George Braithwaite who is one of the nicest
people that I have met in my life. You have always been so helpful
and so positive! According to George, he is like this because he
was born where negative numbers were not invented. You are
undeniably an amazing person that I will miss so extremely
much.
Finally, a huge thank you to my friends. Thank you for your advice
and collaboration. I wish you only the best!
Summer Rich Internship and RAMMP at CCNY
June 5, 2019
We are happy to start off the summer with our 2019 Rich Summer Internships and RAMMP! The Rich Summer Internships program pairs students at CCNY with faculty mentors to work closely for 10 weeks studying various advanced topics in mathematics. The Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program (RAMMP) brings scholars in summer research activities in mathematics with the goal of culminating in publishable research. Students in RAMMP will work in groups on research programs guided by faculty members and attend weekly colloquium and learning seminars.