Math News

Mathematics Colloquium
Thursday March 28^th, 2019
SCGP Auditorium @ 4pm

Simon Donaldson, SCGP
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Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, 11794-3651, USA

Mathematics Colloquium
Thursday April 18^th, 2019
Math Tower P-131 @ 4pm

Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland
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Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, 11794-3651, USA

Mathematics Colloquium
Thursday April 25^th, 2019
Math Tower P-131 @ 4pm

John Morgan, SCGP/Stony Brook University
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Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, 11794-3651, USA

Mathematics Colloquium
Thursday May 9^th, 2019
Math Tower P-131 @ 4pm

Jian Ding, Wharton, UPenn
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Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, 11794-3651, USA

Stony Brook Mathematics Department and Institute for Mathematical Sciences

The Mathematics Department, housed within Stony Brook's College of Arts and Sciences, was founded in 1958 and in recent years has been consistently ranked among the top twenty-five departments in the country. Particular strengths include differential and symplectic geometry, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, dynamics, complex analysis, and their applications to mathematical physics.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences, founded in 1989, is closely allied to the department. The Institute's co-directors are John Milnor and Mikhail Lyubich. Its current primary research focus is on dynamical systems with an emphasis on the low-dimensional real and complex cases. The Institute is partially supported by the Simons Math-Physics Endowment.

The Institute and the Department have close ties to the neighboring Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, which focuses on the interface between mathematics and physics. SCGP permanent members Sir Simon Donaldson, Kenji Fukaya and John Morgan are members of the mathematics department faculty; there are many collaborative efforts, including seminars, colloquia, and afternoon tea.

The department offers a full range of undergraduate courses, with programs concentrating on pure mathematics or leading to preliminary certification to teach secondary school mathematics. On the graduate level there are Master's-level programs both for in-service and pre-service teachers and in pure mathematics. We have an active, high-caliber Ph.D. program in Mathematics, with over 66 students currently enrolled.

Congratulations to Xujia Chen, winner of the John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics,
and
Aleksander Doan, winner of a President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

Summer Math Scholarship
Stony Brook University is pleased to announce a special scholarship opportunity made possible by the Summer Math Foundation. This scholarship has been created to provide financial assistance to math majors who have completed their sophomore or junior year and wish to do mathematical research over the summer

Stony Brook University News

9th Annual Students and Alumni Networking Mixer

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 15:59

Need Career Advice, or want to share yours? Register today to share your story, or get career advice. Join us for an evening of networking with alumni and friends! There will be approximately 20 tables representing various careers. Do not miss this opportunity to share or increase your career knowledge and grow your professional network! Thursday, April 4, 2019 6 pm to 8:30 pm Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook University Keynote Discussion: “Work in an Age of Uncertainty: Creating a life of Meaning and Purpose” by David Blustein PhD ’74, Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Tables will be organized by organized by Career Communities: Arts & Communications Business Education & Helping Professions Government & Public Service Healthcare IT & Engineering Scientific Research & Academia To share carer advice – register here. To get career advice...

Exploring Gene Behavior

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 11:43

When the temperature outside freezes or swelters, we respond by putting on a sweater or eating ice cream. But when our body temperature changes, how do our cells respond? Humans are made up of trillions of cells. Each cell has thousands of genes inside of it. Because the genes tell our cells what to do, a group of Stony Brook University researchers explored the effects of temperature change on genes. Their work offers new insights into how genes function when heated or cooled. Gábor Balázsi, right, with postdoctoral associate Daniel Charlebois. “When genes misbehave, they cause many diseases, such as cancer,” said Gábor Balázsi, PhD, who led the research team. “So it’s important to understand how genes control cells in different conditions.” In the laboratory, all cells have a temperature at which they need to be maintained. Human cells have to be kept at 37 degrees Celsius, which equals 98.6 Farenheit, normal human body temperature. “All we know about genes in human cells, we know at...

T’Kheya-D’Vrehy Yisrael ’19 Celebrates Black Culture on Campus

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 09:40

Strong women get things done — proven time and time again by senior T’Kheya-D’Vrehy Yisrael — a role model, visionary and student leader dedicated to Stony Brook University and her peers. T’Kheya-D’Vrehy Yisrael T’Kheya, a biochemistry and sociology double major, received the Dr. William McAdoo Memorial Scholarship from Stony Brook University’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity at the closing ceremony for Stony Brook’s celebration of Black History Month. “It’s an award dedicated to social justice and leadership, which are things that are really really near and dear to my heart on this campus,” T’Kheya said. Stony Brook’s theme for Black History Month was Blackness is Endless. “To me, blackness is endless means a couple of different things. I think it evokes some of the honor of traditions and things that have happened in the past with black culture, whether that be experiences or inventions or things like that,” T’Kheya said. “I think it talks about just how black people...

Free Shuttle Makes Port Jefferson Easily Accessible From Campus

Monday, March 18, 2019 - 14:35

It’s only about five miles from the Stony Brook campus to downtown Port Jefferson, but those five miles can seem like 500 when there’s no simple and convenient way to get there…especially in cold or inclement weather. To help make the attractions of Port Jefferson easily and safely accessible to students and employees, the University has partnered with the Port Jefferson Village to provide a free shuttle between the two locations. With an assist from dedicated street signage in the Village, it won’t be hard for visitors to see that Port Jefferson is “Seawolves Country.” Mayor Margot Garant (front center), President Stanley (third from right), Judith Greiman (far right), and Wolfie (second from right) help kick off the new shuttle. The PJ/SBU Shuttle will run in a continuous loop between the University and Port Jefferson Village during specified hours, with stops at the Three Village Shopping Center on Rt. 25A, which features Wild By Nature and Stop & Shop locations, and the Long...

SBU Professor’s New Logics Book Written for Computer Scientists

Monday, March 18, 2019 - 11:17

Professor Anita Wasilewska, from the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Stony Brook University, has released her second book published by Springer, Logics for Computer Science: Classical and Non-Classical, which provides an in-depth introduction to fundamental classical and non-classical logics. While there are many published books on logic, most of them are written for logicians by other logicians; instead Wasilewska’s new book is specifically written for computer scientists. Anita Wasilewska Logics, which is the study of formal reasoning, plays a very important role in computer science. Logics for Computer Science explains many basic theorems as well as techniques for proofs in classical and non-classical logics. Wasilewska gives in-depth presentations of automated theorem proving Gentzen type formal systems, Hilbert formalizations, first order theories, the Hilbert Program, Godel’s first and second incompleteness theorems and their proofs, intuitionistic and modal logics...

Vote for Wolfie in the 2019 Mascot Madness Competition

Monday, March 18, 2019 - 10:47

Show your support for our beloved mascot Wolfie Seawolf by voting online in SUNY’s annual Mascot Madness competition. Cast your vote for Wolfie as New York’s favorite college mascot in each round. Voting begins on March 19 at blog.suny.edu/mascot-madness-2019. The schedule for this year’s competition will be as follows: Round 1: March 19–22 Round 2: March 26–28 Round 3: March 29–April 2 Semifinals: April 3–5 Finals: April 9–11 Let’s show the world that nothing beats Stony Brook pride!

Ombuds Office 2019 March and April Workshops

Monday, March 18, 2019 - 10:10

The Ombuds Office provides confidential and impartial assistance for staff, faculty and students by listening to their concerns, facilitating communication and conflict resolution, and offering information and referral. For more information on any of these workshops and to sign up, please click here or contact the office at (631) 632-9200. All workshops are offered at both East and West Campus locations. Creating a Positive Work Environment (Supervisory Training) It’s everyone’s responsibility to support a healthy, safe and respectful community. We all play a role in the culture that we help to create each day. When incivility occurs, there are services available where we can find information and guidance without fear of retaliation. We will also discuss building a culture of respect and civility, identifying causes of incivility/bullying behaviors, and understanding the types of bullying. March 25, Monday, 12 pm to 2 pm, Health Sciences Center (HSC), Level 2, Room 101 (...

Building the Next Generation of Innovators: A Lecture by Marina Ranga, March 27

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 12:32

The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Speaker Series presents a lecture with one of the world’s leaders in the study of collaboration among academia, industry and government. Marina Ranga, Senior Researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, will discuss “Building the Next Generation of Innovators: The Strive for More Women in Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship” on Wednesday, March 27, from 1 pm to 2 pm in Frey Hall, Room 100. Dr. Marina Ranga Dr. Ranga is also Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Prior to that, she worked at Stanford University as Senior Researcher at H-STAR Institute (2010-2015) and Faculty Research Fellow at Clayman Institute for Gender Research (2009-2010). In Europe, she held several academic positions in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School, Groningen University, University of Warsaw and Sussex University (2005-2014)....

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 09:03

New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the building blocks that make up a proton contribute to its spin. Jinlong Zhang, a postdoctoral associate at Stony Brook University, was part of the team. The results, just published as a rapid communication in the journal Physical Review D, reveal definitively for the first time that different “flavors” of antiquarks contribute differently to the proton’s overall spin—and in a way that’s opposite to those flavors’ relative abundance. The proton spin puzzle: Scientists want to know how different constituents of the proton contribute to its spin, a fundamental property that plays a role in how these building blocks give rise to nearly all visible matter in the universe. Pieces of the puzzle include the orbital angular momentum of quarks and gluons (top left), gluon spin (top...

Annual Ceremony Celebrates Service

Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 14:06

On March 5, 2019, Stony Brook held its annual Service Awards celebration for employees marking 25 years or more of service to the University. More than 160 of those celebrating a milestone from 2018 filled the Student Activities Center Ballroom A for the festivities. President Stanley (center) with two of this year’s 50-year honorees, David Hicks and Hal Metcalf. Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. expressed his gratitude at the commitment, skills and contributions of everyone who helped shape Stony Brook throughout its 62-year history. “You are the heart and soul of Stony Brook University. You’ve taken us far beyond our humble beginnings, transforming us into an internationally recognized center for excellence, and one of the top public research universities in the country. In fact, we were recently ranked #80 among U.S. colleges and universities by U.S. News and World Report, our highest ranking in the University’s history, and we owe much of that success to you...

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