May 2022 Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson was an invited speaker at the DIAMANT Symposuim in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She presented her research in a talk entitled “Sato-Tate Groups in Dimension Greater than 3” Congratulations to Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard who was awarded a 2022 Claire Tow ’52 Award for Excellence in Teaching. This annual award is given to five Brooklyn College faculty members in recognition of their demonstrated excellence in teaching-related activities. Professor Jun Hu published a peer-reviewed paper this month: “Cubic rational maps with escaping critical points, Part I: Julia set dichotomy in the case of an attracting fixed point” with Arkady, Etkin, Hu. Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 21, 70 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12346-022-00593-y Professor Jun Hu was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled “Regularity in parameter space for one-parameter family of cubic rational maps, and more on Douady-Earle extension of circle homeomorphism with one-point differentiability” for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations! April 2022 Associate Professor Christian Benes was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled “Moderate and Large Deviations for d-Dimensional Simple Random Walk” for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations! Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled “Twisting Sato-Tate groups” for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations! Congratulations to Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard who was recently awarded two grants. National Science Foundation grant entitled “LEAPS-MPS: Braids and Mapping Class Groups: Investigating Left-orders, Twisting, and Positivity”. The grant, in the amount of $122,662, will support her research for two years (July 2022 – June 2024). PSC-CUNY grant entitled “Left-orders and twisting: from braids to mapping class groups” for the academic year 2022-2023. March 2022 Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson is a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. Her visit will span the months of March and April of the spring 2022 semester and her research project is titled “Sato-Tate Distributions of Jacobian Varieties.” Professor Jun Hu published a peer-reviewed paper: Jun Hu and Francisco G. Jimenez-Lopez on Teichmuller spaces of nondiscrete groups has appeared in Annales Fennici Mathematici 47(1): 381-393, 2022 (Doi: 10.54330/afm.114460). Associate Professor Sandra Kingan published a review of the book “Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football,” by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas in the March-April AWM newsletter. (AWM Newsletter 13, Volume 52, Number 2 March–April 2022, page 12-14.) The Mathematics Department together with the Math Club is hosting a Pi Day celebration *in person* on March 15 from 1:15-2:15 p.m in 1310 Ingersoll Hall. The event will feature a short presentation by Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard, an integration bee, a “pi-ku” writing contest (https://preview.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/03/pi_day.html), prizes galore, and free pizza and dessert pie. Please join us! February 2022 Senior mathematics major Avraham Radin participated in the 82nd William Lowell Putnam Competition — the pre-eminent mathematics competition for undergraduates in the United States and Canada. Avraham was one of 2,975 participants and he scored above the median. Congratulations! Professor Stephen Preston published a peer-reviewed paper this month: Preston, S.C. Solar models and McKean’s breakdown theorem for the 𝜇CH and 𝜇DP equations. Mathematische Annalen (2022). January 2022 Associate Professor Diogo Pinheiro recently published a peer-reviewed article – “Refinement of Dynamic Equilibrium using Small Random Perturbations.” (with (A. Araujo, W. Maldonado, D. Pinheiro, A.A. Pinto, M. Choubdar Soltanahmadi). International Journal of Economic Theory, 17 (2021) 258-283. The Mathematics Department Prize Exams will be in-person again this semester after a one-year hiatus. The exam will take place on February 25, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., in Ingersoll 1146. Please sign up by the end of Friday, February 18. More details here.
