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We are happy to announce that two of the upcoming colloquium speakers have research that is aligned with the RTG.  While we encourage you to attend all of the colloquia, we particularly alert you to the upcoming visits by:

• Yannick Sire, Johns Hopkins University, October 27 (3:30pm talk)
• Daniel Tataru, University of California – Berkeley, November 10 (3:30pm talk)

We are very happy to announce that the 2022-23 UNC PDE Mini-school will feature a series of lectures by Peter Hintz from ETH Zürich.  We will have additional talks by Lili He, Katrina Morgan, and Ethan Sussman. The mini-school will take place March 24-26, 2023.  Watch the RTG webpage for forthcoming details on registration, a schedule, etc.

We wanted to alert you to the upcoming Conference in honor of Steve Zelditch, which will take place virtually September 8-11, 2022.  Steve has had a profound impact on the careers of several of the RTG faculty.  Please follow the link to register.

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We want to highlight the outreach work that co-PI Hans Christianson has been doing through the Correctional Education Program.  This past summer, Hans spent two nights a week teaching Math 118 at the Dan River Work Farm in Yanceyville.  Hans reports the work to be quite rewarding, and we are proud of his efforts.

It was a pleasure to welcome the Girls Talk Math program back to campus this past summer.  The RTG is proud to support this free educational summer program that strives to make advanced mathematics accessible to students of underrepresented genders in STEM.  Its founders, Katrina Morgan and Francesca Bernardi, are former UNC graduate students.  GTM has expanded to sites at the University of Maryland and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in addition to the original location at UNC.  The Association for Women in Mathematics recently highlighted this story regarding the work at WPI.

As we welcome back graduate student Maddie Brown from giving talks at

• The 2022 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she spoke in a special session titled “Geometry of eigenfunctions and random fields”.   This session also features UNC postdoctoral alumnus Graham Cox as an organizer, and UNC graduate alumnus Blake Keeler and UNC PDE postdoctoral alumnus Tom Beck as speakers.
• Young Women in Geometric Analysis in Bonn Germany,

• Harmonic Analysis and Waves: A Conference Celebrating Hart Smith’s 60th Birthday, August 10-12, 2022, University of Washington.  Faculty member Jason Metcalfe and recent group alumnus Katrina Morgan will be speaking.
• Trends in Soliton Dynamics and Singularity Formation for Nonlinear Dispersive PDEs, October 21-23, 2022, Texas A&M University.  Faculty member Casey Rodriguez and  alumnus Katrina Morgan will present work.