# Category Archives: Research

The Department of Mathematics at University of Hawaii at Manoa has long had an informal graduate program in logic, lattice theory, and universal algebra (People, Courses, Description) going back to Alfred Tarski’s 1963 student William Hanf.

The local logic seminar is meeting weekly in-person in Fall 2021 after being on pandemic hiatus during the academic year Fall 2020 – Spring 2021.

We are offering the following course rotation (courses mostly repeating after two years):

Past offerings
Semester Course number Course title Instructor
Spring 2016 MATH 649 Applied Model Theory Ross
Fall 2016 MATH 654 Graduate Introduction to Logic Beros
Spring 2017 MATH 657 Computability and Complexity Khan
Spring 2018 MATH 649 Applied Model Theory Ross
Fall 2018 MATH 654 Graduate Introduction to Logic Kjos-Hanssen
Spring 2019 MATH 655 Set theory Williams
Spring 2020 MATH 657 Computability and Complexity Kjos-Hanssen
Fall 2020 MATH 654 Graduate Introduction to Logic Kjos-Hanssen
Spring 2021 MATH 649 Applied model theory Ross

Future offerings:

Semester Course number Course title Instructor
Spring 2022 MATH 657 Computability and Complexity Kjos-Hanssen
Fall 2022 MATH 654 Graduate Introduction to Logic TBA

It is also recommended that students familiarize themselves with undergraduate level logic, which is offered on the following schedule:

Past offerings
Semester Course number Course title Instructor
Fall 2012 MATH 454 Axiomatic Set Theory Kjos-Hanssen
Spring 2013 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Kjos-Hanssen
Fall 2014 MATH 454 Axiomatic Set Theory Ross
Spring 2015 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Khan
Spring 2016 MATH 454 Axiomatic Set Theory Khan
Spring 2017 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Ross
Spring 2018 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Khan
Fall 2019 MATH 454 Axiomatic Set Theory Williams
Spring 2020 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Williams
Fall 2021 MATH 454 Axiomatic Set Theory Kjos-Hanssen

Future offerings:

Semester Course number Course title Instructor
Spring 2022 MATH 455 Mathematical Logic Ross

#### Faculty teaching in the program

David A. Ross, Professor
Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen, Professor

# Jovovic Grant Addresses Shortage of Mathematics Teachers

Assistant Specialist, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mirjana Jovovic is the co-principal investigator on a new NSF grant,

Capacity Building to Address the Shortage of Mathematics Teachers in Hawaii

in the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.

# The Data Behind The $\delta$ Surge

Predicting the future of Covid is a slippery slope, but forecast modeling can give us an idea of where we might be headed depending on current factors like vaccination rates, restrictions on public gatherings and the amount of incoming travelers. So where can we expect to go from here?

With the surge of cases, Hawaii hospitals are struggling to handle a combination of Covid and non-Covid patients, some operating at up to 125% of its capacity. How are hospitals handling the surge?

Civil Beat reporters Brittany Lyte and Anita Hofschneider, Professor Monique Chyba of Hawaii Pandemic Applied Modeling Working Group (HiPAM) and Hilton Raethel, President and CEO of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii discuss the issue on Thursday September 9.

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-cafe-the-data-behind-the-delta-surge-tickets-169556689623?aff=eventspage

# Removability in Geometric Function Theory

Assistant Professor Malik Younsi has been awarded an NSF grant for 2021-2024 to work on Removability in Geometric Function Theory.

Previously, Prof. Younsi held another NSF grant for 2017-2020 to work on removable sets and questions in geometric function theory.

That research project involved the study of the geometric properties of conformally removable sets, including problems related to rigidity of circle domains, conformal welding and fingerprints of lemniscates. It also includes questions dealing with shapes of Julia sets and the subadditivity of analytic capacity