| TENTH CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN
AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California June 22-25, 2004 |
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| Time | Speaker | Title/Topic |
| *** TUESDAY at MSRI, June 22 *** | ||
| 5:30 - 8:30PM | Welcoming Reception at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) |
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| *** WEDNESDAY at LBL, June 23 *** | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30AM | Breakfast and Registration at
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Craig
Sutton University of Pennsylvania |
Constructing Simply-Connected Isospectral Manifolds via Sunada's Method |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Rachel
Vincent Rice University |
A Reduced Basis Method for Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch |
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| 12:30 - 1:05 |
Tutorial
on Algebraic Statistics (Part I)
Kimberly Sellers, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 1:05 - 1:15 | Short Break | |
| 1:15 - 1:50 | Tutorial
on Technical Communication (Part I)
Robert Hampshire, Princeton University |
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| 1:50 - 2:00 | Short Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Sean
Brooks Howard University |
Mathematical Methods for Modeling Optical Solitons |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Group Photo | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Juan
Gilbert Auburn University |
Using Clustering Algorithms to Address Affirmative Action |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Break | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 | Graduate Student Poster Session and Reception | |
| *** THURSDAY at LBL, June 24 *** | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00AM | Breakfast at LBL | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Stephon Alexander Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
The Origin of Matter in the Universe: Gravity Waves, Quantum Squeezing and Bessel Functions |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Gerard Awanou
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications |
Trivariate Spline Approximations of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch |
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| 12:30 - 1:05 |
Tutorial
on Technical Communication (Part II)
Robert Hampshire, Princeton University |
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| 1:05 - 1:15 | Short Break | |
| 1:15 - 1:50 | Tutorial
on Algebraic Statistics (Part II) Kimberly Sellers, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 1:50 - 2:00 | Short Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Douglas
McWilliams North Carolina A&T University/ Purdue University |
A Mathematical Model to Optimize the Operations of a Parcel Consolidation Terminal |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Monica
Jackson Emory University |
Detecting Disease Clusters and Disease Surveillance |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Reception | |
| 6:30 - 8:30 | Banquet and Keynote Speech | |
| *** FRIDAY at MSRI, June 25 *** | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00AM | Breakfast at MSRI | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Donald
Williams Rice University |
On the Formulation of a Constrained Optimization Framework for Pricing American-style Options |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Milton
Nash University of Georgia |
Special Values of Dirichlet L-functions
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| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 - 1:05 | Tutorial
on Algebraic Statistics (Part III) Kimberly Sellers, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 1:05 - 1:15 | Short Break | |
| 1:15 - 1:50 | Tutorial
on Technical Communication
(Part III) Robert Hampshire, Princeton University |
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| 1:50 - 2:00 | Short Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Developing a Mathematical Career |
Panel Discussion |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Closing Discussion Topic | |
| 5:30 - 8:00 | End of Conference and Picnic |
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