CAARMS12 Program Schedule:

TWELFTH CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, SAMSI Chapel Hill, North Carolina June 20-23, 2006
Time	Speaker	Title/Topic
*** TUESDAY, June 20 ***
3:00 pm – 6:00	CAARMS12 Registration at the Doubletree Carolina Inn Hotel
6:00 – 9:00	Welcoming Reception at the Doubletree Carolina Inn Hotel
*** WEDNESDAY, June 21 ***
8:00am – 8:30	Breakfast and Registration at UNC in Phillips 330
8:30 – 9:00	Welcome and Introduction in Phillips 215
9:00 – 10:00	Arlie Petters Duke University	Gravity, Light, and Mathematics
10:00 – 10:30	Break in Phillips 330
10:30 – 11:30	Kimberly Weems North Carolina State University	An Instrumental Variable Approach to Estimation in Logistic Regression  Measurement Error Models
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch in Phillips 330
12:30 – 1:05	Announcements About Conferences, Events, Institutes and Workshops
1:05 – 1:15	Short Break
1:15 – 2:00	SAMSI Presentation Chris Jones – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2:00 – 2:30	Group Photo
2:30 – 3:30	Rudy Horne Florida State University	Solitary Waves in Discrete Media and Four-Wave Mixing Products
3:30 – 4:00	Coffee Break in Phillips 330
4:00 – 5:00	Dominic Clemence North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University	User-Friendly Numerical Integration of Dynamical Systems: An HIV Pathogenesis Model
5:00 – 5:30	Break
5:30 – 7:30	Graduate Student Poster Session and Reception in Phillips 330 CAARMS12 Poster Titles and Abstracts
*** THURSDAY, June 22 ***
8:45am – 9:45	Breakfast at UNC in Phillips 330 (Lectures in Phillips 215)
9:45 – 10:45	Charles Hagwood National Institute of Standards and Technology	Dynamics of DNA in and Around a Nanopore
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break in Phillips 330
11:15 – 12:15	Ethelbert N. Chukwu North Carolina State University	Going for Growth: A Mathematical Economic Perspective
12:15 – 1:15	Lunch in Phillips 330
1:15 – 2:00	Tutorial: The Ocean as a Dynamical System Chris Jones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and SAMSI
2: 00 – 2:15	Short Break
2:15 – 3:15	Jeffrey Forbes Duke University	Modeling and Analysis of Social Networks
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee Break in Phillips 330
3:45 – 4:45	Gelonia Dent North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University	In Search of a Good Structure: Methodology and Practices for Protein Structure Prediction
6:00 – 7:00	Reception at Hotel
7:00 – 9:00	Banquet at Hotel Johnny Houston, Elizabeth City State University Keynote Speaker: Mathematics is Global and Africa is an Integral Part of the Globe
*** FRIDAY, June 23 ***
8:30am – 9:00	Breakfast at UNC in Phillips 330 (Lectures in Phillips 332)
9:00 – 10:00	Farrah Jackson Chandler University of North Carolina Wilmington	On the Classification of k-involutions of SP(n,k)
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:30	Otis Jennings Duke University	Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and Bed Capacity in Hospitals: A Queueing Perspective
11:30 -11:45	Walk Back to the Hotel
11:45	Bus Leaves Hotel for SAMSI
12:30 – 2:00	Lunch at SAMSI
2:00 – 3:00	Presentations CAARMS12 Survey Analysis – Derrick Raphael, Princeton University A Proposal to Honor Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins – Brian Banks, BAC Partners
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00	General Discussion
5:00	End of Conference and Bus Back to Hotel