CAARMS13 Program Schedule:

THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY and the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON Boston, Massachusetts, June 19-22, 2007
Time	Speaker			Title/Topic
*** TUESDAY, June 19 ***
3:00  –  6:00		CAARMS13 Registration at Doubletree Club Bayside Hotel
6:00  –  9:00		Welcoming Reception at Alumni Lounge, Campus Center, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
*** WEDNESDAY, June 20 ***
8:00 am – 8:30	Breakfast and Registration at Mcleod Suites Lobby, Curry Student Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
8:30 –  9:00	Welcome and Introduction in Mcleod Suites, Curry Student Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (Lectures to be held in 220 Shillman Hall)
9:00 – 10:00	Arthur D. Grainger Morgan State University			Ultrafilters on the Collection of Finite Subsets of an Infinite Set
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:30	Angela Grant Northwestern University			Ergodic Optimization on Chaotic Systems
11:30 – 12:45	Lunch in the African American Institute, Cabral Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
12:45 – 1:30	Modular Forms: An Introductory Survey with Some Applications to Black Hole Physics (Part I)  Floyd Williams, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1:30 –  2:00	Group Photo
2:00 –  3:00	Adrian Wilson University of Mississippi			Graph Groupoids and Their Topology
3:00 –  3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 –  4:30	Suzanne Weekes Worcester Polytechnic Institute			Spatio-temporal Composite Materials
4:30 –  5:00	Break
5:00 –  7:30	Graduate Student Poster Session and Reception in Ballroom, Curry Student Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
*** THURSDAY, June 21 ***
8:30 am – 9:00	Breakfast at the African American Institute, Cabral Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
9:00 –  10:00	Aissa Wade Pennsylvania State University			Poisson Geometry and Applications
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30	Emmett J. Lodree Jr. Auburn University			Inventory Logistics Planning for Hurricane Relief Operations
11:30 – 12:45	Lunch in the African American Institute, Cabral Center, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
12:45 –  1:30	Modular Forms: An Introductory Survey with Some Applications to Black Hole Physics (Part II)  Floyd Williams, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1: 30 – 1:45	Short Break
1:45 –  2:45	Bryan Williams Hampton University			Large Circuit Pairs in Matroids
2:45 –  3:15	Coffee Break
3:15 –  4:15	Susana Salamanca-Riba New Mexico State University			Computing the Unitary Dual of a Reductive Lie Group: An Introduction
6:00 – 7:00	Reception at Egan Research Center, Room 240, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
6:00 –  9:00	Banquet at Egan Research Center, Raytheon Amphitheater, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Keynote Speaker: Isaac M. Colbert, Dean for Graduate Students , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*** FRIDAY, June 22 ***
8:30am – 9:00	Breakfast (and Lectures) at Ballroom B/C, Campus Center, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
9:00 – 10:00	Robin Todd Wilson University of California at Santa Barbara			Almost Normal Bridge Surfaces in Knot Complements
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:30	Alfred Noël University of Massachusetts at Boston			The Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations: Scope and Successes
11:30 -12:45	Lunch in University Dining Club, Campus Center, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
12:45 – 1:45	Juan Meza Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		A Short Tour of Computational Science and Mathematics
2:00 – 3:00	Closing Discussion
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 – 7:00	Closing Tours and Event at Fort Point Pavillion, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON