15th Annual Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS15)

15^th CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (CAARMS15)
Time		Speaker	Title/Topic
* TUESDAY, June 23 *
1:00 pm – 1:45	Undergraduate Workshop Talk #1: Theory Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center (All Day at the CAARMS15 Hotel)
1:45 – 2:00	Break
2:00 – 2:45	Undergraduate Workshop Talk #2: Modeling
2:45 – 3:15	Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00	Undergraduate Workshop Talk #3: Computation
4:00 – 4:15	Break
4:15 – 5:00	Undergraduate Workshop Talk #4: Communication
6:00 – 9:00	Welcoming Reception Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center
* WEDNESDAY, June 24*
7:45 am		Bus leaves the Marriott Medical Center to go to Rice University's Duncan Hall (Any remaining guests should wait in the lobby. The bus will make two trips.)
8:00 – 8:30		Breakfast and Registration Duncan Hall, Rice University (All Day)
8:30 – 9:00		Welcome and Introduction
9:00 – 10:00		Donald King Northeastern University	Normality and Singularity of Closures of Nilpotent Conjugacy Classes
10:00 – 10:30		Break
10:30 – 11:30		Abdoul Kane University of Toronto	Synchronization in Inhibitory Networks
11:30 – 12:30		Lunch
12:30 – 1:30		Special Lecture: The Remarkable Life of the Isoperimetric Problem: The World’s Most Influential Mathematics Problem Richard A. Tapia, Noah Harding Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
1:30 – 2:00		Group Photo
2:00 – 3:00		Raquel Hill Indiana University	Characterizing Trustworthy Behavior of Email Servers
3:00 – 3:30		Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30		Nathaniel Dean Texas State University-San Marcos	Data, Unsolved Problems, Computing and Incomprehensibility
4:30 – 5:00		Break
5:00 – 7:30		Graduate Student Poster Session
7:30 pm		Bus leaves Rice University to go to the Marriott Medical Center
* THURSDAY, June 25*
8:15 am		Bus leaves the Marriott Medical Center to go to Rice University's Duncan Hall (Any remaining guests should wait in the lobby. The bus will make two trips.)
8:30 am – 9:00		Breakfast Duncan Hall, Rice University (Until 5:00 pm Today)
9:00 – 10:00		Talithia Williams Harvey Mudd College	Epidemiological Modeling of the Population Dynamics of Cataracts
10:00 – 10:30		Break
10:30 – 11:30		Edray Goins Purdue University	Four-Covering Maps for Elliptic Curves
11:30 – 12:45		Lunch
12:45 – 1:45		Special Lecture: The Role of Mathematics on Wall Street Jay Dweck, Managing Director & Global Head of IDEAS Group at Morgan Stanley
1: 45 – 2:00		Break
2:00 – 3:00		Asamoah Nkwanta Morgan State University	Lattice Path and RNA Secondary Structure Predictions
3:00 – 3:30		Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30		Ronnie Sircar Princeton University	Games with Exhaustible Resources
4:30 pm		Bus leaves Rice University to go to the Marriott Medical Center
6:00 – 7:00		Reception Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center
7:00 – 9:00		Banquet Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center J. Ernest Wilkins Keynote Speaker Richard A. Tapia, Noah Harding Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University Contemporary Challenges to Increasing Representation in Research and Leadership Positions
* FRIDAY, June 26*
8:15 am		Bus leaves the Marriott Medical Center to go to Rice University's Duncan Hall (Any remaining guests should wait in the lobby. The bus will make two trips.)
8:30am – 9:00		Breakfast Duncan Hall, Rice University (Until 5:00 pm Today)
9:00 – 10:00		Michael Young Smith College	Homometric Sets
10:00 – 10:30		Break
10:30 – 11:30		Anthony Johnson United States Military Academy at West Point	Development of a Three Dimensional Unsplit Time Dependent Perfectly Matched Layer for Elasto-Dynamic Analyses
11:30 -1:00		Lunch
1:00 – 1:25		Poster Winner Talk #1
1:25 – 1:50		Poster Winner Talk #2
1:50 – 2:10		Break
2:10 – 2:35		Poster Winner Talk #3
2:35 – 3:00		Poster Winner Talk #4
3:00 – 3:30		Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00		Group Discussion on Collaboration
5:00 pm		Bus leaves Rice University to go to the Marriott Medical Center
5:30 – 7:30		Closing Event Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center