Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey
Index
June 18-21, 2002
Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey
William A. Massey, Princeton University,
National Security Agency
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
Mathematics Department
of Princeton University
Graduate School
of Princeton University
School of Applied Sciences and Engineering
at Princeton University
A program of all the speaker abstracts is available
here
as a PDF document.
Abstracts of individual speakers are available in the PDF format by
clicking the title of their talk in the schedule below.
Graduate Student Poster Session:
The program for the graduate poster abstracts is available
here as a PDF document.
Available here as a PDF document.
The information submitted here will reach us electronically.
Thanks to Robert C. Hampshire
for designing this form.
The conference registration fees are as follows:
Postmarked on or before May 31st:
After June 1st or at the door:
Additional guest tickets for the banquet are $30 per person.
Make checks payable to "Princeton University" and put "CAARMS8" in the
memo
section. Mail the check to:
Ameri Suites
Conference Links:
The registration fee should be sent separately through regular mail (see
below).
Researchers = $60
Students = $30
Poster Presenters = $20
Researchers = $70
Students = $35
Poster Presenters = $25
Ms. Connie Brown
ORFE Department Manager
Engineering Quadrangle, Room E-220
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-720-0200
Address: 3565 US Highway 1, Princeton,NJ 08540
There will be a special CAARMS discount rate for this hotel.
Contact Cynthia Cole by
email at
ccole@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-0100.
Also please stay tuned to this website. Over the next few weeks we will be adding more conference information.
For More Information About African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences:
June 15, 2002
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EIGHTH CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey June 18-21, 2002 |
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|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title/Topic |
| *** TUESDAY, June 18 *** | ||
| 6:00 - 8:30PM |
Welcoming Reception in
Fine Hall
(Professors Lounge)
Joseph H. Taylor Dean of Faculty, Princeton University |
|
| *** WEDNESDAY, June 19 *** | 8:00 - 8:30AM | Breakfast and Registration in the Computer Science Building (Large Auditorium) |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Welcome and Introduction
Erhan Cinlar Chair of the Operations Research and Financial Engineering Department, Princeton University |
|
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Wilfrid Gangbo
Georgia Institute of Technology |
The Monge Kantorovich Theory and its Applications |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Mark Lewis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Queueing Systems: Stability and Optimal Control |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch in the Friend Center (Convocation Room) | |
| 12:30 - 1:45 |
Tutorial:
Multiple Genetic Sequence Alignment
Fern Hunt , National Institute of Standards and Technology |
|
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Russell Goward
Purdue University / MSRI / University of Michigan |
Resolution of Singularities: An Introduction to Algebraic Geometry |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Group Photo (Eastern entrance to the Computer Science Building) | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Ward Whitt
AT&T Labs Research / Columbia University |
The Distance Between Two Stochastic Processes |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Break | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 |
Graduate Student Poster Session
and Reception
Friend Center (Convocation Room) |
|
| 7:00 - 7:45 | Leave for Hotel | |
| *** THURSDAY, June 20 *** | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00AM | Breakfast at the Computer Science Building | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Augustin Banyaga
Penn State University |
On the Geometry of Locally Conformal Symplectic Manifolds |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Vincent G. J. Rodgers
University of Iowa |
The Coadjoint Representation of the Super-Virasoro Algebra and Supergravitons |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch in the Friend Center (Convocation Room) | |
| 12:30 - 1:45 |
Tutorial:
A Brief Introduction to Soliton
Theory in Some Nonlinear PDE's
Rudy L. Horne, Jr. California State University, Hayward |
|
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Cassandra McZeal
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company |
Development Planning and Production Optimization In The Oil and Gas Industry |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Ben Hansen
University of Pennsylvania / University of Michigan |
SAT Scores for Sale? Pseudoexperimental Assessment of Commercial Test Preparation via Optimal Full Matching |
| 4:30 - 5:15 | Leave for Hotel | |
| 5:45 - 6:30 | Leave from Hotel to Reception / Banquet | |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Reception at Prospect House | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 |
Banquet at
Prospect House
A 60th Birthday Celebration for Professors Earl Barnes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Arthur Grainger, Morgan State University and Scott Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo |
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Leave for Hotel | |
| *** FRIDAY, June 21 *** | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00AM | Breakfast in the Computer Science Building | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Asamoah Nkwanta
Morgan State University |
Three New R's: Random Walks, Riordan Arrays, and RNA Secondary Structure |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Sherry Scott
Bowie State University |
The Spectral Analysis of Fractal Noise in Terms of Wiener's Generalized Harmonic Analysis |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch in the Friend Center (Convocation Room) | |
| 12:30 - 1:45 |
Tutorial:
New Periodic Orbits to the N-Body Problem
Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University |
|
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Randolph Cooper
California State University, Los Angeles |
Applications of Variational Inequalities |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Idris Stovall
Florida State University |
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Turbulent Convection Inside a Hele-shaw Cell |
| 5:30 - 8:00 | End of Conference Activities
Picnic at the Frist Campus Center |
|
| 7:30 - 8:15 | Leave for Hotel | |