CAARMS9 Program Schedule:

NINTH CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN
RESEARCHERS IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
June 24-27, 2003
TimeSpeakerTitle/Topic
*** TUESDAY, June 24 ***
5:30 - 8:30PM Welcoming Reception
Anniversary Drawing Room (Purdue Memorial Union)
*** WEDNESDAY, June 25 ***
8:00 - 8:30AM Breakfast and Registration
Room 206 (Stewart Center)
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction in Room 214 (Stewart Center)
Dr. John A. Schneider
Assistant Vice President for Industry Research and Outreach
9:00 - 10:00 Trachette Jackson
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A Mechanical Model of Tumor Encapsulation and Invasion
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Tor Kwembe
Chicago State University
The Potential Operators Method of Integral Solutions of Initial Value Parabolic Equations
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
West Faculty Lounge (Purdue Memorial Union)
12:30 - 1:05 Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Part I)
Room 214 (Stewart Center)
Garikai Campbell , Swarthmore College
1:05 - 1:15 Short Break
1:15 - 1:50 Tutorial on Measure Theory and Applications to Probability (Part I)
Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University
1:50 - 2:00 Short Break
2:00 - 3:00 John Harkless
Howard University
Quantum Monte Carlo for Atoms and Molecules
3:00 - 3:30 Group Photo
3:30 - 4:30 Rodney Wallace
IBM / George Washington University
Performance Modelling of Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 7:00 Graduate Student Poster Session and Reception in Room 206 (Stewart Center)
*** THURSDAY, June 26 ***
8:30 - 9:00AM Breakfast in Room 206 (Stewart Center)
Talks will be held in Room 202
9:00 - 10:00 A. B. Gumel
University of Manitoba
Mathematical Modelling of SARS Epidemiology in Toronto
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Richard Tapia
Rice University
Inverse, Shifted Inverse, and Rayleigh Quotient Iteration as Newton's Method
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
West Faculty Lounge (Purdue Memorial Union)
12:30 - 1:05 Tutorial on Measure Theory and Applications to Probability (Part II)
Room 202 (Stewart Center)
Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University
1:05 - 1:15 Short Break
1:15 - 1:50 Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Part II)
Garikai Campbell, Swarthmore College
1:50 - 2:00 Short Break
2:00 - 3:00 Nancy Glenn
University of South Carolina
A Statistical Application of the Karush Kuhn Tucker Theorem: REL
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Raquel L. Hill
Georgia Institute of Technology
Scalable Resource Reservation and Admission Control
5:30 - 6:30 Reception at the West Faculty Lounge (Purdue Memorial Union)
6:30 - 8:30 Banquet at the West Faculty Lounge (Purdue Memorial Union)
Keynote Speaker: James E. West, Johns Hopkins University

Talking Drums, Microphones and African-Americans in Technology
*** FRIDAY, June 27 ***
8:30 - 9:00AM Breakfast in Room 206 (Stewart Center)
Talks are held in Room 202 (Stewart Center)
9:00 - 10:00 Naiomi Cameron
Harvey Mudd College
Combinatorial Interpretations of Hankel Determinants
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 John Albert Ewell III
Northern Illinois University
Different Expressions of a Mathematical Object
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch in Room 206 (Stewart Center)
12:30 - 1:05 Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Part III)
Room 202 (Stewart Center)
Garikai Campbell, Swarthmore College
1:05 - 1:15 Short Break
1:15 - 1:50 Tutorial on Measure Theory and Applications to Probability (Part III)
Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University
1:50 - 2:00 Short Break
2:00 - 3:00 Richard Charles Sr.
Math Learning Institute
Effective Strategies for K Through 20 Education
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Closing Discussion Topic
5:30 - 8:00 End of Conference and Picnic
Main Lounge West and Patio (Purdue Memorial Union)