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Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Prize Presentation

November 5 - 6, 2004

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Friday, November 05, 2004

1:30 - 2:30 Check-In
2:30 - 3:30

Richard Tapia (Rice University)

"A Lifetime of Diversity: Challenges, Successes, and Rewards"

3:30 - 5:30 Poster Session
4:30 - 5:30 Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00

Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan)

"Mathematical Models of Traditional and Targeted Chemotherapeutic Approaches"

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30

Carlos Bustamante (Cornell University)

"Evolutionary Consequence of Amino Acid Variation within the Human Genome""

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Two Parallel sessions of students talks ( three 20 minute talks in each session)

1:30 - 1:50

Miriam Nuno (Cornell University)

"A new approach to modeling multiple influenza strain dynamics"

1:30 - 1:50

Johnny Guzman (Cornell University)

"Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Singularly Perturbed Problems"

1:50 - 2:10

Musie Ghebremichael (Yale University)

"On some statistical inference problems involving the bivariate"

1:50 - 2:10

Andres Figueroa (University of Texas Pan American)

"Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of Ribosomal DNA Genes in the analysis of microbial communities"

2:10 - 2:30

Shari Wiley (Howard University)

"INTRAGUILD PREDATION AND HARVESTING IN A GEORGES BANK FOOD CHAIN""

2:10 - 2:30

Shaun Gittens (University of Maryland at College Park)

"Effective neural network learning of sequence generating behavior while "

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:30 Opportunities at IPAM
3:30 - 4:30

Michael Cranston (University of California at Irvine)

"A retrospective of the works of Rodrigo Banuelos."

4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00

Rodrigo BaƱuelos (Purdue University)

"Isoperimetric Inequalities in Probability, Geometry, and PDE's"

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM) Including Presentation of Prize, Acceptance Speech

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