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11th Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences

June 21 - 24, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

5:00 - 7:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:30 Check-In/Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Jim Gates (University of Maryland)

"Beyond Connections--Supersymmetric Gauge Theory"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Clifton F. Ealy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Model Theory and Independence Relations"

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

12:30 - 1:05

Steven Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"How to build your research paper database - one PDF at a time"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

1:05 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 1:50

Ulrica Wilson (Claremont McKenna College)

"The problem of classifying finite dimensional division algebras"

1:50 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 2:45 Group Picture At Royce Hall
2:45 - 3:30

Mark Green (IPAM)

"IPAM Opportunities "

3:30 - 4:30

Sean Garrick (University of Minnesota)

"Numerical Solution of Deterministic and Stochastic Integro-differential Equations for the Synthesis of Nano-structured Materials"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 7:00 Poster Session

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Joyce Macabea (Molecular Sciences Institute)

"From DNA to Moons – Modeling with a Dynamic Approach "

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Kasso Okoudjou (Cornell University)

"Modulation spaces and some of their applications"

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

12:30 - 1:05

Jim Gates (University of Maryland)

"Beyond Connections--Supersymmetric Gauge Theory"

1:05 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 1:50

William Massey (Princeton University)

"Calculus of Variations Tutorial (Part I): Lagrangians "
Presentation (PDF File)

1:50 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:00

Rosalind Mary Wynne (Boston University )

"Microstructured Optical Fiber Fabrication:An Intergrated Parametric Approach"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (Lafayette College)

"Applying a multiple capillary substrate and oxygen transport model to drug targeting strategies for cancer chemotherapy "

5:30 - 6:30 Social Hour
6:30 - 8:30 Banquet with Keynote Speaker Keith H. Jackson

Friday, June 24, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Mave Houston (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

"PHOENICS: Partitioning Hardware/Software Embedded Systems Via Non-Intrusive Interactive Constraint Satisfaction"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Kyron Williams (Princeton University)

"Direct Determination of Characteristic Fluctuation Frequencies from Phase Space Trajectories in Turbulent Plasmas "
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

12:30 - 1:05

Steven Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"How to build your research paper database - one PDF at a time"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

1:05 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 1:50

William Massey (Princeton University)

"Calculus of Variations Tutorial (Part II): Hamiltonians"
Presentation (PDF File)
Slides from Panel Discussion and Conclusion (PDF File)

1:50 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:30 Panel Discussion and Conclusion: Creating African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences Idris Assani, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William Massey, Princeton University; and Scott Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 7:00 All American Outdoor BBQ

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