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IMA Special Workshop:

Blackwell-Tapia Conference

November 3-4, 2006

Partially supported by the National Security Agency.

David Blackwell
David Blackwell 		Richard Tapia
Richard Tapia

Organizers:
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
David Manderscheid Mathematics, University of Iowa
Samuel Myers Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Tex Ostvig UConnects, University of Minnesota
Arlie O. Petters Mathematics, Duke University

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Description:

This is the fourth in a series of biannual conferences honoring David Blackwell and Richard Tapia, two seminal figures who inspired a generation of African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in mathematics. Carrying forward their work, this one and a half day conference will

  • recognize and showcase mathematical excellence by minority researchers
  • recognize and disseminate successful efforts to address under-representation
  • inform students and mathematicians about career opportunities in mathematics, especially outside academia
  • provide networking opportunities for mathematical researchers at all points in the higher education/career trajectory

The conference will include a mix of activities including scientific talks; poster presentations; a panel discussion of career opportunities in mathematics, and another panel on recruitment and retention of a diverse mathematics workforce; and ample opportunities for discussion and interaction. A high point of the meeting will be the awarding, during the conference banquet on Saturday evening, of 2006 Blackwell-Tapia prize to William Massey, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in queuing theory, stochastic networks, and the modeling of communications systems, and in increasing diversity in the mathematical sciences. More information is in this news story and in the press release for the prize.

Complete the registration form if you wish to participate in the conference. There is no registration fee, but your registration must be confirmed by the IMA to participate. Limited funds are available for travel and local expenses and requests for funding may be made with the same form.

If you are in Minnesota on Thursday evening, November 2, be sure to catch Margaret Wright's talk How Hard Can It Be? in the Math Matters public lecture series.

Schedule
Friday, November 3
12:00p-2:00p poster set-up   Lind Hall 400
1:30p-2:00p Coffee and registration   EE/CS 3-176
2:00p-2:30p Welcome and introduction   EE/CS 3-180
2:30p-3:00p From Massey to Blackwell: A study of non-stationary queueing control via sensitive optimality criteria Mark E. Lewis (Cornell University) EE/CS 3-180
3:00p-4:15p Panel discussion: Best practices for recruitment and retention of under-represented minorities in the mathematical sciences Farrah J. Chandler (University of North Carolina), Shirley M. Malcom (American Association for the Advancement of Science), David Manderscheid (University of Iowa), William Yslas Vélez (University of Arizona) EE/CS 3-180
4:15p-4:30p coffee break   EE/CS 3-176
4:30p-5:00p Branch decomposition techniques for discrete optimization Illya V. Hicks (Texas A & M University) EE/CS 3-180
5:00p-5:15p Conference photos   Lind Hall 400
5:15p-6:30p Reception and poster session
Lind Hall 400
Discriminant analysis based on statistical depth functions Asheber Abebe (Auburn University)
Nonlinear interaction of light in disordered optical fiber arrays Alejandro Aceves (University of New Mexico)
JHU Applied Physics Lab - Aviation systems engineering group overview Javier Armendariz (Johns Hopkins University)
Modelling faculty teaching workload as a linear program Kanadpriya Basu (University of South Carolina)
Maria Cristina Villalobos (University of Texas Pan American)
Texas prefreshman engineering program: Closing the gap for minorities in science and engineering Manuel Berriozábal (University of Texas)
Accurate computation of second order derivatives using complex variables Nelson Butuk (Prairie View A&M University)
Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences Luis Enrique Carrillo Díaz (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
Roxana Lopez-Cruz (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
A new semifield of order 36 Minerva Cordero-Epperson (University of Texas)
Clones in minors of matroids Carla Cotwright (Wake Forest University)
Mathematics and its application to modeling the earth's surface Diana Dalbotten (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
The fixed charge network flow problem Adewale Faparusi (Texas A & M University)
Fourier restriction problem and its relation to PDE Cristi Darley Guevara (Arizona State University)
Mathematical modelling at NIST: An example Fern Y. Hunt (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Christopher Jones (University of North Carolina)
Spherical nilpotent orbits of reductive Lie groups: an overview Donald King (Northeastern University)
American Institute of Mathematics Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
AWM Mentor Network Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Steven L. Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Thermal stability of a reactive third grade fluid in a cylindrical pipe: An exploitation of Hermite-Padé approximation technique Oluwole Daniel Makinde (University of Limpopo)
Change in host behavior and its impact on the co-evolution of dengue David Murillo (Arizona State University)
Error estimates between the stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) and the tau-leap method Josue C. Noyola-Martinez (Rice University)
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Kathleen O'Hara (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
Progress report on the NSA mathematics enhancement grant: Developing a mathematics culture among undergraduate mathematics majors at North Carolina A&T State University Janis Oldham (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)
Historical development of the secant method: from the Babylonians to Wolfe Joanna Papakonstantinou (Rice University)
Automated parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis Carlos Andrés Quintero Salazar (University of Texas)
Existence of traveling waves solution for a nonlocal reaction-diffusion model of influenza A Joaquin Rivera (University of Iowa)
An epidemiological approach to the spread of minor political parties Daniel Romero (Arizona State University)
Mathematical aspects of dopamine's turnover David Tello (Arizona State University)
Professional Science Masters programs Sheila Tobias
Optimal product portfolio formulation: Merging predictive data mining with analytical target cascading Conrad Tucker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Reduced basis simulation Rachel E. Vincent-Finley (Rice University)
Large circuit pairs in matroids Bryan Williams (Hampton University)
Algebraic characterizations of some classes of quasi-cyclic codes Isaac Woungang (Ryerson Polytechnical University)
Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral opportunities at New York University Margaret H. Wright (New York University)
Differential elimination of PDEs by numerical algebraic geometry and numerical linear algebra Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario)
Saturday, November 4
8:30a-9:00a coffee   EE/CS 3-176
9:00a-9:30a Computation of biological flows Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University) EE/CS 3-180
9:30a-10:10a short talks
EE/CS 3-180
Formulating Fano's Method as an Optimization Problem to obtain Broadband Tuning Limits on UWB Antennas Maria Cristina Villalobos (University of Texas Pan American)
Generalized hyperbolic functions to find soliton-like solutions of the inhomogeneous higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation Emmanuel Yomba (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
9:30a-10:10a short talks
EE/CS 3-230 
EL algorithm for linear models with missing data Nancy Glenn (University of South Carolina)
Why should I care about Lie groups? Edray Goins (Purdue University)
10:20a-10:40a coffee break   EE/CS 3-176
10:40a-11:40a short talks
EE/CS 3-180
Registration of 4D CT lung images Edward Castillo (Rice University)
Transmission and control of seasonal and pandemic influenza Gerardo Chowell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Epidemic spread in populations at demographic equilibrium Karen Rios-Soto (Cornell University)
10:40a-11:40a short talks
EE/CS 3-230 
Probabilistic and stochastic modeling of turbulent flows Sean C. Garrick (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters for Schroedinger operators on the Sierpinski gasket Kasso Okoudjou (University of Maryland)
Option pricing with memory Flavia Sancier-Barbosa (Southern Illinois University)
11:50a-12:20p Opportunities at the IMA and other institutes Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) EE/CS 3-180
12:20p-2:00p lunch break    
2:00p-3:15p Panel discussion on career opportunities in the mathematical sciences Francisco Barahona (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), Raymond Beaulieu (National Security Agency), Fern Y. Hunt (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Overtoun Jenda (Auburn University) EE/CS 3-180
3:15p-3:45p coffee break   EE/CS 3-176
3:45p-4:15p Jump-diffusions Erhan Cinlar (Princeton University) EE/CS 3-180
4:15p-5:00p Dynamical queueing systems William A. Massey (Princeton University) EE/CS 3-180
5:00p-6:00p break    
6:00p-9:00p Conference reception and banquet
Coffman Memorial Union 
6:00-6:50p reception in fourth floor corridor
7:00p dinner is served
7:45p William A. Massey will be awarded the 2006 Blackwell-Tapia prize
8:00p Banquet talk and questions Tony F. Chan (National Science Foundation)

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Name Department Affiliation
Kobi Abayomi Department of Statistics Columbia University
Asheber Abebe Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University
Alejandro Aceves Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Mexico
Evans Afenya Department of Mathematics Elmhurst College
Issareeya Anunyaporn Mathematics Department University of Texas Pan American
Miguel Argaez Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Texas
Javier Armendariz Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Donald G. Aronson Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Rodrigo Bañuelos Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Francisco Barahona   IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Earl Barnes School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
Kanadpriya Basu Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina
Raymond Beaulieu   National Security Agency
Keith Berrier   Law Offices of Mark L. Berrier
Manuel Berriozábal Department of Applied Mathematics University of Texas
Sean Brooks   Coppin State University
Nelson Butuk Department of Mathematics Prairie View A&M University
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Rodrigo Carraminana Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois
Jamylle Laurice Carter Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Edward Castillo Computational and Applied Mathematics Department Rice University
Carlos Castillo-Chavez Department of Mathematics and Statistics Arizona State University
Ximena Catepillan Department of Mathematics Millersville University
Tony F. Chan   National Science Foundation
Farrah J. Chandler Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of North Carolina
Gerardo Chowell Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Los Alamos National Laboratory
Erhan Cinlar Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton University
Barry Cipra    
Jon Cline Department of Biology Case Western Reserve University
Olga Cordero-Brana Department of Mathematics University of Hawaii at Manoa
Minerva Cordero-Epperson Department of Mathematics University of Texas
Ricardo Cortez Department of Mathematics Tulane University
Carla Cotwright Department of Mathematics Wake Forest University
Cyndy Crist Department of Research and Planning Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Diana Dalbotten National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kenneth R. Driessel Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Kossi Delali Edoh Department of Mathematics North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Marco Enriquez   Rice University
Adewale Faparusi Department of Industrial Engineering Texas A & M University
Dennis Frank Department of Operations Research North Carolina State University
Joe Gallian Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Minnesota
Sean C. Garrick Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Tepper Gill Department of Electrical Engineering Howard University
Nancy Glenn Department of Statistics University of South Carolina
Edray Goins Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Arthur D. Grainger Department of Mathematics Morgan State University
Angela Grant Department of Mathematics Northwestern University
Lawrence Gray School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Michael Green Department of Mathematics Metropolitan State University
Alvaro Guevara Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Cristi Darley Guevara Department of Mathematics Arizona State University
Abba Gumel Department of Mathematics University of Manitoba
Robert C. Hampshire Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton University
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Illya V. Hicks Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Texas A & M University
Fern Y. Hunt Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division National Institute of Standards and Technology
Monica Jackson Department of Mathematics and Statistics American University
Trachette L. Jackson Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Farhad Jafari Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Overtoun Jenda Department of Mathematics Auburn University
Otis B. Jennings Fuqua School of Business Duke University
Silvia Jimenez Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Cynthia Johnson   Rice University
Christopher Jones   University of North Carolina
Donald Kahn Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Hans Kaper Division of Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation
John Kemper Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Harvey Keynes School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Donald King Department of Mathematics Northeastern University
Genevieve Knight   Fayetteville State University
Aderemi Kuku Department of Mathematics Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Rachel Kuske American Institute of Mathematics University of British Columbia
Steven L. Lee Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Delia Letang Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Mark E. Lewis School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Cornell University
Ruifang Li Department of Mathematics University of Texas Pan American
Roxana Lopez-Cruz Department of Mathematics Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Oluwole Daniel Makinde Applied Mathematics Department University of Limpopo
Shirley M. Malcom   American Association for the Advancement of Science
David Manderscheid Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Hannah Markwig Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Thomas Markwig Department of Mathematics Universität Kaiserslautern
Geoffrey Maruyama Office of SR VP for Systems Admin. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Juliette Massey    
Richard Massey Jr.    
William A. Massey Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton University
Douglas McWilliams Department of Industrial Technology Purdue University
Willard Miller Jr. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Salah Mohammed Department of Mathematics Southern Illinois University
David Morrison Department of Mathematics University of California
David Murillo Department of Mathematics and Statistics Arizona State University
Mechie Nkengla Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois
Josue C. Noyola-Martinez Department of Statistics Rice University
Kathleen O'Hara   Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Kasso Okoudjou Department of Mathematics University of Maryland
Janis Oldham Department of Mathematics North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Broderick Oluyede Department of Mathematical Sciences Georgia Southern University
Omayra Ortega Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Victor Padron Department of Mathematics Normandale Community College
Joanna Papakonstantinou Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Rice University
Arlie O. Petters Department of Mathematics Duke University
Carlos Andrés Quintero Salazar Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Texas
Gregory J. Reid Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario
Karen Rios-Soto Biological Statistics and Computational Biology Cornell University
Joaquin Rivera Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Daniel Romero Department of Mathematics Arizona State University
Philippe Rukimbira Department of Mathematics Florida International University
David Rusin Department of Mathematical Sciences Northern Illinois University
Flavia Sancier-Barbosa Department of Mathematics Southern Illinois University
Arnd Scheel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Abdulalim A. Shabazz Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Lincoln University
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Josef Aaron Sifuentes Compuational And Applied Mathematics Rice University
Michel Smith Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University
Stephanie Somersille Department of Mathematics University of California
Michelle Sowemimo   Duke University
Luke Stewart   Duke University
Jean Tapia    
Rebecca Tapia    
Richard Tapia Jr.    
Richard Tapia Department of Mathematics Rice University
Alberto Mokak Teguia Department of Mathematics Duke University
David Tello Mathematics and Statistics Department Arizona State University
Mohammed Tesemma Department of Mathematics Spelman College
Gikiri Thuo Department of Mathematics University of Maryland
Sheila Tobias    
Conrad Tucker Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jesse Turner Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Rice University
Michael Turnley Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leticia Velazquez Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Texas
William Yslas Vélez Department of Mathematics University of Arizona
Jan Verschelde Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois
Maria Cristina Villalobos Department of Mathematics University of Texas Pan American
Alfredo Villanueva Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Rachel E. Vincent-Finley Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Rice University
Esther R. Widiasih School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Bryan Williams Department of Mathematics Hampton University
Kyron Williams Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University
Ulrica Wilson Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego
Isaac Woungang Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Ryerson Polytechnical University
Margaret H. Wright Computer Science Department New York University
Wenyuan Wu Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario
Emmanuel Yomba School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Joseph Young Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Rice University


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