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IMA Special Workshop
Blackwell-Tapia Conference

November 3-4, 2006

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Partially supported by the National Security Agency.

David Blackwell

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

Math is Cool!/Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?
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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.

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Friday | Saturday

Friday November 03, 2006

12:00pm-2:00pm

poster set-up

Lind Hall 400

1:30pm-2:00pm

Coffee and registration

EE/CS 3-176

2:00pm-2:30pm

Welcome and introduction

EE/CS 3-180

2:30pm-3:00pm

From Massey to Blackwell: A study of non-stationary queueing control via sensitive optimality criteria

Mark Lewis (Cornell University)

EE/CS 3-180

3:00pm-4:15pm

Panel discussion: Best practices for recruitment and retention of under-represented minorities in the mathematical sciences

Farrah Chandler (University of North Carolina)
Shirley Malcom (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
David Manderscheid (University of Iowa)
William Vélez (University of Arizona)

EE/CS 3-180

4:15pm-4:30pm

coffee break

EE/CS 3-176

4:30pm-5:00pm

Branch decomposition techniques for discrete optimization

Illya Hicks (Texas A & M University)

EE/CS 3-180

5:00pm-5:15pm

Conference photos

Lind Hall 400

5:15pm-6:30pm

Reception and poster session
Lind Hall 400

Fourier restriction problem and its relation to PDE
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) Cancelled 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)
The fixed charge network flow problem	Adewale Faparusi (Texas A & M University)
Mathematical modelling at NIST: An example	Fern 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)
AWM Mentor Network	Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
American Institute of Mathematics	Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Steven 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 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 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 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 (NONE)
Optimal product portfolio formulation: Merging predictive data mining with analytical target cascading	Conrad Tucker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Reduced basis simulation	Rachel 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 Wright (New York University)
Differential elimination of PDEs by numerical algebraic geometry and numerical linear algebra	Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario)

Saturday November 04, 2006

8:30am-9:00am

coffee

EE/CS 3-176

9:00am-9:30am

Computation of biological flows

Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University)

EE/CS 3-180

9:30am-10:10am

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)

9:30am-10:10am

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)

10:20am-10:40am

coffee break

EE/CS 3-176

10:40am-11:40am

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 Ríos-Soto (Cornell University)

10:40am-11:40am

short talks
EE/CS 3-230

Probabilistic and stochastic modeling of turbulent flows	Sean Garrick (University of Minnesota)
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)

11:50am-12:20pm

Opportunities at the IMA and other institutes

Douglas Arnold (University of Minnesota)

EE/CS 3-180

12:20pm-2:00pm

lunch break

2:00pm-3:15pm

Panel discussion on career opportunities in the mathematical sciences

Francisco Barahona (IBM)
Raymond Beaulieu (National Security Agency)
Fern Hunt (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Overtoun Jenda (Auburn University)

EE/CS 3-180

3:15pm-3:45pm

coffee break

EE/CS 3-176

3:45pm-4:15pm

Jump-diffusions

Erhan Cinlar (Princeton University)

EE/CS 3-180

4:15pm-5:00pm

Dynamical queueing systems

William Massey (Princeton University)

EE/CS 3-180

5:00pm-6:00pm

break

6:00pm-9:00pm

Conference reception and banquet
Coffman Memorial Union

8:00p Banquet talk and questions	Tony Chan (National Science Foundation)
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

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LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

NAME	DEPARTMENT	AFFILIATION
Kobi Abayomi	Department of Statistics	Columbia University
Asheber Abebe	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Auburn University
Alejandro Aceves	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of New Mexico
Evans Afenya	Department of Mathematics	Elmhurst College
Issareeya Anunyaporn	Department of Mathematics	University of Texas Pan American
Miguel Argaez	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Texas
Javier Armendariz	Applied Physics Laboratory	Johns Hopkins University
Douglas Arnold	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Donald Aronson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Rodrigo Bañuelos	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Francisco Barahona		IBM
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	Department of Mathematics	Coppin State University
Nelson Butuk	Department of Mathematics	Prairie View A&M University
Maria-Carme Calderer	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Rodrigo Carraminana	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois at Chicago
Jamylle Carter	Department of Mathematics	San Francisco State University
Edward Castillo	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Carlos Castillo-Chavez	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Arizona State University
Ximena Catepillan	Department of Mathematics	Millersville University
Tony Chan		National Science Foundation
Farrah Chandler	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of North Carolina
Gerardo Chowell	Department of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Erhan Cinlar	Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering	Princeton University
Barry Cipra		NONE
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
Kenneth Driessel	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Kossi 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 Mathematics	North Carolina State University
Joe Gallian	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Minnesota
Sean Garrick	Department of Mechanical Engineering	University of Minnesota
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 Grainger	Department of Mathematics	Morgan State University
Angela Grant	Department of Mathematics	Northwestern University
Lawrence Gray	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Michael Green	Department of Mathematics	Metropolitan State University
Alvaro Guevara		Louisiana State University
Cristi Guevara	Department of Mathematics	Arizona State University
Abba Gumel	Department of Mathematics	University of Manitoba
Robert Hampshire	Operations Research and Financial Engineering	Princeton University
Milena Hering	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Illya Hicks	Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Texas A & M University
Fern Hunt	Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Monica Jackson	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	American University
Trachette Jackson	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Farhad Jafari	Department of Mathematics	University of Wyoming
Overtoun Jenda	Department of Mathematics	Auburn University
Otis Jennings	School of Business	Duke University
Silvia Jimenez	Department of Mathematics	Louisiana State University
Cynthia Johnson		Rice University
Christopher Jones	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina
Donald Kahn	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
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
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	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Steven Lee	Center for Applied Scientific Computing	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Delia Letang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Mark 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 Makinde	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Limpopo
Shirley 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
Thomas Markwig	Department of Mathematics	Universität Kaiserslautern
Geoffrey Maruyama	Office of SR VP for Systems Admin.	University of Minnesota
Juliette Massey		NONE
Richard Massey		NONE
William Massey	Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering	Princeton University
Douglas McWilliams	Department of Industrial Technology	Purdue University
Willard Miller	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Salah-Eldin Mohammed	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
David Morrison	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Santa Barbara
David Murillo	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Arizona State University
Mechie Nkengla	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois at Chicago
Josue 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	Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences	Arizona State University
Juan 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 Petters	Department of Mathematics	Duke University
Carlos Quintero Salazar	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Texas
Gregory Reid	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
Karen Ríos-Soto	Department of 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
Abdulalim Shabazz	Department of Mathematics & Computer Science	Lincoln University
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Josef Sifuentes	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Michel Smith	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Auburn University
Stephanie Somersille	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Michelle Sowemimo		Duke University
Luke Stewart		Duke University
Jean Tapia		NONE
Rebecca Tapia		NONE
Richard Tapia		NONE
Richard Tapia	Department of Mathematics	Rice University
Alberto Teguia	Department of Mathematics	Duke University
David Tello	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Arizona State University
Mohammed Tesemma	Department of Mathematics	Spelman College
Gikiri Thuo	Department of Mathematics	University of Maryland
Sheila Tobias		NONE
Conrad Tucker	Industrial and Systems Engineering Department	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 Vélez	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
Jan Verschelde	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois at Chicago
Maria Cristina Villalobos	Department of Mathematics	University of Texas Pan American
Alfredo Villanueva	Department of Mathematics	University of Iowa
Rachel Vincent-Finley	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Esther Widiasih	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Bryan Williams	Department of Mathematics	Hampton University
Kyron Williams	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 Wright	Department of Computer Science	New York University
Wenyuan Wu	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
Emmanuel Yomba	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Joseph Young	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University

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