Cosponsored by the Joint Alliance for Minorities in Mathematics (JAMM)

With partial support from the Department of Energy

Organizers:    

   Raymond L. Johnson
University of Maryland  
rlj@math.umd.edu

James Turner
Florida State University 
     turner@scri.fsu.edu

Mathematical problems arising in real world settings typically embody complicated, interdisciplinary issues of formulation, analysis and solution, and solutions are frequently sought numerically. Minorities in mathematical careers are often attracted to areas in which their results can have a societal impact. Opportunities to learn the computational tools may be available in a mathematics department or across campus in a school of computational science, in the school of engineering or sometimes in a school of information technology. Students need to access this resource wherever it is located and also need to know what kind of skills make them most suitable for jobs at government labs and in industry. The purpose of the weekend workshop is to show examples of people and problems from industrial and government laboratory settings, provide discussions of expectations of non-academic and academic employers, and provide tools for participants to help them participate fully in applied areas.

The first goal will be achieved through technical talks by selected participants, chosen based on their success with real-world problems. The second will be achieved by a panel of experts from each of the indicated areas discussing their expectations, and the third by a tutorial on issues in computational science. The program will take advantage of some of the experts in residence due to the spring 2001 IMA program on Geometric Design and Computer Graphics, and the Tutorial on Computer Graphics that will be held May 10-11.

This is meant to be a "networking" workshop; participation will be limited in order to facilitate a high degree of interaction.The IMA will invite approximately (i) 20 senior minority mathematical scientists, from industry, government laboratories, and universities. (ii) 40 minority graduate students with interest in the application of mathematics. The IMA will write to department chairs around the United States to solicit graduate student candidates to participate in the workshop. Other sources of minority applicants will be contacted, such as participants on listservs of various minority scientific groups. The final decision on the invited students will take demographic distribution and likely impact on the minority applied mathematics community into account.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

FRIDAY, MAY 4 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
6:00 pm	Reception	Radisson Metrodome Hotel - Regents Foyer
6:30 pm	Dinner	Radisson Metrodome Hotel - Regents Room
8:15 pm	Willard Miller	Welcoming Remarks
8:25 pm	Tasha R. Inniss Trinity College, Washington D.C.	Friendlier Flying: Stochastically Modeling Airport Arrival Capacities During Inclement Weather   NPR Talk (RealAudio) Talk:   html    pdf
SATURDAY, MAY 5 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:00 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
8:20 am	Fred Dulles	Introduction
8:30-10:30 am	Technical Talks
8:30 am	Isaiah M. Blankson NASA Glenn Research Center	Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging with Superresolution: Application to Aviation Safety in Extremely Poor Visibility Slides:  html    pdf
9:00 am	Bonita V. Saunders National Institute of Standards & Technology	Computing Boundary Fitted Grids for Effective 3D Visualizations in a Digital Library
9:30 am	Foluso Ladeinde SUNY Stony Brook	High-Order Computation of Selected Aeromechanic and Propulsion Problems
10:00 am	Pamela J. Williams Sandia National Laboratories	How to get a smoother ride on BART Slides:  html    pdf
10:30 am	Cofee break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am- 12:00 pm	James Turner Florida State University	An IMA Computational Science Tutorial with Applications to the Czochralski Crystal Growth Process
1:30-3:00 pm	Panel on Expectations in Industry Members: Jerry Bona (University of Texas at Austin) Tepper Gill (Howard University ) Sesh Murthy (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) John Lewis (Boeing) Juan Meza (U.S. Department of Energy)
3:00 pm	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:30-4:30 pm	Small group discussion session on how to utilize computational resources
6:00 pm	Dinner	Radisson Metrodome Hotel
7:30 pm	Dinner Speaker: James Curry University of Colorado	My Education at SUN Microsystems
SUNDAY, MAY 6 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:45 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00 am	Tutorial on Computational Science (continued)
10:00 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30 am	Juan Meza U.S. Department of Energy	The Role of Computational Mathematics in Industrial Problems
11:15-11:30 am	Conclusion: Raymond L. Johnson (University of Maryland) James Turner (Florida State University)

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 5/2/2001

Name	Department	Affiliation
Javier Armendariz		Institute for Mathematics & its Applications
Louis Beaugris	Mathematics	University of Iowa
Serge Bernard	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
Isaiah Blankson	University Programs	NASA Glenn Research Center
Jerry Bona	Mathematics C1200	University of Texas at Austin
Velinda Calvert		Mississippi State University
Jose Candelaria	Mathematics	University of Iowa
Jamylle Carter		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Paul Castillo	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Ulises Cervantes	Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ivette Chuca	Mathematics	New Mexico State University
Gabriela Cohen	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
James Curry	Applied Mathematics	University of Colorado
Cesar de la Rosa	Mathematical Sciences	New Mexico State University
Narryn Fisher	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
Tepper Gill	Electrical Engineering	Howard University
Rod Holmes	Mathematics	University of Houston
William Casey Howell	Applied Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
Tasha Inniss	Mathematics	Trinity College
Monica Jackson	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
Jesse Johnson	Technology Assessment Group	Logistics Management Insitute
Raymond Johnson	Mathematics	University of Maryland
Wilette Johnson
Nathaniel Knox	Mathematics	Morgan State University
Foluso Ladeinde	Mechanical Engineering	SUNY Stony Brook
Kehinde Ladipo	Mathematics	University of Houston
John G. Lewis		The Boeing Company
Shylynn Lofton	Mathematics	Wayne State University
Miriam Lucian	BCAG - Advanced Technology	The Boeing Company
Faly Mbengue	Mathematics	Wayne State University
Juan Meza		U.S. Department of Energy
Damali Tabia Moore	Mathematics	Texas A&M University
Sesh Murthy		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Carmeliza Navasca	Mathematics	University of California, Davis
Jesse Otero	Mathematics	University of Michigan
Rebecca Pablo	Mathematics	New Mexico State University
John Sanders	Mathematical Sciences	New Mexico State University
Bonita Saunders	Mathematical & Comp. Sci. 8910	National Institute of Standards & Technology
Gilberto Simpson	Mathematics	University of Michigan
Maria (Alejandra) Sorto	Mathematics	Michigan State University
Gabriel Soto	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Calandra Tate	Mathematics	University of Maryland College Park
Simon Thuo	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
James Turner	Computational Science	Florida State University
Pamela J. Williams		Sandia National Laboratories
Terry Williams	Mathematics	University of Maryland at College Park
Joycelyn Wilson		University of Maryland - College Park

 

Abstracts

2000-2001 Program: Mathematics in Multimedia

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