Wednesday, July 12
Fourth SIAM Graduate Student Focus on Diversity:
A Day for Underrepresented Minorities
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
Room: Caribbean 1 & 2
This event is a chance for undergraduate and graduate students to
listen to technical talks given by fellow underrepresented minority
graduate students.
Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Cornell University, USA
William Massey
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA
Pablo V. Negron-Marrero
University of Puerto Rico - Humacao, Puerto Rico
Pablo Tarazaga
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Morning Program
- 8:30-9:15 IP5, Global Climate Modeling
- Warren M. Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Rio Mar 5
- 9:15-10:00 IP6, Stimulating Turbulent Compressible Flows at Very
High Resolution Using the Piecewise-Parabolic Method
- Paul R. Woodward, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Rio Mar 5
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee
- Exhibit Hall
- 10:30-12:30 Diversity Workshop:
- Caribbean 1 & 2
- 10:30-10:55 On the Design of Lp FIR Digital Filters
- Ricardo A. Vargas and Charles S. Burrus, Rice University, USA
- 11:00-11:25 Protein Structure Analysis Using the Singular Value Decomposition
- Rachel E. Vincent, Rice University, USA
- 11:30-11:55 Density Based Image Analysis
- Harold Figueroa, Cornell University, USA
- 12:00-12:25 Combinatorial Analysis of the Dynamics of Decision
Systems
- Rebecca E. Pablo and Reinhard C. Laubenbacher, New Mexico State University, USA
Afternoon Program
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch
- Vista Verde Garden (Wrist tags required)
- 2:00-2:45 IP7, Nonlinear Approximation
- Ronald A. DeVore, University of South Carolina, USA
Rio Mar 5
- 3:00-3:30 Diversity Workshop resumes:
- Caribbean 1&2
- 3:00-3:25 A Single Climax Species Two-Class Population Model
- Shurron M. Farmer, Howard University, USA
- 3:30 PM-4:00 Coffee
- Exhibit Hall
- 4:00-6:00 Diversity Workshop continues:
- Caribbean 1 & 2
- 4:00-4:25 Estimating Airport Arrival Capacity Distributions for Air Traffic Flow Management
- Tasha R. Inniss, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- 4:30-4:55 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Inside a Hele-Shaw Cell
- Idris Stovall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- 5:00-5:25 Nonconforming Domain Decomposition Method Applied to Viscosity Solutions of Implicit PDEs
- Luis A. Melara and Petr Kloucek, Rice University, USA
- 5:30-5:55 On the Dynamics of a Single-mode Semiconductor Laser
Subject to Optical Injection
- Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, Brown University, USA
Evening Program
- 6:00-7:00 The I. E. Block Community Lecture: Advances in Advancing Interfaces
- James A. Sethian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Rio Mar 5
- 7:00-8:00 The Community Reception
- Ocean Terrace
- 8:00-9:00 Pizza Get-together for Diversity Workshop Participants
- Caribbean 1 & 2
- 9:00-10:00 "The Real Deal" -- An informal graduate student
session.
- Moderator: Richard A. Tapia, Rice University
- Caribbean 1 & 2
- 10:00 Diversity Workshop adjourns