The Third Annual Regional Workshop in the Mathematical Sciences

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Schedule for Saturday, October 28, 2000


8:15 - 9:00 Breakfast, Burnett Hall

9:00 - 10:20 SESSION 1

Room9:00-9:209:30-9:5010:00-10:20
Analysis and Control Theory Burnett 107 Commutative real C* Algebras
Benton Duncan
Boundary control theory for partial differential equations
George Avalos
Combinatorics and Graph Theory Burnett 119 Reconstructing subsets of the plane
Jamie Radcliffe
Quantum Computing: How to do 2n things all at the same time
Charles Cusack
The Core of a Commutator-Finite Orthomodular Lattice
Bruce Legan
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Burnett 118 Elliptic curves and elliptic functions
Ryan Karr
Computing Hilbert polynomials with Macaulay
Tom Marley
Associated Graded Rings of Numerical Semigroup Rings
Victoria Sapko
Computer Science Burnett 120 High Performance Computing
Rich Sincovec
Secure Group Communications
Byrav Ramamurthy
Lossless Compression with Burrows Wheeler Transformation
Ziya Arnavut
Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics Burnett 121 An extensible differential equation solver for computer algebra systems
Barton Willis
Fixed Points and Solutions of Boundary Value Problems
Richard Avery
Generalized Exponential Function
Allan Peterson
Groups and Semigroups Burnett 124 Finite Automata and Surface Groups
John Meakin
Symbolic computation in groups
Susan Hermiller
Braid Groups
Lois Goss
Statistics Burnett 103 Simulation of the Claims paid by an Insurance Company
Tracy Riensche
Careers using statistics within The Gallup Organization
John Reimnitz
Constructing supersaturated experimental designs
Kent Eskridge

10:20 - 10:50 Break, Burnett Hall




10:50 - 12:10 SESSION 2

Room10:50-11:1011:20-11:4011:50-12:10
Analysis and Control Theory Burnett 107 A Brief Overview of Feynman's Operational Calculus
Lance Nielsen
Variations on a Theme of Kadison
David Pitts
Feedback Control of Noise in an Acoustic Chamber
Richard Rebarber
Combinatorics and Graph Theory Burnett 119 Bandwidth of random graphs
Dorea Claassen
Heesch's Problem
Casey Mann
A critical look at coding theory
Judy Walker
(in Burnett 118)
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Burnett 118 The Krull-Schmidt uniqueness theorem (not!)
Roger Wiegand
Endomorphism rings
Bill Wickless
A critical look at coding theory
Judy Walker
Computer Science Burnett 120 Constraint Processing
Berthe Choueiry
Context-based Similarity for GIS Feature Matching
Sharad Seth
Cluster computing
David Swanson
Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics Burnett 121 Oscillation of a differential equation on a measure chain
Elvan Akin
Cauchy functions for differential equations on time scales
Jo Hoffacker
A mathematical model for a fluid flow experiment
Glenn Ledder
Groups and Semigroups Burnett 124 Distinguishing knots by their "fingerprints"
Mark Brittenham
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Reflection Groups, Caley Graphs, Geodesics, and the Word Problem
Justin James
Consequences of algebraic identities
John Snow
Statistics Burnett 103 Statistics and Abortion: Assessing the Impact of Supreme Court Cases on Abortion
Scott Rademacker
A cure for a mysterious illness: An application of biomedical study design principles
Julie Stoner
Applications in survival analysis
Steve Kachman

12:10 - 1:10 Lunch, Burnett Hall