The Fourth Annual Regional Workshop in the Mathematical Sciences

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Schedule for Saturday, November 3, 2001


8:15 - 9:00 Breakfast, Burnett Hall

9:00 - 10:20 SESSION 1

Room9:00-9:209:30-9:5010:00-10:20
Analysis
Organizer: Allan Donsig
Burnett 103 Some remarks on control theory
George Avalos
Factoring and Intertwining Differential Operators
Barton Willis
Linear Oscillation Theory
Lynn Erbe
Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures
Organizer: Susan Hermiller
Burnett 118 Convex Hull Analysis of Protein/DNA complexes
Dorea Claassen
Groups, Graphs, and Hyperbolic Geometry
Justin James
Shift happens: the Cantor set, binary trees, and the polycyclic monoid
Steve Haataja
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Organizer: Sylvia Wiegand
Burnett 107 On Primitive Rings
Mark Walker
Prolongation of Seminvariants
Joe Brennan
Galois Action in Biquadratic Extensions and a Twist
Griff Elder
Computer Science
Organizer: Byrav Ramamurthy
Burnett 120 Cluster Computing
David Swanson
Distributed Real-Time Systems
Xiao Qin
Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Siva-Mohan Sunkavalli
Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics
Organizer: Glenn Ledder
Burnett 202 Careers for mathematicians in the Air Force and civil service
Jerry Diaz
A mathematical model for smallpox demographics
Glenn Ledder
Modeling digestion processes in simple animal guts
David Logan
Statistics
Organizer: Erin Blankenship
Burnett 203 TBA
Beth Reinbolt
Statistics and Sports - there's more to life than batting averages
David Marx
TBA
Trent Buskirk

10:20 - 10:50 Break, Burnett Hall








10:50 - 12:10 SESSION 2

Room10:50-11:1011:20-11:4011:50-12:10
Analysis
Organizer: Allan Donsig
Burnett 103 Topology meets Operator Algebras
David Pitts
Dual Spaces
Ben Duncan
Commutant Lifting and Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation
Devin Greene
Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures
Organizer: Susan Hermiller
Burnett 118 Partial List Colourings
Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo
The prefix monoid of surface groups
Zoran Sunik
Languages and syntactic monoids
Steve Lindblad
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Organizer: Sylvia Wiegand
Burnett 107 Quantum Leaps in Computing
Ed Loeb
Factorization in Polynomial and Power Series Rings
Jim Coykendall
Algebraic Geometry: Prehistory to 2001 in 20 minutes
Brian Harbourne
Computer Science
Organizer: Byrav Ramamurthy
Burnett 120 A Constraint Processing Approach to the Assignment of Graduate Teaching Assistants in CSE
Robert Glaubius
Randomness in strings: A primer on Kolmogorov Complexity
Vinod Variyam
Control and Management of Optical WDM Networks
Lu Shen
Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics
Organizer: Glenn Ledder
Burnett 202 Dynamic equations on a time scale
Al Peterson
Riemann integration on time scales
Kirsten Messer
Iteration and partial difference equations
Rich Avery
Statistics
Organizer: Erin Blankenship
Burnett 203 Randomized Response Designs
Erin Blankenship
Statistical Adjustment for Lying about Seat Belt and Alcohol Use in Motor Vehicle Accident Data
Kent Eskridge

12:10 - 1:10 Lunch, Burnett Hall