Tuesday, October 24/10:00 AM
Graduate Student Focus on Diversity
This event is an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to listen to technical talks given by fellow underrepresented minority graduate students.
The graduate student presentations are technical presentations in the students' areas of research: interior points, integer programming, finite element approximations to partial differential equations. These presentations are open to all meeting attendees.
10:00-11:30 AM
Graduate Student Presentations
Moderator: Pamela J. Williams
- On the Solution of a Shape Optimization Problem
Anthony J. Kearsley, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Finite Element Approximations to a System of Shallow Water Equations
Monica L. Martinez, Rice University
- On the Use of Interior Point Methods for Integer Programming
Cassandra M. McZeal, Rice University
- Coupling Sea Ice Models to Climate Models Method
Monica Y. Stephens, Brown University
1:45-3:15 PM
Graduate Student Presentations
Moderator: Cassandra M. McZeal
- Approximations for Nonstationary Circuit Switched Networks
Otis B. Jennings, Georgia Institute of Technology
- The Use of Interior Point Methods for Solving the Phase Problem in Crystallography
Leticia Velazquez, Rice University
- Computational Applications of Lagrangian Equations of Motion to Spatial Loose-Parts Dynamical Systems
Donald C. Williams, Rice University
- On Effective Finite Termination Techniques within Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming Problems
Pamela J. Williams, Rice University
4:15- 5:15 PM
Special Expository Lecture: "If Copernicus Had a Computer"
Speaker: Charles Van Loan
8:00 PM
The Real Deal: An Informal Graduate Student Session
Moderator: Richard A. Tapia
This is an occasion for all undergraduate and graduate underrepresented minority students to talk
with each other about personal and professional issues pertinent to urvival and success in graduate school.
10/3/95