1999 SIAM Annual Meeting
Third SIAM Graduate Student Focus on Diversity:
A Day for Underrepresented Minorities
Wednesday, May 12
8:00 AM-10:00 PM
Georgia 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: Steven Lee
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ricardo Cortez
Tulane University
Program
Morning
- 8:00-8:45 JP1 Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Olvi Mangasarian, University of Wisconsin, Madison Room: Capitol North/Center/South
- 9:00-11:00 Diversity Workshop
- Room: Georgia 1 and 2
- 9:00-9:25 Global
Compile-Time Analysis of Cache Utilization for Regular and Irregular Programs
- Charles R. Hardnett, Spelman College; and Raja Das, Georgia
Institute of Technology
- 9:30-9:55 Flat-top Solutions of a Ginzburg-Landau Equation
- Monica Romeo and Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Brown University
- 10:00-10:25 Dynamics of Two-Coupled van der Pol Oscillators
with Delay Coupling
- Stephen A. Wirkus and Richard A. Rand, Cornell University
- 10:30-10:55 Variable
Service Quality Management for Real-Time Media Space Applications
- Byron Jeff, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 11:00-11:40 Coffee break
- Room: Exhibit Hall
- 11:40-12:25 JP2 Krylov, Lagrange, Newton, and Schwarz:
Combinations and Permutations
- David E. Keyes, Old Dominion University and ICASE, NASA Langley
Research Center
- Room: Capitol North/Center/South
Afternoon
- 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Diversity Workshop participants)
- Room: Georgia 1 and 2
- 1:30-3:00 Panel Discussion (Summer Research and Fellowship Programs)
- Room: Georgia 1 and 2
- Panelists:
- Arizona Internships in Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences (AIMES)
- Juan Mario Restrepo, University of Arizona
- What Are the Benefits of Attending a Summer Internship?
- Pablo V. Negron, University of Puerto Rico
- Topic to be announced
- Stephen A. Wirkus, Cornell University
- and the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities
in Engineering and Science may also participate in the discussion.
- 3:00-4:00 Coffee break
- Exhibit Hall
- 4:00-6:00 Diversity Workshop
- Room: Georgia 1 and 2
- 4:00-4:25 Finding Branch Decompositions for Planar Graphs
- Ilya Hicks, Rice University
- 4:30-4:55 Nonlinear Dynamics of the Bombardier Beetle
- Erika Camacho and Richard A. Rand, Cornell University
- 5:00-5:25 The
Construction and Management of Distributed Computational Laboratories
- Vernard Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 5:30-5:55 Algorithms for Graphs with Small Branchwidth
- William Christian, Jr., Rice University
Evening
- 6:30-7:30 The I.E. Block Community Lecture: Some Mathematical
Insights Into Car and Bicycle Racing
- Richard A. Tapia, Rice University
- Room: Capitol Center/South
- 7:30-8:30 Community Reception
- Room: Poolside
- 8:30-9:00 Pizza break for Diversity Workshop participants
- Room: Georgia 1 and 2
- 9:00-10:00 "The Real Deal" -- An informal graduate
student session
- Moderator: Richard A. Tapia, Rice University
- Funding
Agency
SIAM and the Meeting Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks
and appreciation to the Department of Energy and the National
Security Agency for their support of this Diversity Workshop.
MMD, 5/6/99