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CTW: Blackwell-Tapia Conference: Schedule

Schedule

Thursday, November 4
6:30pm Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza for COSI
7:00-8:00pm Tapia Public Lecture at COSI: Richard Tapia
8:00-8:30pm COSI Reception
8:30pm Shuttle leaves COSI to Crowne Plaza
Friday, November 5
MBI Auditorium, Jennings Hall, Room 355
12:15pm Shuttles leave from Crowne Plaza to MBI
12:45-1:00pm Introduction: Marty Golubitsky, Director, MBI
1:00-1:40pm Ricardo Cortez: Simulation of flagellar motions using regularization methods
1:45-2:05pm Talitha Washington: Galloping Gertie Revisited: Demystifying the Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
2:10-2:30pm Edray Goins: Yes, Even You Can Bend It Like Beckham
2:30-3:15pm Break
3:15-3:55pm Illya Hicks: Optimization Techniques for Scheduling Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Early Stage Breast Cancer
4:00-4:20pm Mariel Vazquez: Modeling DNA unlinking
4:20-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:30pm David Blackwell Tribute: James Donaldson & William Massey
5:30-7:30pm Poster Session and Reception - Click here to view poster titles.
7:30pm Shuttles leave from MBI to Crowne Plaza
Saturday, November 6
8:15am Shuttles leave from Crowne Plaza to MBI
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:00-9:40am Ariel Cintron-Arias: Parameter Selection for Inverse Problem Formulation
9:45-10:05am Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem: A new SIS malaria model with vector demography showing natural occurring oscillations
10:05-10:45am Break
10:45-11:25am Juan M. Restrepo: Climate Change. When Data Fail Us
11:30-11:50am Ryan Hynd: Nonlinear partial differential equation and stochastic singular control
11:50-1:15pm Lunch break
1:15-1:55pm Emery N. Brown: A Survey of Signal Processing Questions in Neuroscience
2:00-2:20pm Conner Sandefur: How can changes in protein isomer concentration trigger protein aggregation diseases?
2:25-3:05pm Break
3:05-3:15pm Group Photo
Jennings Hall, Room 001 Auditorium
3:15-3:55pm Carlos Castillo-Chavez: Young Women and Mathematical Biology: A Personal Perspective
4:00-5:00pm Trachette Jackson: The evolution of hybrid models of tumor angiogenesis
5:15pm Shuttle leaves from MBI to Crowne Plaza
5:30-7:00pm Cash bar and hors d'oevres at Faculty Club
6:30pm Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza to Faculty Club
7:00-9:30pm Conference Reception and Banquet at the OSU Faculty Club
7:45pm Awarding of Blackwell-Tapia Prize
9:15pm Shuttles leave from Faculty Club to Crowne Plaza

Poster Session

  • Fola Agusto: Avian influenza optimal seasonal vaccination therapy
  • Alfredo Cruz: Security Policies for an RFID Automated Checkout
  • Shu Dai: Dynamics in a modulation equation for cardiac alternans
  • Moussa Doumbia: Malaria in Irrigated and Non-Irrigated Regions of Mali
  • Dennis Onyeka Frank: Application of Optimal Control to Inflammatory Response
  • Marco Herrera: Differential contribution of voltage-dependent potassium currents to neuronal excitability
  • Monica Jackson: Modeling the effect of climate change on prevalence of malaria in western Africa
  • Harsh Jain: Impact of Androgen Ablation Therapy on Mutation Acquisition in Prostate Cancer
  • Elisabeth Kemajou: The Structural Model Based Pricing Debt and Loan Guarantees using SDEs
  • Nianpeng Li: Juvenile-Adult Exploited Fishery Model
  • Asamoah Nkwanta: An Updated Study of Lattice Paths and RNA Secondary Structure Prediction of the Yellow Fever Virus
  • Samares Pal: Role of infection in an eco-epidemiological system - a mathematical study
  • Mavis Pararai: Misreporting in the generalized Poisson regression models
  • Candice Price: A Biological Application for Knot Floer Homology
  • Rosalyn Rael: Neutrality and scaling of species abundance distributions in an ecological community
  • Carlos Ramirez and Reinaldo Sanchez: An algorithm for constrained l1-minimization problems and applications
  • Joaquin Rivera: Coexistence of competitors in deterministic and stochastic patchy environments
  • Flavia Sancier: Stochastic models with memory in mathematical finance
  • Kimberly F. Sellers: Generalized Statistical Methods via the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distribution
  • Deena Schmidt: Linking network structure and stochastic dynamics to neural activity patterns involved in sleep-wake regulation
  • Ilyssa Summer: Effects of Temperature on Membrane Electrodiffusion
  • Chelsea Walton: Point Parameter Rings
  • Yunjiao Wang: Rigid properties of hyperbolic periodic solutions of network systems
  • Shari Wiley: Population Dynamics of Discrete-Time Exploited Fishery Models
  • Chuan Xue: A mathematical model of ischemic wound healing/ Radial and spiral stream formation in Proteus mirabilis colonies
  • Kamuela Yong: Modeling almond pollination by two interacting bee species with cross- and self-diffusion
  • Tunde Yusuf: Optimal control strategy for controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS disease
  • Kun Zhao: Understanding solid tumor growth using a diffuse interface model