Workshop Schedule

Location: Computing Commons, Room 120

February 27, 2004

8:15 Welcome, Andrew Bremner, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at ASU:
8:30 David Field, General Motors: MANUFACTURING, ROBOTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY
9:30 Rosie Renaut, ASU: Computational Biosciences Masters at ASU
10:00 coffee break (30 minutes)
10:30 Kwei Chen, Banner Good Samaritan PET Center: Linking Functional And Structural Brain Images With Multivariate Network Analyses: Description And Application Using The Partial Least Square Method
11:00 Christina Negoita, ASU: A Constrained Filtered Least Squares Method Applied to a Problem in Medical Imaging
11:30 -1:30 lunch (on your own)
1:30 Michael Kirby, CSU: Some Mathematical Ideas for Attacking the Brain Computer Interface Problem
2:30 Roger Thelwell, CSU : An Introduction to Inverse Problems
3:00 coffee break (30 minutes)
3:30 Hans Mittelman, ASU : Optimization-based design of multisine signals for "plant-friendly" identification of highly interactive process systems
4:00 Brian Yurk, USU: Optimal Velocity Profiles for the Migration Flights of Swans
4:30 Frank Tse, ASU Overview of our effort in using computer simulation to understand the turbulence in the stratosphere
5:00 Faculty Round Table - Designing an Applied Mathematics Institute
7:00 - 9:00, Poster Session and Reception, Department of Mathematics, Faculty Lounge, Physical Sciences A, Room 206

February 28, 2004

8:30 Peiling Wu, General Motors: DEA-based Performance Analysis for GM Supply Chain Facilities
9:15 Erjen Lefeber, Technical University of Eindhoven: Modeling and control of manufacturing systems
10:00 Eric Gehrig, ASU: Cross-shipping and Meeting Demand
10:30 coffee break (30 minutes)
11:00 Randy Thompson, Lockheed Martin : Applications of Wavelets in Signal Processing: Introduction to Wavelets
12:00 -1:30 lunch (on your own)
1:30 Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin: Computations of Multivalued Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs
2:30 coffee break (15 minutes)
2:45 Colleen Burgess, MathEcology: Stochastic Modeling and the Theoretical Epidemic: Spatial Heterogeneity and Time to Extinction
3:15 Wopke van der Werf, Wageningen University,: Population movement of ladybeetles; model evaluation of mechanisms causing ladybeetle aggregation in resource patches
3:45 Stephen~Yeung, USU: Reverse engineering gene networks
4:15 break (30 minutes)
4:40 Mathematical careers in industry, Panel discussion: Together with Arizona Mathematics Undergraduate Conference, Holiday Inn,
Colleen Burgess (MathEcology), David Field (General Motors), Donald Myers (University of Arizona), Randy Thompson (Lockheed Martin), Moderator: Jonathan Winkler
5:20 workshop ends

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