Recruitment Workshop 1998

Workshop Program

Epidemiology, Climate Modeling, Image Processing, and Pattern Formation
- The Boltzmann Transport Equation and its Applications in Radiological Imaging. Harry Barrett (Faculty, Radiology Department).
- Patterns Everywhere. Joceline Lega (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Modeling Infectious Disease via Diffusive Automata. Cecilia Fosser (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
- Computational Mathematics: The World in a Box. Juan Restrepo (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
Biology, Dynamical Systems, Quantum Mechanics, and PDEs
- Rattlesnakes, Scorpions, and Now Africanized Honeybees: Why should you come to Graduate School at the U of A?. Joe Watkins (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Quantum Theory and the Quantum Computer. William Faris (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Cleaning Dirt: How a Graduate Student Spends Her Time. Regan Murray (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
- Geometry and Control. Lucas Hsu (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
Geometry, Number Theory, and Algebra
- Elliptic Curves. Minhyong Kim (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Poisson and Symplectic Geometry. Jiang-hua Lu (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Continued Fractions. Alexander Perlis (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
- Substitution Ciphers and the Euler Totient Function. Jennifer Smith (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).