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).

Mathematics Participants

• Barry Baloff, Colorado College
• Scott Clark, Youngstown State University
• Yuko Fukatsu, University of Wisconsin
• Thomas Hoffman, Oregon State University
• Laura Kondek, Richard Stockton College
• Rebecca Lamkin, Rutgers University
• Virgil Pierce, Boston University
• R. Judith Reed, University of Texas
• Jeffrey Selden, New Mexico State University
• Neal Smith, Miami University
• Sarah Thieling, Agnes Scott College
• Anedra Winfrey, Talladega College