Recruitment Workshop 1999

Workshop Program

Research Topics I
- Mathematics and Chaotic Beetles. Jim Cushing (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Fractal Dimension of a Chaotic Attractor. Jeff Edmunds (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
- Algorithms for Matrix Groups. Robert Beals (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- A New Method for Solving the Stochastic Nonlinear Unsaturated Flow Problem. Orna Amir (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
Research Topics II
- Percolation Theory - From Coffee Pots to Galaxies. Jan Wehr (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- The Mathematics Education Program at the U of A. Jennifer Christian-Smith (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
- When Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?. Nick Ercolani (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
- Dynamical Systems and Climbing Plants. Alain Goriely (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
Research Topics III
- Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry. Susan Marshall (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
- Opportunities for Training in Biomathematics. Leslie Tolbert (Faculty, Neurobiology and Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
- Is There a Tumor There? - An Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory. Angel Pineda (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
- Abstract Spaces and Rings of Functions. Doug Ulmer (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).