Recruitment Workshop 2004

Workshop Program

• Monday, 8 March 2004
  • Mathematical Models in Cancer Research. Robert Gatenby (Faculty, Radiology).
  • Math and Physiology: Simulation of Oxygen Trasnport. Arthur Lo (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
  • Diffusion in Differential Equations, Geometry, and One Million Dollars. David Glickenstein (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
  • Periods of Non-trivial Dimension: A Clash of Analysis and Number Theory. Cameron McLeman (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
  • Natural Patterns. Alan Newell (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
  • Surfaces, PDEs, and Cacti. Patrick Shipman (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
  • An Introduction to Short Tandem Repeats: An Introduction to Short Tandem Repeats. Joseph Watkins (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
  • Mathematics Education Research; What is it and what is being done at the University of Arizona?. Rebecca McGraw (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
  • Tour of computational facilities. Robert Borys (Staff, Department of Mathematics).
  • Tour of IGERT and Applied Math Labs. Robert Reinking (Senior Research Engineer, Program in Applied Mathematics).
• Tuesday, 9 March 2004
  • Dynamical systems: a brief introduction. Qui-dong Wang (Faculty, Department of Mathematics).
  • Burger's type equations and the higher Catalan numbers. Virgil Pierce (Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics).
  • Topics in Computational Photonics. Patrick Kano (Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics).
  • The Los Alamos Connection. Mac Hyman (Faculty, Arizona Department of Mathematics and Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Mathematics Participants

• Austin Anderson, University of New Mexico
• Rebecca Bilbro, Skidmore College
• David Favero, Brown University
• Donna Harris, Biola University
• Sarah Hoffman, Western Oregon University
• Michael Hofmann, University of Utah
• Joshua Green, University of Arizona
• Molly Kelton, Vassar College
• Melvin Koppens, University of Arizona
• Cayla Kuhs, Wheaton College
• Thomas LaGatta, University of Texas at Austin
• Christine Larson, University of Kansas
• Kurt Luoto, Sonoma State University
• Eric Mann, Aquinas College
• John McClain, Rutgers University
• Juan Rodriguez, University of Rochester
• Mark Rothlisberger, Williams College
• Karin Steece, Wellesley College
• Cynthia Talbot, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Belin Tsinnajinnie, University of New Mexico
• Victor Wong, University of California at San Diego