11/06/10

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Schedule of the conference

Saturday 11/6/2010

8:10 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Registration and refreshments, in front of Petty 136

8:50 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks, Petty 136

Denise N. Baker, Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences

9:00 a.m. –10:00 a.m. Plenary Lecture by Suzanne Lenhart (UT Knoxville) Petty 136

The power of optimal control: from confining rabies to improving CPR

10:00 a.m. –10:30 a.m. Coffee break

10:30 a.m. –12:00 p.m. Parallel morning sessions

Petty 136, Chair Dr. Sujit Gosh Petty 150, Chair Dr. Jan Rychtář

10:30 - 10:45

James Kniffen Jr., Nicole Mack: Collapsing Building Blocks: Genotyping, Haplotyping, and Epistatic Modeling Yair Goldberg: The Derivatives of the Riemann Zeta Function, and Methods of Finding Zeros of Analytic Functions

10:45 - 11:00

Stephen Meier: Analyses of the relative contributions of multiple mating, and recombination rate to intracolonial genetic diversity in honey bees Ricky Farr: Evaluating Derivatives of the Riemann Zeta Function using Euler-Maclaurin Summation

11:00 - 11:15

Rachel Marceau, Kristopher Hoover: Effectiveness of Grammatical Evolution Decision Trees in Identifying Disease Causing Polymorphisms Robert Gove: Predicting GUI Test Case Feasibility

11:15 - 11:30

Matthew Jester, Jasmine Davidson: Detecting & Modeling Genes influenced by Natural Selection in Drosophila ananassae Matthew Wilhelm: The use of confocal microscopy and rheometry to assess the validity of the semi-flexible polymer theory of collagen gels and associated image analysis challenges

11:30 - 11:45

Wesley Stewart, Olivia Bagley, Rachael Beckner, Allison Huber: Comparison of Analytical Methods for Genetic Association Studies Yi Li: Computing Stokes Flows Driven By Open Immersed Boundaries

11:45 - 12:00

Nels Johnson: Measurement Error in 1-1 Matched Case-Control Studies Matt Bowen: A numerical method for solving cardiac ionic models

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch break

1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Parallel afternoon sessions

Petty 136, Chair Dr. Christopher Raridan Petty 150, Chair Dr. Sat Gupta

1:30 - 1:45

Candace Swords: Fractal Basin Boundaries and Newton's Method Ian Duncan and Adam Eury: The effect of vector-host coupling on the dynamics of vector-borne diseases

1:45 - 2:00

Meghan Fitzgerald: Cost-benefit analysis of stealing insects (i.e. a how-to make a comparison model of incomparable behaviors) Roshonda Barner: Fisher's Exact Test and It's Applications

2:00 - 2:15

Jasmine Alexander-Floyd: Modeling the Effect of Fires on Red-tailed Leafhoppers John Patterson: Estimating P-values for Randomization Test

2:15 - 2:30

Brian Sinclair: A Survey of Group-like Binary Systems Katherine Grzesik: A Poisson Approximation for the Number of kl-Matches

2:30 - 2:45

Dani Moran: Voronoi diagrams - definition and applications David Schuchart: Measuring Behaviors of Peromyscus Mice from Remotely Recorded Thermal Video Using a Blob Tracking Algorithm Analysis

2:45 - 3:00

Brandi Luongo: Some work on a problem by Marco Buratti Peichun Wang: Bifurcation Analysis of the Tubuloglomerular Feedback System in the Loop of Henle

3:00 - 3:15

Keli Sikes: On the edge-balance index set of complete bipartite graphs Crystal Bennett: Winning strategy for Chomp Grid with 0, 1, 2, or 3 pieces in the 3rd row

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Best presentation award ceremony, Petty 136

3:45 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Closing Remarks, Petty 136