DSSRC 2009 Program


Friday May 8

3:10 PM Session #1
4:15 PM Keynote Speaker - James Keener - How cells make measurements
5:15 PM Poster Session

Saturday May 9

8:45 AMCoffee and Registration
9:00 AMKeynote Speaker - Lisa Fauci - Understanding swimming at low Reynolds numbers: successes and challenges
10:00 AMCoffee Break
10:15 AMSession #2
11:15 AMCoffee Break
11:30 AMSession #3
12:30 PMLunch
1:30 PMSession #4
2:30 PMCoffee Break
2:45 PMSession #5
3:30 PMPanel on Mathematical Biology

Session #1

3:10 PMEva Strawbridge - Mechanics, dynamics and structures of DNA
3:30 PMDavid Sivakoff - Fitness landscapes and random site subgraphs of Hamming tori
3:50 PMMichael McAssey - System-wide synchronization in deterministic networks

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Poster Session

Roberto Martinez - Volume of fluids methods for material interface reconstruction
Owen Lewis - Generalized Julia Sets: An Extension of Cayley's Problem
Christopher Ellison - Time's Barbed Arrow: Irreversibility, Crypticity, and Stored Information
Richard Watson - Information Theoretic Approaches to Spiking Models
John Mahoney - Quantum Finite State Machine Construction and Sampling
Julie Blackwood - Hysteresis and Caribbean coral reefs: prevention of phase shifts to a macroalgal-dominated state
Matthew Herman - General Perturbations in Compressed Sensing
Tamara Joy Schlichter - Deriving Phase Response Properties of an Idealized Half-Center Oscillator Model
Michael Schwemmer - The effects of dendritic load on the firing frequency of oscillating neurons
Edward D. Kim - The simplex algorithm on transportation and network flow polytopes

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Session #2

10:15 AM Yu Hou - Multiphase flow and heat & mass transfer aspects of exhaled bioaerosols
10:35 AM Carl Boettiger - Multiscale methods in ecology and evolution
10:55 AM Dustin Grogran - Ozone affect on the QBO

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Session #3

11:30 AM Bei Wang - Toward mesh refinement (MR) and particle in cell (PIC) for plasma simulation II
11:50 AM Ryan Snow - Projector augmented wave optimization for large scale ab initio calculation
12:10 PM Corentin Guebels - Scaling issues in the Monte Carlos Potts simulation of abnormal grain growth in iron

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Session #4

1:30 PM Dale Peterson - PyDy: Newtonian mechanics with Python
1:50 PM Blake Hunter - Exploring the world of MR brain images via harmonic analysis
2:10 PM Rob Gysel - Tree decompositions, chordal graphs, and their applications

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Session #5

2:45 PM Shrut Kirti - Cooperative broadcast in dense networks with multiple sources
3:05 PM Martha Shott - Generation of stop-and-go travel waves in a simple freeway network

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