Grad Oral Presentations - Mathematics & Statistics: Applied mathematics

Thursday, October 27, 2011: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
Ballroom I (San Jose Marriott Hotel)

Description: Selected graduate students present their scientific research to their peers, mentor-judges, and other conference participants in a unique forum for professional growth.



6:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
6:35 PM
A Stochastic Framework for Discrete Models in Systems Biology
David Murrugarra, PhD , Graduate Research Assistant , Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech ; Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD , Professor , Virginia Tech
6:50 PM
Habitat choice of multiple pollinators in almond trees and its potential effect on pollen movement and productivity: A theoretical approach using the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model
Kamuela Yong, PhD , The University of Iowa ; Yi Li , Wright State University ; Stephen Hendrix, PhD , The University of Iowa
7:05 PM
Machine Learning for Seismic Signal Processing: Phase classification of seismic events on a manifold
Juan Ramirez Jr, MS , Graduate Student , University of Colorado at Boulder ; Francois Meyer, PhD , Associate Professor , University of Colorado at Boulder
7:20 PM
Patterns of activity in a recurrent neural network with overlapping inputs
Jeannine Abiva, MS , University Of Iowa ; Rodica Curtu, PhD , Assistant Professor , University Of Iowa