LOCATION:
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas
DESCRIPTION:
The Mathematical Sciences Diversity Initiative held the Modern Math Workshop (MMW) prior to the SACNAS National Conference. The 2018 MMW was hosted by SAMSI at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas on October 10th and 11th, 2018. This workshop focused on encouraging undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhDs from underrepresented minority groups to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and build research and mentoring networks. The Modern Math Workshop is a pre-conference event at the SACNAS National Conference. The MMW included a keynote lecture, mini-courses, research talks, a question and answer session and a reception. This year’s reception was sponsored by USAA.
Schedule and Supporting Media
Printed Schedule
Speaker Abstracts
PROGRAM:
Keynote Speaker: Javier Rojo
Professor of Statistics, Oregon State University
Keynote Speaker presented his lecture on Wednesday, October 10 at 4:30pm.
Keynote Lecture: Partial Orders of Distributions
Mini-Courses:
Ernest Fokoué
Associate Professor of Statistics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mini Course Lecture: Foundational Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Modern Data Science
Katie Newhall
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mini Course Lecture: Stochastic Dynamics on Energy Landscapes
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas
Description | Speaker | Location | Slides |
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Registration/Check-In | Foyer | ||
Undergrad Mini Course 1: Foundational Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Modern Data Science | Ernest Fokoué, Rochester Institute of Technology | 225A | |
Undergrad Mini Course 2: Stochastic Dynamics on Energy Landscapes | Katie Newhall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 225B | |
MSRI: Symmetry and Graph Profiles | Annie Raymond, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 225C | |
ICERM: Illustrating Mathematics at ICERM | Henry Segerman, Oklahoma State University | 225C | |
Undergrad Mini Course 1: Foundational Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Modern Data Science | Ernest Fokoué, Rochester Institute of Technology | 225A | |
Undergrad Mini Course 2: Stochastic Dynamics on Energy Landscapes | Katie Newhall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 225B | |
IAS/PCMI: Contact Invariants and Reeb Dynamics | Jo Nelson, Rice University and IAS/PCMI | 225C | |
SAMSI: Nonsubsampled Graph Filter Banks and Distributed Implementation | Cheng Cheng, SAMSI Postdoc | 225C | |
Brief Overview of DMS | Juan Meza, University of California, Merced and DMS-NSF | 225C | |
Keynote Lecture: Partial Orders of Distributions | Javier Rojo, Oregon State University | 225C | |
MMW Reception and Institute Tables | 225D |
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas
Description | Speaker | Location | Slides |
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AIM: |
Michael Young, Iowa State University | 225A | |
IPAM: Taming the Homotopy of Networked Data | Pablo Suárez-Serrato, UNAM Mexico City | 225A | |
MBI: Modeling the Cytoskeleton Roads in Intracellular Transport | Veronica Ciocanel, Ohio State University | ||
Closing and Q&A with Institute Representatives | 225A |
Mini-Courses:
Two half-day mini-courses were offered on October 10, from 1:00-4:30pm, running concurrently. These mini-courses were for undergraduate students.
Research Talks:
The intended audience was graduate students and recent PhD’s. Each participating institute provided a speaker who presented a research talk. All presentations were expository in nature, intended for mathematical scientists and students not necessarily working in these areas but interested in learning about new developments and the possibility of spending some time at one of the Math Institutes. Due to the diverse portfolio of the Institutes, these talks exposed participants to a broad range of topics in modern mathematics. These sessions ran over the two days of the Modern Math Workshop: 1:00-4:30pm on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 10, and 9:00-11:30am the morning of Thursday, October 11.
Reception:
The NSF Math Institutes’ networking reception, sponsored by USAA, immediately followed the keynote lecture at 5:45pm on Wednesday, October 10.
Q&A Session:
The closing session of the workshop included a Q&A with NSF Math Institute representatives, 11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday, October 11.
Questions: [email protected]