| Time | Where | Who | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:15 | Main Street Inn | John Burkardt | Virginia Tech | Let's walk to the bus stop! |
| 2:30 | Burruss Hall bus stop | John Burkardt | Virginia Tech | Let's ride to the Math Emporium |
| 2:45-3:00 | Math Emporium | Charles Hodges | Virginia Tech | A guided tour of Virginia Tech's Math Emporium |
| 3:10 | Bus stop outside the Math Emporium | John Burkardt | Virginia Tech | Let's get back to campus! |
| 3:30 | Burruss Hall bus stop | John Burkardt | Virginia Tech | Let's go to the Colloquium! |
We start the day with a short guided tour of Virginia Tech's Math Emporium http://www.emporium.vt.edu/, conducted by the manager, Charles Hodges. The Emporium is inside the University Mall - in fact, it takes the space originally occupied by a department store there.
The Emporium is Virginia Tech's enormous computerized classroom and education center, with hundreds of computers, study areas and lecture rooms. Many beginning classes are partially or entirely taught here in an online way, and evaluation and testing is also done online.
If you are interested in the Math Emporium tour, I will be waiting for you in the lobby of the Main Street Inn until 2:15, when I will walk to the campus bus stop in front of Newman Library, to catch the 2:30 bus labeled MATH EMPORIUM. At 3:10, the same bus will bring us back to campus. The fare is 50 cents each way, but I will pay for you.
Around 3:30, you are invited for coffee and cookies at the Math Department, room 455, McBryde Hall. From 4:00 to 5:00, in the same room, there will be a colloquium presented by Suzanne Lenhart of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
| Time | Where | Who | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:30-4:00 | 455 McBryde Hall | Miniconference participants (and colloquium attendees) | Cookies and coffee | |
| 4:00-5:00 | 455 McBryde Hall | Suzanne Lenhart | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | Optimal Control of Discrete Time Models |
Abstract for Colloquium talk:
This talk will present optimal control of two examples
which are discrete in time. The first example involves
difference equations that model cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The goal is to design an external chest amd abdomen pressure pattern to
improve the blood flow in the heart in standard CPR procedure.
The second example is an epidemic model for rabies in raccoons
on a spatial grid. The goal is to find the optimal distribution
pattern for vaccine baits to slow the spread of the disease.
Our Friday evening plans have changed, because of the strong interest of some of our visitors in seeing something unique to this area! So a group of us are planning to spend the evening at the Floyd Country Store's Friday Night Jamboree.
The Floyd Country Store is at 206 South Locust Street in Floyd, Virginia, about 25 miles south of Blacksburg. I am working on getting driving directions. Also, if you can give a ride, or need a ride, let me know. I'm suggesting we leave from the Main Street Inn at around 6:30, which gives you time to grab a bite to eat in Blacksburg; there is also food available at the Country Store.
You can see a short video about the Friday Night jamboree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9SxcQEiQOk
| Time | Where | Who | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 | Main Street Inn, 205 South Main Street | Bluegrass Music Lovers | Meet in the lobby, and head for Floyd! |
Saturday's events take place in the ICAM classroom at the Wright House on West Campus Drive. You may refer to the abstracts for more information.
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Advisor/Graduation Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Miroslav K Stoyanov | Virginia Tech | Jeff Borggaard, May 2009 | A solution algorithm for Lyapunov equations with sparse high rank matrices |
| 9:15-9:30 | Adam Childers | Virginia Tech | John Burns, 2009 | Bounded error parameter estimation for delay differential equations |
| 9:30-9:45 | Carlos Rautenberg | Virginia Tech | John Burns, 2010 | A distributed parameter control approach to optimal filtering and smoothing with mobile sensor networks |
| 9:45-10:00 | Alex Lozovskiy | University of Pittsburgh | Bill Layton, 2009 | A finite element method scheme for the Lighthill acoustic analogy |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 10:15-10:30 | Peng Zhong | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | Suzanne Lenhart, 2010 | Optimal control of 'harvesting after growth' in an integrodifference population model |
| 10:30-10:45 | Erin Bodine | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | Suzanne Lenhart, 2010 | Optimal control applied to a model of species augmentation |
| 10:45-11:00 | Zheying Guo | Virginia Tech | Raffaella De Vita, 2010 | A probabilistic constitutive law for damage in ligaments |
| 11:00-11:15 | Ratchada Sopakayang | Virginia Tech | Raffaella De Vita, 2010 | A structural model for preconditioning in ligaments and tendons |
| 11:15-11:30 | Nathaniel Mays | University of Pittsburgh | Bill Layton, 2010 | Inverse problems in biological systems |
| 11:30-1:00 | Lunch break | Lunch is NOT provided! | Lunch break | Participants are on their own! |
| 1:00-1:15 | Jeffrey Connors | University of Pittsburgh | Bill Layton, 2009 | Finite element analysis for a modified Navier Stokes alpha model |
| 1:15-1:30 | Ross Ingram | University of Pittsburgh | Bill Layton, 2009 | Sensitivity analysis of iterated Tikhonov regularization with applications |
| 1:30-1:45 | Vitor Nunes | Virginia Tech | Jeff Borggaard, 2011 | Optimization with differential equation constraints |
| 1:45-2:00 | Hoang Tran | University of Pittsburgh | Catalin Trenchea, 2011 | An inverse problem in reaction-diffusion systems |
| 2:00-2:15 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 2:15-2:30 | Gary Hart | University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Bill Layton, Mihai Anitescu, 2007 | Constructing a constraint-stabilized time-stepping approach for piecewise smooth multibody dynamics, part 1 |
| 2:30-2:45 | Zhu Wang | Virginia Tech | Traian Iliescu, 2011 | Artificial viscosity Galerkin proper orthogonal decomposition models |
| 2:45-3:00 | Leo Rebbholz | Clemson University | Bill Layton, 2006 | On the accuracy of the rotation form in simulations of the Navier Stokes equations |
| 3:00-3:15 | Kumaresh Singh | Virginia Tech | Adrian Sandu, 2009 | Adjoint based scientific applications for atmospheric models and their performance on General Purpose GPU's |
Our Saturday evening, we will close the ceremonies with pizza at Mike's Grill;
Music lovers might wander afterwards to the nearby Gillies, for a free performance by Mat Master with Red Snapper, which starts at 7:00. You can also be entertained by the very lively weekend barhopping scene!
if you're still up for some fun, there's Cosmic Bowling in the BreakZONE recreation area of the the Student Center! (In the dark, no one knows if you're a good bowler or a bad one. And no one cares!)
| Time | Where | Who | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30-7:30 | Mike's Grill | Conference Participants | ICAM pays for the pizza! |
| 7:00-11:00 | Gillies, 153 College Avenue | Music by Mat Master with Red Snapper | |
| 9:15-11:15 | 117 Squires Student Center (BreakZONE) | Conference Participants | It's cosmic bowling time! |
You can return to the ICAM Graduate Conference web page.