AGENDA ( Tentative )

Third Symposium

Frontiers of Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS)

 Friday, 27 October, 2006                                          8:45 AM - 5 PM

Venue: Room#113, Elliott School, The George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC

0845- 0900 Opening Remarks/Announcements

0900-1200 Session I Chair: Dr. Chris Arney, US Army Research Office

0900-0950 Dr . Debasis Mitra, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies , Industrial Mathematics at Bell Labs: Past and Present (tentative)

0950-1040 Professor Andrea Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Swarming, by nature and by design

•  Coffee Break

•  Professor Peyton Young , Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University: Modeling Economic Complexity

•  Lunch Break

1345-1645 Session II Chair: Dr. Reza Malek-Madani, Office of Naval Research

1345-1435 Professor James Thompson, Department of Statistics, Rice University . Mining Data and Building Models for Homeland Security

1435-1525 Professor David Banks, Department of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University : Statistical Issues in Metabolomics

1525-1545 Coffee Break

1545-1635 Professor Hal Smith, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University : Dynamics of Competitive and Cooperative Systems and Applications to the Biology

1635-1645 Concluding Remarks

1645 Adjourn