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Poster Presenters
All talks will be given on the campus at Texas Tech in the Student Union Building (SUB). Coffee, tea, juice and cookies will be available between talks.
Location: Senate Room, SUB
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Thursday |
Speaker |
Title |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Reception (Red Raider Lounge, SUB) |
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2:00 - 2:20 |
Opening Speech (Dean Lawrence Schovanec) |
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2:20 - 3:10 |
Carlos Castillo-Chavez |
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3:20 - 4:10 |
Pauline van den Driessche |
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4:20 - 5:10 |
Gerardo Chowell |
Adaptive Vaccination Strategies to Mitigate Pandemic Influenza: Mexico as a Case Study [Ref1] [Ref2] |
Location: Lubbock Room, SUB
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Friday |
Speaker |
Title |
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9:00 - 9:50 |
Zhilan Feng |
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10:00 - 10:50 |
Sze-Bi Hsu |
Single Phytoplankton Species Growth with Light and Advection in a Water Column [Ref1] [Ref2] |
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11:00 - 11:50 |
Anna Spagnuolo |
A Mathematical Model for Vibrio Cholera Colonization in the Human Intestine |
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11:50 - 1:20 |
Lunch break |
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1:20 - 2:50 |
Poster Session (Croslin Room South, Main Library) |
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3:00 - 3:50 |
Glenn F. Webb |
Analysis of a Model for Transfer Phenomena in Biological Populations [Ref1] [Ref2] |
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4:00 - 4:50 |
Julien Arino |
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5:00 - 5:50 |
Paul Jianjun Tian |
On the global stability of cholera models [Ref1] [Ref2] |
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6:00 - 9:00 |
Banquet (Merket Alumni Center) |
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Location: Senate Room, SUB
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Saturday |
Speaker |
Title |
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9:00 - 9:50 |
Jim Cushing |
Matrix Models for Semelparous Populations: Dynamics and Evolution [Ref1] [Ref2] [Ref3] |
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10:00 - 10:50 |
Horst Thieme |
Global attractors and stability, persistence, and the Laplace transform |
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11:00 - 6:00 |
Visit and picnic at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park |
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The mini-symposium is currently
sponsored by Prof. Frits Ruymgaart's Paul Whitfield Endowed Horn
Professorship and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Texas
Tech University. Horn Professor Ruymgaart generously provides funds from
his endowed professorship to support
distinguished speakers. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics
pays other organizational expenses.
Financial support for some speakers and participants is from the NSF.
Flying to Lubbock: Service to Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (LBB) include Southwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, and American Airlines. Available transportation service from the airport, located approximately 15 minutes from the conference hotels, includes City Cab (806) 765-7474, Yellow Cab (806) 765-7777, Royal Cab (806) 749-5333, VIP Royal coach Private Service (806) 795-3888, Limousines of Lubbock (806) 743-5466, Lone Star Limousine (888) 286-5466, White Knights Limousines (806) 799-3366.
Driving to Lubbock: Centrally located between Dallas, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Interstate 27 connects the city of Lubbock with two east-west interstate systems, I-20 and I-40. State highways 82, 84, 87, and 114 also provide easy access to cities throughout the region. The following numbers may also provide more information: Emergency Road Conditions - (806) 745-4411, Texas Department of Transportation - (806) 745-4411, Tourist Information - (800) 452-9292.
Hotel Information: Special rates have been negotiated with Staybridge Suites (2515 19th Street, Lubbock, TX 79410.) Call (806) 765-8900 for reservations (be sure to mention the Red Raider Mini-Symposium and the Texas Tech University Math Department). Rooms at the conference rate ($85.00 per night) should be booked by October 1, 2010.
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Organizers: Lih-Ing Wu Roeger (lih-ing.roeger@ttu.edu)
Sophia Jang
(sophia.jang@ttu.edu)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Texas Tech University
Phone: (806) 742-2580
Fax: (806) 742-1112