Schedule and Abstracts

The 2025 schedule 

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ABSTRACTS

Plenary talk 1: Dave Kung

Title: My Journey in Math – a personal and statistical exploration

Abstract:

Everyone is on their own unique journey. In this session, my own path will be a jumping off point for understanding how my experiences are – and are not – mirrored in the experiences of others. Doing so will help us understand the ways we can reshape the mathematics community to make it a destination open to all people, no matter what their unique journey looks like. 

Plenary talk 2: Keri Ann Sather-Wagstaff
Title: How Much Is Enough?

Abstract:

Imagine that you are a calculus TA, and you have recently become concerned about your students using secure messaging apps. Some are using messaging apps with excellent encryption, and others are not. Some pairs of students are contacts and others are not. (If one student is a contact with another, then they are mutual contacts.) The class is secure provided that, within each contact pair of students, at least one of them is using the encrypted app. What is the smallest number of students who need to use the encrypted app in order for the class to be secure? And is there an algorithm to determine which students need to use the encrypted app in order for the class to be secure? 

It turns out that these questions are equivalent to some classical problems in graph theory. In this talk, we’ll discuss approaches to these and other similar questions. I’ll also discuss my professional path as a first generation college student and neurodivergent trans woman from college dropout to Full Professor in math at a southern R1 university to NSF Program Director in broadening participation to my current role as Associate Provost at a northern Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with a public-good mission that centers DEI. 

Nazia Afrin Bistability between acute and chronic states in a Model of Hepatitis B Virus Dynamics

Neerob Basak Impact of a predator evolution on a predator-prey system

Sajan Bhandari Discrete-Time Refuge-Mediated Selection Model

Margery Davis Central Delannoy Numbers and Finite State Automata

Maganizo Kapita Safeguarding Autonomous Transportation: Deep Learning Strategies for Detecting Anomalies in Vehicle Sensor Data

Narendra Pant Modeling Predator-Prey Systems: Seasonal Breeding and Prey Evolution

Kamlesh Sarkar Data Fixing by Data Fitting: Estimating the Unreported Cases During the Early COVID -19 Outbreak in Hubei, China

Chimezie Izuazu Stochastic Analysis of Interplay Among Drug Mode of Action, Nutrient Availability, and Antibiotic Resistance

Giova Miron TBA

Ayodele Ashefon TBA

Md Mehedi Hasan TBA