Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

114 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: ima-staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
Schedules available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/happening

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

All Day	Workshop Outline: Posing of problems by the 6 industry mentors. Half-hour introductory talks in the morning followed by a welcoming lunch. In the afternoon, the teams work with the mentors. The goal at the end of the day is to get the students to start working on the projects.	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
9:00a-9:30a	Coffee and Registration	EE/CS 3-176	MM8.6-15.08
9:30a-9:40a	Richard J. Braun, University of Delaware; Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota Welcome and Introduction	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
9:40a-10:00a	Christopher Bemis, Whitebox Advisors Team 1: Modeling, simulation, and the analysis of a financial derivative	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
10:00a-10:20a	Olus N. Boratav, Corning Team 2: Stability of extending films	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
10:20a-10:40a	J. Michael Gray, Medtronic; Robert Shimpa, Medtronic Team 3: Ribbon formation for electrical interconnection	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
10:40a-11:00a	Break	EE/CS 3-176	MM8.6-15.08
11:00a-11:20a	Thomas Grandine, Boeing Team 4: Loft-free unlofting methods for geometric design	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
11:20a-11:40a	Anthony José Kearsley, National Institute of Standards and Technology Team 5: Optimal calibration in chemical spectroscopy	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
11:40a-12:00p	Chai Wah Wu, IBM Team 6: Performance and robustness study of peer-to-peer networks	EE/CS 3-180	MM8.6-15.08
12:00p-1:30p	Lunch		MM8.6-15.08
1:30p-4:30p	Afternoon - start work on projects	Break-out Rooms	MM8.6-15.08

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

All Day	Students work on the projects. Mentors guide their groups through the modeling process, leading discussion sessions, suggesting references, and assigning work.	Break-out Rooms	MM8.6-15.08

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Friday, August 8, 2008

All Day	Students work on the projects. Mentors guide their groups through the modeling process, leading discussion sessions, suggesting references, and assigning work.	Break-out Rooms	MM8.6-15.08

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

All Day	Students and mentors work on the projects.	Break-out Rooms	MM8.6-15.08

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

All Day	Students and mentors work on the projects.	Break-out Rooms	MM8.6-15.08

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