6th Joint UTEP/NMSU Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences

University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas
Saturday, November 7, 2009

History.

• The 1st Joint Workshop on Mathematics and Computer Science was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 14, 2007.
• The 2nd Joint Workshop on Mathematics and Computer Science was held in El Paso, Texas, on November 17, 2007.
• The 3rd Joint Workshop on Mathematics and Computer Science was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 26, 2008.
• The 4th Joint Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences was held in El Paso, Texas, on November 8, 2008.
• The 5th Joint Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 4, 2009.

• to bring in researchers in Math, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences who are collaborating and/or who are interested in collaboration;
• to bring in researchers from outside outside our research areas who are interested in collaborating with Math, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences researchers.

Location: UTEP Campus, Quinn Hall 212, near UTEP Computer Science Building.

Program:

  9:00- 9:05 am official opening

  9:05- 9:30 am Somdev Chatterjee,
                Manuel Corona,
                Eric A. Freudenthal,
                Virgilio Gonzalez,
                Luc Longpre, and
                Avranil Tah
                Department of Computer Science, UTEP
                Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTEP
                WRife: A Wireless Epidemic Data Collection Protocol
                Suitable for Medical Monitoring

  9:30- 9:35 am questions and discussion

  9:35-10:00 am Bivas Das and Eric A. Freudenthal
                Department of Computer Science, UTEP
                Modularized Trust Management for Distributed
                Coalition Environments

 10:00-10:05 am questions and discussion

 10:05-10:25 am break

 10:25-10:50 am Miguel Argaez, Rodrigo Romero, Anibal Sosa,
                Leticia Velazquez, and Aaron Velasco
                Computational Sciences Program, UTEP
                Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
                On Optimization Techniques for Solving
                Joint Inversion Geophysical Problems

 10:50-10:55 am questions and discussion

 10:55-11:20 am Miguel Argaez, Osvaldo Mendez,
                Carlos Ramirez, and Leticia Velazquez
                Computational Sciences Program, UTEP
                Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
                The Notion of the Quasicentral Path in
                Linear Programming

 11:20-11:25 am questions and discussion

 11:25-11:50 am Miguel Argaez, Carlos Quintero,
                Carlos Ramirez, and Reinaldo Sanchez
                Computational Sciences Program, UTEP
                Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
                A Path Following Method for Large-Scale and
                Dense l1-Underdetermined Problems

 11:50-11:55 am questions and discussion

 11:55-12:20 pm Shubhra Datta and Martine Ceberio
                Department of Computer Science, UTEP
                Use of Interval-Based MCDM in Pricing Problem

 12:20-12:25 am questions and discussion

 12:25-12:50 pm Behzad Djafari Rouhani
                Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
                Recent Results on the Asymptotics to a
                Class of Difference Equations of
                Monotone Type

 12:50-12:55 pm questions and discussion

 12:55- 2:05 pm lunch and discussions

  2:05- 2:30 pm John Harding
                Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
                Modal Logics of Stone Spaces

  2:30- 2:35 pm questions and discussion

  2:35- 3:00 pm Jaime Nava,
                Juan Ferret, and
                Vladik Kreinovich
                Department of Computer Science, UTEP
                Department of Philosophy, UTEP
                Why Feynman Path Integration?

   3:00- 3:05 pm questions and discussion

   3:05- 3:30 pm Andrzej Pownuk
                 Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
                 Calculating Risk of Cost in Civil Engineering
                 Projects by Using Imprecise Probability and
                 the Theory of Soft Sets

   3:30- 3:35 pm questions and discussion

   3:35- 3:55 pm break

   3:55- 4:20 pm Karen Villaverde
                 Department of Computer Science, NMSU
                 Graduate Level Game Design and Development
                 Course Taught with Alice

   4:20- 4:25 pm questions and discussion

   4:25- 4:50 pm Taewon Yang
                 Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
                 Some Notes on Orthoalgebras

   4:50- 4:55 pm questions and discussion

   4:55- 5:30 pm general discussion

Sponsors:

• Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
• CAHSI, Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions
• Cyber-ShARE, Center of Excellence for Sharing resources for the Advancement of Research and Education through Cyberinfrastructure