17th Joint UTEP/NMSU Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences

University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Objective of the joint workshops series. The main objective of these workshops is to initiate and enhance the interaction, exchange of ideas, and possible collaboration.

History.

Objective of this workshop.

Important information: The UTEP/NMSU workshop will be held right after the 8th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2015 (El Paso, Texas, November 6, 2015).

Location: UTEP Campus, Chemistry and Computer Science Building CCCB, Room G.0208 on the Ground Floor

Local Organizers: Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Ming-Ying Leung

Parking: Parking permits will be e-mailed to all non-UTEP presenters.

Program: 


   9:00- 9:05 am opening

   9:05- 9:22 am
  Pedro Barragan Olaye, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  How to Explain the Empirical Success of Generalized
  Trigonometric Functions in Processing Discontinuous Signals

   9:22- 9:25 am questions and discussion

   9:25- 9:42 am
  Maranda Bean, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Konstantin Lipnikov, Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group,
    Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Son-Young Yi, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  A Block Preconditioner for a Four-Field Mixed Finite
  Element Method for Biot's Equations

   9:42- 9:45 am

   9:45-10:02 am
  Behzad Djafari Rouhani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  On the Approximation of Zeros of Monotone Operators by
  Solutions to a Difference Equation

  10:02-10:05 am questions and discussion

  10:05-10:22 am
  Khoi Hoang Dai, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Ferdinando Fioretto, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Ping Hou, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  William Yeoh, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Dynamic Distributed Constraint Optimization

  10:22-10:25 am questions and discussion

  10:25-10:40 am break

  10:40-10:57 am
  Mary Mackay, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  based on a research with
  Son-Young Yi, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Art Duval, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Chuan "River" Xiao, Chemistry Department, UTEP
  Geometric Modeling of Girus Trisymmetron

  10:57-11:00 am questions and discussion

  11:00-11:17 am
  Maria Christina Mariani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Osei Kofi Tweneboah, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Stochastic Processes Applied to the Study of Financial Time Series

  11:17-11:20 am questions and discussion

  11:20-11:37 am
  Maria Christina Mariani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Miguel A. Valles Morales, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Paul Bezdek
  Complex Gleason Measures, the Nemytsky Operator and
  Applications to Quantum Mechanics

  11:37-11:40 am questions and discussion

  11:40-11:57 am
  Henry R. Moncada, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Shirley V. Moore, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Raymond C. Rumpf, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTEP
  Towards the Scalability and Hybrid Parallelization
  of a Spatially Variant Lattice Algorithm

  11:57-12:00 pm questions and discussion

  12:00-12:17 pm
  Andrzej Pownuk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Approximate Method for Computing the Sum of Independent Random Variables

  12:17-12:20 pm questions and discussion

  12:20- 1:50 pm lunch at UTEP Union (sponsored by El Paso Chapter of IEEE)

   1:50- 3:20 pm
  Poster session
  see also posters:
  by Jayalath A. M. M. Abeywardhana,
  by Cristian Ayub, Gabriel Felix, Elsa Gonzalez-Aguilar
       Raul Mena, Martine Ceberio, and Leobardo Valera
  by Omeiza Olumoye

   3:20- 3:37 pm
  Weizhong Tian, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Ziwei Ma, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Shape Mixtures of the Matrix Variate Skew Normal Distribution

   3:37- 3:40 pm questions and discussion

   3:40- 3:57 pm
  Weizhong Tian, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Cong Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  The Multivariate Extended Skew Normal Distribution and its Quadratic Forms

  last minute replacement:
  Xiaonan Zhu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Joint distributions of random fuzzy set vector

   3:57- 4:00 pm questions and discussion

   4:00- 4:17 pm
  Cong Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Weizhong Tian, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Estimation in Extended Skew-Cauchy Distributions

   4:17- 4:20 pm questions and discussion

   4:20- 4:37 pm
  Leobardo Valera, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Martine Ceberio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Using Interval Constraint Solving Techniques in
  Dynamic Systems Behavior Prediction

   4:37- 4:40 pm questions and discussion

   4:40- 4:57 pm
  Brett Pelkey, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Stefan Ceballos, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Huiping Cao, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Milan Biswal, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Sukumar Brahma, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
  Phasor Measurement Unit Monitoring Tool

   4:57- 5:00 pm questions and discussion

   5:00- 5:20 pm general discussion
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