SCHEDULE


FLAGSHIP FOR MATHEMATICAL CONNECTIONS WORKSHOP

Tuesday, May 2, 2006                       University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Questions to be addressed:
  1. In the Mathematical Sciences, what current and/or emerging problems should be addressed with a multidisciplinary approach?
  2. In the Mathematical Sciences, what has been done to address the formation, competitiveness, and success of large scale multidisciplinary research teams?
  3. What, if anything, else needs to be done at UF and why?
Location. All talks are in Room 2205 New Physics Building (NPB).

8:45am
WORKSHOP WELCOME

9:00 - 9:20am
James Jones, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
What Current and Emerging Problems in the Mathematical Sciences should be addressed with a Multidisciplinary Approach?

9:30 - 9:50am
David Reitze, Physics
Why Physicists Need Mathematicians (and Vice Versa): Musings on the Multidisciplinary Approach

10:00 - 10:20am
Erik Deumens, Chemistry and Physics
Renormalization of Mathematical Sciences Education

10:30 - 10:45am
BREAK

10:45 - 11:05am
Eduardo C. Vallejos, Horticultural Sciences
Designing Future Crops: Merging Genetics and Crop Modeling

11:15 - 11:35am
Sam Trickey, QTP (Physics and Chemistry)
Lessons from Experience about Competitive Realities at UF for Multi-disciplinary Funding in Computational Sciences

12:00 - 1:00pm
LUNCH

1:00 - 1:20pm
Gar Hoflund, Chemical Engineering
A Synergistic Theoretcial/Experimental Approach to Surface Chemistry Studies

1:30 - 1:50pm
Keith White, Psychology
Recognizing the Intellectual Value of Contributions to Multidisciplinary Projects: Lessons from an fMRI Study Using Fractal Scaling Analysis

2:00 - 2:15pm
BREAK

2:15 - 2:35pm
Ed Braun, Zoology
Perspective from Zoology

2:45 - 3:05pm
Sergei Shabanov, Mathematics
N-disciplinary Research or `Sitting between N chairs' from a Practitioner's View

3:15 - 4:00pm
OPEN DISCUSSION

Please send comments to cyndi@biostat.ufl.edu.


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