The Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Awards Ceremony

Friday, October 28, 2016 1:00-1:10 Welcome by Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director for Education & Outreach 1:10-2:00 Joaquin Bustoz, Jr. Lecture: Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University Mathematical Models for Malaria with Applications to Mali and USA Introduced by Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS 2:10-2:50 Federico Ardila, San Fransisco State University Using High-Dimensional Geometry to Move Robots Quickly Introduced by Brendan Hassett, ICERM 2:50-3:10 Break 3:10-3:50 Cristina Villalobos, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Becoming Agents of Change: Building Diverse Communities and Lessons Learned from Mathematical Modelling of Eye Disease Introduced by Kelly Sturner, NIMBioS 4:00-4:40 Edray Goins, Purdue University Toroidal Belyi Pairs, Toroidal Graphs, and their Monodromy Groups Introduced by Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University 4:50-5:00 Introduction to NIMBioS by Colleen Jonsson, Director of NIMBioS 5:00-6:00 Poster session and reception Dinner on your own