Fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS4)
June 16-19, 1998
at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-41, Houston, Texas 77005-1892
CAARMS4 will highlight current work by African-American researchers and graduate students in mathematics, facilitate working relations between them, and identify common research interests and goals. Participants will attend talks, graduate student poster presentations, and tutorials in mathematics and computer science. These talks and presentations will bring a broader perspective to the critical issues involving minority participation in mathematics. The conference also will enable attendees to network and communicate, enhancing the growth of individual researchers as well as the general growth of mathematics among African-Americans.
Conference Sponsors
Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies, The Department of Energy, and The National Security Agency
Keynote Banquet Speaker
Luther Williams, National Science Foundation, "Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Scholarship: A Sacred Vocation, the Last Frontier"
Complex Analysis
Johnny E. Brown, Purdue University
Dynamical Systems
James Curry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Algebraic Geometry
Amassa Fauntleroy, University of North Carolina
Statistics
Stacy Hill, Johns Hopkins
Computer Science
Yves Darly Jean, Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies
Roderick Moten, Colgate University
Mark Anthony Smith, AT&T Labs Research
Control Theory
Christine McMillan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Functional Analysis
Robert Megginson, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Optimization
Richard Tapia, Rice University
Pamela Williams, Rice University
Topological Semigroups
Elaine Terry, St. Joseph's University
Organizers: William A. Massey (908) 582-3225 and Pamela J. Williams (713) 527-8101, x2859. Registration forms and more information are available at http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/CAARMS4/.