SC-COSMIC 1996 Student Conference and Symposium

October 25-27, 1996
El Paso, Texas

Program
 
Friday, October 25
Cliff Inn Ballroom (1600 Cliff Drive)  
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch in the Little Cliffhanger room, behind the restaurant
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Keynote talk by Dr. France Cordova, Former Chief Scientist of NASA
3:15 pm - 3:25 pm Break
3:25 pm - 3:50 pm Nelly Delgado, UTEP
Monitoring Software Through Integrity Constraints
3:50 pm - 4:15 pm Francisco G. Fernandez, UTEP
Fuzzy Implication Can Be Arbitrarily Complicated: A Theorem
4:15 pm - 4:40 pm Olga Kosheleva, UTEP
Why Sinc? Signal Processing Helps Fuzzy Control
4:40 pm - 5:05 pm Stephanie Ann Hoogendoorn, UHD
Visualization of Electron-Density Contours from Protein Crystallography
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception at Cliff Inn. Alcoholic beverages
may be purchased with a proper ID.
 
Saturday, October 26
UTEP, Classroom Building 205  
 
Student Symposium on Computations in Astronomy,
Space and Earth Sciences (CASE'96) Begins at 9 a.m.

Session Chair: Scott Starks, Director, NASA Pan-American
Center for Environmental and Earth Sciences  
8:00 am - 8:30 am Buses take out-of-town participants to UTEP
8:30 am - 9:00 am Continental breakfast at UTEP (CRBL 205)
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am - 9:45 am Jesus Acosta, PACES and UTEP
Pan-American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies: An Overview
9:45 am - 10:15 am Mikhail Auguston and Alfredo Delgado, NMSU and PACES
The Prototype Implementation of the V Experimental
Visual Programming Language
10:15 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am Saleh Abdel-Hafeez, PACES
Symmetric Triangular Fuzzy System
11:00 am - 11:30 am Richard Coronado, UTEP, and J. Anderson, JPL, with
Jorge Lopez, Raul Armendariz, Jaime Morales
Signal Analysis Techniques for Gravity Wave
Detection and Verification in Spacecraft Tracking Data
11:30 am - 12:00 pm David Martinez and Tom Watson, UTEP, Sunspot
Summer Internship at Sunspot Observatory
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch at UTEP
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lucila Vera, University of Texas-Pan American
A Comparative Study of Two Algorithms for the N-body Problem
 
CASE'96 Ends, Conference Resumes  
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Monica L. Nogueira, UTEP
Comparing Deductive and Relational Databases
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Chitta Baral and Tran Cao Son, UTEP
Relating Theories of Actions and Reactive Robot Control
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm David Morales, UTEP
Path Replanning Through Virtual Map Manipulations
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Participants go to Computer Science Department
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Brief tour of the department, robot demonstrations related to
talks by T. Son and D. Morales
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Buses take participants to Cliff Inn
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Banquet at Cliff Inn
 
Sunday, October 27
Cliff Inn Ballroom (1600 Cliff Drive)  
8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am Adiana Beltran and J. M. Salvador, UTEP
The Ulam Index
9:00 am - 9:30 am Misha Koshelev, El Paso
How To Organize a World Wide Web Site
9:30 am - 10:00 am Georgi Kutiev and Derek Smith, UHD
Intelligent Control System Using Fuzzy Logic Inference
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am - 10:45 am Georgi Kutiev, UHD
Neural Network with Backpropagation - Parallel
Implementation on the CRAY C90
10:45 am - 11:15 am Kenneth Payne, UTEP
Computer Simulations of Epitaxy
11:15 am - 11:45 am Ziad Hamed, UTEP
Reconstruction of Wide-band Signals Using Chirp-z Transform
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Closing of the conference
12:00 pm Conference adjourns

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