A new interdisciplinary workshop series
College of Charleston and University of North Carolina

The SEAMS Workshop (also known as "Cha-Cha Days" for Charleston and Chapel Hill) is a three day get-together of young scientists with an interest in applied mathematical sciences. Its goals are:
  1. to expose students to graduate and postgraduate research activities, in an environment which promotes dialogue and inquiry,
  2. to improve networking of young applied mathematicians with industry, laboratories and universities in the Southeastern United States;
  3. to help create a more inclusive and diverse community of young scientists;
  4. to inform our aspiring scientists of regional opportunities in scientific research, both academic and industry based.

Speakers will be drawn mainly from advanced graduate students (both MS and PhD students) and postdoctoral fellows from universities and research facilities located in the Southeastern US. A few keynote speakers will be selected from senior members of the scientific and technical communities in the region, and a poster section for undergraduate and graduate research projects will be planned. The audience will consist mainly of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing careers in applied mathematics or related scientific fields.

Annalisa Calini (College of Charleston) / Roberto Camassa (UNC)
Li-Shi Luo (National Institute of Aerospace-NIA) / Constance Schober (University of Central Florida)

The Cha-Cha Days will start off with a colloquium on Friday afternoon. All of Saturday and Sunday morning will be busy with talks, posters, and social activities. The 50 minute talks, by the Senior But Still Kicking, are color coded white below. The 25 minute talks, by the Bright Young Things, are color coded yellow.
All talks will take place in Room 100 of Maybank Hall.
Friday Afternoon
4:00-5:00 Greg Forest
(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)		What's Math Got to Do with High-Performance Nano-Composites?
(Math Department Colloquium)
Saturday
8:00-8:30Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Rich McLaughlin
(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) 		New Drag Phenomena : Levitation of falling spheres in stratified fluids
9:30-10:00 Fengyan Li
(University of South Carolina)		What could we gain, by using the locally divergence-free solution spaces in discontinuous Galerkin methods?
10:00-10:30 Xiaoyu Zheng
(UNC)		Nano-composite material properties: homogenization over flow-induced orientational distributions
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Rachel Levy
(NCSU)		 Look at that thin film go! Wave structures in thin film flow driven by gravity and surfactant
11:30-12:00 Jude Worthy
(UNC)		 High Order Schemes for Adaptive Mesh Refinement
12:00-12:30 Hayder Salman
(UNC)		Enhancing Flow Transport by Exciting Lagrangian Coherent Structures
12:30-2:00Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Kbenesh Blayneh
(Florida A&M University)		 Discrete Models for Intraspecific Competitions
3:00-3:30 Terry Jo Leiterman
(UNC)		 An exact solution for the motion of a slender body sweeping a cone in a viscous fluid
3:30-4:00 Kevin Kesseler
(Duke)		 An analysis of feedback-mediated oscillations in two coupled nephrons
4:00-4:30Coffee Break
4:30-5:00 Long Lee
(UNC)		 Modeling a two-phase gas-liquid flow for mucus transport in human lungs
5:00-5:30 Tom Vogel
(UCF)		Embedded solitons in a χ2:χ3 system
5:30-6:00 Barron Whitehead
(CofC)		Modeling and simulating thin molecular films: a modified 2D nonlinear Schroedinger equation with noise and nonlinear damping
6:00-8:00Dinner and Poster Set-Up
8:00-10:00Evening Poster Session

Our growing list of poster presenters includes: Nick Costanzino (Brown and UNC), Melissa Hancock (CofC), Leland Harriger (UNC), Johee Lee (UNC), Kirk McMullan (CofC), Amal El Moghraby (UNC-CH), Fredrick Thomas (UCF), Daniela Valdez (NCSU), Jamie Walsh (UNC), Karen Yokley (NCSU), Kevin Young (CofC), Zhi Lin (UNC-Chapel Hill).

Sunday
8:00-8:30Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Alfons Geser
(National Institute of Aerospace)		Ultra-reliable communication architectures
9:30-10:00 Garrett Mitchener
(Duke)		 Mathematical models of a word order change in Middle English
10:00-10:30 Amy Langville
(NCSU and CofC)		 An Introduction to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Rudy Horne
(UNC)		Pairwise interactions and a Four-Wave Mixing model for the Vector NLS equation
11:30-12:30 Ziyad Muslimani
(University of Central Florida)		 Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates

We now have the text of some talks available for download.

Click here for driving directions to the workshop. Also available is a map and information about restaurants near the College.

Limited travel support is available for speakers and participants; participation from under-represented groups is particularly encouraged. We have secured blocks of rooms in nearby hotels, and the Faculty House. To apply for travel support and book accommodation write to the organizers: Annalisa Calini (calinia@cofc.edu) and Roberto Camassa (camassa@amath.unc.edu).

This workshop is made possible thanks to generous support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and additional funding from the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). Additional sponsors are the College of Charleston (CofC) (in particular, the Mathematics Department, the School of Sciences and Mathematics, the Graduate School), the University of North Carolina (UNC), and the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Webpage Created by Alex Kasman 2004