WiMSoCal 2020
March 7 – 8, 2020
University of California, Irvine
Schedule
Saturday, March 7
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
8:15 – 8:45
Breakfast
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
8:45am – 9:00am
Welcome by the organizers
Parallel Talks Session I
9:00am – 11:00am
Location: Crescent Bay A, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Melike Sirlanci, California Institute of Technology
Controlling Blood Glucose Levels of Intensive Care Unit Patients
9:30 – 9:55
Anita Penkova, University of Southern California
Mathematical model and experimentation for measuring the diffusion co-
efficient of intravitreally injected drugs in ex vivo and in vivo study
10:00 – 10:25
Kimberly Ayers, Carroll College
Stabilization of Quasi-Periodic Orbits of the Random Logistic Map
10:30 – 10:55
Hossien Erjaee, University of California, Irvine
Complexity and its Applications
Location: Crescent Bay B, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Sharon Lanaghan and Kristen Stagg, CSU Dominguez Hills
Redesigning Calculus I with Standards Based Grading and Active Learning
9:30 – 9:55
Nicole Fider, University of Arizona
A tale of Tic-Tac-Toe: the day my students played
10:00 – 10:25
Felicia Tabing, University of Southern California
Combining Synesthesia, Mathematics, and Art
10:30 – 10:55
Alessandra Pantano, University of California, Irvine Building college and STEM pathways for underserved youth by leveraging
the mentoring power of undergraduate and graduate students
Location: Crescent Bay C, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Yesim Demiroglu, Harvey Mudd College
Applications of Cayley Digraphs to Waring’s Problem and Sum-Product
Formulas
9:30 – 9:55
Shanna Dobson, California State University, Los Angeles
Higher Categorical Traces on Crys(X)
10:00 – 10:25
Sonali Vyas, California State University, Fullerton
Murder Mysteries and Machine Learning
10:30 – 10:55
Anna Ma, University of California, Irvine
Randomized Kaczmarz for Tensors
Location: Crescent Bay D, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Tiffany Jones, University of Arizona
Analysis of a Novel Helmholtz Approximation Method over Micro and
Macro Regions
9:30 – 9:55
Zhanerke Temirgaliyeva, University of Southern California
Global regularity and long-time behavior of the solutions to the modified
3D Boussinesq equations
10:00 – 10:25
Chunmei Wang, Texas Tech University
Primal-Dual Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for First-Order Trans-
port Problems
10:30 – 11:55
Mahnaz Moradi Nargesi, Cal Poly Pomona
Convolution Properties of Classes of Analytic and Meromorphic Functions
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
11:00am – 11:30am
Coffee
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
11:30am – 12:30pm
Keynote Speaker 1
Erica Graham, Bryn Mawr College
Uncovering reproductive phenotypes: mechanistic reduction and comprehensive model evalu-
ation
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Keynote Speaker 2
Aisha Najerá, RAND Corporation
With an eye towards public policy research through a mathematician’s lens
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Coffee
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
2:45pm – 4:00pm
Breakout groups
Location: Crystal Cove State Park beach
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Walk on the beach
A bus will depart from the front of the student center, by Pereira Dr, at 4:00 pm, and will
bring people to the Crystal Cove State Park beach. The same bus will take people back to
campus (to the dinner location). Everybody is encouraged to ride the bus to avoid having to
pay $15 at the entrance of the park. Should you choose to drive to the beach, plan to meet
the rest of the conference participants at Beachcomber Cafe on 15 Crystal Cove, Newport
Coast, CA 92657.
Location: Yosemite Room, Department of Continuing Education
6:15pm – 7:45pm
Dinner
Location: McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Dessert and wine reception, and screening of “Secrets of the Surface, the mathematical vision
of Maryam Mirzakhani” with documentary creator George Csicsery.
Introduction by Prof. Wolfson (UCI).
Sunday, March 8
Location: Woods Cove A, UCI Student Center
7:30am – 8:30am
Mindfulness/Fulfillment/Meditation session
Location: Pacific Ballroom AB, UCI Student Center
8:15am – 9:00am
Continental breakfast
Parallel Talks Session II
9:00am – 11:00am
Location: Crescent Bay A, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Kelly Isham, University of California, Irvine
On the number of subrings of prime power index in Z n
9:30 – 9:55
Zhanar Berikkyzy, University of California, Riverside
Anti-van der Waerden numbers of graphs
10:00 – 10:25
Yujia Ding, Claremont Graduate University
Accelerometer-Based Gait Segmentation: Simultaneously User and Adver-
sary Identification
10:30 – 10:55
Junyuan Joanne Lin, Loyola Marymount University
Algebraic Multigrid for Least Squares Problems on Graphs with Applica-
tions to Recommender System
Location: Crescent Bay B, UCI Student Center
9:00 – 9:25
Kat Dover, University of California, Irvine
Deconstructing Clustering Algorithms for High Dimensional Data
9:30 – 9:55
Lernik Asserian, University of Southern California
Nonparametric Probability Distribution Estimation in the Prohorov Metric
Framework and its Application to the Alcohol Problem
10:00 – 10:25
Maria Allayioti, University of Southern California
M-estimation in a diffusion model with application to biosensor transder-
mal blood alcohol monitoring
10:30 – 10:55
Lora Weiss, University of California, Irvine
Mathematical Modeling of Cancer Stem Cell Enrichment
Location: Pacific Ballroom AB, UCI Student Center
11:00am – 11:30am
Coffee
Location: Pacific Ballroom AB, UCI Student Center
11:30am – 12:30pm
Ranthony A.C. Edmonds, The Ohio State University
Let’s Break it Down: Mathematical Atoms in Commutative Rings
Location: Emerald Bay AB, UCI Student Center
12:30pm Wrap-up. Box lunches will be served.
