Southeastern Atlantic Mathematical Sciences Workshop
An interdisciplinary workshop series between
the University of North Carolina and the College of Charleston
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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.

Friday's talk will be in 332 Phillips Hall. All talks will be held in 215 Phillips Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
The reception and poster session will be held in the Math Department Lounge, room 330 Phillips Hall.
Friday Afternoon
4:00-5:00 Diane Henderson
(Penn State University)
Progressive, Deep-Water Wavetrains with 1D and 2D Surface Patterns
(Applied Math Seminar, Rm. 332 Phillips Hall)
Saturday
7:45-8:30Breakfast (330 Phillips Hall)
8:30-8:35Bruce Carney, Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Pat Eberlein, Chair, Mathematics Department, UNC, Welcoming Remarks (215 Phillips Hall)
8:35-9:25 Stephane Lafortune
(College of Charleston)
Stability of solutions to PDEs through the numerical evaluation of the Evans function
9:25-9:55 Sherry Scott
(University of North Carolina)
Quantifying Ergodicity and Mixing in Flows
9:55-10:25 Tom Vogel
(University of Central Florida)
Embedded Solitons in Microstructured Solids
10:25-10:50Coffee Break (330 Phillips Hall)
10:50-11:20 Zhi Lin
(University of North Carolina)
The spatio-temporal evolution of the probability density function for a passive scalar advected by a rapidly varying random wind
11:20-11:50 David Bradshaw
(University of Central Florida)
Decision theory based classification of high-dimensional vectors based on small samples
11:50-12:40 Sarah-Jane Frankland
(National Institute of Aerospace)
Multi-scale Modeling of Functionalized Nanotube Materials
12:40-2:10Lunch Break (330 Phillips Hall)
2:10-3:00 Connie Schober
(University of Central Florida)
Modeling Rogue Waves in Deep Water
3:00-3:30 Charles Touron
(Old Dominion University)
Hybrid Gas-Kinetic Methods used to Obtain High Resolution Schemes for Compressible Flows
3:30-4:00 Garrett Mitchener
(Duke)
Why Language Learning Requires Miscalibration
4:00-4:30Coffee Break (330 Phillips Hall)
4:30-5:00 Mark Jones
(College of Charleston)
Minimax and Statistical Decisions in the Tactical Arrival Problem
5:00-5:30 Alexander Engau
(Clemson University)
Tradeoff-based decomposition of large-scale multiobjective programs
5:30-6:00 Jun Jia
(University of North Carolina)
Arbitrary Order Spectral Deferred CorrectionMethods for Differential Algebraic Equation
6:00-8:00Dinner and Poster Set-Up
8:00-10:00Evening Poster Session (330 Phillips Hall)

Our growing list of poster presenters includes: Kelly Epperson (CofC), Andy Bartlett (CofC), Sundeep Samson (Clemson), Terry Jo Leiterman and Jing Hao (UNC), Nick Constanzino (UNC), Abby Todd (UNC), Hayder Salman (UNC), Peiying Zuo (UNC), Fengyan Li (USC), Tomasz Wlodarczyk (UCF), Anna Ghazaryan (UNC), Jason Osborne (NCSU), Amber Sallerson (UNC), Liyan Liu (UNC), Eric Choate (UNC), Gaia Lupo (University of Perugia), Liz Bouzarth (UNC), Johee Lee (UNC), Xiaoyu Zheng (UNC).

Sunday
8:00-8:30Breakfast (330 Phillips Hall)
8:30-9:20 Peter Mucha
(University of North Carolina)
Computer-Generated Animation of Fluids: An Applied Math Perspective
9:20-9:50 Jamie Walsh
(University of North Carolina)
Turbulent jets in stratified fluids
9:50-10:20 Kening Wang
(University of South Carolina)
Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for $C^0$ Interior Penalty Methods
10:20-10:50 Vahagn Manukian
(North Carolina State University)
Existence and stability of multi-pulses with applications to nonlinear optics.
10:50-11:20Coffee Break (330 Phillips Hall)
11:20-11:50 Zhao Sun
(North Carolina A&T State University)
Robust Adaptive Formation Control of Multi-UGVs
11:50-12:20 Neil Martinsen-Burrell
(University of North Carolina)
Distributions of Scalars in Basic Fluid Flows
12:20-1:10 Robert Rubinstein
(NASA Langley Research Center)
Turbulence - what is the problem?