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School of Arts & Sciences Hosts 1st Annual Research Conference
The School of Arts & Sciences hosted its 1st Annual Research Conference this spring in City Tech’s Atrium Amphitheater and other campus venues. The event opened with a general session and welcoming remarks by President Russell K. Hotzler, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs Bonne August, Vice President for Enrollment & Student Affairs Marcela Armoza and Acting Dean of Arts & Sciences Pamela Brown.
The general session concluded with a Faculty Keynote Lecture, “Two Sides of Knowledge: Education and Research,” by Department of Physics Chair Roman Kezerashvili, followed by a Student Keynote Lecture, “Construction of an Everywhere Continuous Function That Is Nowhere Differentiable,” by student Lori Younge.
Twenty late morning and afternoon breakout sessions featured presentations by School of Arts & Sciences students and faculty members. The presentations are listed below by sections.
African-America Studies, Humanities & Social Science Section Professor Costas Panayotakis, Section Chair
- Professor Costas Panayotakis, Social Science, “Capitalism, Scarcity and Time”
- Professor Victoria Lichterman, Humanities, “Racial Ventriloquism”
- Professor Shauna Vey, Humanities, “After the Laughter: Loss and Litigation in the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians, 1855-1862”
- Professor Karl Botchway, African-American Studies, “Africa After NEO-LIBERALISM: The Search for States of Development”
- Professor Nicole Falade, Humanities, “The Presence and Participation of People of African Descent in Our Park with a Focus on Prospect Park Located in Brooklyn, New York”
Biological Sciences Section Professor Laina Karthikeyan, Section Chair
- Professor Victoria Ying, Biological Sciences, “Chemotherapy by Drug Polymer Delivery in Brain Tumor Slices”
- Professor Sanjoy Chakraborty, Biological Sciences, “Estrogen Receptors in Obesity and Their Signaling Pathways”
- Professor Vasily Kolchenko, Biological Sciences, “Detection of Viral Nanoparticles Using Optical Biosensor”
- Professors Isaac Barjis and Maximo Sierra, Biological Sciences, “Modeling and Simulation of Biological Processes”
- Professor Ayesha Siddiq, Biological Sciences, “Spinal Cord Injury and a Novel Treatment Approach”
- Professor Walied Samarrai, Biological Sciences, “Differential Response of Bacillus Subtilis Ribosomal RNA Promoters to Nutritional Stress”
- Professor Laina Karthikeyan, Biological Sciences, “Glutamate Homeostasis and Parkinson's Disease”
Physics Section Professor Ari Maler, Section Chair
- Professor Vladimir Boyko, Physics, “Principles of the Microstructure Design by Twinning in High-Temperature Superconductor YBCO for Enhanced Jc at High Magnetic Fields”
- Professor Gregory Matloff, Physics, “The Solar Collector: A Method of Protecting Earth from Threatening Asteroids and Comets”
- Professor Boris Gelman, Physics, “Quark-gluon Plasma: A New State of Matter Probed at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider”
- Professor LuFeng Leng, Physics, “Impairment Tolerant Optical Signal to Noise Ratio Monitoring in Optical Networks”
Mathematics Section Professor Hans Schoutens, Section Chair
- Orlando Davy, student (Professor Delaram Kahrobaei, advisor), Mathematics, “RSA Encryption Scheme”
- Professor Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar, Mathematics, “Comparisons of Solutions of a Practical Optimization Problem Using Different Methods”
- Professor Ezra Halleck, Mathematics, “Pascal's Mystic Hexagram, Elliptic Curves and Beyond”
- Professor Huseyin Yuce, Mathematics, “A Hydrological Event Model of the Tollgate Wetland”
Members of the organizing committee for the conference were Professors Zhao Chen, chair, Mehrzad Ajoodanian, Vladimir Boyko, Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Rigofredo Granados, Laina Karthikeyan, LuFeng Leng, Ari Maller, Frank Messano, Costas Panayotakis, Alexander Rozenblyum, Walied Samarrai, Hans Schoutens and Suresh Tewani.
06/27/07
