AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
March 10-12, 2017 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1126

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

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Special Session on Data Analytics and Applications

• Friday March 10, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Data Analytics and Applications, I
  Room 208, Maybank Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott C. Batson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic scott.batson@navy.mil
  Lucas A. Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Social Network Analysis of FEMA's Twitter Network.
    LaKeisha Williams*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - Atlantic
    Lucas A Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - Atlantic
    Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - Atlantic
    (1126-68-330)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Training Deep Neural Networks.
    Ralph W Crosby*, SPAWAR SSC-LANT
    (1126-68-350)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Identifying Protein Promoter Sequences using Character-Level CNNs and LSTMs.
    Scott Dean, Naval Research Laboratory
    Seongwon Kim, Naval Research Laboratory
    Dasha Leary, Naval Research Laboratory
    Trey Morris*, Naval Research Laboratory
    (1126-68-386)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Soft Biometrics of Partial Face.
    Jamie R Lyle*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    (1126-68-369)
• Saturday March 11, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Data Analytics and Applications, II
  Room 208, Maybank Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott C. Batson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic scott.batson@navy.mil
  Lucas A. Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modeling nucleosomal DNA in living yeast: Dynamics and organization.
    Caitlin S Hult*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Paula A Vasquez, University of South Carolina
    David Adalsteinsson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Josh Lawrimore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    M Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1126-92-387)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Brief Survey of Data Science.
    Lucas A. Overbey*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    Scott C. Batson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    (1126-01-353)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Data Analysis of Radar Pulses.
    Justin M Mauger*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific
    (1126-55-376)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Taut String Estimator: Weak Convergence and Confidence Bands.
    J. Marcus Jobe, Miami University
    Michael Pokojovy*, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/University of Memphis
    (1126-62-390)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fastfood Ridge Regression: Combining Variable Importance with Kernel Expansion Approximations.
    Paul E Anderson*, College of Charleston
    (1126-68-278)
• Saturday March 11, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Data Analytics and Applications, III
  Room 208, Maybank Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott C. Batson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic scott.batson@navy.mil
  Lucas A. Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Digital and Social Media Playbook.
    Rebecca Goolsby*, Office of Naval Research
    (1126-15-355)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Applications of Data Analytics to Security and Neuroscience.
    Edgar J Fuller*, Department of Homeland Security/West Virginia University
    (1126-68-342)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Products, Challenges, and Solutions Related to Data Analytics in Cyber Security Consulting.
    Ben Greco*, Soteria, LLC
    Nel Abdiel, Soteria, LLC
    (1126-68-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Why Data Science is so dependent upon Mathematics.
    Jennifer L Priestley*, Kennesaw State University
    (1126-00-202)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Data Science Panel Discussion: Challenges, Open Problems and the Future.
    Scott C. Batson*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    (1126-00-354)
• Sunday March 12, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Data Analytics and Applications, IV
  Room 208, Maybank Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott C. Batson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic scott.batson@navy.mil
  Lucas A. Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rankability of Graphs.
    Amy N Langville*, College of Charleston
    (1126-94-141)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs): An Introduction and an Application.
    Shaina L Race*, Institute for Advanced Analytics, NC State University
    (1126-00-56)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dimensional Analysis in Blau space Models: Preliminary Report.
    Matthew E. Brashears*, University of South Carolina, Department of Sociology
    (1126-91-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Concept Extraction Using Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.
    Michael W Berry*, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    (1126-68-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Divide-and-Conquer Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) for Scalable Clustering and Topic Modeling.
    Haesun Park*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rundong Du, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Da Kuang, University of California, Los Angeles
    Barry L. Drake, Georgia Tech Research Institute
    (1126-15-326)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Forecasting Significant Societal Events using Open Source Indicators.
    Naren Ramakrishnan*, Virginia Tech
    (1126-68-320)

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