Program All conference activities will be held on the UNLV campus, in the Stan Fulton building. Map/Directions Time Thursday October 20, 2011 8:15-9:15 Registration and Coffee/Rolls 9:15-9:30 Tim Porter; Dean of College of Sciences Opening Remarks, Room #130C 9:30-10:30 Invited Speaker: Alison Marr Wallis; Chair       Room #130C 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break   Sarvate; Chair Room #130A Ahangar; Chair Room #130B 11:00-11:20 Sarah Malick Sergey Gubin 11:25-11:45 Donald Kreher Aden Ahmed 11:50-12:10 Brian Alspach Reza Ahangar 12:10-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Invited Speaker: Lazlo Szekely Alspach; Chair       Room #130C 2:30-3:00 Coffee Break   Szekely; Chair Room #130A Marr; Chair Room #130B 3:00-3:20 Amin Bahmanian Daniel Bryce 3:25-3:45 Glenn Chappell Renee Bryce 3:50-4:10 Christopher Raridan Kamilia Ahmadi 4:15-4:35 Chris Rodger Iliya Bluskov 4:40-5:00 Sihem Mesnager Vladimir Tonchev 5:05-5:25 Eva Czabarka LeRoy Beasley 6:00-9:00 Banquet and a (surprise) presentation  Time Friday October 21, 2011 8:00-8:30 Registration and Coffee/Rolls 8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker: Wendy Myrvold El-Zanati; Chair       Room #130C 9:30-10:00 Coffee Break   Hein; Chair Room #130A Myrvold; Chair Room #130B 10:00-10:20 Shailesh Tipnis Dan Gannon 10:25-10:45 Mike Plantholt Ellen Sparks 10:50-11:10 Melissa Keranen Cafer Caliskan 11:15-11:35 Jeremy Lyle Laxmi Gewali 11:40-12:00 Derek Hein Saad El-Zanati 12:00-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Keynote Speaker: Dalibor Froncek Stinson; Chair       Room #130C 2:30-3:00 Coffee Break   Froncek; Chair Room #130A Shahmohamad; Chair Room #130B 3:00-3:20 Andrew Shealy Derrick Stolee 3:25-3:45 Douglas Stinson Ruizhong Wei 3:50-4:10 Craig Timmons Taoye Zhang 4:15-4:35 Hsin-Hao Su Walter Wallis 4:40-5:00 Earl Glen Whitehead Vassil Yorgov 5:05-5:25 Evangelos Yfantis Dharam Chopra 5:30-5:50 Ju Zhou Cun-Quan Zhang 5:55-6:15 Ebrahim Salehi Hossein Shahmohamad 6:20-6:40