« DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts
DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts
October 17, 2024
Location:
The Rutgers Club
Livingston Campus
85 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Organizer(s):
Tamra Carpenter, DIMACS
Margaret (Midge) Cozzens, DIMACS
David Pennock, DIMACS
Alexis Tsoukiás, Université Paris Dauphine
The DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts—aka FredFest—is a celebration of Fred’s contributions to both research and education in fields ranging from discrete mathematics, to mathematical biology, sustainability, homeland security, and the social sciences. Along the way, we will toast his 80th (and 81st) birthday and marvel at the connections that he has made, and continues to make, between disciplines and people. The event will immediately follow the 8th Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (a conference that Fred helped found), which will be held at Rutgers on October 14-16.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Prabhas Moghe, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, Rutgers University
Juli Wade, Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
Graphs, Preferences, Algorithms and Decision Theory
Alexis Tsoukiás, Université Paris Dauphine
Abba Gumel, University of Maryland, College Park
Break
Remarks
Peter March, Rutgers University
Rebecca Wright, Barnard College
The Fred Is Right! An Application of Mathematics to Game Show Design
Paul Dreyer, Northrop Grumman
A New Local / Global Principle for Collectives
Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sasa Pekec, Duke University
Lunch
The Power of Mentorship: How Professor Fred Roberts Transformed My Life and Empowered Communities Across Africa and the Global South
Jude Kong, University of Toronto
Nina Fefferman, University of Tennessee
Fred Roberts, Infectious Diseases and African Science
Simon Levin, Princeton University
Panel Discussion: Fred's Work on Homeland Security
Alok Baveja, Rutgers University
Dennis Egan, CCICADA
Elsayed A. Elsayed, Rutgers University
Mitch Erickson, Department of Homeland Security (retired)
Paul Kantor, Rutgers University (retired)
Steve Keleman, Rutgers University Emergency Management
Andrew Tucci, United States Coast Guard
Break
Remarks
Chuck Biehl, Charter School of Wilmington (retired)
Joseph Rosenstein, Rutgers University
From Food Webs, to Channel Assignments, to Tools of Psychology, and Back Again
Margaret (Midge) Cozzens, DIMACS
David Roberts, North Carolina State University
Math + Your (solve for x) Interests = Research Findings that Make a Difference
Sarah Roberts, University of California, San Francisco
Open Mic
Fred Roberts, DIMACS
Dinner