CASSC 2022
The SIAM student chapters at Illinois Tech, Northwestern, and University of Illinois at Chicago are pleased to announce the 2022 Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference (CASSC) to be held in-person in the Illinois Tech McCormick-Tribune Campus Center.
Date: April 24, 2022
Looking to register or submit a talk? Click this link or scroll down! Please let us know you are interested in giving a talk by April 18th. Finalized abstracts are due by April 22nd.
About
The Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference (CASSC) is an annual event organized by the Illinois Tech (IIT), Northwestern University (NU), and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) student chapters of SIAM, aimed at promoting Applied Mathematics among the younger research community.
CASSC is a conference that highlights applications of mathematics in diverse disciplines. It is open to graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in applied math from all fields.
Location
Location: McCormick-Tribune Campus Center (MTCC), 3201 South State Street, Chicago IL 60616
Directions for Commuters: MTCC is a 4 minute walk north along State Street from the 35th-Bronzeville-IIT Green Line stop. or an 11 minute walk east and north of the Sox-35th Red Line station.
Schedule
10:45-11:00 AM: Opening Remarks (Auditorium)
11:00 AM- Noon: Plenary I (Auditorium)
Noon- 1:00 PM: Student Talks (Auditorium)
1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Lunch (Ballroom)
2:00-3:00 PM: Plenary 2 (Auditorium)
3:00-3:15 PM: Closing Remarks (Auditorium)
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Lulu Kang (Illinois Tech) Fair and Diverse Allocation of Scarce Resources
(Website) We aim to design a fairness-aware allocation approach to maximize the geographical diversity and avoid unfairness in the sense of demographic disparity. During the development of this work, the COVID-19 pandemic is still spreading in the U.S. and other parts of the world on large scale. Many poor communities and minority groups are much more vulnerable than the rest. To provide sufficient vaccine and medical resources to all residents and effectively stop the further spreading of the pandemic, the average medical resources per capita of a community should be independent of the community's demographic features but only conditional on the exposure rate to the disease. In this article, we integrate different aspects of resource allocation and create a synergistic intervention strategy that gives vulnerable populations higher priority in medical resource distribution. This prevention-centered strategy seeks a balance between geographical coverage and social group fairness. The proposed principle can be applied to other scarce resources and social benefits allocation.
Prof. Haley Yaple (Carthage College) Political Polarization: Patterns in the Senate
(Website) It seems from the current political climate that partisanship is at an all-time high, but how can this be quantified? In this presentation, we explore methods of measuring and tracking political polarization and shifts in voting patterns. We focus on student work studying a two-decade span in the U.S. Senate, following a previous study of the U.S. House of Representatives. We work our way through analyses of vote agreement distributions and networks, and also give an overview of alternative ways of measuring polarization.
A hearty round of thanks to everyone who helped make this edition of CASSC possible. Thank you to all the guidance and support from all of the advisors of each chapter, all our moderators, Chartwell's Catering services, the Illinois Tech Finance Board for supporting this event financially, SIAM national for their generous support, our speakers, and most of all, our attendees.
Questions, comments, concerns? Please reach out via email to bbarber@hawk.iit.edu