Thursday, April 19

7:30 am	Bus Departs from the Courtyard Silver Spring Downtown to Howard University
8:00-9:00 am	Registration, Blackburn University Center Auditorium (2nd Floor), Howard University
9:00-9:30 am	Opening Remarks: James Donaldson (Howard University), Tepper Gill (Howard University), and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (Howard University)
9:30-10:00 am	Nancy Geller (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Statistical Association): David Blackwell: A Member of the Community of Scholars
10:00-10:30 am	William Hawkins (University of the District of Columbia/National Association of Mathematicians): David Blackwell's Gift to the National Association of Mathematicians, Inspiration for Generations
10:30-11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 am	Giovanni Parmigiani (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): Blackwell's Impact on Statistics: Bayesian
11:30-12:00 pm	Lawrence D. Brown (University of Pennsylvania): Blackwell's contributions to Statistics: A Personal View
12:00-2:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
2:00-2:30 pm	Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University): David Blackwell: Inspiration for the Blackwell-Tapia Conference Series
2:30-3:00 pm	Richard Tapia (Rice University): David Blackwell: King of the Precious Few
3:00-3:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:30-4:00 pm	Isaac Meilijson (Tel Aviv University): Contributions of Blackwell to the Martingale Dilation Stochastic Order
4:00-6:30 pm	Poster Session, Blackburn University Center Hilltop Lounge
6:30 pm	Bus Departs from Howard University to the Courtyard Silver Spring Downtown

Poster Session

There will be an MBI Conference Award for the best poster. This is a full travel award to attend a Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) workshop of the winner's choice in the 2012-13 academic year. The winner will be announced at the banquet.

• Martin Arienmughare (Howard University): Almost Periodic Solutions to Some Singular Systems of Differential Equations
• Moussa Doumbia (Howard University): Malaria in Irrigated and Non-Irrigated Villages of Mali
• Adebukola Gbade-Oyelakin (Howard University): A Moment Series Approach to Bayesian Statistics and Inference
• Ahmed Mohamed (Howard University): Pseudo-Almost Automorphic Solutions to Some Second Order Differential Equations
• Jerome Ndayishimiye (Binghamton University): Fluid Model of the Dynamics of Patients and Physicians in Emergency Rooms: Optimal Control Staffing Policy and Workshift Schedules
• Henry Jordan (Howard University): Minimal Hales-Jewett Sets
• Valerie Nelson (Howard University): C^(n)-Pseudo Almost Automorphy and its Applications to Some Higher-Order Differential Equations
• Jamol Pender (Princeton University): Gaussian Skewness Approximation for Dynamic Rate Queues
• Anna Sun (University of Maryland Baltimore County): NIR Spectroscopy Data Pre-Processing Using SAS
• Ilyssa Summer (Arizona State University): Mulitpotent Stem Cells Bifurcating Dynamics from Gene Transcription Factor Interactions