This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 Conference on Frontiers of Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM'08), held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), May 19-21, 2008. The papers reflect the conference themes of mathematical biology, mathematical fluid dynamics, applied statistics and biostatistics, and waves and electromagnetics. Some of the world's most distinguished experts in the conference focus areas provide a unique and timely perspective on leading-edge research, research trends, and important open problems in several fields, making it a 'must read' for active mathematical scientists.Included are major new contributions by a distinguished trio of plenary speakers: Frank Hoppensteadt contributes a thought-provoking paper on the evolving relationship between applied mathematics and the computer; Pranab Sen explores exciting new trends in computational biology and informatics; and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck describes his recent research on 3D free surface flows. There are also many innovative contributions by a prestigious group of invited mini-symposium speakers, making this an indispensable collection for professionals and graduate students in the mathematical sciences and related fields. Finally, the 75th birthday dedication to Daljit S Ahluwalia - for his many contributions to building a world-class mathematical sciences department at NJIT - adds to making this a one-of-a-kind volume.
Pt. A Plenary Papers 1
Multi-scale Methods, Computer Simulations, and Data Mining: Difference Equations and Renewal Equations by F. Hoppensteadt 3
Whither Biostochastics in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics by P. K. Sen 15
Studies of Nonlinear Three-dimensional Free Surface Flows by J.-M. Vanden-Broeck 32
Pt. B Invited Papers 45
Bursting in Pituitary Cells by R. Bertram 47
The Dynamics of Antibody Dependent Enhancement in Multi-strain Diseases with Vaccination by L. Billings and I. B. Schwartz and L. B. Shaw 56
Dynamics of Inextensible Vesicles Suspended in a Confined Two-dimensional Stokes Flow by A. Rahimian and S. K. Veerapaneni and D. Zorin and G. Biros 64
A Robust Recursive Partitioning Algorithm for Mining Multiple Populations by J. Alvir and J. Cabrera and F. Caridi and H. Nguyen and C. Roberts 75
Scattering of Water Waves by Freely Floating Semi-infinite Elastic Plates on Water of Finite Depth by A. Chakrabarti and S. C. Martha 83
On the Hyperbolicity of Two-layer Flows by R. Barros and W. Choi 95
Contributions to Balanced Arrays of Strength t with Applications by D. V. Chopra and R. M. Low 104
Asymptotic Solutions of Some Randomly Perturbed Nonlinear Wave Equations by P.-L. Chow 111
The Bootstrap in Binary Model Diagnostics by G. Dikta 119
Nonreflecting Local Boundary Conditions for Ellipticalshaped Exterior Boundaries by H. Barucq and R. Djellouli and A. Saint-Guirons 127
Modeling and Analysis of Axonogenesis: Random Spatial Network Perspective by Y. E. Pearson and D. A. Drew and E. Castronovo 137
Steady Vortex Flow Past a Cylinder or Sphere by A. Elcrat and K. Miller and B. Fornberg 146
On Two Fast Algorithms for Estimating the Mixing Distribution in Mixture Models by J. K. Ghosh and R. Martin 154
Direct Regression Models for Survival Parameters Based on Pseudo-values by J. P. Klein and G. Tunes-da-Silva 162
