Summer 2015 Projects

Team 1: Ely Biggs, Tessa Helble, George Jeffreys, and Amit Nayak –
Numerical Evaluation of Minimum Average Deviance Estimation in Ultra High Dimensional Poisson Regression

Team 2: Joseph U. Emelike, David Harper, Charlotte Z. Mann, Kwame Owusu-Boaitey –
Assessing Decadal Climate Impacts on Water Resources within Missouri River Sub-Basins

Team 3: Trevor V. Adriaanse, Meshach Hopkins, Rebecca Rachan, Subodh R. Selukar –
Statistical Analysis of a Case-Control Alzheimer’s Disease: a Retrospective Approach with Sufficient Dimension Reduction

Team 4: George Eskandar, Jennifer Houser, Ellen Prochaska, Jessica Wojtkiewicz –
Investigating How Calcium Diffusion Affects Metabolic Oscillations and Synchronization of Pancreatic Beta Cells

Team 5: Amanda M. Alexander, Erin K. DeNardo, Eric Frazier III, Michael McCauley, Nicholas Rojina –
Impact of Calcium Store Overload on Electrical Dynamics of Cardiac Myocytes

Team 6: Changling Huang, Christopher C. Lowman, Brandon E. Osborne, Gabrielle M. Salib –
Performance Studies of the Blossom V Algorithm

Team 7: Fernando Avila-Soto, Alec Beri, Eric Valenzuela, Abenezer Wudenhe –
Parallelization for Fast Image Reconstruction using the Stochastic Origin Ensemble Method for Proton Beam Therapy

Team 8: Wesley Collins, Danny Martinez, Michael Monaghan, Alexey Munishkin –
Comparison of Performance Analysis Tools for Parallel Programs Applied to CombBLAS