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08:30 – 09:00 Registration, Program Intro at 8:55 am (Organizing committee)
09:00 - 09:15 President Heather Wilson, UTEP (Welcome Remarks)
09:15 – 10:00 Leadership - Equity, Access, and Excellence issues & opportunities in advanced modeling & simulations at HBCU/MSIs
President Garnett Stokes, UNM
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, NSF
Dr. Shery Welsh, Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Dr. Barbara Helland, Director, DOE/ASCR
Moderators: Drs. Pokines (AFOSR) & Dr. Vinod Kumar (UTEP)
10:00 – 10:50 Engagement – Creating an equitable environment for advanced M&S researchers at HBCU/MSIs
Dr. James P. Holloway, Provost UNM
Dr. Houssam Toutanji, Dean, Engineering & Computer Science, CSUN
Dr. William (Bill) Spotz , Program Manager, DOE/ASCR
Dr. Brett Pokines & Ed Lee, Program Manager, DOD/AFOSR
Dr. Rajesh Mehta, Program Director, SBIR/STTR, NSF
Provost Wiebe (UTEP) will welcome distinguished speakers.
Moderators: Drs. P. Vorobieff (UNM) & Dr. Arturo Bronson, UTEP
10:50 – 11:00 Break / Yoga at your desk
11:00 – 11:50 Partnership - Developing mutually beneficial partnerships among Industry, Academia, & Labs to develop Advanced M&S Workforce
Dr. Roberto Osegueda
Dr. Scott Collis, Director, CCR, Sandia National Labs
Dr. George Karniadakis (Brown Univ)
Dr. V. Balaji (Princeton Univ)
Dr. Karen Willcox (UT Austin)
Dr. Dipankar Choudhury, Vice President - Research, ANSYS, Inc.
Moderators: Drs. Johari (Chair, ME/CSUN) & Chessa (Chair ME/UTEP)
* Presenter listings subject to change.
11:50 – 13:00 Lunch - Click HERE to join the conversation
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Dr. Rajesh Naik, ST, 711th Human Performance Wing
Dr. Kirk Vanden, Munitions Directorate, Using ML, Data Sets by Physics and DNS
Dr. William Roach, ST, Chief Scientist, AFOSR, Basic Research
Dr. Adel Alaeddini, UTSA
Dr. Paul M. Delgado, SNL
Moderators: Laura Sandoval (UTEP) & Jose Terrazas (UTEP)
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Dr. Robert Edmonds, Holloman AFB
Dr. Rao V. Gudimetla, Remote Sensing, AFRL/RDSM
Dr. Terrence E. Johnson, John’s Hopkins APL
Dr. Stavros Georgakopoulos, Florida International University
Dr. Adel Alaeddini, UT San Antonio
Moderators: Jose Terrazas (UTEP) & Richard Adansi (UTEP)
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Dr. Chris Harris, Shell Oil Company (Retd)
Dr. Justin Weber, NETL
Dr. Jorge A. Munoz, UTEP
Dr. Arturo Bronson, UTEP
Dr. Edl Schamiloglu, UNM
Moderators: Dr. V M K Kotteda (Wyoming) & Vivek Tandon (UTEP)
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Dr. Herb Janssen, Texas Tech Medical Center
Dr. Suman Sirimulla, UTEP
Sukhi Lamba, Entrepreneur, SF Bay area
Keynote: Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, UTEP Health Sciences Dean
Moderators: Demy Rodriguez (UTEP) & Leslie Dayana Trevizo (UTEP)
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Omar Yanar, CEO/Founder El Paso Leadership Academy
Dr. B. Calvo, College of Education, UTEP
Dr. N. Agarwal (XplorGuru Inc.)
Dr. Mark H. Jurado, UTEP
Moderators: Dr. C. Saldana (UTEP) & Arturo Rodriguez (UTEP)
*Presenter listings subject to change.