The SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program (VLP) provides the community with a roster of experienced and inspirational applied mathematicians and computational scientists in industry, government, and academia, who can speak on topics that are of interest to developing professional mathematicians.
Learn more about the following speakers from Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., and New York and contact them if you are interested in them speaking at your institution.
Kerisha Burke
Category Management Analyst, MRO & Chemicals and Gases, Phillips 66 | Houston, Texas, U.S.
Other Positions: Global Strategy and Freight Trading Analyst at P66.
Education: B.S. in Mathematics
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Optimization Modeling / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Global Trade Flow Analytics / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Cost Model & Analytics / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Allen Butler
President & CEO, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. | Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Job Description: Management and Technical
Education: B.A. Mathematics / M.A. Mathematics / Ph.D. in Mathematics / INFORMS Fellow, INFORMS Board VP of Practice
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Bayes’ Theorem – Making Rational Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Joe Callender
Executive Director, EY | Washington D.C., U.S.
Job Description: Leader of the quantitative survey practice.
Other Positions: Research Fellow at LMI
Education: B.A. Mathematics / M.S. in Applied Mathematics
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Business applications of mathematics / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Carolyn Cho
Director / Sr Principal Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories | New York City, New York, U.S.
Job Description: Immunology Pharmacometrics Therapeutic Area Lead
Other Positions: Director of Systems Biology Target Validation, Pfizer Research Technology Center
Education: B.S. (honors) Mathematics-Physics, joint / M.S. Physics / Ph.D. Biological Physics
Other information: Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Mathematical modleing in drug discovery and development / General audience
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Mechanistic interpretation of systems immunology data / Mathematics graduate students and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Career opportunities for mathematicians in the pharmaceutical industry / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Learn more about hosting a speaker at your institution by visiting the Program Guidelines.