Rebecca Segal is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the North Carolina State University.Blerta Shtylla is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Pomona College. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Utah.Suzanne Sindi is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at University of California, Merced. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park.