Special conferences hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, October 24-26, 2008. Second International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, October 9-11, 2009. SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, March 24-25, 2012. CBMS Conference on Small Deviation Probabilities: Theory and Applications, June 4-8, 2012. Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, March 27-29, 2015.