Professional Minisymposia

SIAM TX-LA Conference Schedule for Oct 6 & 7

The detailed schedule is available here, and a list of abstracts is available here.

The professional mini-symposia include:

Modeling, analysis, and computation in mathematical biology
Organizer: Xiang-Sheng Wang (xswang@louisiana.edu) UL Lafayette

Computational methods for waves in complex media
Orgenizers: Wei Cai and Tom Hagstrom, ( cai@smu.edu, thagstrom@mail.smu.edu ) SMU

High-order accurate numerical methods for multi-physics problems
Organizer: Longfei Li, ( longfei.li@louisiana.edu ) UL Lafayette

Numerical PDE/ODE and HPC applications
Organizer: Don Liu, ( DonLiu@LATech.edu ) LA Tech

Imaging and inverse problems
Organizer: Tan Bui-Thanh, ICES, ( tanbui@ices.utexas.edu ) UT Austin

Mathematics in oil and gas exploration and production
Organizers: Ipsita Gupta, ( igupta@lsu.edu ) LSU and Monika Valjak, ( Monika.Valjak@chevron.com ) Chevron

Spectral theory of differential operators
Organizer: Stephen Shipman, ( shipman@lsu.edu ) LSU

Novel fast methods for simulation and stability studies in enhanced oil recovery
Organizers: Prabir Daripa, (daripa@tamu.edu) Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Numerical approximation of fractional differential equations
Organizers: Andrea Bonito, ( bonito@math.tamu.edu ) Texas A&M, and Robert Lipton, ( lipton@lsu.edu ) LSU

Mathematical and computational aspects of fracture
Organizers: Blaise Bourdin, ( bourdin@lsu.edu ) LSU, and Robert Lipton, ( lipton@lsu.edu ) LSU

Nonlinear partial differential equations and applications
Organizers: Phuc Nguyen, LSU, ( pcnguyen@math.lsu.edu ) and Karthik Adimurthi, SNU, Seoul

Numerical Geometric PDE
Organizers: Alan Demlow ( demlow@math.tamu.edu) Texas A&M University and Shawn Walker ( walker@math.lsu.edu) LSU

Nonlinear modeling of disease dynamics
Organizer: Kun Gou ( kun.gou@tamuk.edu) Texas A&M University, Md Rafiul Islam ( rafiul.islam@ttu.edu ) Texas Tech University, and Tamer Oraby ( tamer.oraby@utrgv.edu ) University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

Nonlinear conservation laws and applications
Organizers: Kun Zhao ( kzhao@tulane.edu) Tulane University and Yanni Zeng ( ynzeng@uab.edu) University of Alabama at Birmingham

Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Epidemiology
Organizers: Hayriye Gulbudak, ( hayriye.gulbudak@louisiana.edu) University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Mac Hyman ( mhyman@tulane.edu) Tulane University

Switched Systems in Controls
Oleg Makarenkov (makarenlov@utdallas.edu>) University of Texas Dallas

Image processing algorithms: progress and challenges
Organizer: Hyoungsu Baek (hyoungsu.baek@gmail.com) Aramco Research Center

Models and Methods in Biology and Physics: From the Stochastic to the Continuum
Orginizer: William Ott (ott@math.uh.edu) University of Houston

If you would like to propose a mini symposium on any topic, please use the meeting e-mail or contact Robert Lipton (LSU) or Anusha Sekar (Chevron).