Rochester Institute of Technology
1-3 Nov 2024

Planning

Friday, November 1, 2024

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17:00 - 18:00 Pizza and Networking (Gosnell Hall Atrium)  
18:00 - 20:00 Jobs in Industry and Government Panel (Gosnell A300 Small Auditorium)  

Saturday, November 2, 2024

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08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Breakfast Snacks - Gosnell Atrium  
08:30 - 08:40 Opening Remarks (Gosnell 1250 Big Auditorium) - Tony Harkin (RIT) and Roy Goodman (NJIT)  
08:40 - 09:35 Plenary I: Overcoming order reduction in Runge-Kutta methods via weak stage order: Theory and order barriers (Gosnell 1250 Big Auditorium) - David Shirokoff (NJIT)  
09:35 - 10:00 Coffee break (Gosnell Hall Atrium)  
10:00 - 12:05 PDE (Gosnell A300 Small Auditorium) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Nonlinear dispersive waves, solitons, modulation theory and dispersive shocks in two spatial dimensions - Gino Biondini, State University of New York [Buffalo]  
10:25 - 10:50 › Initial Value Problems for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation with Wedge-Shaped Step-Like Initial Conditions - Alexander Bivolcic - State University of New York at Buffalo  
10:50 - 11:15 › A Reformulation of the Equation Error Approach for Direct Inversion from Full-Field Interior Data - Mobina Ghorbaninejad, Rochester Institute of Technology  
11:15 - 11:40 › On Galilean Invariance of Mean Kinetic Helicity - Dina Soltani Tehrani, University of Rochester  
11:40 - 12:05 › Determination of time-dependent source function in a parabolic equation - Sedar Ngoma, State University of New York at Geneseo  
10:00 - 12:05 Numerical Analysis (Gosnell 1250 Big Auditorium) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › A consistent numerical approach to quantum graph computations - Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology  
10:25 - 10:50 › Fast solvers for shape optimization of slip-driven axisymmetric microswimmers in Stokes flow - Ruowen Liu, Rider University  
10:50 - 11:15 › A fast numerical method for the inverse medium scattering problem - Thanh Nguyen, Rowan University  
11:15 - 11:40 › Construction of Local Reduced Order Models via Random Sampling - Charles Beall, Stevens Institute of Technology  
11:40 - 12:05 › Optimizing adaptive mesh refinement for numerical relativity - Chloe Malinowski, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:00 - 12:05 Life Sciences (Gosnell 1154) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Modeling the spread of retinal detachment (RD) and its effects on the dynamics of the rod outer segment (ROS) renewal - William Annan, Clarkson University  
10:25 - 10:50 › Mathematical Modeling of Ocular Tissue Deformation due to Intraocular Pressure - Riley Supple, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:50 - 11:15 › Configuring the soma-axon connection for temporally precise neural coincidence detection - Joshua Goldwyn, Swarthmore College  
11:15 - 11:40 › Exact Analytical Series Solutions to the SIR Epidemic Model - Daniel Hobbs, Rochester Institute of Technology  
11:40 - 12:05 › Student research in mathematical biology: mechanistic modeling and data science approaches - James Greene, Clarkson University  
10:00 - 12:05 Dynamical Systems (Gosnell 1174) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Dimension reduction of dynamical systems on graphons - Bisna Mary Eldo, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260-2900, USA  
10:25 - 10:50 › Dimensional reduction for hypergraph dynamical systems - Sarbendu Rakshit, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900, USA  
10:50 - 11:15 › Parrondo's paradox in the dynamics of the susceptible-infectious-susceptible epidemic model over periodic temporal networks - Maisha Islam Sejunti, State University of New York [Buffalo]  
11:15 - 11:40 › Understanding Inertial and Non-Inertial Particle Dynamics in Geophysical Flows - Nishanta Baral, Montclair State University [USA]  
11:40 - 12:05 › Using off-diagonal entries of the covariance matrix to determine an optimized node set for early warning signals - Shilong Yu, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo  
10:00 - 12:05 Data Science (Gosnell 1300) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Detecting interpretable communities in multilayer correlation networks - Saiful Islam, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY  
10:25 - 10:50 › Topological Tools for Cybersecurity - Jason LaRuez, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:50 - 11:15 › Efficient Diameter Algorithm for Large Graphs - Zhihui Du, New Jersey Institute of Technology - David Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology  
11:15 - 11:40 › Experimental Design for Kernel Ridge Regression - Alex Gittens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
11:40 - 12:05 › Robust First and Second-Order Differentiation for Regularized Optimal Transport - Felix Ye, University at Albany  
10:00 - 12:05 Geosciences and Planet Earth (Gosnell 1305) (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Incorporating Risk Aversion and Uncertainty into Coastal Adaptation Model - Carolina Estevez Loza, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:25 - 10:50 › Disentangling the Oceanic Circulation - Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester  
10:50 - 11:15 › Assessing the Impact of Contamination on Microbial-Enzyme Dynamics and Soil Function - Sepideh Vafaie, Montclair State University [USA]  
11:15 - 11:40 › Exploring the Mechanisms Driving the North Atlantic Oscillation - Abdus Samad, University of Rochester  
11:40 - 12:05 › Mass Transport By Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies - Mehrnoush Kharghani, University of Rochester [USA]  
10:00 - 12:05 Discrete Math and Theoretical Computing (Gosnell 2178 )  
10:00 - 12:05 Recent Developments in Modern Optimization (Gosnell 2345) - Jiaming Liang (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › A novel primal-dual algorithm for decentralized optimization over time-varying graphs - Xin Jiang, Cornell University  
10:25 - 10:50 › On representing (mixed-integer) linear programs by graph neural networks - Jialin Liu, University of Central Florida [Orlando]  
10:50 - 11:15 › Performance Estimation For Smooth and Strongly Convex Sets - Benjamin Grimmer, Johns Hopkins University  
11:15 - 11:40 › Universal subgradient and proximal bundle methods for convex and strongly convex hybrid composite optimization - Jiaming Liang, University of Rochester [USA]  
11:40 - 12:05 › The radius of statistical efficiency - Mateo Diaz, Johns Hopkins University  
10:00 - 12:05 Scientific Machine Learning and its Applications (Gosnell 2365) - Wenrui Hao, Yue Yu (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Accelerating Transition Dynamics Simulation with Recent Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning - Yuanqi Du, Cornell University [Ithaca]  
10:25 - 10:50 › An energy-stable machine-learning model of non-Newtonian hydrodynamics with molecular fidelity - Huan Lei, Michigan State University  
10:50 - 11:15 › Model-free identification and suppression of unknown disturbances to dynamical systems - Per Sebastian Skardal, Trinity College Hartford  
11:15 - 11:40 › Separable DeepONet: A Scalable Framework for High-Dimensional Physics-Informed Neural Operators - Somdatta Goswami, Johns Hopkins University  
11:40 - 12:05 › Exploiting Low-Dimensional Data Structures and Predicting Scaling Laws for Transformer Neural Networks - Wenjing Liao, Georgia Institute of Technology - Alex Havrilla, Georgia Institute of Technology  
10:00 - 12:05 Computational Fluid Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interaction (Gosnell 2365) - Michael Cromer, Paula Vasquez (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Boundary conditions for dynamic contact angles in the Volume-of-Fluid method - Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institute of Technology  
10:25 - 10:50 › Modeling structure transition in living polymers - Michael Cromer, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:50 - 11:15 › Flows of networked fluids: Bead-spring dumbbells, Roussian chains, formed chains, and anisotropy - Lin Zhou, Department of Mathematics, New York City College of Technology [CUNY]  
11:15 - 11:40 › Macro-micro simulations in complex fluids using GPU Computing - Paula A Vasquez, University of South Carolina [Columbia]  
10:00 - 12:05 Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems - Nishant Malik (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Monsoon Prediction by Integrating Network Analysis with Machine Learning - Nishant Malik, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:25 - 10:50 › Tree-based Learning for High-Fidelity Prediction of Chaos  
10:50 - 11:15 › Analysis of a Coevolving Networks-based Opioid Epidemic Model  
11:15 - 11:40 › Detecting Chaos in Fire - Jenna McDanold, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology  
11:40 - 12:05 › Severing as a Size Control Mechanism for Cytoskeleton Filaments and Bundles - Md Sorique Aziz Momin, Postdoctoral Associate, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology  
10:00 - 12:05 Recent Advances in Physics-informed and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dynamics (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Newton Informed Neural Operator for Computing Multiple Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations - Yahong Yang, The Penn State University  
10:25 - 10:50 › Analysis and computation of a generalized Ohta-Kawasaki model - Yanxiang Zhao, George Washington University  
10:50 - 11:15 › Element learning: accelerating finite element-type methods via operator learning with cost-effective training - Shukai Du, Syracuse University  
11:15 - 11:40 › Penalty Adversarial Network: A neural network-based method to solve PDE-constrained optimal control problems - Yukun Yue, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
11:40 - 12:05 › Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning - Haizhao Yang, University of Maryland, College Park  
10:00 - 12:05 Advances in Efficient and Accurate Kinetic and Fluid Solvers - Fengyan Li, Joseph Nakao (+)  
10:00 - 10:25 › Adjoint Monte Carlo Method for Kinetic Constrained Optimization Problems - Yunan Yang, Cornell University  
10:25 - 10:50 › A micro-macro decomposed reduced basis method for time-dependent radiative transfer equation - Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
10:50 - 11:15 › Adaptive-Rank Implicit Time Integrator for Advection-Diffusion Transport Equations with Inhomogeneous Coefficients - Hamad El Kahza, University of Delaware  
11:15 - 11:40 › Low-rank implicit integrators based on reduced augmentation for solving 3D advection-diffusion equations - Joseph Nakao, Swarthmore College  
11:40 - 12:05 › High-order accurate simulations for relativistic Vlasov systems - Jeff Banks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
10:00 - 12:05 Computational and Theoretical Advances in Physics-informed ML Models and UQ - Yue Yu, Akwum Onwunta, Jihong Wang  
10:00 - 12:05 Recent Advances in Theoretical and Computational Inverse Problems  
10:00 - 12:05 Recent Advances in Quantum Computing - Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Zeguan Wu  
10:00 - 12:05 Machine Learning Theory and Applications - Yunlong Feng, Yanfang Liu  
12:05 - 13:30 Box Lunch (Gosnell Hall Atrium)  
12:05 - 13:30 Poster Session (Gosnell Hall Atrium)  
13:30 - 14:25 Plenary II MetaMath: A Quantitative Justice Project to Enhance EDI in the Mathematical Sciences (Gosnell 1250 Big Auditorium) - Ron Buckmire (Marist)  
14:30 - 16:35 Dynamical Systems (Gosnell 1174) (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Data assimilation for astrophysical systems - Eve Armstrong, New York Institute of Technology; American Museum of Natural History  
14:55 - 15:20 › Disorder in foams and other 2-d microstructures - Joe Klobusicky, University of Scranton  
15:20 - 15:45 › Learning Noise-Robust Stable Koopman Operator for Control with Physics-Informed Observables - Shahriar Akbar Sakib, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
15:45 - 16:10 › Evaluating Equity in Dynamical Systems Models - Nicole Zalewski, Temple University  
14:30 - 16:35 Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Landslide geometry and topology for elucidating triggers and movement - Kamal Rana, Rochester Institute of Technology  
14:55 - 15:20 › Unraveling Social Dynamics: Exploring Structural Balance in Temporal Signed Networks Among Taiwanese High School Students - Hsuan-Wei Lee, Department of Community and Population Health, Lehigh University  
15:20 - 15:45 › Rigged DMD: Data-driven generalized eigenfunction decompositions for Koopman operators - Andrew Horning, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
15:45 - 16:10 › Network-Driven QBO Analysis - Daniel Oleynikov, Rochester Institute of Technology  
16:10 - 16:35 › Interacting Particle Systems on Networks: joint inference of the network and the interaction kernel - Xiong Wang, Johns Hopkins University  
14:30 - 16:35 Life Sciences (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Using stochastic cellular automata to model growth of pCF10-induced complex structures in Enterococcus faecalis under erythromycin treatment - Madison Shoraka, Lewis Katz School of Medicine  
14:55 - 15:20 › Predicting particle deposition in an adult human lung using an oscillatory, lumped respiratory model - Jordana O'Brien, Rochester Institute of Technology  
15:20 - 15:45 › Synergy of Triple Combination Therapy for Biofilm Eradication - Vedat Kurtay, Rochester Institute of Technology - Blessing O. Emerenini, Rochester Institute of Technology  
15:45 - 16:10 › Modeling the Spread of Spotted Lanternfly in Vineyards and Across Multiple Scales - Woods Jacob, Temple University [Philadelphia]  
16:10 - 16:35 › Quantitative Preventative Approaches to Diabetes: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis - Rushi Bhatt, Montclair State University [USA]  
14:30 - 16:35 Computational Fluid Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interaction (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Coupled Mechanics of Semiflexible Filaments on Fluid Membranes - Sanjay Dharmavaram, Bucknell University  
14:55 - 15:20 › Emergent flow asymmetries from the metachronal paddling of gossamer worm parapodia - Alexander Hoover, Cleveland State University  
15:20 - 15:45 › Fluid-Level Performance of Multi-Agent Systems - Benjamin Seibold, Temple University [Philadelphia]  
15:45 - 16:10 › Hydrodynamics of a vesicle enclosing an active particle suspension - Yuan-Nan Young, New Jersey Instittue of Technology  
16:10 - 16:35 › The influence of geometry on squirming in a heterogeneous medium - Herve Nganguia, Towson University  
14:30 - 16:35 Numerical Analysis (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › A New Fick-Jacobs Derivation with Applications to Computational Diffusion Networks - Zachary Miksis, Temple University [Philadelphia]  
14:55 - 15:20 › Simple, Convergent Sketched Tucker Decompositions - Alex Gittens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
15:20 - 15:45 › Polynomial Interpolation on the Square and Cube - Richard Greene, New Jersey Institute of Technology [Newark]  
15:45 - 16:10 › A Quadratic Penalty and Moreau Envelope Descent Algorithm for Constrained Global Minimization - Stephanie Wang, University of Rochester [USA]  
16:10 - 16:35 › Randomized Multiscale Methods for Heterogeneous Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations - Kathrin Smetana, Stevens Institute of Technology [Hoboken]  
14:30 - 16:35 Recent Advances in Graphs, Groups, and their Applications - Carmine Monetta, Mark Lewis (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Gruenberg-Kegel graphs of finite groups - Thomas Michael Keller, Texas State University  
14:55 - 15:20 › Maximal noncommuting sets and its application in infinite groups - Mohammad Zarrin, Texas State University  
15:20 - 15:45 › On vanishing class sizes in finite groups: recent results - Mariagrazia Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan  
15:45 - 16:10 › Characterizing finite groups whose enhanced power graphs have universal vertices - Mark Lewis, Kent State University  
16:10 - 16:35 › Graph isomorphisms and group invariants - Carmine Monetta, Università degli Studi di Salerno = University of Salerno  
14:30 - 16:35 Scientific Machine Learning and its Applications - Wenrui Hao, Yue Yu (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Reconstruction of cerebral spinal fluid flow in the brain using scientific machine learning - Mohammad Vaezi, University of Rochester  
14:55 - 15:20 › Physics-informed neural networks for forward and inverse problems of Biot's model - Mingchao Cai, Morgan State University  
15:20 - 15:45 › Generative Downscaling of PDE Solvers With Physics-Guided Diffusion Models - Wuzhe Xu, University of Massachusetts Amherst  
15:45 - 16:10 › Self-adaptive weighting and sampling for physics-informed neural networks and deep operator networks - Wenqian Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  
16:10 - 16:35 › Nonlocal Attention Operator: Towards an Interpretable Foundation Model - Yue Yu, Lehigh University  
14:30 - 16:35 Optimization (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › On the Heterogenous k-Disjoint Biclique Problem - Abiodun Sumonu, The University of Alabama - Brendan Ames, University of Southampton  
14:55 - 15:20 › Mathematical Optimization of Supply Chain Networks and Warehouse Design for Enhanced Efficiency in DHL Operations - Yiyi Cao, SUNY Binghamton University  
15:20 - 15:45 › Quantum Approximate Optimization in the Early Fault-Tolerant Era - Zichang He, JPMorganChase  
15:45 - 16:10 › Effective support, Dirac combs, and signal recovery - Kelvin Nguyen, University of Rochester  
16:10 - 16:35 › Computing Proximity Operators for Scale and Signed Permutation Invariant Functions - Jianqing Jia, Syracuse University  
14:30 - 16:35 Multiscale Flows (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Scale Decomposition and Kinetic Energy Cascade in the Troposphere and Stratosphere - Pejman Hadi Sichani, University of Rochester  
14:55 - 15:20 › Global Ocean Cascades and a Direct Gyrescale-Mesoscale Energy Pathway Induced by the Atmosphere  
15:20 - 15:45 › Intermit dynamics of emulsions in porous media - Shima Parsa, Rochester Institute of Technology  
15:45 - 16:10 › Tip-splitting or fast fingers: pattern formation in miscible displacement - Will Braun, Rochester Institute of Technology  
16:10 - 16:35 › Role of Earth's magnetic field on the deposition of terrestrial volatile species in lunar nearside regolith - Shubhonkar Paramanick, University of Rochester  
14:30 - 16:35 Data Science  
14:30 - 16:35 Advances in Efficient and Accurate Kinetic and Fluid Solvers (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Semi-Lagrangian Adaptive-Rank (SLAR) Methods for Linear Advection Equations and the Nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson System - Nanyi Zheng, Department of Mathematical Sciences  
14:55 - 15:20 › The Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method with stage-dependent polynomial spaces for hyperbolic conservation laws - Zheng Sun, The University of Alabama  
15:20 - 15:45 › A hybrid Monte Carlo, discontinuous Galerkin method for linear kinetic transport equations - Krotz Johannes, Notre Dame  
15:45 - 16:10 › Reduced-Order Modeling of Neutron Transport by Proper Generalized Decomposition - Kurt Dominesey, Naval Nuclear Laboratory  
16:10 - 16:35 › Gauge conserving particle methods that naturally satisfy the involutions of Maxwell's equations - Stephen White, Michigan State University [East Lansing]  
14:30 - 16:35 Mathematical Modeling of Drug Delivery - Kara Maki, Lucia Carichino, Narshini Gunputh (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › A mathematical model of drug delivery via a contact lens during wear - Rayanne Luke, George Mason University [Fairfax]  
14:55 - 15:20 › Quantitative model of the ocular immune response to seasonal allergic conjunctivitis - Narshini Gunputh, Rochester Institute of Technology  
15:20 - 15:45 › No model is an island: QSP with support from PBPK - Christina Battista, Simulations Plus  
15:45 - 16:10 › Mathematical Model of Gene Therapy Treatment for Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration - Lucia Carichino, Rochester Institute of Technology  
16:10 - 16:35 › Development of PBPK Model to Characterize Ocular Disposition of Protein Therapeutics - Dhaval Shah, University at Buffalo  
14:30 - 16:35 Applied Math (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › Mathematical Modeling of Sieving and Adsorptive Fouling in Membrane Pore Networks - Binan Gu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute  
14:55 - 15:20 › Surface Variability Mapping and Roughness Analysis of the Moon Using a Coarse-Graining Decomposition - Siyu Xue, University of Rochester  
15:20 - 15:45 › Analytical Solution for Heat Transfer across the Boundary Layer Induced - William Reinberger, Rochester Institute of Technology  
15:45 - 16:10 › Exact Analytical Solution for the Boundary Layer Flow Induced by a Moving Surface - Nathaniel Barlow, Rochester Institute of Technology  
16:10 - 16:35 › Interfacial instability of a two-layer viscoelastic flow - Nastaran Rezaei, NJIT  
14:30 - 16:35 Recent Advances in Physics-informed and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dynamics (+)  
14:30 - 14:55 › A Pressure-Robust Hybridized Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes System - Keegan Kirk, George Mason University [Fairfax]  
14:55 - 15:20 › Adaptive Sampling and Transfer Learning Applied to the Deep Galerkin Method for Solving PDEs - Andreas Aristotelous, University of Akron  
15:20 - 15:45 › Solving the Fokker-Planck Equation with Tensor Neural Networks: Addressing High-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Challenges - Wang Taorui, Worcester Polytechnic Institute  
15:45 - 16:10 › Spectral element method for 3D spherical dynamo equations. - Lina Ma, Trinity College  
16:10 - 16:35 › Structure-preserving reduced order models for thermodynamically consistent reversible-irreversible PDEs - Zengyan Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University  
14:30 - 16:35 Computational and Theoretical Advances in Physics-informed ML Models and UQ - Yue Yu, Akwum Onwunta, Jihong Wang  
14:30 - 16:35 Recent Advances in Theoretical and Computational Inverse Problems  
14:30 - 16:35 Optimization Methods and Applications - Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Zeguan Wu  
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee break (Gosnell Hall Atrium)  
17:00 - 17:55 Plenary III: Applied Mathematics Problems in Cancer Immunotherapy Drug Development (Gosnell 1250 Big Auditorium) - Carolyn Cho (Eikon Therapeutics)  

Sunday, November 3, 2024

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