Cascade RAIN Mathematics Meeting 2025

9th Cascade RAIN Meeting

Saturday, April 26, 2025
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

The Mathematics Department is pleased to welcome all participants to the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon, for the 9th Cascade Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical (RAIN) Mathematics Meeting. The RAIN Meeting is a gathering of researchers for rapid and informal communication of ongoing research activities in computational and applied mathematics in the northwest region.

Key Information

• The meeting will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025. A welcome coffee will start at 9:00 am in Kidder Hall, Room 302

• Talks begin at 9:30 am. The Meeting Program is available online.

• Travel support is available! Apply on the travel support page by Thursday, March 20 noon, 2025. 

• There is no registration fee, but participants are asked to register in advance. Please register by April 20, 2025.

• Additionally, there will be minitutorials for students on the evening of Friday, April 25, and the morning of Sunday, April 26 (participating in the minitutorials requires a separate minitutorial registration). Please register for minitutorials by April 20, 2025.

• Please review the conference code of conduct.

Format

The RAIN Meeting begins with a call for speakers. Those planning to give a talk will write their name and talk title on a strip of paper that will be placed in a hat for a random draw that determines the talk order. The talk length is determined by the total available time divided by the number of speakers, with talk durations typically ranging between 10 and 15 minutes.

This format is similar to the Finite Element Circus, the Finite Element Rodeo, and the European Finite Element Fair. However, reflecting the varied interests of our northwest participants, the RAIN Meeting is not limited to finite element talks.

History

The Cascade RAIN meetings were initially conceived as an event to informally get together the mathematical sciences faculty from Oregon State University and Portland State University. The first workshop was held in Corvallis in 2014 and was called Cascade. In order to disambiguate from other similarly named seminars, this conference series was re-named: Cascade Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical Mathematics Meeting, or simply the RAIN Meeting. The most recent meeting was held in 2024 at Portland State University.