Welcome to the second annual

Cascade RAIN Meeting 

on

April 4, 2015 

at 

Portland State University

The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics is pleased to welcome all participants to the Portland State University (PSU) campus. The conference will be held in the Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238, in the PSU campus on Saturday, April 4, 2015.

The RAIN Meet is a gathering of researchers for rapid and informal communication of ongoing research activities in computational and applied mathematics in the northwest region. It is intended to complement the PNWNAS, which feature longer lectures by fewer invited speakers.

Format: The RAIN Meet starts at 9:45am on the conference day with a call for speakers. The respondents, in random order, make up the program. The talk length is determined by the total available time divided by the number of speakers. Aspiring speakers must be present at 9:45am and must be prepared to give randomly placed and shrinkable talks. The talks start at 10:00am with a randomly selected first speaker.

This format is similar to the Finite Element Circus in the east coat, the Finite Element Rodeo in the south, and the European Finite Element Fair. However, reflecting the eclectic tastes of our northwest participants, the RAIN Meet is not limited to finite element topics alone.

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 now has a new name: Cascade Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical (RAIN) Mathematics Meeting, or simply the RAIN Meet. See the list of all past and future meetings in this RAIN series.

Local Organizers: Jay Gopalakrishnan, Bin Jiang, Jeffrey Ovall

We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful RAINy city of Portland, Oregon.