Program

09:00: Name tags, Coffee & Welcome

• 09:45-10:00: Call for speakers. Speaker order randomly determined.

• 10:00-12:05: 

1. Juan Restrepo (Oregon State University), Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Estimation: Combining Models and Data with Constraints.

2. Ralph Showalter (Oregon State Uinversity), Consolidation Models: Preliminary Report.

3. Brittany Erickson (Portland State University), A Computational Method for Earthquake Cycles on Bimaterial Interfaces.

4. Frank Lynch (Eastern Washington University), Leaf Hydraulic Conductance Finding Flux!

5. Bin Jiang (Portland State University), New 2nd Order FDTD Method to Solve Maxwell Equations Involving Multiple Media.

6. Huan Lei (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Quantifying the Influence of Conformational Uncertainty in Biomolecular Solvation.

7. Yunrong Zhu (Idaho State University), Robust Multilevel Preconditioners for Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients.

8. Jeff Ovall (Portland State University), A Posteriori Error Estimation for H1 Approximations of Non-Self-Adjoint Eigenvalue Problems.

9. Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University), Schiffer’s Conjecture on Polygons: A Theorem Using the Finite Element Method.

• 12:05-13:30: Lunch break 

• 13:30-15:10: 

1. Andrew Oster, (Eastern Washington University), Laminar Development of the Visual Cortex.

2. Dacian Daescu (Portland State University), Hyperparameter Sensitivity & a Priori Forecast Impact Estimation in "Big" Data Assimilation.

3. Jay Gopalakrishnan (Portland State University), Trace Theory for the Wave Equation.

4. Panayot Vassilevski (Portland State University), Space-time CFOSLS Methods with AMGe Upscaling.

5. Bala Krishnamoorthy (Washington State University at Vancouver), Mean Shape.

6. Duncan McGregor (Oregon State University), Magnetic Sensitivity to Magnetohydrodynamic Currents.

7. Tim Costa (Oregon State University), Modeling Heterojunction Problems in Semiconductors.

• 15:10-15:40: Coffee break

• 15:40-17:10: 

1. Malgorzata Peszynska (Oregon State University), Strong and Weak Stability for Transport with Memory (Subscale Diffusion).

2. Jason Albright (University of Utah), The Difference Potentials Method for 2D Parabolic Interface Problems.

3. Bartek Siudeja (University of Oregon), From Neumann Laplacian to Sloshing Problem.

4. Ammar Harb (Portland State University), Convergence Rates of the DPG Method with Reduced Test Space Degree.

5. Puttha Sakkaplangkul (Oregon State University), A Weighted Sequential Splitting Method for the 3 Dimensional Maxwell's Equations.

6. Ofer Levi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Interdisciplinary Approach for Effective Solution of Ill-Posed Estimation and Inverse Problems.

17:10-17:20: Conference Traditions & Closing 

• The RAIN Poem, by Nilima Nigam. 

RAIN at PSU

Assembled, a happy crew

for Cascade RAIN at PSU

Overtime? Chairs will tell ya

`stop or face a big umbrella.’

the hosts arranged ample cheer

excellent talks and Portland beer

Thanks to Jeff, Bin and Jay!

for smooth RAIN on a sunny day.

• Slapstick Awards, by Malgorzata Peszynska 

17:30: Beer and dinner at Rogue Hall