The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics is pleased to welcome all participants to the Portland State University (PSU) campus for the 8th Cascade Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical (RAIN) Mathematics Meeting, co-organized by SIAM Pacific Northwest Section. The meeting will be held at the PSU campus (SMSU Room 296/8) on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Breakfast will be available starting at 8:45, and official activities will begin at 9:30. The meeting will end before 5:30. The program is available online.
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.
There is no registration fee, but participants are asked to register in advance.
Students from the PNW region are encouraged to apply for travel support provided by SIAM PNW.
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 2020 (virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). A list of past meeting can be found here. The 2025 meeting will be held at Oregon State University.