Program

The meeting will be held in Dengerik 129-130 in the WSU Vancouver campus.

    • 09:15: Name tags, Coffee & Welcome
  • 10:00-10:15: Call for speakers. Speaker order randomly determined.
  • 10:15-12:15: Morning Session
      1. Panayot Vassilevski (PSU/LLNL) - α-AMG for Graphs
      2. Malgorzata Peszynska (OSU) - Reduced Model for Methane Hydrate Evolution with Significant Salinity Dependence
      3. Patrick De Leenheer (OSU) - Partial Migration
      4. Jeff Ovall (PSU) - Some remarks on Interpolation and Best-Approximation
      5. David Williams (Boeing/Penn State) - Several Open Questions in Finite Element Exterior Calculus
      6. Bala Krishnamoorthy (WSU) - Path Planning in 3D Printing
      7. Brittany Erickson (PSU) - Integration Algorithms for Plastic Deformation
      8. Alex Dimitrov (WSU) - Modeling Perceptual Invariance in Biological Sensory Processing
  • 12:15-13:30: Lunch break
  • 13:30-15:10: Early afternoon session
      1. Sebastian Dominguez (SFU) - Bayesian Optimization for Eigenvalues on Polygonal Domains
      2. Dwight Holland (OSU) - Nonlinear Pseudo-Parabolic Equation Relating to Porosity
      3. Duncan McGregor (OSU) - Low Dispersion Exponential Time Mimetic Finite Difference Method for Maxwell's Equations with Linear Constitutive Laws
      4. Joe Umhoefer (OSU) - Interpolation Schemes for Two Dimensional Flow with Applications
      5. Vrushali Bokil (OSU) - Numerical Homogenization and Multiscale Methods for Complex Electromagnetic Materials.
      6. Francisco Sayas (U.Del) - Interfacing FEM and BEM for Transient Aquostic Equations
      7. Puttha Sakkaplangkul (OSU) - An Operator Splitting Method for Maxwell's Equations in Ferromagnetic Materials
  • 15:10-15:40: Coffee break
  • 15:40-17:10: Late afternoon session
      1. Minah Oh (JMU) - Tools to Anale Axisymmetric Problems with General Data
      2. Nilima Nigam (SFU) - Convex Priors and Well-Posedness of Bayesian Inverse Problems
      3. Bin Jiang (PSU) - Self-Assembled Broadband Antireflection Coatings
      4. Nik Strigul (WSU) - Spatially Explicit Modeling of Forest Self-Organization
      5. Jay GopalaKrishnan (PSU) - Maps and Tents
      6. Lynn Schreyer (WSU) - Total Differential and Partial Derivatives - a Different Perspective from Chemistry
  • 17:10-17:20: Conference traditions & Closing
      • Honors:
          • Longest commute to RAIN: Minah Oh (James Madison U.); Runner up: Francisco Sayas (U. Delaware)
          • Shortest title: Patrick de Leenheer; Runner up: Nik Strigul
          • Largest number of slides: Francisco Sayas
      • The RAIN poem:

Cascade RAIN at WSU

Exciting talks (quite a few)

It's hard to improver

On sunny Vancouver

Bala earns big thanks and cheers

Dare we hope for ice-cold beers?