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We had four great submissions for the 2019 conference poem!

Poem 1 (H. Shipman)

Welcome to RAIN 2019!

While it rains in Bothell, we start

By randomly ordering (30+ choose 15) to speak

Into the puzzle we go!

Verbal mathematics of non-infinite variability

From problems in photovoltaic models

To convex coffee stains and Jupyter

(Sorry, I meant to say complex constraints

and we certainly won't miss methane on the moon).

So moving on, we live in such saturated states

Try quantifying stress, biotics, and light waves!

And such people are we all!

What fun to circulate among

us permeable porous mechanisms

and interact with

such systems of fluid flowing

Through quasi-static fiber

We feast our minds

and split sandwiches and salad

On tracing differentiability

And continuity

even piece-wise on 20-year spans

Computer code might not decay

- as quickly

Finite mechanics might store everyone's name in memory --

computers need to learn originality.

Poem 2 (R. Reid)

Navier, Navier, Stokes, Stokes

I'm beginning to wonder if it's all just a hoax.

In jest, you see, I welcome aboard

Ralph and Jay, whom I've struct just the chord.

Enough of my rhyming with my hands pantomiming

We tried to sit still and we mustered the will

to learn poromechanics and biots

and eigenvalues and diodes

Now, for hyperbolics and solvers, Jupyter's got your codes,

and we even concluded there were no hanging nodes!

FEAST your eyes on us, RAIN,

adapted and meshed,

with cunning potential, and might I say smooth!

So, to end, a semantic:

Is 1.79 really quadratic?

Poem 3 (C. Aagaard)

There was a conference called Cascade RAIN

With a question that gnaws at my brain,

Once our method is through,

Can 1.8 = 2?

A real puzzler discussed at Cascade RAIN.

Poem 4 (R. Leveque)

We all came, some knowledge to gain,

To fill up some pores in the brain,

We learned Biot and Darcy

Divergence of grad p!

Now we're all saturated with RAIN.