About the Speakers

My name is General Ozochiawaeze and I am a third year math graduate student at Purdue. Originally, I studied mathematics and philosophy at Rutgers and later earned a masters in Applied Mathematics at NJIT, having worked with Dr. Christina Frederick on inverse problems for underwater communication (sonar). My research interests lie in computational forward and inverse scattering problems and finite element methods (FEM). In my free time, I enjoy doing open mic nights and declamation (speech and debate), creative writing, jogging, and learning history trivia.

I’m Martin (Yung-Chang) Hsu, a 3rd year Ph.D. in math at Purdue University advised by Victor Lie. I finished my bachelor’s and master’s degree in math at National Taiwan University, during which I studied Polynomial Carleson Operator and Time-Frequency Analysis in general under Chun-Yen Shen’s guidance. Currently, I’m interested in higher order modulation structures under Carleson-Radon-type or multilinear settings. I also do some side projects on machine learning.

My name is Daniel Flores, and I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. student studying under Trevor Wooley. My research interests include analytic number theory, the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, harmonic analysis, and arithmetic statistics. Outside of mathematics, I enjoy spending time with my family and playing PC games.

Nathan is a third-year Ph.D. student in applied mathematics at Columbia University, advised by Kui Ren. Previously, he did his undergraduate work in mathematics at Georgia Tech. His recent work is on studying inverse problems for nonlinear Helmholtz and Schrodinger equations arising in nonlinear optics.

My name is Lili Yan. I'm currently a postdoc at the University of Minnesota, and my mentor is Ru-Yu Lai. Before this, I earned my Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, under the supervision of Professor Katya Krupchyk. My bachelor's degree comes from Renmin University of China. I am interested in inverse problems for elliptic, hyperbolic, and parabolic equations. In particular, I have been working on inverse problems for Schrodinger operator, biharmonic equations, wave equations, and Boltzmann equations. I'm originally from Yanan, a small city in northern China. In my free time, I enjoy running, reading science fiction books, and listening to Chinese opera.

I am Sebastián Muñoz Thon, a third year PhD student in the math department at Purdue University. I am originally from Valdivia, a city at the south of Chile. Before coming to the U.S., I obtained my bachelor's and master's degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where I worked on harmonic maps and their heat flows, under the tutelage of Mariel Sáez Trumper. Currently, I am studying geometric inverse problems and geometric applications of microlocal analysis, supervised by Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann. In my free time I enjoy going out with my friends, reading books and listening to music.

I am Sebastián Muñoz Thon, a second year PhD student in the math department at Purdue University. I am originally from Valdivia, a city at the south of Chile. Before coming to the U.S., I obtained my bachelor's and master's degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where I worked on harmonic maps and their heat flows, under the tutelage of Mariel Sáez Trumper. Currently, I am studying geometric inverse problems and geometric applications of microlocal analysis, supervised by Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann. In my free time I enjoy going out with my friends, reading books and listening to music.

I am Rafael Ceja Ayala, a fifth year PhD candidate in the math department at Purdue University where I work under the supervision of Dr. Isaac Harris. Before my journey at Purdue, I graduated from CSU-Sacramento where I studied Mathematics, Latin-American Literature and I took some courses in Photography. My research interests are in inverse problems and numerical analysis for PDEs. My  work consists of the study of transmission eigenvalues as well as the reconstruction of regions using nondestructive methods. I have been studying a scattering problem that deals with two conductivity parameters. In my free time I enjoy traveling, taking pictures, biking and writing poetry. FUN FACT. I currently have more than 60+ plants. 

Govanni is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mathematics Department. His current research interests are in inverse problems to Partial Differential Equations with a focus in inverse shape problems. 

Leah is a sixth year Ph.D student in the math department studying complex analysis with a focus on quadrature domains. She always strives to improve her pedagogy and so particularly enjoys participating in the weekly teaching discussions.

My name is General Ozochiawaeze and I am a second year math graduate student at Purdue. Originally, I studied mathematics and philosophy at Rutgers and later earned a masters in Applied Mathematics at NJIT, having worked with Dr. Christina Frederick on inverse problems for underwater communication (sonar). My research interests lie in computational forward and inverse scattering problems and finite element methods (FEM). In my free time, I enjoy doing open mic nights and declamation (speech and debate), creative writing, jogging, and learning history trivia.

Luciano Sciaraffia is a third year Ph.D. student at Università di Pisa, working under the supervision of professors Andrea Malchiodi and Matteo Novaga. His current research focuses on minimal surfaces with singularities, in particular minimal networks, and the vectorial Allen-Cahn equation.