SIAM Texas-Louisiana Sectional Meeting

Schedule and Program Information

The conference will run from 2PM Friday to 12PM Sunday. 

• Important Deadlines: 

  • Mini-symposium proposal submission: 07/13/26

  • Notification of acceptance of Mini-symposium: 07/20/26

  • Travel award applications: 08/05/26

  • Notification of travel awards: 08/14/26

  • Poster submissions: 08/26/26

  • Abstract submissions for accepted Mini-symposium: 08/19/26

  • Notification of acceptance of poster abstract: 09/02/26

  • Early bird registration 09/28/26

  • Hotel reservation: Please check the Hotel Reservation on the Venue page.  

• Speaker information. Each talk should be 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions and transitioning speakers. Speakers are expected to present from their own laptops, and each conference room should have adapters available. 

• Room capacity. Each room on SMU Campus has a maximum capacity; for fire safety, we ask that minisymposium organizers enforce this. The number of seats in a room should match the maximum room capacity. Please do not bring additional chairs into a minisymposium room. 

Plenary Speakers

We are pleased to have confirmed four plenary speakers:

• Ann Almgren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Bob Robey, AMD Inc.

• Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University

• Guowei Wei, Michigan State University

Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee

• Weihua Geng, Vladimir Ajaev, Andrea Barreiro, Brandilyn Stigler, Difeng Cai, Brennan Greef (Admin), Md Abu Talha (GA), Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University

• Tomoki Ohsawa, Shixu Meng, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas

• Wei Jiang, Department of Mathematics, Univerity of Texas at Arlington 

• Shuang Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Texas

SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section Officers and Organizing Committee

• Annalisa Quaini (President), Department of Mathematics, University of Houston

• William Ott (Vice President), Department of Mathematics, University of Houston

• Amy Veprauskas (Treasurer), Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Matthias Maier (Secretary), Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

• Weihua Geng, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University

• Victoria Howle, Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University

• Mallikarjunaiah Muddamallappa, College of Science - Math/Statistics Sciences, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 

• Rami Nammour, TotalEnergies 

• Giacomo Capodaglio, AMD

Past Annual Meetings

• The University of Texas at Austin, September 26-28, 2025

• Baylor University, October 11-13, 2024

• University of Louisiana-Lafayette, November 3-5, 2023

• University of Houston, October 4-6, 2022

• University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, November 5-7, 2021

• Texas A&M University, October 16-18, 2020

• Southern Methodist University, November 1-3, 2019

• Louisiana State University, October 5-7, 2018