2025 Southeast Applied and Computational Math Student Workshop 

April 5 - 6, 2025
Auburn University, Alabama

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The workshop was held in the Sciences Center Classoom (SCC) building, Room 115,  on Saturday April 5th (8:00 am - 6:00 pm) and Sunday April 6th (8:00 am - 12:00 pm). Times listed are US Central Time.


The talk abstracts can be downloaded here.



               Saturday April 5th, 2025

8:00 - 8:30 AM
 Registration

8:30 - 8:40 AM
 Opening Remarks

8:40 - 9:25 AM
 Plenary Talk 1 - Junshan Lin (Auburn University): Mathematical Aspects of Topological Wave Insulators
 Chair: Yanzhao Cao
9:25 - 10:00 AM
 Coffee Break
10:00 - 12:00 PM
 Student Talk Session I (20 minutes for each talk, Q&A included)
 Chairs: Ziad Musslimani & Wenjing Liao

10:00 - 10:20 Benjamin Atawiah (Univ of Alabama): On the two-stage filtered Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method and its variant: Fourier analysis and local time marching

10:20 - 10:40 Mitchell Scott (Emory Univ): Preconditioning Stochastic Gradient Descent: Theoretical Guarantees and Novel Framework

10:40 - 11:00 Seungmin Lee (Florida State Univ): Continuous data assimilation on poro-elasticity

11:00 - 11:20 Ridvan Ozdemir (Auburn Univ): A Mathematical Theory for Topological Phases and Edge Modes in Spring-mass Mechanical Systems

11:20 - 11:40 Siming Liang (Florida State Univ): Ensemble score filter with image inpainting for data assimilation in tracking surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics with partial observations

11:40 - 12:00 Zhaiming Shen (Georgia Tech): Transformers for Learning on Noisy and Task-Level Manifolds: Approximation and Generalization Insights
 
12:00 PM
 Photo
12:10 - 1:30 PM
 Lunch at The Edge
1:30 - 2:15 PM
 Plenary Talk 2 - Sara Pollock (University of Florida): Extrapolation for eigenvalue problems: Upcycling data with dynamic momentum
 Chair: Phuong Hoang
2:15 - 3:15 PM
 Student Talk Session II (20 minutes for each talk, Q&A included)
 Chair: Phuong Hoang

2:15 - 2:35 Zulaihat Hassan (Auburn Univ): On the spreading speed of chemotaxis models with logistic source and consumption on Rn

2:35 - 2:55 Jonathan Valyou (Florida State Univ): Path Planning with Uncertainty

2:55 - 3:15 Idowu Ijaodoro (Univ of Alabama): On generalizing the induced surface charge method to heterogeneous Poisson-Boltzmann models for electrostatic free energy calculation

3:15 - 3:40 PM
 Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:40 PM
 Student Talk Session III (20 minutes for each talk, Q&A included)
 Chair: Sara Pollock

3:40 - 4:00 Sanjeeb Poudel (Florida State Univ): An enriched Galerkin method for the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with heat dynamics

4:00 - 4:20 Hao-Ning Wu (Univ of Georgia): Spherical configurations and quadrature methods for integral equations of the second kind

4:20 - 4:40 Ruoyu Hu (Florida State Univ): Data Assimilation for two-phase flow models

4:40 - 5:00 PM
 Break/Poster Setup
5:00 - 6:00 PM
 Poster Session

Cancelled  Jiahui Cheng (Georgia Tech): Identification of Differential Equations via Weighted Weak Form with Voting (Ident-WV)

Biraj Dahal (Georgia Tech): Learning Nonlinear Dynamics with Windowed Autoencoder Networks

Cao-Kha Doan (Auburn University): Dynamically regularized Lagrange multiplier methods for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system

Jonathan Engle (Florida State Univ): The dynamics of strategic voting: pathways to consensus and gridlock

Toan Huynh (Florida State Univ): Parameter Estimation for the Reduced Fracture Model via a Direct Filter Method

Yi Liu (Auburn Univ): Convergence Analysis of the ADAM Algorithm for Linear Inverse Problems
 
Thuc Nguyen (Florida State Univ): Lipschitz Stability Estimate for an Initial Wave Reconstruction Problem of Telegraph Type With Gaussian Noise

Monday Nnakwe (Auburn Univ): Dynamic behavior of a nonautonomous  Zoonotic disease transmission with an intermediate host

Hongjiang Qian (Auburn Univ): Numerical approximations for optimal control of stochastic partial differential equations with partial observations


Pengjun Wang (Auburn Univ): A pseudo-reversible normalizing flow for stochastic dynamical systems with various initial distributions



             
               Sunday April 6th, 2025

8:00 - 8:30 AM
 Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 - 9:15 AM
 Plenary Talk 3 - Guannan Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): Generative Artificial Intelligence for Uncertainty Quantification
 Chair: Feng Bao
9:15 - 10:15 AM
 Student Talk Session IV (20 minutes for each talk, Q&A included)
 Chair: Feng Bao

9:15 - 9:35 Yi-Yung Yang (Florida State Univ): A posteriori error analysis for parabolic function with EG formulation

9:35 - 9:55 Md Mustafijur Rahman (Univ of Alabama): Parallel Implementation of the Stochastic Reaction Diffusion Master Equation

9:55 - 10:15 Toan Huynh (Florida State Univ): Joint State-Parameter Estimation for the Reduced Fracture Model via the Unified Filter

10:15 - 10:30 AM
 Break
10:30 - 11:50 AM
 Student Talk Session V (20 minutes for each talk, Q&A included)
 Chair: Sanghyun Lee

10:30 - 10:50 Matthias Dogbatsey (Univ of Alabama): Numerical Solutions to the 3D p-Laplace equation

10:50 - 11:10 Zixiang Xiong (Florida State Univ): Applying score filter on LETKF with different observation network

11:10 - 11:30 Hewan Shemtaga (Auburn Univ): Spreading speeds and generalized traveling waves of Fisher-KPP equations on infinite graphs with finite vertices

11:30 - 11:50 Dabin Park (Kyungpook National Univ): A Learning-Based Framework for Inverse Problems using Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Data

11:50 - 12:00 PM
Closing Remarks