GS SWAM 2026

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Graduate Students
SouthWest Applied
Math Conference

Schedule

Saturday, October 31

8:00 AM Breakfast and welcoming remarks

Session 1

Session Chair: TBA

9:00 AM A Computational Workflow to Inverse Problems in Electrical Impedance Tomography Anwar Khaddaj
9:20 AM Effects of Dispersal on Stability and Abundance in a Two-Patch Tribolium Confusum Model Collin Kilmer
9:40 AM Bistability Dynamics of Leishmaniasis Prevalence Daniela Lezcano Cuello
10:00 AM Threshold-Dependent Immune Recognition Shapes Mutation-Frequency Patterns in Tumor Evolution Heng Wu
10:20 AM 10 minute break

Session 2

Session Chair: TBA

10:30 AM Weighted Upwinding in a Vector Kinetic Lattice Boltzmann Framework for Hyperbolic Systems Michael Brown
10:50 AM Connecting Cosserat Continuum Mechanics with Timoshenko Beam and Rigid-Body Spring Models for Generalized Lattice Formulations Farnaz Salehi Kolahi
11:10 AM Adjoint-based A Posteriori Error Analysis for Differential-Algebraic Equations and Partial Differential-Algebraic Equations Md Al Amin Molla
11:30 AM The Physics Informed Randomized Spectral Approximation Method Jose Agudelo Vélez
11:50 AM 10 minute break
12:00 PM 60 minute lunch

Keynote Speaker

Session Chair: TBA

1:00 PM TBA Dr. Ojas Parekh

Session 3

Session Chair: TBA

2:00 PM Visualizing the Progression of Cost Minimization in Neural Network Training Vani Fuentes Segura
2:20 PM Topological Signal Processing: an Alternative Perspective Blake Bates
2:40 PM Quantum Digital Twins Chase Hodges-Heilmann
3:00 PM Quadratic Composite Operator and its Application to Non-Hermitian Physics José García
3:20 PM 10 minute break

Career Panel

Session Chair: TBA

3:30 PM Career Panel Dr. Danny Dunlavy
Dr. Rosemary Renaut
Dr. Katherine Pearce
4:20 PM 10 minute break

Session 4

Session Chair: TBA

4:30 PM Sampling Sticky Brownian Motion and its Local Time Christopher Martin Mount
4:50 PM Bayesian Dynamic Borrowing with Power Priors: Comparing Adaptive Choices of the Historical Discount Parameter Chrisantus Bongbeebina

Sunday, November 1

8:00 AM Breakfast

Session 5

Session Chair: TBA

9:00 AM A survey of a variational approach to the proof of Alexandrov’s Soap Bubble Theorem Nadia Kazi
9:20 AM Approximation and Generalization of Fourier Neural Operators for the Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow Map (Part I) Brandon Wang
9:40 AM Approximation and Generalization of Fourier Neural Operators for the Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow Map (Part II) Joshua DeLand
10:00 AM Robust Operator Learning with Vector-valued Random Features Umair Ali Wani
10:20 AM 10 minute break

Session 6

Session Chair: TBA

10:30 AM Micropolar Continuum Modeling of Microstructured Materials: A Finite Element Approach Sujata Ghimire
10:50 AM Adjoint-Based Adaptive Meshfree Methods Shandy Simpson
11:10 AM Adjoint-Based Quantity-of-Interest Error Estimation for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems Raghav Agrawal
11:30 AM A Discontinuous Petrov–Galerkin (DPG) Framework for Modeling Dynamic Response in Flexible Pavement Md Masud Rana
11:50 AM 10 minute break
12:00 PM Closing remarks