SIAM Mini-Conference 2025

About the Conference

The SIAM Mini-Conference 2025 is a mathematics-focused event that will bring together Ph.D. students at all levels from departments across University of Arizona. The goal of the conference is to provide opportunity to students from diverse backgrounds to discuss their research for collaboration and feedback. Join us for a day of talks and networking!

Location

        Environment and Natural Resources 2 (ENR2) Building

        Room S395

Registration

Please register here using your arizona domain email. You may also contact our Chapter President Edward McDugald or Chapter Vice President Akshita Sharma for any inquiries.

Schedule

12:30 - 3:45 PM in ENR2 S395

Time	Speakers	Department/Program	Type	Title & Abstract
12:30 - 12:45 PM	Kevin Lin (Faculty Advisor) and Edward McDugald (Chapter President)	SIAM	Introduction	About SIAM and Mini-Conference
Lunch Break in ENR2 S395
1:00 - 1:30 PM	Jackson Zariski	Applied Mathematics	30-minute talk	Deep Learning Solutions for Telescope Pointing and Guiding
1:30 - 1:45 PM	Tyler Lendman	Mathematics	15-minute talk	Laplace's Principle and Consensus-Based Optimization
Raffle Break in ENR2 S395
2:00 - 2:30 PM	Keila Espinoza	Physiological Sciences	30-minute talk	Loss of Acid Ceramidase Blunts Inflammatory Response in Myeloid Cells to Alleviate Chronic Colitis
2:30 - 2:45 PM	Ashley Roberts	Mathematics	15-minute talk	Sparse families of lattices and the Barnes-Wall lattices
Networking Break in ENR2 S395
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Sijia Liao	Statistics & Data Science	30-minute talk	Interpretable Scalar-on-Image Linear Regression Models via the Generalized Dantzig Selector
3:30 - 3:45 PM	Uday Talwar	Statistics & Data Science	15-minute talk	Riemannian Inexact Gradient Descent for Quadratic Discrimination

1:00 - 3:45 PM in ENR2 S215

Time	Speakers	Department/Program	Type	Title & Abstract
Lunch Break in ENR2 S395
1:00 - 1:30 PM	Robert Ferrando	Applied Mathematics	30-minute talk	Physics-Informed AI for Engineering Systems: Applications in Power and Natural Gas Operations
1:30 - 1:45 PM	Ayrton Almada	Applied Mathematics	15-minute talk	A Methodology to estimate the probability of rare events in the transmission level power system dynamics.
Raffle Break in ENR2 S395
2:00 - 2:30 PM	Gaurish Korpal	Mathematics	30-minute talk	What is cryptography?
2:30 - 2:45 PM	Haris Riaz	Computer Science	15-minute talk	Say Less, Mean More: Leveraging Pragmatics in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Networking Break in ENR2 S395
3:00 - 3:30 PM	TBA	TBA	30-minute talk	TBA
3:30 - 3:45 PM	Neha Sontakke	Computer Science	15-minute talk	TBA

4-5 PM in Mathematics 501

Keynote

Title 
          & Abstract 

Professor Ann Zabludoff (Department of Astronomy)

The Future of AI in Astronomy: Our Tool, Our Partner, Our Replacement?

What can AI do for Astronomy now? What might it do in the next few years? Most importantly, what do we want it to do? Is it simply a better tool to solve Big Data engineering problems "where we don’t know or care about the physics" or will it achieve new discoveries from extraordinarily efficient fishing expeditions or even applications of the scientific method? Will it do all that with us or without us? We do not yet know the answers to most of these questions, but we can speculate and develop strategies for leveraging the tremendous investments being made in this revolutionary technology. We can start by making friends with our applied math, computer scientist, and industry colleagues, developing a common language (perhaps using AI to communicate better), and finding research directions of mutual interest.

Call for Speakers

Interested in presenting? Fill out your information using this form by April 23rd, 2025. (Closed)

Organizers

Organized by SIAM Student Chapter at the University of Arizona, with support from the Program in Applied Mathematics.