Major Speaking Engagements

Ilse Ipsen

• Plenary talk, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Paris, France, 2024 
• ICIAM Olga-Taussky Todd Prize Lecture, Tokyo, Japan, 2023
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2011

Hangjie Ji

• August 26 – 30, 2024, “Mean field control of thin film droplet dynamics”, Workshop on liquid thin films at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.
• April 2024, “Coarsening and mean field control of volatile droplets”, Conference on “The Cahn-Hilliard equation – recent advances and new challenges”, European Centre for Geological Education, Checiny, Poland
• November 2023, “Coarsening of thin films with weak condensation”,  OxPDE Seminar, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• April 2023, “Fiber coating dynamics: modeling, theory, and algorithms”, Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM) Seminar, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
• March 23, 2023, “Fiber coating dynamics: modeling, theory, and algorithms” at the Math Department Colloquium at Wake Forest University. 

Arvind Saibaba

•  Plenary speaker, Workshop on Mathematics of Digital Twins 2024

Hien Tran

• April 15 – 18, 2024, gave an in-person mini special topic course “Machine Learning: Mathematical Foundation and Practical Applications” to more than 100 faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate students) at the Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam.
• Winter semester 2023/2024, invited to give five 90-minutes lectures to PhD students in the course “Optimization and Control in Physiological Systems: Modeling Techniques and Applications in Medicine”, at the Institute for Mathematics, University of Graz, Austria.