Mid-Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day
A conference on numerical analysis and scientific computing for graduate students and postdocs in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Conference
This one-day meeting will start at 10am to allow same-day travel.
It will be held in Room 617 Wachman Hall, Temple University, 1805 North Broad Street, just north of Montgomery Avenue.
It is an opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to present their research, and to meet other researchers.
There will be contributed talks and a poster session.
There is no registration fee, and no support for travel. Lunch will be provided.
We ask every participant to please register in advance, even if they are not planning to give a talk.
Keynote SpeakerCameron Musco, University of Massachusetts Amherst Operator Learning Through the Lens of Linear AlgebraTraditional machine learning methods seek to learn functions that map vector-valued input data to scalar-valued outputs or labels. Increasingly, however, applications in scientific machine learning (SciML) and other areas require models that map vector-valued data to vector-valued data. Such operator learning methods have been critical to recent breakthroughs in computational science, including on AI-driven methods for weather prediction, PDE solving, and more. In this talk, I will discuss a research program that seeks to understand the sample complexity of operator learning, which is a critical bottleneck in many applications. We focus in particular on the problem of learning linear operators – i.e., matrices. Even this restricted setting leads to many interesting questions. I will highlight recent work that tackles some of these questions by leveraging tools from randomized numerical linear algebra (RandNLA). I will also discuss our efforts to develop a general learning theory for linear operators. Based on joint work with Noah Amsel, Pratyush Avi, Tyler Chen, Feyza Duman Keles, Diana Halikias, Chinmay Hegde, Christopher Musco, and David Persson. |
Registration and/or Abstract Submission
If you would like to participate (in any form), please register using the online registration form. The online registration form will be activated soon.
Deadline for the submission of talks: October 19, 2026.
Conference Announcement Poster and Booklet
Conference Poster
| Conference Booklet TBA |
Schedule (subject to change)
9:15-9:50 | Registration and breakfast (provided) |
9:50-10:00 | Opening remarks |
10:00-11:00 | Presentations (Approximation, Linear Algebra, Physics) |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15-12:15 | Presentations (Model Reduction) |
12:15-1:30 | Lunch (provided) and Poster Presentations |
1:30-2:30 | Keynote lecture (Cameron Musco) |
2:30-2:45 | Coffee break |
2:45-3:45 | Presentations (Optimization) |
3:45-4:00 | Coffee break |
4:00-5:00 | Presentations (Applications) |
5:00-5:10 | Closing remarks |
6:00-8:00 | Group dinner (attendance optional) |
Speakers
Approximation, Linear Algebra, Physics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Oren | Bassik | CUNY Graduate Center | PolySolve: Adaptive methods for fast, certified polynomial root finding |
Yuan-Chieh | Chen | University of Delaware | Energy Is Not Enough: From Leakage Diagnostics to Ground-State Certification |
Logan | Reed | Temple University | Near-Optimal Convergence of Widlund's Method and Numerical Exploration of Different Implementations |
Model Reduction | |||
Lenox Helene | Baloglou | University of Arizona | A Surrogate-based Solver for the Lambert Problem of Orbital Mechanics |
Jenifer Rain | De Jager | Virginia Tech University | Lebesgue Boundedness of the Koopman Operator |
Dashon | Mitchell | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Surrogate Modeling for Plasma Accelerated Atomic Integration |
Optimization | |||
Javier Alejandro | Almonacid | George Mason University | A Fenchel Duality Framework for Double Obstacle Problem: Analysis and Discretization |
Shay | Gilpin | Princeton University | Inaccuracy of Ensemble-based Covariance Propagation, Beyond Sampling Error |
Jovan | Zigic | McMaster University | Extreme Behavior in the 2D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation on a Periodic Domain |
Applications | |||
Parneet | Gill | University of Arizona | Non-conforming Discretizations in Computational Glaciology |
Peter | Nekrasov | Flatiron Institute | Efficient Representations for Elastodynamics in Floating Ice Sheets |
Sarswati | Shah | George Mason University | QH-GEM: Phase-Controlled Quantum-Hydrodynamic Transport for Deterministic Generative Modeling |
Each contributed talk will be 10-15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion and switching speakers.
Posters
Sylvia | Amihere | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Embedded Implicit-Explicit Strong Stability Preserving Runge-Kutta Methods | |
Isaac Anthony | Castro | University of Delaware | A Conservative Low-Rank Solver for A Hybrid Plasma Model | |
Blessing Uchenna | Nwonu | Temple University | Backward-Propagating Jamitons in Second-Order PDE Traffic Models: Structural Analysis and Construction |
Accommodation
Make your own arrangements. Please feel free to contact us for information on accommodation.
Contact
Email: naday -at- temple.edu
Location
Organizers
Benjamin Seibold and Daniel B. Szyld
Sponsors
Sponsored and supported by the Department of Mathematics, the College of Science and Technology, the Graduate School, the Center for Computational Mathematics and Modeling, Temple University, and the Simons Foundation.
