Knights Conference

The Second SIAM Knights Conference, sponsored by the SIAM Student Chapter at the University of Central Florida, will be held virtually on Friday, December 4th, 2020.

The theme of the second Knights Conference is on partial differential equations and their applications in real life. The conference will feature two primary presentations delivered by

All other talks in the conference will be given by graduate and undergraduate students. Please check the previous (inaugural) Knights conference for a sample conference program. Talks by students will be 25 minutes plus additional 5 minutes for Q&A, and the topics can be on any SIAM focused area such as applied, computational and industrial mathematics.

The online conference registration (free) can be accessed via this link. The deadline for abstract submission has passed but you are still welcome to register. Below is the conference schedule and the zoom link is: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/93158561166

Conference Schedule (Eastern Time) [Program]
9:00am-9:05am Welcome Remarks
9:05am-10:00am Eduardo Teixeira Degenerate diffusive processes and their intrinsic regularity theories
10:00am-10:30am David Guinovart Piezoelectric and flexoelectric composites. Applications to biomaterials
10:30am-11:00am Emmanuel Fleurantin High order approximation of the center manifold for the Henon-Heiles system
11:00am-11:30am Iyanuoluwa Emiola Online optimization with Barzilai-Borwein quasi-Newton method
11:30am-12:00pm Seoyun Choe The Impact of travel restrictions on the spread of infectious diseases
12:00pm-12:30pm Brian Chau Algebraic and combinatorial approaches for counting cycles arising in population biology
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm-3:00pm Stanley Snelson Mathematical approaches to kinetic theory: history and recent progress
3:00pm-3:30pm Rogelio Caballero Homogenization of periodic porous ceramics for energy-harvesting applications
3:30pm-4:00pm Ratikanta Behera Wavelets for Partial Differential Equations
4:00pm-4:30pm Srijana Ghimire Competition and cooperation on predation
4:30pm-5:00pm Jacob Braun Mathematical model of the spread of HSV Type-2 in heterosexual relations with and without the usage of condoms in a closed college population
5:00pm-5:30pm Ranses Alfonso Periodic, quasiperiodic, and blow-up regimes in a nonlinear Mathieu equation with distributed delay
5:30pm-5:35pm Concluding Remarks

Organizing Committee

Faculty Advisors