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Apr28

MS Thesis Defense - Environmental Science and Policy

Apr 28, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM

Exploratory Hall Room 3301
Virtual on Zoom (email espgrad@gmu.edu for Zoom meeting info)

Apr28

Dissertation Defense - Lori Mandable - Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

Apr 28, 2025, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Exploratory Hall, Room 2310

Email lmandabl@gmu.edu for the virtual meeting link

Apr29

29 Apr (CLIM) Annamalai, Unprecedented South Asia Extremes

Apr 29, 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

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East Coast Optimization Meeting 2025

Apr 17, 2025, 8:00 AM - Apr 18, 2025, 5:00 PM

Mason Square, George Mason University
3351 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201

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Hosted by the Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI), the annual East Coast Optimization Meeting (ECOM) is an initiative to introduce students and early-career researchers to the current trends in optimization as well as to create a strong networking environment among academia, industry, and the national laboratories.

The focus of the fifth ECOM will be on Optimization and Digital Twins. Researchers from all optimization areas are encouraged to participate. The meeting comprises of mini-courses by two distinguished speakers targeted toward students and early career researchers, and public lectures. There will be some invited and contributed talks.

Registration is mandatory and deadline to register is March 31, 2025. Please register here

Distinguished Lecturers

Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University)
Rainald Loehner (George Mason University)

Keynote Speakers

Raghu Bollapragada (The University of Texas, Austin)
Amit Chakraborty (Siemens Corporation)
Sean Hardesty (Sandia National Labs)
Dongbin Xiu (The Ohio State University)
Yunan Yang (Cornell University)

Organizing Committee

Harbir Antil (Mathematics and CMAI, George Mason University)
Drew P. Kouri (Sandia National Laboratories)
Denis Ridzal (Sandia National Laboratories)

The workshop will take place jointly with SIAM DC-Maryland-Virginia annual (2025) sectional meeting organized together with Ratna Khatri (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC).

Local Support Team: Facundo Airaudo (GMU), Daniel Blauvelt (GMU), Keegan Kirk (GMU), Rohit Khandelwal (GMU), Aseem Pradhan (GMU), Umarkhon Rakhimov (GMU), Yaw Owusu-Agyemang (GMU)

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (DMS - 2503030)
Sandia National Laboratories
Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, George Mason University
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Washington-Baltimore Section

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