Contemporary Issues and Future Opportunities in Applied Mathematics

-In honor of Reza Malek-Madani

October 17, 2025 – October 19, 2025

Organizers

Nam Chen

UW Madison

Doron Levy

University of Maryland

Evelyn Lunasin

US Naval Academy

Nick Moore

Colgate University

Eitan Tadmor

Univeristy of Maryland

Stephen Wiggins

US Naval Academy

This meeting brings togeether researchers who have contributed to ONR activities over the past twenty-five years to reflect on the lasting impact of Applied and Computational Analysis and related programs at ONR, in honor of the retirement of its Program Director, Dr. Reza Malek-Madani.

Participants

  • Richard Baraniuk, Rice University

  • Liliana Borcea, Columbia University

  • Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Yat Tin Chow, UC Riverside

  • Ronald DeVore, Texas A&M University

  • Anne Gelb, Dartmouth College

  • Dimitris Giannakis, Dartmouth College

  • Ken Golden, University of Utah

  • John Harlim, Pennsylvania State University

  • Pedram Hassanzadeh, University of Chicago

  • Juntao Huang, Texas Tech University

  • Shirin Jalali, Rutgers University

  • Chris Jones, George Mason University

  • Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Office of Naval Research

  • Yannis Keverkidis, Johns Hopkins University

  • Yoonsang Lee, Dartmouth College

  • Qin Li, UW Madison

  • Arian Maleki, Columbia University

  • Per-Gunnar Martinsson, University of Texas, Austin

  • Wen Masters, Mitre Corporation

  • Richard McLaughlin, UNC Chapel Hill

  • Matthias Morzfeld, UC, San Diego

  • Robert D. Nowak, UW Madison

  • Mike O’Neil, New York University

  • Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology

  • Benjamin Peherstorfer, New York University

  • Pedro Ponte, University of Pennsylvania

  • Di Qi, Purdue University

  • Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University

  • Themis Sapsis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Florian T. Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jonathan Siegel, Texas A&M University

  • Takis Souganidis, University of Chicago

  • Georg Stadler, New York University

  • Sam Stechmann, UW Madison

  • Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology

  • Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas

  • Haizhao Yang, University of Maryland

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