Purdue University
We will have the Third Annual Purdue SIAM Student Conference on April 18, 2026 in MATH 175! This event will feature 15-20 minute talks by graduate students and postdocs working in computational, industrial, and applied mathematics. Coffee and lunch will be provided!
This year, our invited speaker will be Rongjie Lai (see his bio below).
We encourage students in the Math, CS, Stats, ECE, ME, and IE departments to attend and/or present at this conference. Please fill out the following form to RSVP and submit a talk: https://forms.gle/Ku9kQL9fe8pVv7io8. If you intend to give a talk, please fill out this form by April 4.
Professor Rongjie Lai is a leading figure in applied and computational mathematics, currently a professor at Purdue University. His research develops mathematical and computational frameworks for imaging, data science, geometric learning, and analysis of manifold-structured data, with broad impact in variational PDEs, optimization, and machine learning. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed works with significant citations in areas spanning operator learning, mean-field games, and geometric methods. Prof. Lai’s contributions have been supported by major grants, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recognizing his work on geometry and learning for manifold-structured data, as well as funding from NSF’s SCALE MoDL program and NIH-sponsored projects, and collaborations with industry research (e.g., IBM AI Research). His work has been invited to major seminars and conference sessions that highlight advances in computational mathematics and geometric approaches to data science.