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On APRIL 28-29, 2023 , the Program in Applied Mathematics will host the Arizona-Los Alamos Days Conference. The event will be held in person on the UofA campus at the ENR2 building, Room S225 and on Zoom at https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83578103219 passcode: AZLANL
There will be 3 topic sessions: Fluid Mechanics, Materials Science, Biology. Click here to RSVP (especially if you'll be displaying a poster)
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
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			 WELCOME  | 
			
			 BETSY CANTWELL, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION (UA)  | 
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| SESSION 1: FLUID MECHANICS 2:15-5:30PM  | 
			(UA) CHI-KWAN CHAN, LAURA MILLER; (LANL) DANIEL ISRAEL, DANIEL LIVESCU | |
| 2:15-2:35 Laura Miller (UA)  | 
			Multiscale flow between the branches and polyps of gorgonians | |
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			 2:35-2:50  | 
			RAM: Rapid Advection Algorithm for Arbitrary Meshes | |
| 2:50-3:05 Eric Tovar (LANL)  | 
			Robust second-order approximation of the compressible Euler equations with an arbitrary equation of state | |
| 3:05-3:20 Eonho Chang (UA)  | 
			Constraining dust structures in protoplanetary disks with the Rossby wave instability | |
| 3:20-3:35 Xiaozhou Zhao (UA)  | 
			MHD simulation of solar flux rope eruption and heliospheric turbulent shocks | |
| 3:35-3:55 | Refreshment Break | |
| 3:55-4:15 Felipe Pereira (LANL)  | 
			Modeling and Simulation of RT and RMI Flows with Practical SRS | |
| 4:15-4:30 Addie Harrison (UA)  | 
			Fluid Dynamics of Nematocyst Firing | |
| 4:30-4:45 Shuo Kong (UA)  | 
			Filamentary molecular cloud formation via collision-induced magnetic reconnection | |
| 4:45-5:00 Brian Romero (LANL)  | 
			High-Resolution Simulations of H2/O2 detonations | |
| 5:00-5:15 Dunia Fernandez (UA)  | 
			Fluid Dynamics of Tubular Hearts | |
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023
| SESSION 2: MATERIALS SCIENCE 9:00-12:00PM  | 
			(UA) SLAVA COROPCEANU, KRISHNA MURALIDHARAN; (LANL) DJ LUSCHER, SERGEI TRETIAK | |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and pastries | |
| 9:00-9:45 Keynote Florian Goeltl (UA)  | 
			Computational design of heterogeneous catalysts in the 21st century | |
| 9:45-10:05 Xiaojuan Ni (UA)  | 
			Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Poly (benzodifurandione): A Highly Conducting n-Type Polymer | |
| 10:05-10:25 Josh Finkelstein (LANL)  | 
			Quantum chemistry using Tensor cores | |
| 10:25-10:40 | Break | |
| 10:40-11:00 Moshe Chesler (UA)  | 
			Excited state calculations on highly correlated singlet fission molecules | |
| 11:00-11:20 Michael Saccone (LANL)  | 
			A whirlwind overview of artificial nanomagnets | |
| 11:20-11:40 Yousef Nikravesh (UA)  | 
			Machine learning identification of dominant descriptors in cold spraying of similar and dissimilar metals | |
| 11:40-12:00 Dawa Seo (LANL)  | 
			Mesoscale computational modeling of shock compaction on granular materials | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Adjourn for Lunch | |
| SESSION 3: BIOLOGY 1:30-5:00PM  | 
			(UA) JEAN-MARC FELLOUS, RYAN GUTENKUNST; (LANL) NICK HENGARTNER, BEN MCMAHON | |
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			 1:30-1:55  | 
			A Better Way to Analyze Epidemics? | |
| 1:55-2:20 Carmen Molina-Paris (LANL)  | 
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| 2:20-2:45 Avinash Karamchandani (UA)  | 
			Data-driven Phase Reduction of Biological Oscillators | |
| 2:45-3:10 Cynthia Reichhardt (LANL)  | 
			Using active matter to introduce heterogeneity to the susceptible-infected-recovered model of epidemic spreading | |
| 3:10-3:25 | Refreshment Break | |
| 3:25-4:10  Keynote Charles Wolgemuth (UA)  | 
			Using filament dynamics to unravel the mysterious motility of Spiroplasma | |
| 4:10-4:35 Jim Brunner (LANL)  | 
			Inferring microbial interactions with their environment from genomic and metagenomic data | |
| 4:35-5:00 Travis Wheeler (UA)  | 
			
			 Algorithms for fast, accurate, and interpretable sequence annotation  | 
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If you are interested to present a short talk please get in contact with leaders of the respective session ASAP.