Contact: Bob Ratliff
More than 100 mathematicians and scientists from around the world are gathering this week for the fourth Mississippi State University Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations.
Sessions will be held Friday and Saturday [May 21 and 22] at the Wise Center. Participants from throughout the U.S., Russia, Sweden, and more than a dozen other countries will attend.
MSU's Office of Research, colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, department of mathematics and statistics, and Engineering Research Center are sponsoring the event.
"The first conference was held in 1991," said conference coordinator Bharat Soni. "The event has gained an international reputation as a forum for scientists, mathematicians and engineers to exchange ideas on developments in differential equations and computational simulations. Both are an important part of the work conducted at our [National Science Foundation] Engineering Research Center and department of mathematics and statistics."
Soni, an aerospace engineering professor, said the conference "is unique in that it always brings together several world-renowned experts as invited speakers."
Among this year's speakers are representatives from the University of California at Berkeley, University of Colorado at Boulder and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Joining Soni as conference organizers are MSU mathematics professors Ratnasingham Shivaji and Jiangping Zhu.