Thursday, June 27 Friday, June 28 8:00 am – 8:30 am Registration 8:30 am – 9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:00 am – 10:00 am Stephon Alexander New Mathematical Structures for Quantum Gravity 10:00 am – 10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 11:30 am Edinah Gnang From Graph Decomposition to Matrix Apportionment and Back 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Abiy Taissa Nystrom Method with Missing Distances 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Break 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Emmanuel Fleurantin Investigating Most Probable Escape Paths over Periodic Boundaries: a Dynamical Systems Approach 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Group Photo 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Panel Discussion with All the Speakers for the Day 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Angela E Grant Student Poster Session 8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am – 10:00 am Joshua Hale Enhancing Supply Chain Decision-Making: Integrating Traditional Optimization Techniques with Generative AI 10:00 am – 10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 11:30 am Cassandra McZeal Modeling, Optimization & Data Science Supervisor. 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Craig Sutton Towards Hearing the Fundamental Building Blocks of Three-Dimensional Spaces 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Break 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Kimberly Sellers Dispersed Methods for Handling Dispersed Count Data 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Panel Discussion with All the Speakers for the Day 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Closing Banquet and Awards