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| Time (EDT) | Presenter | Title | Slides | 
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| 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Registration & Breakfast | ||
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Opening Remarks by Dr. Andre Marshall (Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact, GMU) | ||
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University)  | 
                        Tutorial I: PDE-Constrained Optimization Under Uncertainty  | 
                        Link | 
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University)  | 
                        Tutorial II: PDE-Constrained Optimization Under Uncertainty  | 
                        Link | 
| 11:00 am - 11:30 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University)  | 
                        Public Lecture: Adaptive Surrogate Modeling for Simulation and Optimization of Dynamical Systems with Model Inexactness  | 
                        Link | 
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Yunan Yang  (Cornell University)  | 
                        Stochastic Inverse Problems in Digital Twins | Link | 
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Sean Hardesty (Sandia National Labs)  | 
                                 Plato Optimization-Based Design | Link | 
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Raghu Bollapragada (The University of Texas, Austin)  | 
                            Adaptive, Scalable, and Fast Algorithms for Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization | Link | 
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Contributed Talks I | ||
| (1) Robert Baraldi   (Sandia National Labs)  | 
                        An Adaptive Inexact Trust-Region Method for PDE-Constrained Optimization with Regularized Objectives | ||
| (2) Keegan Kirk  (George Mason University)  | 
                        Optimal Insulation | ||
| (3) Bogdan Raita  (Georgetown University)  | 
                        Gaussian Process Methods for Linear PDE | ||
| (4) Radoslav G. Vuchkov  (Sandia National Labs)  | 
                        Memory-Efficient Dynamic Optimization using Inexact Hessians and Randomized Sketching | ||
| (5) Sarswati Shah  (George Mason University)  | 
                        Path-Conservative Central Upwind Schemes for Two-Layer Shallow Water Flows Along Channels | ||
| (6) Lucas Bouck  (Carnegie Mellon University)  | 
                        Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Advection Diffusion with Nonsmooth Velocity | ||
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Networking Break | ||
| 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm | Contributed Talks II | ||
| (7) Yulin Guo   (University of California San Diego)  | 
                          Optimization under Uncertainty for Efficient Laser Powder-Bed Fusion Manufacturing | Link | |
| (8) Joey Hart  (Sandia National Labs)  | 
                          Enabling Real-Time Optimization through Model Reduction and Model Discrepancy Sensitivities | ||
| (9) Tao Li  (NYU)  | 
                          Digital-Twin-Enabled Predictive Traffic Sensing via Multi-Agent Risk-Constrained Online Learning | Link | |
| (10) Facundo Airaudo  (George Mason University)  | 
                          Robust Detection of Weaknesses in Structural Digital Twins: Integrating Deterministic and Uncertainty-Aware Strategies | ||
| (11) Anton Malandii  (Stony Brook University)  | 
                          Estimation of the Conditional Mean of a Distribution with Piecewise Linear Convex Optimization | ||
| (12) Maryam Norouzi  (University of Rhode Island)  | 
                          Cooperative Deterministic Learning-Based Adaptive Formation Control with Digital Twin Integration for Nonlinear Mechanical Systems Under Complete Uncertainty | 5:45 pm - 7:45 pm | Reception | 
| Time (EDT) | Presenter | Title | Slides | 
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| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Rainald Loehner (George Mason University)  | 
                    Tutorial I: FEM, Optimization, and Digital Twins  | 
                    Link | 
| 10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Rainald Loehner  (George Mason University)  | 
                    Tutorial II: FEM, Optimization, and Digital Twins  | 
                    Link | 
| 11:00 am - 11:30 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Rainald Loehner  (George Mason University)  | 
                    Public Lecture: High-Fidelity Digital Twins: Detecting and Localizing Weaknesses in Structures  | 
                    Link | 
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Dongbin Xiu (The Ohio State University)  | 
                    Data Driven Modeling for Scientific Discovery and Digital Twins | |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Amit Chakraborty (Siemens Corporation)  | 
                    Hybrid Digital Twin | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Contributed Talks | ||
| (1) Shanyin Tong  (Columbia University)  | 
                    Large Deviation-Informed Estimation and Control for Rare and Extreme Events, and Their Use in Digital Twins | ||
| (2) Xuenan Li  (Columbia University)  | 
                    A Constrained Optimization Approach for Constructing Rigid Bar Frameworks with Higher-Order Rigidity | ||
| (3) Mirjeta Pasha  (Virginia Tech)  | 
                      A transport map approach for Bayesian inference of dynamic inverse problems with heavy-tailed priors | ||
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Contributed Talks | ||
| (4) Deepanshu Verma  (Clemson University)  | 
                    Neural Network Approaches for High Dimensional Parametric Optimal Control | ||
| (5) Hanju Wu  (University of Hong Kong)  | 
                    On Resolution of l1-norm Minimization via a Two-metric Adaptive Projection Method | Link | |
| (6) Jonathan Lindbloom  (Dartmouth College)  | 
                    Preconditioning Techniques for Large-Scale Sparsity-Promoting Inverse Problems | ||
| (7) Nghia Vo  (Oakland University)  | 
                    Stable Recovery of Regularized Linear Inverse Problems | ||
| (8) Aniruddha Bora  (Brown University)  | 
                    Enhancing Heat Sink Efficiency in MOSFETs using Physics Informed Neural Networks | ||
| (9) Anthony Kolshorn  (Portland State University)  | 
                    Optimal Control Framework for Deep Autoencoders | ||
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Networking Break | ||
| 4:45 pm - 5:35 pm | Contributed Talks | ||
| (10) Monika Pandey  (Louisiana State University)  | 
                    Barzilai-Borwein Methods for Nonlinear Composite Optimization | ||
| (11) Dat Tran  (Wayne State University)  | 
                    Sharpness-Aware Minimization: An Efficient Optimizer for Improving Generalization | ||
| (12) Minxin Zhang  (University of California, Los Angeles)  | 
                    Inexact Proximal Point Algorithms for Zeroth-Order Global Optimization | ||
| (13) Zequn Zheng  (Louisiana State University)  | 
                    A Novel Optimization Based Algorithm for Tensor Decomposition | ||
| (14) John D. Steinman  (Rice University)  | 
                    Matrix-Free Linear Algebra for Trajectory Optimization | ||