2026 Texas Differential Equations Conference University of Texas at San Antonio

Saturday March 7, 2026 (in order of presentation)

  • James D. Walker, Southwest Research Institute, An example of unusual size scaling in failure mechanics.
  • Goong Chen , Texas A&M Univ., Synthesizing artistic rendering with scientific rendering by applying the modal analysis method of animal shapes to film production.
  • Dambaru Bhatta, UT Rio Grande Valey, Crack-tip field behavior in a transversely isotropic strain-limiting thermoelastic medium.
  • Yuetong Wu, Texas A&M Univ., PDE-constrained motion imitation via modal analysis and physics-informed neural networks.
  • Kun Gou, Texas A&M Univ. San Antonio, Hemodynamic consequences of medial arterial calcification: interplay between tissue stiffening and peripheral resistance.
  • Jose Morales Escalante, UT San Antonio, Quantum stochastic gradient descent in continuous-time limit by Wigner form of open quantum systems.
  • Joseph Iaia, Univ. of North Texas, Infinitely many solutions for (p, q)-Laplacian and (p1, p2, . . . , pn)-Laplacian problems.
  • Zhiwei Wang, Louisiana State Univ., Frequency function method to quantitative unique continuation for elliptic equations with Holder lower order terms.
  • Wencai Liu, Texas A&M Univ., Localization and delocalization in disorder systems.
  • Long Teng, Louisiana State Univ., Doubling inequalities for Schrodinger eigenfunctions with power growth potentials.
  • Wai Chan, Texas A&M Univ. Texarkana Quenching for multi-dimensional semilinear parabolic problems with a localized source.
  • Qi Han, Texas A&M Univ. San Antonio, Steklov eigenproblems and applications.
  • Md Shah Alam, Huston-Tillotson Univ., Global existence of solutions for a class of nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems and their diffusive limit.
  • Alex Sabey, San Jacinto College, Solutions to mixed non-homogeneous boundary problems.

Lunch break

  • Juan B. Gutierrez, UT San Antonio, The sperm parasite paradox.
  • Baofeng Feng, UT Rio Grande Valey, Integrable discretizations of the massive-thirring model.
  • Ananta Acharya, Eastern New Mexico Univ., The diffusive Lotka-Volterra competition model in fragmented patches: coexistence.
  • Erwin Suazo, UT Rio Grande Valey, On explicit solutions for systems of partial differential equations with variable coefficients through Riccati-type systems.
  • Amina Jean Thomas, UT San Antonio, Modeling infrastructure vulnerability and service reliability in rural water systems: a differential equation framework applied to Wilson County, Texas.
  • Jesus Cruz, Baylor Univ., Ill-posed problems for scalar operators in the plane.
  • Mary Vaughan, Texas State Univ., Continuous symmetrizations and uniqueness of solutions to nonlocal equations.
  • Chi-Chao Tsai, Texas A&M Univ., Wave equation in 2D with non-linear boundary condition and chaos.
  • Cristian Meraz, Texas State Univ., Existence of weak and mild solutions for a nonlocal Klausmeier model.
  • Fengxin Chen, UT San Antonio, Nonexistence of time almost-periodic solutions of nonlocal evolution equations.

Organizers:
Erika Tatiana Camacho, Fengxin Chen, Zhuolin Qu, Stephen Wirkus: University of Texas San Antonio.

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