Lecturers



Marta D'Elia is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories, NM. She works in the Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification department.
Her current work deals with Nonlocal Problems, Optimal Control and Transport. She is also interested in Uncertainty Quantification and Data Assimilation.







Qiang Du is the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, where he is also an affiliated member of the Institute for Data Sciences. Main recognitions for Dr. Du’s work include the Feng Kang prize in scientific computing (2005) and his selection as a 2013 SIAM Fellow for contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in materials science, computational geometry, and biology.
Dr. Du serves in the editorial boards of several international journals, and is currently a member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), and co-Chair of the World Congress of Computational Mechanics (2018). He also serves as a representative to the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the National Academies (2015-2019). His research interests are in numerical analysis, mathematical modeling and scientific computation with selected applications in physical, biological, materials, data and information sciences.







Vassili Kolokoltsov is Professor at the Department of Statistics of the Univeristy of Warwick, UK. His general research interests are in probability and stochastic processes, optimization and games with applications to business, biology and finances, mathematical physics, differential equations and functional analysis. He published more than 100 papers and several monographs.





Juan J. Nieto is Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Santiago de Compostela and coordinator of the research group Nonlinear Differential Equations. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Texas.
His main interests in research and divulgation are the study of dynamical systems, differential equations, nonlinear analysis, mathematical modeling and applications to biomedical problems.
He has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications and is currently Editor, among others, of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Journal of the Franklin Institute, International Journal of Biomathematics and Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis.
He appears in the list of Highly Cited Researches published by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thompson Reuters).

Abner J. Salgado University of Tennessee Knoxville



Abner J. Salgado is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research revolves around the Numerical Analysis of partial differential equations and related questions. He is interested in the design, analysis and implementation of approximation schemes for complex fluids, nonlocal problems, degenerate and singular diffusion problems, and nonlinear partial differential equations in general.