Invited Presentations\(^{\ast}\)
W. Sands, J.-M. Qiu, D.P. Hayes, N. Zheng, Adaptive-rank methods for the multi-scale BGK Equation via greedy sampling, SIAM NNP Annual Meeting, November 2025
W. Sands, J.-M. Qiu, Sampling-based adaptive rank integrators for multi-scale kinetic models, ENUMATH 2025, September 2025
W. Sands, W. Guo, J.-M. Qiu, T. Xiong, High-order adaptive rank integrators for multi-scale linear kinetic transport equations in the hierarchical Tucker format, ICOSAHOM, July 2025 (presented on behalf of T. Xiong)
W. Sands, N. Zheng, D.P. Hayes, J.-M. Qiu, Adaptive-rank methods for multi-scale BGK equations via greedy sampling, Sayas Numerics Day, May 2025
W. Sands, W. Guo, J.-M. Qiu, T. Xiong, High-order adaptive rank integrators for multi-scale linear kinetic transport equations in the hierarchical Tucker format, SIAM CSE, March 2025
W. Sands, W. Guo, J.-M. Qiu, T. Xiong, High-order adaptive rank integrators for multi-scale linear kinetic transport equations in the hierarchical Tucker format, Numerical Analysis and PDE Seminar, University of Delaware, November 2024
W. Sands, G. Biros, An \(S_{N}\) discretization with angular adaptivity for radiative transfer applications, SIAM TX-LA Annual Meeting, November 2023
W. Sands, W. Guo, J.-M. Qiu, Tao Xiong, A dynamic low-rank approximation for linear kinetic transport equations in the diffusive limit, SIAM NNP Annual Meeting, October 2023
W. Sands, A. Christlieb, S. White, A particle-in-cell method for the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system, Numerical Analysis and PDE Seminar, University of Delaware, May 2023
W. Sands, A. Christlieb, S. White, A particle-in-cell method for plasmas with a generalized momentum formulation, Workshop on Scientific Computing, Purdue University, October 2022
W. Sands, A. Christlieb, Towards unconditionally stable numerical algorithms for evolution of point-sources in wave propagation problems, Minisymposium on Advances in Numerical Methods for Linear and Non-linear Dynamics and Wave Propagation, 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (virtual), July 2021
W. Sands, A. Christlieb, P. Guthrey, M. Thavappiragasam, The Method-of-Lines-Transpose: scalable algorithms for high-performance computing, Minisymposium on Fast Kernel Methods for Integral Equations, SIAM CSE (virtual), March 2021
H. Lebo, W. Sands, R. Shrestha, An analysis of recent UA admission and enrollment data, SIAM Student Seminar, University of Akron, Akron, OH, September 2016
W. Sands and S. Forcey, Phylogenetic tree reconstruction using balanced minimal evolution, MAA Conference, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, April 2016
Conferences, Workshops, and Professional Meetings
SIAM New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania Annual Meeting (SIAM NNP ‘25), State College, PA, October 31 - November 2, 2025
BoBa Tensor Network Hackathon, Livermore, CA, August 18 - 20, 2025
ENUMATH 2025, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1 - 5, 2025
ICOSAHOM 2025, Montréal, Quebec, July 13 - 18, 2025
Sayas Numerics Day, Newark, DE, May 3, 2025
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX, March 3-7, 2025
Center of Hierarchical and Robust Modeling of Non-equilibirum Transport (CHaRMNET), Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Center (MMICC) Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, December 2-5, 2024
Codee Training Series (virtual), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, September 5, 2024
OpenMP Training Series (virtual), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, September 4, 2024
Center of Hierarchical and Robust Modeling of Non-equilibrium Transport (CHaRMNET), Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Center (MMICC) Meeting, East Lansing, MI, December 3-6, 2023
SIAM Texas-Louisiana Annual Meeting (SIAM TX-LA ‘23), Lafayette, LA, November 3-5, 2023
SIAM New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania Annual Meeting (SIAM NNP ‘23), Newark, NJ, October 20-23, 2023
Workshop on Sparse Tensor Computations, Chicago, IL, October 18-19, 2023
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC ‘22), Dallas, TX, November 13-18, 2022
Workshop on Scientific Computing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 8, 2022
16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (virtual), July 25-29, 2021
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (virtual), March 1-5, 2021
NVIDIA Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ (virtual), MSU, October 16, 2020
NVIDIA Using GPUs with Python (virtual), MSU, October 6, 2020
APS Division of Plasma Physics, Fort Lauderdale, FL, October 21-25, 2019
Z Fundamental Science Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, August 6-9, 2019
North American High Order Methods Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2-5, 2019
Performance Portability with Kokkos Bootcamp, Oakland, CA, March 26-29, 2019
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Spokane, WA, February 21 - March 1, 2019
International Conference on Plasma Science, Denver, CO, June 24-28, 2018
Frontiers in Computing and Data Science, MSU, East Lansing, MI, September 17-20, 2017
MAA Regional Conference, Ada, OH, April 2016
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