NMSU/UTEP 2026

The 35th Joint NMSU/UTEP Workshop 
on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences

New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Workshop Location: Science Hall 107 

Program

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Time Activity
8:55AM—10:40AM Morning session - 1
8:55AM—9:00AM Opening
9:00AM—9:10AM Thang Duc Nguyen; Tonghui Wang; David Trafimow
Skewness is a Friend: Distribution-Free A Priori Precision for Mean, Skewness, and Higher Moments
9:10AM—9:20AM Thang Duc Nguyen; Tonghui Wang; David Trafimow
Distribution-Free Sample Size Determination for Mean and Median Estimation
9:20AM—9:30AM Thang Duc Nguyen; Huy Ha; Tonghui Wang; David Trafimow
A Priori Precision Design for Estimating Gain–Probability in Nonparametric Settings
9:30AM—9:40AM Pavithra Sewvandi Adhikari; Adina Oprisan
Asymptotic behavior of the normalized time changed Wiener process
9:40AM—9:50AM Ruwa Abdel Muhsen
Bridging Financial and Physical Modeling: A New Fundamental Link Between CIR and ROU Frameworks
9:50AM—10:00AM Merajatul Ferdaus; Abdullah Imran; Kenneth Duru
WaveQLab3D: A Software Framework for Seismic Wave Propagation and Dynamic Earthquake Rupture
10:00AM—10:10AM Most Shewly Aktar
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Causal Sensitivity and Bifurcation Discovery in Bragg-Grating Modulation Instability
10:10AM—10:20AM Francisco Salazar Mendoza; Braulio Bracamontes; Carlos Gámez; Fernando Sepúlveda; Vladik Kreinovich
Geometry of Gaudí Arches: Why Parabolic and Catenary Shapes?
10:20AM—10:30AM Leon Garza; Zalish Mahmud; Daniel Quijano; Maris Krastins; Olga Kosheleva; Vladik Kreinovich
How to Explain Empirical Efficiency of Non-Associative Aggregation Operations?
10:30AM—10:40AM Dang Pham; Javier Molina; Olga Kosheleva; Vladik Kreinovich
Why Dolphins Age Slower in Small Social Groups and Age Faster in Larger Groups: A Possible Explanation Based on Decision Theory
10:40AM—11:00AM Coffee break
11:00AM—12:40PM Morning session - 2
11:00AM—11:10AM Vignesh Ponraj; Vladik Kreinovich
How to Grade a Class that Has Both Theoretical and Practical Components?
11:10AM—11:20AM Timothy J. Gonzales; Ricardo Medina; Sajid Rashid; Vladik Kreinovich
Why Ratio Bias?
11:20AM—11:30AM Luis J. Franco; Andres Soto; Jose R. Chaidez; Vladik Kreinovich
Is Earth's tilt a resonance?
11:30AM—11:40AM Christopher Uriel; Vladik Kreinovich
Positive vs. negative fallacy
11:40AM—11:50AM Abigail Gallegos; Jonathon E. Mohl
Improving Xenograft scRNA-seq Interpretation through Multiplet Filtering in Cancer PDX Models
11:50AM—12:00PM Sri Harsha Kathi; Mingtao Zeng
Gene Expression Analysis of Influenza Infection and Its Association with Autism-related Genes
12:00PM—12:10PM Salvador A. Rodarte; Eda Koculi; Jonathon E. Mohl
A Computational Pipeline for Detecting RNA Modifications from Oxford Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing Data
12:10PM—12:20PM Victor E. Rodriguez-Torres; Elizabeth J. Walsh; Jonathon E. Mohl
Computational Identification of Actin and Myosin Proteins in Rotifers Through Integrative Machine Learning
12:20PM—12:30PM Yesenia Juarez-Vargas; Isabel Gutierrez-Zubiate; Rebeca Orozco-Sepulveda; Andrea Garcia-Morin; Jonathon Mohl; German Rosas-Acosta
Assessing the use of UBC9 Inhibitors as chemotherapeutic enhancers against non-small cell lung cancer using integrated experimental and transcriptomic approaches
12:30PM—12:40PM Khodeza Begum Mitchell; Jonathon Mohl; Ming-Ying Leung
Computational and AI Approaches for GPCR Prediction and Hierarchical Classification
12:40PM—2:20PM Lunch break
Taos Restaurant in Corbett Center
2:20PM—4:00PM Afternoon session – 1
2:20PM—2:30PM Behzad Djafari Rouhani
Extension of Some Common Fixed-Point Theorems in Best Approximation with Applications to Systems of equations and Integral equations
2:30PM—2:40PM Behzad Djafari Rouhani, Vahid Mohebbi
New method for approximating solutions of non-monotone equilibrium problems
2:40PM—2:50PM Nicholas Tenkorang
Kernel Density Estimation and Convolution
2:50PM—3:00PM David Santiago Rivera-Rivera; Art M. Duval
Laplacian Eigenvalues of Bipartite Kneser-Like Graphs
3:00PM—3:10PM Nilotpal Sanyal; Abdul Rahman Adam
Riemannian Manifold-Coupled Joint Graphical Models for Spatial Transcriptomics
3:10PM—3:20PM Kenneth Duru; Dougal Stewart
Local linear stability analysis of dual-pairing summation-by-parts methods for nonlinear conservation laws
3:20PM—3:30PM Abdullah Al Imran; Kenneth Duru
A Physics-Informed Fourier Neural Operator for Rapid Emulation of Dynamic Earthquake Rupture and Seismic Wave Propagation
3:30PM—3:40PM Hyun-Geun Shin
A Posteriori Error Estimate on Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Solving Richard's Equation
3:40PM—3:50PM Kwesi Appau Ohene-Obeng; Xiaogang Su; Salil Koner
Physics Model Calibration via Functional Kernel Regression
3:50PM—4:00PM María L. Reyna-Cruz; Isaiah D. Johnson; Martine Ceberio; Christoph Lauter; Jose A. Manzo-Castillo
A Formal Framework for Rule-Based Triage with Priority Queueing Dynamics
4:00PM—4:20PM Coffee break
4:20PM—6:00PM Afternoon session - 2
4:20PM—4:30PM Andrew Pownuk
Worst-Case Analysis, Safety Margins, and Fuzzy Algebra: A Mathematical Equivalence
4:30PM—4:40PM Diego Juarez; Ricardo Carranza; Jorge Munoz
A Crystal's Perspective in Graph Space: A Kernel-Based Machine Learning Approach to Crystal Structures
4:40PM—4:50PM Saifur Rahman Mazumder; Feng Yu; Ying Su; Oscar Contreras Velasco
Unsupervised Feature Selection via Robust Autoencoder and Adaptive Graph Learning
4:50PM—5:00PM Gabriel Agnew
On Local Finiteness of Modal K4 Algebras
5:00PM—5:10PM Yahriel Guel and Martine Ceberio
Exploration of Interval Neural Networks for Handling Uncertainty
5:10PM—5:20PM Yahriel Guel and Martine Ceberio
Explorations of Constrained Neural Networks
5:20PM—5:30PM Rafael Jimenez Castro
A Feature-Enriched Machine Learning Approach for Sarcasm Detection in Spanish Conversational Dialogues
5:30PM—5:40PM Remi Salinas Schmeis
Partitioning Posets into ω-Chains
5:40PM—5:50PM Steven Fullerton; Tom Fullerton
Are Online Medicine Prices still Lower in Mexico?
5:50PM—6:00PM General discussion and closing

Web version of the schedule compiled by Vladislav Sliusarev