The CASCADE RAIN 2025 (with support from the NSF and our Department)

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convened last Saturday April 26, 2025 in Kidder Hall. The meeting featured 33 talks, which were delivered in the presence of 66 participants from Boise State, Lane CC, Portland State, University of Oregon, University of Washington, Washington State University (vancouver and Pullman), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. There were also two accompanying mintutorials on "Introduction to Computational Modeling" (Friday, led by Peszynska, Phelps, Mathangadeera, Fara) and "Mathematics of Unsupervised Learning Methods" (Sunday, led by Marshall, Cowal, Whiting), with 10 and 11 participants, respectively.

The Organizing Committee (Gibson, MacDonald, Marshall, Peszynska, Showalter) wants to greatfully acknowledge the help of Deanne and Christina as well as the involvement of local graduate student volunteers who made this event possible and very enjoyable for the participants as well as (*) served as mentors for the minitutorials : Azar Asgari, Tyler Fara (*), Stefanie Fazekas, Nicholas Harrison, Praveeni Mathangadeera (*), Madison Phelps (*), Bailey Sharon, Peter Cowal (*), Wyatt Whiting (*).

One of the (slapstick) awards went to Ralph Showalter for the most time spent on a single slide. Congratulations :-)

The traditional CASCADE RAIN poems (three submitted this year) recorded in our "black book" included these verses

...

It was a RAINY Saturday

when all through Kidder Hall

many Beavers were working

building Maxwells, dams, and all.

...

On this joyful occasion

on an odd day for Corvallis

we discussed math with a mission

gentle and cordial

...

We went looking for answers

better than those before

....

With the help of some Map(per)s

robustness was met

the dams had firm boundaries

stability was set

...

Grateful for Galerkin

prepared the plots

stacked the slidess

while strengthening

the local domain

at 2025 Cascade RAIN