The conference will take place in Coates Hall on the LSU campus from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday, March 11 and from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm on Sunday, March 12.

Click on each name in the schedule below to see a title and abstract. Plenary talks have 1-hour time blocks (50 minutes + 10 minutes for questions), and contributed talks have 30-minute time blocks (25 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). All talks can be attended at LSU and over Zoom. Talks will be recorded and posted here with the speakers' permission.

Remote participants should utilize the following links on both days:

Saturday, March 11th

Saturday times are US Central Standard Time (UTC -6).
Room A (Coates 145) Room B (Coates 155)
730 AM − 750 AM
Registration (Coates atrium)  
750 AM − 800 AM Welcome
800 AM − 900 AM Trevor Wooley
900 AM − 930 AM
Coffee and snacks (Coates atrium)  
930 AM − 1000 AM Alex Rice Brian Grove
1000 AM − 1030 AM Noah Lebowitz-Lockard       Mohit Tripathi
1030 AM − 1100 AM Daniel Keliher Kalani Thalagoda
1100 AM − 1130 AM Ali Alsetri Shashika Petta Mestrige
1130 AM − 1230 PM Bella Tobin
1230 PM − 1235 PM Photo
1235 PM − 200 PM
Lunch (Coates atrium)  
200 PM − 230 PM Rajat Gupta Hyuk Jun Kweon
230 PM − 300 PM Ankush Goswami Xiaoyu Huang
300 PM − 330 PM Rahul Kumar Freddy Saia
330 PM − 400 PM
Coffee and snacks (Coates atrium)  
400 PM − 500 PM Jingbo Liu
500 PM − 600 PM Wei-Lun Tsai
645 PM – 900 PM
Conference dinner (Umami and Modesto)  


Sunday, March 12th

Sunday times are US Central Daylight Time (UTC -5). Mind the time change!
Room A (Coates 145) Room B (Coates 155)
830 AM − 930 AM Frank Thorne
930 AM − 1000 AM
Coffee and snacks (Coates atrium)  
1000 AM − 1030 AM Pan Yan Atul Dixit
1030 AM − 1100 AM Ajith Nair Pranabesh Das
1100 AM − 1130 AM Nimish Kumar Mahapatra       Debika Banerjee
1130 AM − 1230 PM Robert Lemke Oliver
1230 PM − 200 PM
Lunch (Coates atrium)  
200 PM − 300 PM Nathan Green
300 PM − 330 PM Soumendra Ganguly J.C. Saunders
330 PM − 400 PM Matthew Kroesche Karl Dilcher
400 PM − 430 PM Agniva Dasgupta Torre Caparatta
430 PM − 500 PM
Coffee and snacks (Coates atrium)  
500 PM − 600 PM Hongyu He