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ICM Program at a Glance



Department of Mathematics 

Morgan State University 

Baltimore, Maryland, USA 

June 1–5, 2026 

Organizers 

Olaniyi Iyiola, Morgan State University 

Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University 

Najat Ziyadi, Morgan State University 

Jemal Mohammed-Awel, Morgan State University 

Isabella Kemajou-Brown, Morgan State University 

Program at a Glance 

Day 

Main Activities 

Primary Location

Monday, June 1 

Registration; 

Opening Remarks;  

Plenary Talk by Dr. Gaston N'Guerekata;  

Reception Dinner

Student Center Ballroom B

Tuesday, June 2 

Registration and Breakfast; 

Plenary Talks by Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani and Dr.  Padmanabhan Seshaiyer;  

Parallel Sessions;  

Poster Session (5:00 PM - 6:30 PM)

Communication Building; 

Auditorium Communication 101;  Rooms 104 and 105

Wednesday, June 3 

Registration and Breakfast;

Plenary Talk by Dr. Xuming Xie;  

Parallel Sessions;  

Panel Discussion;  

Parallel Sessions

Communication Building; 

Auditorium Communication 101;  Rooms 104 and 105

Thursday, June 4 

Registration and Breakfast; 

Plenary Talk by Dr. William Massey and Dr. James Spall;  Parallel Sessions;  

Workshop by Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer;  

Networking

Communication Building; 

Auditorium Communication 101;  Rooms 104 and 105

Friday, June 5 

Registration and Breakfast; 

Plenary Talk by Dr. Dawn Lott;  

Parallel Sessions;  

Closing Remarks

Communication Building; 

Auditorium Communication 101;  Rooms 104 and 105



*Indicates session chairs

ICM 2026 Satellite Conference - Complete Professional Program Schedule 

Monday, June 1, 2026 

Time 

Speaker / Session 

Title / Details 

Location

2:00 PM - 8:30 PM 

Registration 

Student Center Ballroom B

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM 

Opening Remarks 

Student Center Ballroom B

5:00 PM - 5:50 PM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. Gaston N'Guerekata

An Hymn to Periodicity

Moderator: Dr. Olaniyi Iyiola

Student Center Ballroom B

6:15 PM – 8:30 PM 

Reception Dinner 

Student Center Ballroom B



Tuesday, June 2, 2026 

Time 

Speaker / Session 

Title / Details 

Location

8:00 AM 

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Provided 

Communication Building

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani

Exponential time differencing schemes with rational approximations for solving semi-linear  evolution equations 

Moderator: Dr. Olaniyi Iyiola

Auditorium 

Communication 101

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 

Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 

Parallel Sessions 

Communication Building

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM 

Lunch Break 

Provided 

Carnegie Hall Lobby

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

Quantitative Biology: Data Driven Modeling, Analysis and Computation in the age of AI Moderator: Dr. Jemal Mohammed-Awel

Auditorium 

Communication 101

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 

Coffee Break

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM 

Poster Session 

Poster presenters and titles listed after the Tuesday parallel sessions.

Communication Building



Tuesday Parallel Sessions - Communication Building 

Time 

Room 104 - Session I 

Room 105 - Session II

Morning Breakout Sessions

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM 

Mesfin Etefa - Existence and uniqueness of solutions to impulsive fractional differential  equations via the deformable derivative

Kaosarat B. Azeez - Polynomial-Preserving Linear Filters: A Comprehensive Derivation of the Spencer  Filter and Its Unification with the Savitzky-Golay  Smoothing Filter

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 

Jonas Elmerraji - High-Dimensional Regularization of the Spatial Sign Covariance Matrix for Robust  Shape Estimation

Lovelyn Madu* - Double-Inertial Adaptive CQ Methods for Split Variational Inequalities and Imaging  Applications

11:30 AM - 11:55 PM 

Sunday O. Gbodogbe* - Synchronization and Coupling Dynamics in Multi-Population Epidemic  Systems

Sudeshna Basu - Small diameter properties in Banach Spaces

12:00 PM - 12:25 AM 

Mingkai Yu - Estimating Hidden Dynamics in Stochastic Reaction Networks from Partial  Observations

Evans Coleman - Extending Inexact Anderson Acceleration to Asynchronous Regimes

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM 

Najat Ziyadi* - Sensitivity analysis of R0 in a mathematical model of Dermo disease in oyster  population

Cyril Enyi* - Exponential decay of a swelling porous system with Lord-Shulman type thermoelasticity

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM 

Ukandu Kingsley - Population Movement and Endemic Persistence in SIS Epidemic Network  Models

Maysoun Krnaf - Standing Wave Solutions to the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Growing  Potential

4:30 PM - 4:55 PM 

Olawale Lawal - Compartmental model for analyzing sex trafficking dynamics

Amara Eze* - Self-Adaptive Inertial Algorithms for Equilibrium Problems with Applications to Heart  Disease Classification



Tuesday Poster Session - 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Presenter 

Poster Title

Hakeem Adekunle 

Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Missing Data and Measurement Error

Aminah Alrehaili 

A Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics with Application

Chidubem Chidebelu 

The Syntax of Equity: Quantifying LLM Grading Bias via Formal Grammar Modeling and Automata Theory

Joseph Egbuanran 

Computational Complexity of Turing Machine Simulations in Modern Computing

Michael Ezeigbo 

Retrieval-Augmented Machine Learning for Accelerating Scientific Computation in Data-Driven Systems



ICM 2026 Satellite Conference - Complete Professional Program Schedule 

Presenter 

Poster Title

Yunze Ji 

Efficient Stochastic Search for D-Optimal Design

Godgift Ndiwari 

Enhancing Predictive Logistics: Using Optimized Machine Learning Models for Timely Delivery and Supply Chain Efficiency

Jane Odeh 

Mathematical Assessment of the Role of Vaccination on Chlamydia Control

Lara Scott 

Agent-based modeling of clustered cell migration in drosophila egg chambers

Chidera Ugbonta 

Time-Fractional Damped Nerve Equation: Modeling and Q-HAM Solution

Jhevon Smith 

Closure Approximations for the Erlang-A Queue



Wednesday, June 3, 2026 

Time 

Speaker / Session 

Title / Details 

Location

8:00 AM 

Registration and 

Continental Breakfast

Provided 

Communication Building

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. Xuming Spall

Mathematical Analysis and Simulation of Models for Cancer Therapy 

Moderator: Dr. Ziyadi Najat

Auditorium 

Communication 101

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 

Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 

Parallel Sessions 

Communication Building

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM 

Lunch Break 

Provided 

Carnegie Hall Lobby

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 

Panel Discussion 

Panelists:

William Massey 

Padmanabhan Seshaiyer 

Amara Eze 

Emmanuel Asante-Asamani 

Dawn Lott 

Temitope C. Iroko 

Moderator: Romario Gildas Foko Tiomela 

Topic: TBD

Auditorium 

Communication 101

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 

Coffee Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM 

Parallel Sessions 

Communication Building



Wednesday Parallel Sessions - Communication Building

Time 

Room 104 - Session I 

Room 105 - Session II

Morning Breakout Sessions

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM 

William Annan* - Modeling the Progression of Retinal Detachment (RD): Exploration of Machine  Learning Techniques

Muhammad J. Ahmad - Recovering Constant and Time Varying Parameters in Epidemiological Systems using  data assimilation

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 

Grace Adenuga - Impact of Drought Indices on Maize Yield in Northern Nigeria Using Multiple  Linear Regression and Spatial Analysis

Elisha Erzoah - Data-driven Integrated Framework for Modeling Protein Interaction Networks

11:30 AM - 11:55 PM 

Israr Ahmad - A Novel Smooth Fixed-Time Controller Design for Chaotic Spacecraft  Formation Synchronization

Zainab Almutawa - Exploring Beta Cell Coupling Conditions: A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Critical  Synchronization Transitions

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM 

Uzochi Gideon - Numerical Analysis of a Coupled 3D-1D Transport Problem

Alex Sheranko* - Efficient Multilevel Methods for Material Properties Inversion in Heat Transfer Problems

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM 

Pilhwa Lee - Liouville PDE-based sliced 

Wasserstein flow

Alli Carson - Simulated signaling of DNA origami nanostructures for biosensor development

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM 

Sylvia Amihere - Embedded implicit-explicit strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta methods

Odirachukwunma Ugwu - A strongly convergent inertial-type algorithm for bilevel variational inequality  problems

4:30 PM - 4:55 PM 

Stanley Diala* - Locking-Free Solvers for Time Harmonic Biot Poroelasticity: Finite Elements  versus Physics-Informed Neural Networks in 2D  and 3D

Olayemi Adeyemi* - Comparing Finite-Difference and Spectral Element Methods for Nonhydrostatics  Atmospheric Dynamics: Benchmark Results from WRF  and Jexpresso



ICM 2026 Satellite Conference - Complete Professional Program Schedule 

Thursday, June 4, 2026 

Time 

Speaker / Session 

Title / Details 

Location

8:00 AM 

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Provided 

Communication Building

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. William Massey

Gaussian Skewness Approximations for Dynamic Rate Multi-Server Queues 

Moderator: Dr. Guoping Zhang

Auditorium 

Communication 101

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM 

Coffee Break

10:15 AM – 12:45 PM 

Parallel Sessions 

Communication Building

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM 

Lunch Break 

Provided 

Carnegie Hall Lobby

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. James Spall

Stochastic Optimization and the Simultaneous Perturbation Method: Fundamentals and  Selected Recent Developments 

Moderator: Dr. Isabella Kemajou-Brown

Auditorium 

Communication 101

3:00 PM - 3:15 AM 

Coffee Break

3:15 PM - 5:30 PM 

Workshop: 

Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

Computational Problem Solving with Neural Computing in the age of AI 

Coordinator: Dr. Jemal Mohammed-Awel

Auditorium 

Communication 101

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM 

Coffee Break and Networking



Thursday Parallel Sessions - Communication Building 

Time 

Room 104 - Session I 

Room 105 - Session II

Morning Breakout Sessions

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM 

Oluwatosin Mewomo - An Adaptive Iterative Approach to Stochastic Variational Inequalities with  Applications

Lubna Kadhim - Approximate Solution of an Epidemic SIR Model via Laplace Transform and q-Homotopy  Analysis Method

10:45 AM - 11:10 AM 

Matthias Dogbatsey - Variational Implicit Solvation model with Size-Modified Poisson Boltzmann and  Diffuse interface

Magdaline Nchedo Nwankwor - Reservoir-Immunity Thresholds, CTL Exhaustion, and Bifurcation  

Mechanisms of HIV Post-Treatment Control

11:15 AM - 11:40 PM 

Romario Gildas Foko Tiomela* - SQP Analysis with Constrained Activation Regimes in Multi-objective  Optimal Control

Drew Henrichsen - Rendezvous Search on a Sphere: The Astronaut Problem

11:45 AM - 12:10 PM 

Serenity Jackson - Performance Analysis of Cloud Based Machine Learning for Scientific Computing  Applications

Samson Ajibade - Radial Basis Function Integrators with Rational Mittag–Leffler Approximation for Fractional  Dynamical Systems

12:15 PM - 12:40 PM 

Cynthia Nnolum - Dynamics of solutions to a multiple-patch epidemic model with saturation  incidence mechanism

Temitope C. Iroko* - Robust Impulse Control in Financial Markets with Drift Uncertainty and Transaction  Costs



Friday, June 5, 2026

Time 

Speaker / Session 

Title / Details 

Location

8:00 AM 

Registration and 

Continental Breakfast

Provided 

Communication 

Building

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 

Plenary Talk: 

Dr. Dawn Lott

A novel exploration of reasoning in Artificial IntelligenceModerator: Dr. Najat Ziyadi

Auditorium 

Communication 101

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 

Coffee Break

10:30 PM – 12:00 PM 

Award Presentations and Closing Remarks

Best Oral and Poster Presentations

Moderator: Dr. Olaniyi Iyiola

Auditorium 

Communication 101

12:15 PM 

Departure