
A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Mathematics' Impact on Our Wellbeing
It is a pleasure to announce The 1st International Online Conference on Mathematics and Applications. The conference is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Mathematics, and will be held from 1 to 15 May 2023. The structure of the conference will be similar to the section structure of the journal. The main special sessions and their aims are listed below:
We hope that you will join this symposium to exchange ideas, create fruitful collaborations and make the first edition of the conference a success.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana
Dr. Ivanka Stamova
Prof. Dr. Tadashi Doh
Prof. Dr. Yang Hui He

Key Laboratory of Urban Security and Disaster Engineering (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China;
Hong Zheng, Ph.D., is currently Full Professor at the Beijing University of Technology, China. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Northeastern Institute of Technology (now Northeastern University), China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. In 1988, he was assigned to work at the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree in geotechnical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. Professor Zheng was entitled as an expert who can enjoy the state council special allowances in 1994, entitled as an expert for the “China's Thousand Talents Plan” in 2009, and honored with a “New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET)” of Ministry of Education of China. Now he is a deputy director of the Technical Committee on Physics and Numerical Simulation in the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. Professor Zhang is an editorial board member in several international academic journals. He has been invited as a visiting scholar to Hokkaido Institute of Technology (Japan), Lawrence National Laboratory (USA), University of Toronto (Canada), University of Wyoming (USA), and the University of Hong Kong (China) and has invited to give presentations at many international conferences. His current field of research is computational mechanics, computational geomechanics, slope stability and fracture mechanics.
Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;
Igor Mezic is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Mezic works on operator-theoretic methods in nonlinear dynamical systems and control theory and their applications. He did his Dipl. Ing. in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 at the University of Rijeka, Croatia and his Ph. D. in Applied Mechanics at the California Institute of Technology, USA. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK in 1994–1995. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is currently a Professor. In 2000–2001 he has worked as an Associate Professor at Harvard University in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He won numerous prizes for his research, among them the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award from NSF and the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award on "Control of Mixing" from IEEE. He gave numerous plenary lectures at international conferences, and was an Editor of Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Department of Applied Physics, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico;
Oleg Yu. Sergiyenko received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Kharkiv National University of Automobiles and Highways in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Kharkiv National Polytechnic University in 1997. In 1997, he joined the Kharkiv National University of Automobiles and Highways. In December 2004, was invited by the Engineering Institute of Baja California Autonomous University for researcher position. He is currently Head of the Applied Physics Department of Engineering Institute of Baja California Autonomous University.
Dr. Sergiyenko has been the author of one book and an editor of eight books, written 31 book chapters and over 160 articles, holds four patents, and is a reviewer for various international journals. His research interests include automated metrology, machine vision systems, 3D coordinates measurement, control systems, robot navigation, and simulation of robotic swarm behaviors.
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India;
Pratibhamoy Das, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna. He works mainly on the optimal accurate numerical analysis of singularly perturbed differential equations and approximations of fractional integro differential equations. Before joining to IIT Patna, he was an Einstein Foundation Fellow at Institute fur Mathematik, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany, where he worked with the group of Prof. Volker Mehrmann. He was also a visiting faculty at IISER Bhopal and NBHM Fellow at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He did his master from IIT Bombay and doctorate from IIT Guwahati. At present, he has plenty of international MathScinet and SCI listed publications and single author publications. He is also receipt of several awards, including Young Scientist Award at 100th Indian Science Congress and also DAAD Research Ambassador of Germany. He became a Top 2% Scientists among the World, published by Stanford University, USA, in two consecutive years 2021, 2022
Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA;
Ferhan Merdivenci Atici received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1993 and 1995, respectively. She has been the University Distinguished Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Western Kentucky University since 2018. From 1996 to 1999, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Ege University, where she was an Associate Professor from 1999 to 2002. Since 2003, she has worked at the Department of Mathematics of Western Kentucky University. She has been the founder and faculty advisor for the WKU American Mathematical Society (AMS) Student Chapter since 2015. Professor Ferhan Merdivenci Atici directed more than nine senior projects and has won several prizes and awards, e.g. University Distinguished Professor, Women in Science and Engineering Award, etc. She has been the Scientific Committee member, invited speaker and organizer at more than 17 conferences and meetings and is the Editor and Associate Editor for 11 international academic journals.
Professor Ferhan Merdivenci Atici does research in the fields of Analysis and Applied Mathematics, including difference equations, differential equations, calculus on time scales, dynamic equations and their applications to economics, fractional calculus and their applications to medical sciences.
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy;
Gennaro Infante is an Associate Professor within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Calabria since April 2018.
He obtained a Doctoral Degree in 2001 from the University of Glasgow, under the direction of Prof. J.R.L. Webb. In the period 2001-2018 he held the positions of research fellow and assistant professor within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calabria.
He is a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society, the Unione Matematica Italiana and the London Mathematical Society.
He authored or co-authored more than 80 manuscripts. He has attended or organized more than 40 national and international scientific conferences. He is Editor and Associate Editor for several international journals.
His research interests are in nonlinear functional analysis and differential equations. In particular he has been working on: boundary value problems for ODEs and PDEs, theory and applications of fixed point theory, theory and applications of A-proper maps and nonlinear spectral theory.
Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China;
Jifeng Chu received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University. He is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Shanghai Normal University since 2016. He has worked at Hohai University from 2004 to 2016 and was promoted as a Full Professor at the College of Science of Hohai University in 2011. Professor Jifeng Chu is working on the theory of water waves and the eigenvalue theory of linear periodic systems, the stability theory of conservative systems. He has published more than 80 papers in international academic journals and presided over six scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
He has won the “New Century Excellent Talents Support Program” of the Ministry of Education in 2009, “333 High-level Talent Training Project” of Jiangsu Province in 2011, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship in 2013 and “Huo Yingdong University Young Teacher Award” of the Ministry of Education in 2014, the seventh “Qin Yuanxun Mathematics Award” in 2015.
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India;
Amit Kumar Verma received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Indian Institute of Technology Patna. He was an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) from 2009 to 2015. From 2015 to 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Indian Institute of Technology Patna. He is the member of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) and member of Bharat Ganita Parishad (BGP).
Dr. Amit Kumar Verma has published more than 60 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He was invited to give talks or chaired sessions at 37 national and international meetings and conferences. His academic interests include nonlinear singular boundary value problems, epitaxial growth problems, non-standard finite difference schemes, numerical solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, theory and applications of wavelets and integral transforms.
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3141 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3141, USA;
Daniele Mortari is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, working in the field of attitude and position estimation, satellite constellation design, sensor data processing, and various topic in linear algebra and numerical algorithms. He has taught at the School of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Rome, and at Electronic Engineering of the University of Perugia. He received his doctorate degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Rome. He has been widely recognized for his work, including receiving best paper Award from AAS/AIAA and from journal Mathematics, three NASA’s Group Achievement Awards, the 2007 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award, and the 2016 AAS Dirk Brouwer Award. He has published more than 120 journal articles, 240 conference papers, and delivered more than 100 invited seminars. He is a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, IEEE, AAIA, and AAS Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, Honorary Member of IEEE-AESS Space System Technical Panel, and former IEEE Distinguish Speaker. He is Editor-in-Chief of section Functional Interpolation of the Journal Mathematics.
1.London Insitute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Institution, 2. Merton College, University of Oxford, 3. Department of Mathematics, City, University of London, 4. Nan Kai University, Tian Jin, China;
Prof. Yang-Hui He is a Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Professor of Mathematics at City, University of London, Lecturer in mathematics at Merton College, Oxford, and Chang-Jiang Chair of physics at Nankai University in China. He obtained his BA at Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Shenstone Prize and Kusaka Prize. He did his MA at Cambridge (Distinction, Tripos) and earned his PhD at MIT. After a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, Yang joined Oxford University as the FitzJames Fellow and an STFC Advanced Fellow. He works at the interface of string theory, algebraic and combinatorial geometry, and machine learning. Outside research, Yang has played the violin for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and sung as a tenor for the chapel choirs of St Catherine’s, Cambridge and Merton, Oxford.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia;
Marjan Mernik received the MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maribor in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Computer and Information Sciences. His research interests include programming languages, compilers, domain-specific (modeling) languages, grammar-based systems, grammatical inference, and evolutionary computations. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and EAPLS. He is being named a Highly Cited Researcher for years 2017 and 2018.
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Ms. Catherine Meng
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Ms. Ariel Zhang
Email: iocma2023@mdpi.com