Talks & Presentations

Oral and poster presentations on anomalous transport, first-passage dynamics, and porous media.

Scheduled Presentations

November 22–24, 2026 · Scheduled oral presentation

Prediction of Non-Fickian Transport of Thread-like Particles in Random Porous Media

79th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting · Orlando, Florida

Session: Porous Media: Pore-Scale Transport & Modeling.

November 22–24, 2026 · Scheduled poster presentation

Geometric Control of Breakthrough in Heterogeneous Porous Media

79th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting · Orlando, Florida

October 10–11, 2026 · Scheduled oral presentation

Breakthrough Dynamics Under Memory and Geometric Heterogeneity in Porous Media

11th SIAM Central States Section Annual Meeting · Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

Past Presentations

2026 · Oral presentation

Memory-Driven First Passage Time Analysis of Deformable Fiber Transport in Perforated Media

SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26) · CP17: Stochastic Systems

Joint work with M. Rasoulzadeh.

Shomi Aktar presenting mathematical boundary-coupling equations during her SIAM 2026 oral presentation.
Oral presentation · SIAM AN26.
2026 · Poster presentation

Semi-Analytical Modeling of Shifted Generalized-Gamma Waiting-Time Distributions in Random Porous Media

SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26) / Association for Women in Mathematics

Joint work with M. Rasoulzadeh.

Shomi Aktar beside her poster on shifted generalized-gamma waiting-time distributions at the SIAM 2026 AWM poster session.
AWM poster session · SIAM AN26.
2026 · Oral presentation

Memory Effects in Non-Fickian Diffusion of Deformable Fibers in Microstructured Media

AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting · Georgia Southern University, Savannah

Presented a semi-analytical continuous-time random walk framework for deformable-fiber transport in microstructured media.

2025 · Oral presentation

APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting

Topic: anomalous transport of microplastic fibers in porous media.

Shomi Aktar at the entrance to the 2025 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting.
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics · 2025.
April 24, 2025 · Invited oral presentation

Anomalous Transport of Deformable Filaments Around Circular Obstacles

Association for Women in Mathematics · Lunch & Learn

Joint presentation with Dr. Mojdeh Rasoulzadeh.

11:00 a.m. · Math & Science Building, Room 3005

AWM Lunch and Learn flyer announcing Dr. Mojdeh Rasoulzadeh and Shomi Aktar presenting Anomalous Transport of Deformable Filaments Around Circular Obstacles on Thursday, April 24 at 11 a.m.
Event announcement · AWM Lunch & Learn.
2025 · Poster presentation

Third Joint Alabama–Florida Conference on Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Applications

Topic: diffusion of elongated and deformable particles in perforated media.

Shomi Aktar presenting her poster on diffusion of elongated and deformable particles in perforated media.
Poster presentation · Third Joint Alabama–Florida Conference, UAB · May 20–22, 2025.
2025 · Three-minute oral presentation

CIROH @ UA 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology · The University of Alabama

Communicated research on hydrologic and environmental processes in a three-minute presentation.