The Mathematics Department began November with a Circus: The Finite Element Circus
November 1, 2019
The Mathematics Department began November with a Circus! The Finite Element Circus was held at Virginia Tech, November 1st and 2nd, in Pamplin Hall. Faculty, graduate students and postdocs representing twenty-eight different institutions participated in the festivities.
The Finite Element Circus is a regular conference, meeting twice a year, which is devoted to the theory and applications of the finite element method, and related areas of numerical analysis and partial differential equations. Speakers at Circus meetings are volunteers from the audience and are decided upon at the start of the meeting. The length of talks is set depending on the number of volunteers, so speakers have to prepare a talk that can be trimmed to various lengths (10-15 minutes is typical). Over the course of the two day conference, there were forty-two talks given.
The Virginia Tech Mathematics Department had multiple volunteers as Traian Iliescu jumped into the ring along with two of his current graduate students, Birgul Koc and Changhong Mou. Traian's talk was entitled "FEM + Data = ROM." Brigul's presentation was "Variational Multi-Scale Data-Driven Closure Reduced Order Model" while Changhone spoke on "Data-Driven Closure Reduced Order Models for the Quasi-Geostrophic Equation."
Haroun Meghaichi, a graduate student of Slimane Adjerid, spoke on "An immersed finite element method for acoustic-elastic wave propagation." Qiao Zhuang, a graduate student of Tao Lin, gave a talk entitled "Immersed Finite Element Methods For Second Order Hyperbolic Equations in Inhomogeneous Media."
Ringmasters Susan Brenner & Peter Monk began the Circus at Virginia Tech on November 1st.
No shortage of hands here as there were 42 volunteer speakers!
No shortage of hands here as there were 42 volunteer speakers!
Anthony Austin presents at the FE Circus
Train Iliescu joined the circus with "FEM + Data = ROM."
Another one of the speakers had close ties to the Mathematics Department. Anthony Austin was a postdoc with Tim Warburton until recently and is now Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His co-author of the work presented, Kasia Swirydowicz, completed her PhD at Virginia Tech with Eric de Sturler and also completed a postdoc with Tim Warburton.
The conference was sponsored by the Virginia Tech Mathematics Department & College of Science. The local organizing committe consisted of Slimane Adjerid, Anthony Austin, Traian Iliescu, Tao Lin, Tim Warburton
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