Just finished teaching a short course on “Structure-preserving methods: Finite element exterior calculus and Isogeometric Extensions in isogeometric extensions” with Espen Sande. The course was organized for the PhD students at University of Rome Tor Vergata and upon invitation by Carla Manni and Hendrik Speleers. The topic itself is very interesting (a framework for building and analyzing stable and accurate spline-based finite element methods for a wide variety of PDEs) and I had fun teaching it, would definitely like to repeat it sometime in the future!
Ayush, Cees, Fredrik, Laurens and Mohamed have successfully completed their CSE minor project: “A novel implementation of splines in 3D.” Congratulations!
Lockdown hasn’t gone away and so we have new ways to teach, virtual coffee breaks with colleagues, and remote conferences and seminars.
To get to know our Numerical Analysis Seminar guests a bit better, we have started an informal interview series called In Conversation With.
In the run-up to each seminar, Marieke Kootte sits down with our guests for a personal conversation on their backgrounds, the inevitable ups and downs in life and academia, and lessons/advice for students and young researchers.
Check out the interviews from the first semester here!
PS: Love what Xavier Claeys said here - “There is another important aspect of this job that is at least as difficult as answering questions: asking questions.”
I heard today that my proposal for the NWO Veni has been funded! Now looking forward to the research project which is going to be focused on the mathematical theory of splines and their use in simulations.
NWO’s official announcement can be found here.
Really, really great news! 🏆🥳 The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Jesper Cockx, Matús Rybák and Deepesh Toshniwal. These highly promising young EEMCS scientists get the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas. 💡 https://t.co/4xQEBeL1Gchttps://t.co/Cr905oi3Vg
During my time at UT Austin, I really enjoyed the frequent seminars given by excellent researchers from within UT Austin as well as from all over the world.
This is one aspect that I have wanted to replicate for sometime at Delft.
Finally, after postponements due to Covid, me and my co-organizors Kristof Cools and Marieke Kootte, were able to kickoff our own numerical analysis-focused seminar series today and I am quite excited about the whole affair!
Our first speaker was Carolina Urzua-Torres who spoke on analysis of a space-time boundary element formulation for the wave equation.
We have a great list of speakers booked for Q1 and Q2 with more to come, and Marieke is working on a soon-to-be-announced accompaniement to the series that I am really looking forward to.
