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March 2025

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  Prof. Antti Hannukainen visited our group

  1 min read · Fri, Mar 14 2025

  Prof. Antti Hannukainen from Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) visited the NumPDE group in November 2024. His research focuses on the development of effective numerical solvers for multiphysics problems and parametric eigenvalue problems. During his visit, Prof. Hannukainen delivered a talk at the Mathematics and Applications Colloquium on November 5, 2024, presenting his latest results on 'Model Order Reduction for Parametric Generalized Eigenvalue Problems.'
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  Prof. Harri Hakula visited our group

  1 min read · Fri, Mar 14 2025

  Prof. Harri Hakula from Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) visited the NumPDE Group in February 2025. Prof. Hakula's research spans finite element methods with applications in computational mechanics and eigenvalue problems, as well as conformal mappings and their applications to PDEs. On February 15, 2025, he delivered a talk at the Mathematics and Applications Colloquium, offering an introduction to 'Conformal Mapping and Invariants: Motivating Numerical PDE Approaches' ( slides).
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  Prof. Lucia Gastaldi visited our group

  1 min read · Fri, Mar 14 2025

  Prof. Lucia Gastaldi from the University of Brescia, Italy, visited our group in September 2024 and again in January-February 2025. A leading expert in finite element methods, Prof. Gastaldi specializes in solving eigenvalue problems arising from PDEs and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. During her visit, she delivered a talk at the Mathematics and Applications Colloquium on September 10, 2024, discussing the latest developments in 'Finite Element Approximation of Interface Problems and Extensions to FSI.'

September 2024

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  Summer School "Finite Element Methods for Eigenvalue Problems" @USTC

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 3 2024

  Prof. Boffi was invited lecturer for the summer school "Finite Element Methods for Eigenvalue Problems" held in Hefei at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) on August 11 - 15, 2024.

August 2024

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  Daniele Boffi keynote speaker at WCCM, Vancouver

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 28 2024

  Daniele Boffi attended the 16th World Congress of Computational Mechanics held in Vancouver, Canada on 22-26 July, 2024. As invited keynote speaker, Prof. Boffi delivered the 40 minutes presentation "On the stability of a fictitious domain approach for fluid structure interaction problems" within the minisymposium "Immersed-boundary variational methods: Theory, data structures, and applications" organized by Alexander Düster, John A. Evans, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Ming-Chen Hsu, Mats Larson, Ernst Rank, Guglielmo Scovazzi and Jinhui Yan.
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  Prof. Boffi and Linda Alzaben @CMAM-10 in Bonn

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 28 2024

  Prof. Daniele Boffi and Linda Alzaben attended the 10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM-10) in Bonn, Germany, on June 10 - 14, 2024. Prof. Boffi was invited plenary speaker and delivered the talk "On the stability and convergence of a fictitious domain approach for fluid-structure interaction problems". Linda talked about her research on "Least-squares linear elasticity eigenvalue problem: The two-field formulation and its spectrum operator" within the minisymposium "Residual minimization methods" organized by Fleurianne Bertrand and Gregor
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  Prof. Boffi and Moataz Alghamdi @ECM2024, Sevilla

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 28 2024

  Daniele Boffi and Moataz Alghamdi attended the 9th European Congress of Mathematics (ECM 2024) in Sevilla, Spain, on June 15 - 19, 2024. Prof. Boffi and Prof. Fleurianne Bertrand (TH Chemnitz, Germany) organized the minisymposium entitled "Reducing the computational complexity of eigenvalue problems arising from partial differential equations". Within this conference session, Daniele Boffi gave the talk "Model order reduction for parametric eigenvalue problems", while Moataz Alghamdi presented his research on "A greedy MOR method for tracking of eigensolutions to parametric elliptic PDEs".

June 2024

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  Linda Alzaben obtained the PhD in Applied Math!

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 11 2024

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  Linda Alzaben obtained the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Daniele Boffi. She successfully defended her thesis about "Non-standard Finite Elements for Eigenvalue Problems" on May 2, 2024 in front of the committee formed by: Prof. Daniele Boffi, Prof. Diogo Gomes, Prof. Omar Knio, Prof. Paula Moraga, and Prof. Francesca Gardini from University of Pavia, Italy. Good luck for your future, Linda!

January 2024

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  Prof. Boffi @WONAPDE 2024 in Concepcion, Chile

  1 min read · Mon, Jan 22 2024

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  Prof. Daniele Boffi attended the 7th Chilean Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, a.k.a. WONAPDE, hosted at Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, on January 15-19. Prof. Boffi presented his research "On The Finite Element Least Squares Approximation Of Eigenvalue Problems" in a minisymposium dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. Norber Heuer (see group photo). In addition, he delivered the talk "Model Order Reduction For Parametric Eigenvalue Problems" in the minisymposium dedicated to the numerical approximation of eigenvalue problems of PDEs.
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  Fabio Credali obtained the PhD in Applied Math!

  1 min read · Mon, Jan 22 2024

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  Fabio Credali obtained the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at KAUST in cotutelle with the Joint Ph.D. program in Computational Mathematics at Universita` di Pavia (Italy) and Universita` della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) under the supervision of Daniele Boffi and Silvia Bertoluzza. He defended the thesis "Numerical approximation of PDEs on complex geometries: fluid-structure interaction problems and virtual element methods" on November 28, 2023. In the picture: Prof. Daniele Boffi and Fabio Credali at the Commencement Ceremony on December 15, 2023.
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  Gianmarco Manzini (LANL) and Francesca Gardini (UniPV) visited our group

  1 min read · Wed, Jan 3 2024

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  Gianmarco Manzini from Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) and Francesca Gardini from University of Pavia (Italy) visited NumPDE during November 2023 for research collaborations. Their research if focused on classical and mixed finite element methods, virtual element methods, mimetic finite difference schemes and tensor train models. On November 14, Francesca Gardini delivered the seminar "The Partition of Unit Finite Element Method for the Schrodinger Equation", organized by the KAUST SIAM student chapter. On the same day, Gianmarco Manzini presented his research on "Tensor-train methods for
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  Opportunity Found Program grant assigned to NumPDE!

  1 min read · Wed, Jan 3 2024

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  One of the last "KAUST Opportunity Found Program" grants has been assigned to NumPDE. The research will be focused on "Model reduction methods for modal analysis in computational mechanics" and the NumPDE team, lead by Prof. Daniele Boffi, will collaborate with Prof. Fleurianne Bertrand (Chemnitz, Germany) and Prof. Luca Heltai (SISSA, Italy). Short abstract In this project we will work on the modeling and the simulation of large, complex systems described in terms of eigenvalue problems associated with partial differential equations. We aim at reducing the complexity of the problem in the

October 2023

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  Daniele Boffi plenary speaker at STEM Education Summit in Riyadh (19-20 Sept. 2023)

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 5 2023

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  Daniele Boffi was invited plenary speaker at the STEM Education Summit held in Riyadh on September 29-30, 2023. The summit aimed to promote the advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education, fostering innovation and preparing Saudi youth for future challenges.
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  NumPDE@Enumath2023, Lisbon

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 5 2023

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  NumPDE contributed to the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications held at Tecnico Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Daniele Boffi co-organized the minisymposium titled "Efficient numerical methods for perturbed saddle-point formulations arising coupled problems and application to poromechanics" with Lothar Banz (Salzburg), Fleurianne Bertrand (Chemnitz) and Jakub Both (Bergen). In the same minisymposium, NumPDE contributed with the following talks: Linda Alzaben: "Stabilization free virtual element method and discrete compactness property: the acoustic problem" Daniele
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  NumPDE in Glasgow for the 29th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 5 2023

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  Daniele Boffi and Linda Alzaben from NumPDE group attended the 29th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from 27th to 30th June 2023. Daniele Boffi organized the minisymposium "Recent advances in numerical approximation of eigenvalue problems" in collaboration with Fleurianne Bertrand (Chemnitz) and Arbaz Khan (IIT Rookie). Linda Alzaben delivered the presentation titled "Non-stabilized virtual element method for acoustic vibration and the discrete compactness property".

September 2023

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  Clarissa Astuto @"Multiscale analysis and methods for PDE's" in Singapore

  1 min read · Thu, Sep 28 2023

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  Clarissa Astuto attended the conference "Multiscale analysis and methods for PDE's: fluids and active matter dynamics", held in Singapore from 6th to 10th February 2023. As invited speaker, she presented the talk "Finite-difference scheme for a tensor PDE model of biological network formation and applications".
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  NumPDE@YIC2023 in Porto (19-21 June 2023)

  1 min read · Wed, Sep 27 2023

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  NumPDE contributed to the 7th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference held in Porto, Portugal, from 19th to 21st June 2023. Linda Alzaben delivered the talk "The operator spectrum of linear elasticity least-squares finite elements methods" as part of the General Symposium on Computational Solids and Structural Mechanics, where she presented her research on eigenvalues for linear elasticity. Fabio Credali presented his research on "Finite element discretization of fluid-structure interaction problems with fictitious domain approach" within the minisymposium "Monolithic and partitioned numerical

May 2023

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  Prof. Luca Pavarino visited our group

  1 min read · Thu, May 11 2023

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  Prof. Luca F. Pavarino from University of Pavia (Italy) visited our group from March 27th to April 2nd, 2023. Prof. Pavarino is an expert in Domain Decomposition Methods and parallel solvers for PDEs. Part of his research is also focused on biological applications, such as Computational Cardiology and Electrophysiology. During his visit, he has been speaker of the Mathematics and Application Colloquium with the talk "Scalable parallel solvers for cardiac reaction-diffusion models and applications". In the picture: Prof. Boffi and Prof. Pavarino exploring the desert surrounding KAUST.

November 2022

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  NumPDE is hosting the Applied Mathematics School

  1 min read · Sat, Nov 12 2022

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  NumPDE is hosting the Applied Mathematics School for undergraduate and graduate students. Fall session: November 27th - December 3rd, 2022 Winter session: January 8th - 13th, 2023 For more information, please visit the dedicated website: Applied Mathematics School
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  NumPDE@Africomp5 in Cape Town

  1 min read · Thu, Nov 10 2022

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  NumPDE contributed to the 5th African Conference on Computational Mechanics held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2nd to 4th November 2022. Prof. Daniele Boffi organized, in collaboration with Prof. Lucia Gastaldi (University of Brescia, Italy), a minisymposium on Numerical methods for partial differential equations. Clarissa Astuto presented her research on finite difference schemes for the simulation of biological network formation phenomena, Najwa Alshehri gave a talk on new unfitted mixed finite element methods for elliptic interface problems, while Fabio Credali presented a parallel

March 2021

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  Meet KAUST New Student: Fabio Credali

  1 min read · Mon, Mar 15 2021

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  Fabio Credali holds a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics from the University of Pavia, Italy. Fabio joined KAUST in January 2021 as a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program under the supervision of Professor Daniele Boffi.