| 30.09.2024 – Federico Betti, PhD at MNS Chair, is leaving our group. We wish him all the best for the future ! |  |
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15.04.2024 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PhD student, Philipp Weder, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 29.02.2024 – Bernard Kapidani, PostDoc at MNS Chair, is leaving our group. We wish him all the best for the future ! |  |
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29.02.2024 – Denise Grappein, PostDoc at MNS Chair, is leaving our group. We wish her all the best for the future ! |
| 15.02.2024 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PhD student, Federico Betti, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |  |
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01.02.2024 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PostDoc, Giuliano Guarino, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 31.01.2024 – Margarita Chasapi has been awarded a RWTH JPI Fellowship and a DFG research project. She will join RWTH Aachen University as a junior research group leader in April 2024. We wish her all the best in her new position ! |  |
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15.10.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PhD student, Mohamed Ben Abdelouahab, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 01.10.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PhD student, Markus Renoldner, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |  |
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15.09.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new PhD student, Ferhat Sindy, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 31.07.2023 – Riccardo Saporiti, PhD at MNS Chair, is joining the Chair of Scientific Computing and Uncertainty Quantification. We wish him all the best ! |  |
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31.07.2023 – Dr. Rafael Vázquez postdoc at MNS Chair, is joining the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). We wish him all the best in his new position ! |
| 17.07.2023 – Mario Mally (PhD student), from TU Darmstadt (Germany), is visiting the MNS Chair. He will give a short talk on his current research topic on 20.07.2023 at 11:30 in room MA B2 485 |  |
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06.06.2023 – Dr. Rafael Vázquez and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) have been awarded a “Beatriz Galindo” grant from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Rafael will be appointed as distinguished researcher at the USC, and start working there in September. |
| 02.06.2023 – Dr. Pablo Antolin has been awarded a SNF project titled “FLASh: Fast simulation tools for LAttice Structures“. |  |
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02.06.2023 – Prof. Annalisa Buffa has been awarded a SNF project titled “PDE tools for analysis-aware geometry processing in simulation science“. Prof. Annalisa Buffa and Dr. Jochen Hinz are happy to announce the opening of two positions for PhD candidates working on spline-based parameterisation techniques and their applications to plasma physics. More specifically, under Prof. Annalisa Buffa’s supervision, the first PhD candidate will be working on numerical schemes for computing invertible harmonic maps between simply and multiply-connected domains in two and two-and-a-half spatial dimensions. In close collaboration with EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center, Prof. Annalisa Buffa and Dr. Jochen Hinz, the second PhD candidate will be tasked to develop a robust staggered mesh generator for various geometry types that are frequently-encountered in plasma physics research. All developed techniques will be made available to the scientific community in an open-source Python library. |
| 01.06.2023 – 30.06.2023 – Prof. John A. Evans, from University of Colorado Boulder (USA), is visiting the MNS Chair. |  |
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19.05.2023 – The paper ‘Reduced order modelling of nonaffine problems on parameterized NURBS multipatch geometries’ by Margarita Chasapi, Pablo Antolin and Annalisa Buffa has been accepted for publication. It will appear soon in Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. |
| 01.04.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new invited Master student, Antony Torosyan, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |  |
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30.03.2023 – The paper “Adaptive isogeometric methods with C1 (truncated) hierarchical splines on planar multi-patch domains” by Cesare Bracco, Carlotta Giannelli, Mario Kapl and Rafael Vázquez has been accepted for publication in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. |
| 23.03.2023 – The article “A localized reduced basis approach for unfitted domain methods on parameterized geometries“ by Margarita Chasapi, Pablo Antolin and Annalisa Buffa just appeared online in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. |  |
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22.03.2023 – The manuscript “A mathematical theory for mass lumping and its generalization with applications to isogeometric analysis”, by Yannis Voet, Espen Sande and Annalisa Buffa, has been accepted and will soon appear in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. |
| 10.03.2023 – Prof. Annalisa Buffa was nominated AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2023. She will deliver her lecture at ICIAM 2023, in Japan. |  |
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07.03.2023 – Prof. Dr. Siddhartha Mishra, from ETH Zürich (Switzerland), is visiting the MNS Chair. He will give a talk on 07.03.2023 “Learning Operators”. |
| 02.03.2023 – Prof. Annalisa Buffa partecipates at the CSE’23 Forward looking with the SIAM CSE Conference in Amsterdam. |  |
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01.03.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new invited PostDoc, Denise Grappein, to our group. We wish her the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 27.02.-03.03.2023 – Alen Kushova, a PhD student, from the University of Pavia, is visiting the MNS Chair. |  |
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05-10.02.2023 – Deepesh Toshniwal, from Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (The Netherlands), is visiting the MNS Chair. He will give a talk on 06.02.2023 “Structure-preserving discretizations using smooth splines“. |
| 01.02.2023 – Prof. Annalisa Buffa starts her new job at EPFL as Associate Vice-President for postgraduate education (AVP-PGE). |  |
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01.02.2023 – Bernard Kapidani, Espen Sande and Martin Licht have obtained funding from the Bernoulli Center for a workshop “Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations“. The workshop will take place from July 3 to 7, 2023. |
| 01.02.2023 – MNS Chair welcomes a new Ph.D. student, Riccardo Saporiti, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! | |
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26-27.01.2023 – Prof. Paola Antonietti, from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), is visiting the MNS Chair. She will give a talk on 26.01.2023 “Machine Learning-Enhanced Refinement and Agglomeration Strategies for Polygonal and Polyhedral Mathods“. |
| 19.01.2023 – Prof. Dr. Dennis Kochmann, from ETH Zürich (Switzerland), is visiting the MNS Chair. He will give a talk on 19.01.2023 “From structure to properties (and back) in truss-based architected materials“. |  |
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29.11.2022 – 09.12.2022 – Jeremias Arf, from TU Kaiserslautern (Germany), is visiting the MNS Chair. |
| 21.11.2022 – The article entitled “Region Extraction in Mesh Intersection”, by Pablo Antolin, Annalisa Buffa and Emiliano Cirillo, has been accepted for publication in ScienceDirect. | |
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14.11.2022 – 12.12.2022 – Bernard Kapidani will be hosted for a research stay at the Computational Electromagnetics chair (Prof. Sebastian Schöps) at TU Darmstadt, from 14th November 2022 to the 12th of December 2022 |
| 06-09.11.2022 – Prof. Annalisa Buffa, Espen Sande, Margarita Chasapi and Rafael Vazquez will fly to Canada for the IGA 2022 conference, at Banff. |  |
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02.11.2022 – The paper entitled “Accurate Multilayered Shell Buckling Analysis via the Implicit-Mesh Discontinuous Galerkin Method” by Giuliano Guarino, Vincenzo Gulizzi and Alberto Milazzo, has been accepted for publication in AIAA Journal. |
| 15.10.2022 – Ondine Chanon has been awarded an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant to join the chair of Prof. J. M. Melenk at TU Wien, Austria, starting in spring 2023. |  |
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10-14.10.2022 – Denise Grappein, from Department of Mathematical Sciences “Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange”, is visiting the MNS Chair |
| 26-28.09.2022 – Martin Vohralík, from Inria Paris, is visiting the MNS Chair. |  |
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24.09.2022 – The article entitled “The INTERNODES method for applications in contact mechanics and dedicated preconditioning techniques”, by Yannis Voet, Guillaume Anciaux, Simone Deparis and Paola Gervasio, has been accepted for a publication in Computers and Mathematics with Applications. |
| 23.09.2022 – Ondine Chanon has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Adaptive analysis-aware defeaturing”. | |
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01.09.2022 – MNS Chair welcomes a new visiting Ph.D. student, Giuliano Guarino, to our group. We wish him the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team ! |
| 31.08.2022 – Thibaut Hirschler, postdoc at MNS Chair, is joining Belfort University. We wish him all the best in his new position ! |  |
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29.08.2022 – The article entitled “On the fast assemblage of finite element matrices with application to nonlinear heat transfer problems” by Yannis Voet, has been accepted for a publication in Applied Mathematics and Computation |
| 09.08.2022 – The paper entitled “An a posteriori error estimator for isogeometric analysis on trimmed geometries” by Annalisa Buffa, Ondine Chanon and Rafael Vazquez has been accepted for publication in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis |  |
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15.07.2022 – The manuscript entitled “High order geometric methods with splines: an analysis of discrete Hodge–star operators” in collaboration with Rafael Vazquez has been accepted and will appear on the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC). |
| 30.06.2022 – Espen Sande has been awarded an SNSF Swiss postdoctoral fellowship. It will start on January 1st and for two years. | |
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31.05.2022 – Emiliano Cirillo is joining Sonova group. We wish him all the best in his new position ! |
| 29.04.2022 – Riccardo Puppi has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Stabilized isogeometric discretizations on trimmed and union geometries, and weak imposition of the boundary conditions for the Darcy flow. Great work! Congratulations, Riccardo! We wish you all the best for the future! | |
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31.03.2022 – Alessandra Arrigoni, PhD student at MNS Chair, is leaving our group. We wish her all the best for the future ! |
| 13.12.2021 – Xiaodong Wei is joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University. We wish them all the best in his new position ! |  |
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13.12.2021 – Felipe Rocha is joining the Ecole Centrale de Nantes. We wish them all the best in his new position ! |
| 13.12.2021 – MNS Chair welcomes two new doctoral students to join our group. Yannis Voet starts his Ph.D. in February and Runliang Wang is a visiting Ph.D. student. We wish them the best of luck in this new journey. Welcome to our team! |  |
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08.10.2021 – Luca Coradello has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Accurate Isogeometric Methods for Trimmed Shell Structures. Congratulations, Luca! Outstanding work! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors! |
| 03.05.2021 – MNS Chair welcomes a new postdoc, Espen Sande, to join our group. Espen got his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Oslo in 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Ragnar Winther and Prof. Snorre Christiansen. Since then he has worked as a research fellow (“assegnista di ricerca”) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, under the supervision of Prof. Carla Manni and Prof. Hendrik Speleers. We wish him the best of luck in this new research period. Welcome to our team! |  |