Speakers 2025

We are happy to announce that the lectures will be given by the following distinguished scientist:

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	Elena Celledoni (NTNU, Norway)
	Mathieu Desbrun (Inria, France) After obtaining a PhD in computer graphics in Grenoble, France, Desbrun joined Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow in 1998. He joined the CS department at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in January 2000, where he remained for four years in charge of the GRAIL lab. He then became an Associate Professor at Caltech in the CS department in 2003, where he started the Applied Geometry lab and was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH New Researcher award. He took on administrative duties after he became a full professor, becoming the founding chair of the Computing + Mathematical Sciences department and the director of the Information Science and Technology initiative from 2009 to 2015. More recently, he received an International Chair from France's Inria, has been the Technical Papers Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 conference, spent a sabbatical year at ShanghaiTech in the School of Information Science and Technology, was elected as ACM Fellow in 2020, and became a SIGGRAPH Academy member in 2021. He is now part of the Geomerix research team that he cofounded, both as a researcher at Inria Saclay, and a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, where he focuses on geometry-driven numerics, covering data analysis, machine learning, and simulation.
	Felix Dietrich (TUM, Germany)
	Virginie Ehrlacher (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France)
	Florin Adrian Radu (University Bergen, Norway) Florin A. Radu studied pure mathematics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. After graduation, he made his PhD in applied mathematics in 2004 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany under the supervision of Prof. Peter Knabner. The topic of his thesis was design, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for variable saturated flow and transport in porous media. After the PhD, Florin had several researcher positions at FAU, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Science, Leipzig, University of Jena and Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig. He was acting professor at FAU for one semester in spring 2011. In autumn 2011 he finally moved to UUniversity of Bergen, Norway (UoB) as Associate Professor. In 2013 Florin finished his habilitation at FAU. Since 2015 he is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at UoB. Florin A. Radu has over 25 years experience in porous media research, working with applications including water and soil pollution, enhanced oil recovery, CO2 storage, cancer research, pharmaceutical technology or enhance geothermal energy extraction. He made relevant contributions in the development of efficient and robust solvers for coupled, nonlinear partial differential equations, in mathematical modelling of multicomponent, multiphase flow and deformation in porous media and in numerical analysis in connection with discretization methods for partial differential equations. His work has been cited over 5000 times at google scholar so far.
	Martin Vohralik (Inria, France) Martin Vohralík is a Czech scientist working in France as a Senior researcher at Inria Paris. He is the head of the team SERENA; he also holds a Professor degree of the Charles University in Prague. Previously, he was an Associate professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He serves as an Editor of Computational Geosciences, Applications of Mathematics, and Acta Polytechnica journals. He held the ERC consolidator grant GATIPOR in 2015–2021. His research interests include partial differential equations, numerical discretizations, numerical linear algebra; and scientific computing, with a specific interest in a posteriori error control and adaptivity. He works on applications to flows and transport in porous media.