BORIS ANDREWS
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford (he / him)
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PHD (DPHIL) THESIS
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EMPLOYMENT
- 2025–2027 (predicted)
|Postdoctoral Research Associate, Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford- PROJECT
|ERC Starting Grant for Geometric Finite Element Methods (GeoFEM) - ADVISOR
|Kaibo Hu
- PROJECT
EDUCATION
- 2021–2025
|PhD (DPhil), Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford- THESIS
|Geometric numerical integration via auxiliary variables - SUPERVISORS
|Patrick Farrell, Wayne Arter
- THESIS
- 2017–2021
|Integrated Masters (MMath), Mathematics, University of Oxford- GRADE
|First (Distinction) - THESIS
|Computation and approximation of near orthogonal matrices for tall random matrices - SUPERVISOR
|Yuji Nakatsukasa
- GRADE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- STRUCTURE-PRESERVING / COMPATIBLE NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PDEs & ODEs
|Conservative & dissipative integrators / Global & local energy estimates / Asymptotic-preserving integrators / Geometric ML - FINITE ELEMENT THEORY
|FEEC / Domain decomposition / PinT - PLASMA MODELLING
|MHD / Hybrid fluid-particle models - TURBULENT SYSTEMS
|Stabilisation / Preconditioning
PRIZES, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
- 2021–2025 (DPhil)
|EPSRC studentship / UKAEA studentship - 2017–2021 (MMath)
|Worcester College Foundation scholarship / Worcester College collection prizes
PUBLICATIONS & PREPRINTS
Preprints (Accepted for publication)
| Date | Title | Co-authors |
|---|---|---|
| 29.APR.2025 (arXiv), Upcoming (SISC) |
Enforcing conservation laws and dissipation inequalities numerically via auxiliary variables | Patrick Farrell |
Preprints (In review)
| Date | Title | Co-authors |
|---|---|---|
| 20.JAN.2025 (arXiv) |
Helicity-preserving finite element discretization for magnetic relaxation | Mingdong He, Patrick Farrell, Kaibo Hu |
Other works
| Date | Title | Co-authors |
|---|---|---|
| 18.JUL.2025 (download) |
Geometric numerical integration via auxiliary variables (PhD (DPhil) thesis) |
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| 16.JUL.2024 (arXiv) |
High-order conservative and accurately dissipative numerical integrators via auxiliary variables | Patrick Farrell |
In preparation (Drafts available on request)
| Title | Co-authors |
|---|---|
| Conservative and dissipative time discretisations for conservative and GENERIC systems | Patrick Farrell |
| Automated Galerkin time stepping in Irksome | Pablo Brubeck, Patrick Farrell, Rob Kirby, Scott MacLachlan |
| Enstrophy-stable integrators for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations | Matin Shams |
| An augmented Lagrangian preconditioner for natural convection at high Reynolds number | Alexei Gazca, Patrick Farrell |
| Uniformly accurate asymptotic-preserving integrators for charged particles |
In preparation (Drafts not yet available)
| Title | Co-authors |
|---|---|
| Helicity- and enstrophy-stable integrators for the Navier–Stokes–Voigt equations | |
| Globally and locally structure-preserving mixed finite element methods for boundary-value problems | |
| Enstrophy-stable integrators for the Navier–Stokes equations on manifolds | |
| Enstrophy-stable integrators for incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics |
TEACHING
- 2024–2025
|Tutor: Computational Mathematics - 2023–2024
|Tutor: Prelims corner / Teaching assistant: Numerical Linear Algebra - 2021–2022
|Tutor: Analysis I / Teaching assistant: Random Matrix Theory
SUPERVISION
- FEB–AUG.2025
|Matin Shams, MMSC special projection & dissertation- PROJECT
|Enstrophy-stable integrators for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations
- PROJECT
- SEP–OCT.2024
|Sebastian Ohlig, Undergraduate summer internship- PROJECT
|Stability of conservative vs. symplectic integrators on the Toda lattice
- PROJECT
TALKS
Invited talks & minisymposium presentations
- 2025
|(2×)ACOMEN (Ghent University) / ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Modern Finite Element Technologies (MFET) (Aachen, Germany) / Self-Consistency Group seminar (CHaRMNET) / ACM Colloqium (University of Edinburgh & Heriot-Watt University) / Numerical Mathematics & Scientific Computing Seminar (Rice University) / SIAM CSE (Fort Worth, Texas) / Scientific Computing Seminar (Brown University) / METHODS Group seminar (Brown University) - 2024
|External seminar (Rice University)
Other seminar, workshop & conference presentations
- 2025
|Numerical Analysis Group internal seminar (University of Oxford) / Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference (University of Strathclyde) - 2024
|Computing Division technical meeting (UKAEA) / Firedrake User Meeting (University of Oxford) / PDEsoft (University of Cambridge) / European Finite Element Fair (University College London) / Exploiting Algebraic and Geometric Structure in Time-integration Methods workshop (University of Pisa) / UKAEA PhD student engagement day (UKAEA) / Junior Applied Mathematical Seminar (University of Warwick) - 2023
|ICIAM (Waseda University) / Numerical Analysis Group internal seminar (University of Oxford) / Junior Applied Mathematics Seminar (University of Oxford) / Met Office presentation (University of Oxford) / Internal presentation (Tokamak Energy) - 2022
|PRISM workshop (Missenden Abbey, UK)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
- 2025–2027 (predicted)
|Organisation of the weekly finite element methods reading group, University of Oxford - APR–JUN.2026
|Attendance of the Programme on Differential Complexes at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), University of Vienna - JUN.2025
|Joint organisation of minisymposium on structure-preserving FEMs at the Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference with Charlie Parker, University of Strathclyde - AUG–OCT.2022
|Physics: theory and modelling internship, Tokamak Energy - JUL.2022
|Plasma physics summer school, UKAEA
LANGUAGES
Programming
- EXPERIENCED
|Python (Firedrake) / MATLAB / LaTeX - LIMITED
|Julia / C / Fortran / HTML
Spoken
- FLUENT
|English - INTERMEDIATE
|Dutch - BEGINNER
|Japanese / German
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