Homepage for the University of Oxford finite element methods reading group!
Meetings this academic year will be hosted on Fridays from 15:00–16:00 GMT in S2.37. You can join on Teams by clicking here, or using the details:
2025–2026
Michaelmas term
| Week | Date | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17.OCT | Long steps in gradient descent methods (Grimmer, 2024; Zhigljavsky, Pronzato & Bukina, 2013) | Me (Boris Andrews) |
| 2 | 24.OCT | Sparse direct solvers (Duff, Erisman & Reid, 2017) | Kars Knook |
| 3 | 31.OCT | Group meeting | Everyone |
| 4 | 07.NOV | Preconditioners for PDE timesteppers (Southworth et al., 2022) | Charlie Parker |
| 5 | 14.NOV | TBA… | Jakub Cach |
| 6 | 21.NOV | TBA… | Mingdong He |
| 7 | 28.NOV | TBA… | TBA… |
| 8 | 05.DEC | TBA… | TBA… |
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–2025
For prior years, see Charlie Parker’s page here.
Click here to view the list of suggested papers.