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Meetings this academic year will be hosted on Fridays from 15:00–16:00 GMT, in S2.37 (when available). You can join on Teams by clicking here, or using the details:
2025–2026
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| Week | Date | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23.JAN | Differential forms and virtual elements (Arnold, 2018; Beirao da Veiga et al., 2023) | Olav Tyssvang |
| 2 | 30.JAN | Finding equilibria of Hamiltonian systems (Bressan et al., 2025; Bressan et al., 2018) | Mingdong He |
| 3 | 06.FEB* | Mollifiers & applications in FEMs | Me (Boris Andrews) |
| 4 | 13.FEB | Free-boundary and two-phase MHD | Ganghui Zhang |
| 5 | 20.FEB | TBA… | TBA… |
| 6 | 27.FEB | TBA… | TBA… |
| 7 | 06.MAR* | TBA… | TBA… |
| 8 | 13.MAR | TBA… | TBA… |
*Due to clashes, meetings marked with asterices will be in S1.37.
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2025–2026
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D. Arnold, Finite Element Exterior Calculus. SIAM, 2018
L. Beirao Da Veiga, F. Brezzi, D. Marini and A. Russo, The virtual element method, Acta Numerica (2023) doi:10.1017/S0962492922000095
C. Bressan, M. Kraus, P. J. Morrison and O. Maj, Relaxation to magnetohydrodynamics equilibria via collision brackets, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1125 (2018), doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1125/1/012002
C. Bressan, M. Kraus, O. Maj and P. J. Morrison, Metriplectic relaxation to equilibria, arXiv (2025), doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.09787
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