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OXFORD FEM READING GROUP

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:

UPCOMING

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…

REFERENCES

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PAST

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SUGGESTED READS

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N.B. I’m very poor at keeping this list up-to-date, so if you’re looking for more recent recommendations then just shoot me a message!

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