November 2013 - firedrake - imperial.ac.uk

Re: [firedrake] Informal finite element course.
by David Ham 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

On 11 November 2013 14:08, Rathgeber, Florian <f.rathgeber10(a)imperial.ac.uk>wrote: > On 11/11/13 13:41, Lawrence Mitchell wrote: > > > > On 11 Nov 2013, at 13:38, David Ham <David.Ham(a)imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> This morning we managed to record a short section of audio and video > from the access grid room onto Panoptico, which is college's lecture > recording system. I think we're therefore ready to go with the informal > finite element course. This means we need to do it in WPL 3.01, which has > the disadvantage that the whiteboards are less than amazing, but it will do. > >> > >> The second disadvantage of WPL 3.01 is that it's booked a hell of a lot > of the time. At this stage I could book the room from 1030 until 1200 this > Thursday. Please ANSWER NOW whether this is a good time for the first > lecture. > > > > Those timings WFM. > > WFM too. Have we concluded that the video is good enough and we don't > need to faff with tethered recording on my DSLR? > > Florian > > I think so. The resolution was OK-ish and I plan to use extra fat whiteboard markers (of which I have a set) to help things along. > > Lawrence > > -- Dr David Ham Departments of Mathematics and Computing Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham

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FW: Seminars and events for the week 11-17 November
by Cotter, Colin J 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Dear Firedrake, There are two (quite mathematical) FEM talks in the Applied PDEs seminar next week. all the best --cjc Applied PDEs seminar Two talks: Endre Suli and Adrien Blanchet Date: 13 Nov 2013 Time: 16:00 - 18:00 Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre (Huxley Building Entrance Level 2) Campus: South Kensington Campus<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington> Speaker: Dr Adrien Blanchet, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole Prof Endre Suli, Oxford Audience: Open to all Event type: Seminar Contact: Jose Carrillo de la Plata<mailto:carrillo@imperial.ac.uk>, Yanghong Huang<mailto:yanghong.huang@imperial.ac.uk> Endre Suli: Existence of global weak solutions to Navier-Stokes-Fokker-Planck systems Clore LT 16:00-17:00 The lecture will survey recent developments concerning the existence of global-in-time weak solutions to a general class of coupled microscopic-macroscopic bead-spring chain models that arise in the kinetic theory of dilute solutions of polymeric liquids with noninteracting polymer chains. The class of models involves the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain for the velocity and the pressure of the fluid, with an elastic extra-stress tensor appearing on the right-hand side of the momentum equation. The extra-stress tensor stems from the random movement of the polymer chains and is defined by the Kramers expression through the associated probability density function that satisfies a Fokker-Planck type parabolic equation, a crucial feature of which is the presence of a centre-of-mass diffusion term. The proof of a existence of global weak solutions is based on a combination of entropy estimates and weak compactness arguments. The lecture is based on a series of recent papers with John W. Barrett (Imperial College London). Adrien Blanchet: A gradient flow approach to the Keller-Segel systems. Clore LT 17:00-18:00 This talk is dedicated to recent results on the Keller-Segel model in 2d, and on its variants in higher dimensions where the diffusion is of critical porous medium type. These models have a critical mass $M_c$ such that the solutions exist globally in time if the mass is less than $M_c$ and above which there are solutions which blowup in finite time. The main tools, in particular the free energy and the Jordan-Kinderlherer-Otto's minimising scheme in the Monge-Kantorovich metric, and the idea of the methods are set out.

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AMMP talk next week (tuesday 4.10pm)
by Lawrence Mitchell 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Dear all, next week, James Maddison (formerly at Oxford, now Edinburgh) will be giving the AMMP seminar on "Adaptive unstructured mesh modelling of large scale ocean dynamics". You may be interested in attending. More details: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/naturalscienc… Lawrence

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Meeting this week: Midday, Thursday 7th.
by Lawrence Mitchell 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Dear all, as mentioned last week, Friday is again bad this week, so instead our weekly meeting is at midday on Thursday in WPL 301. Lawrence

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project students
by Kelly, Paul H J 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

I am pleased to announce that the following students will be joining the SPO group for their final-year projects: Allan, Sean (sra11) Solving fluid flow on Android using OpenCL and domain-specific languages and runtime code generation Wozniak, Bartosz (bdw10) Exploiting sparsity, graph algorithms and specialisation in computational fluid dynamics Woffinden, Daniel (daw10)Evaluating Qualcomm's MARE framework for multicore/manycore 3D scene understanding Aljeshi, Wael (wa910) To structure or not to structure: real time structure mining in hybrid meshes Kelsall, Timothy (tk2010) Efficient kernel lookup for massively parallel computations Should be really really good! Paul

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Imperial Fringe: Fluid thinking - 5pm Thursday Dec 12th
by Kelly, Paul H J 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Imperial Fringe: Fluid thinking >From 5pm on Thursday December 12th in the College main entrance: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/eventssummary… This is public engagement event with a bar; this specific one is focused on fluids. I have no idea how one might get involved in it - the contact is h.martin(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:h.martin@imperial.ac.uk> But we should definitely plan to show up :) Paul

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Fwd: Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science -- Vint Cerf -- 27-11-2013
by Kelly, Paul H J 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

You have to attend this (and arrive in good time - it will likely be mobbed). I'll be in Paris, unfortunately. Paul Begin forwarded message: From: "Hall, Margaret J" <margaret.hall(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:margaret.hall@imperial.ac.uk>> Date: 1 November 2013 13:52:51 GMT To: doc-academic-list <doc-academic-list(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-academic-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-ra-list <doc-ra-list(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-ra-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-all-students <doc-all-students(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-all-students@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science -- Vint Cerf -- 27-11-2013 SENT BY MARGARET HALL ON BEHALF OF MAJA PANTIC --------------- Dear all, Just a reminder about the upcoming lecture of the Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science to be given by Vint Cerf. For more information about Vint Cerf's Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science, please scroll below. For more information about Vint Cerf and his work, please visit: http://research.google.com/pubs/author32412.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf The talk will take place on Wednesday 27-11-2013 at 15.00, 308/311. The main organiser of the talk is Alex Wolf. If you would like to meet Vint Cerf in person, please contact Alex for arrangements. I hope that all will be able to attend. Best wishes, Maja *************** Date of the talk: November 27, 2013, at 15.00, in 308/311 (Huxley Building, 180 Queens' Gate), followed by a drinks reception in DoC Common Room Speaker: Vint Cerf Title: Internet Challenges for the 21st Century Abstract: The Internet continues to expand, to support new applications and to excite public and government concerns over abuse of this infrastructure. This talk will explore technical directions for further Internet evolution and explore the implications of the Internet of things, the Information explosion and the extension of the Internet to operate across the solar system. Bio: Vinton (Vint) G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." >From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint currently serves as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees. ***************

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meeting next week
by Lawrence Mitchell 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi all, next week, friday is again bad. Since everyone appeared to be available on Thursday at midday, assuming I hear no cries of anguish to the contrary by lunchtime, I shall go ahead and book for next week (WPL is free). Lawrence

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