Conference

Multiphysics and mixed-dimensional modeling and discretizations

Project illustration of a sleeping man and a brain map.

This conference is hosted by the CRG project "Mathematical Challenges in Brain Mechanics", led by PIs Jan Martin Nordbotten (University of Bergen, NO) and Kent-Andre Mardal (University of Oslo, NO).

Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Tuesday 25 November

08:20-08:50      
Arrival & registration

08:50-09:00
Welcome and opening

09:00-09:45
Paola Antonietti (Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX), Polytechnic University of Milan, IT): Modeling the human brain across the scales

09:45-10:30
Silvia Bertoluzza (University of Pavia, IT): Title TBA

10:30-11:00
Coffee

11:00-11:45
Ivan Fumagalli (Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX), Polytechnic University of Milan, IT): Polytopal methods for brain fluid dynamics and waste clearance

12:00-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:15
Tanguy Le Borgne (University of Rennes, FR): Anomalous transport in brain microvascular networks

14:15-15:00
Gaute Linga (Norwegian University of Science and Technology/University of Oslo, NO): Pore-scale modelling of solute mixing in unsteady flows

15:00-15:30
Coffee break

15:30-16:15
Matteo Croci (Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, ES): Multi-output multilevel best linear unbiased estimators for multifidelity uncertainty quantification

16:15-17:00
Timo Koch (University of Stuttgart, DE): Interpreting simulated experiments in the brain: Simulation all the way?

Dinner

 

Day 2, Wednesday 26 November

09:00-09:45
Andre Massing (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO): Cut finite element methods for poroelasticity

09:45-10:30
Wietse Boon (NORCE, NO, University of Essen, DE): Solvers for mixed finite element problems based on spanning trees

10:30-11:00
Coffee

11:00-11:45
Xiaozhe Hu (Tufts University, US): Robust Preconditioners for Multiphysics Problems in Brain Mechanics

12:00-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:15
Jeonghun Lee (Baylor University, US): Stability and preconditioning of hybridized discontinuous Galerkin methods for poroelasticity problems

14:15-15:00
Igor Tominec (Jožef Stefan Institute, SI): Well-posedness of the Stokes problem under modified pressure Dirichlet boundary conditions

15:00-15:30
Coffee break

15:30-16:15
Jan Martin Nordbotten (University of Bergen, NO): Title TBA