PDESoft 2024

PDE software frameworks conference, 1-3 July 2024, Cambridge, UK

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The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is important across a wide range of fields. Simulation codes underpin this need and are employed in many areas of science and engineering, from forecasting the weather, to predicting the flow field around aircraft, through to predictive simulations for biomedical applications, amongst many other examples.

PDESoft 2024 is an opportunity for users and developers of software tools for solving PDEs and allied areas to come together to present and discuss current and future directions of research.

Areas of focus include:

• numerical PDE solvers
• new and novel software tools for solving PDEs, including machine learning techniques
• parallel and high-performance computing, including at exascale
• algorithmic and software techniques for novel hardware
• numerical linear algebra and preconditioning
• model order reduction
• meshing tools
• data visualisation
• user interfaces to scientific software
• any other part of the PDE toolchain

PDESoft 2024 was be held at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge.

PDESoft 2024 follows in the successful footsteps of PDESoft 2012 in Münster, PDESoft 2014 in Heidelberg, PDESoft 2016 in Warwick and PDESoft 2018 in Bergen.

 

Schedule

The schedule features three invited speakers:

• Joachim Schöberl (TU Wien) spoke about Netgen/NGSolve;
• April Novak (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) spoke about MOOSE and ECP;
• Tzanio Kolev (LLNL) spoke about MFEM and CEED.

Alongside these speakers, there were 36 contributed talks on a range of topics. The full schedule for PDESoft 2024 can be found on the schedule page.

 

Photos

Many photos that were taken during PDESoft 2024 have been posted on the conference’s LinkedIn page.

 

Proceedings

A topical collection for PDESoft is planned to be included in the new journal Computational Science and Engineering, which has a focus on reproducibility with code review. We hope that many participants in the PDESoft conference will be able to contribute.

 

Registration

Registration to attend PDESoft 2024 is now closed. Registration includes:

• Attendance at all conference sessions.
• Lunches at the Møller Institute.
• Conference dinner on 1 July at Magdalene College.

More information can be found on the registrations page.

 

Travel and accommodation

Accommodation was not included in the conference fee. We recommended one of the following options:

• A limited number of rooms were available at the Møller Institute
• The Hyatt Centric, a 15 minute walk from the conference venue.
• Premier Inn Cambridge North

The conference began at 10:00am BST on Monday 1 July and ended at 3:00pm BST on Wednesday 3 July. The Møller Institute is easily reachable from Cambridge rail station by bus or taxi.

More information can be found on the travel and accommodation page.

 

Scientific committee

• Jed Brown, University of Colorado
• Donna Calhoun, Boise State University
• Christian Engwer, Universität Münster
• David Ham, Imperial College London
• Timo Heister, Clemson University
• Robert Klöfkorn, Lunds Universitet
• Tzanio Kolev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Martin Kronbichler, Universität Augsburg
• Sylvain Laizet, Imperial College London
• Marie Rognes, Simula Oslo
• Miriam Schulte, Universität Stuttgart
• Garth Wells, University of Cambridge
• Michèle Weiland, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
• Ulrike Yang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

Local organising committee

• Jack Betteridge, Imperial College London
• Joe Dean, University of Cambridge
• Hilde Hambro, University of Cambridge
• Chris Richardson, University of Cambridge
• Matthew Scroggs, University College London
• Nirav Shah, University of Cambridge
• Garth Wells, University of Cambridge

You can contact the local organising committee with any questions about the conference by emailing contact@pdesoft.org

 

Code of conduct

We request that all conference attendees adhere to our code of conduct (based on the Contributor Covenant). Any issues and concerns can be raised by approaching any of the conference organisers at the conference, or by contacting the team at conduct@pdesoft.org