FIREDRAKE USA '25: FIREDRAKE USA '25
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, February 28th Saturday, March 1st

Friday, February 28th

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09:00-10:00 Session 1: Tutorial 1

This is the first part of the Firedrake tutorial, focusing on basic usage.

10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2: Tutorial 2

This is the continuation of the Firedrake tutorial, moving into more advanced examples.

12:00-13:30Lunch Break

Lunch will be taken in the Penland Dining Hall on campus, a short walk from the Baylor SUB.   Make sure you bring the meal card provided with your nametag!

13:30-15:00 Session 3: Developing New Features

This session includes several talks on new and emerging features in Firedrake, such as a time-stepping abstraction, coupled problems over different domains, and new finite element spaces.

13:30
Irksome: Automated time-stepping with Firedrake (abstract)
PRESENTER: Robert Kirby
14:00
Submesh in Firedrake (abstract)
PRESENTER: Koki Sagiyama
14:30
FIAT: enabling classical and modern macroelements (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pablo Brubeck
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 4: Numerical Analysis with Firedrake I

This is the first of two sessions on new numerical analysis results, with some interest in applying Firedrake or finding opportunities to apply it.

15:30
A High-Order Uniformly Bounds-Constrained Finite Element Method via Variational Inequalities (abstract)
PRESENTER: John Stephens
16:00
A preconditioner for the grad-div stabilized equal-order finite elements discretizations of the Oseen problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yunhui He
16:30
The diffuse interface approach to fluid-structure interaction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Francis Aznaran
18:00-20:30 Dinner at the Baylor Club

Dinner will be held in the Press Lounge at the Baylor Club in McLane Stadium

"Cash" (actually, only cards are accepted!) bar and appetizers at 18:00, dinner served at 19:00.

Saturday, March 1st

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09:00-10:00 Session 5: Numerical Analysis with Firedrake, II

This is the second of two sessions on new numerical analysis results, with some interest in applying Firedrake or finding opportunities to apply it.

09:00
Solving Maxwell's Equations with a Nonlocal Boundary Condition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Drew Anderson
09:30
On the modeling and approximation of a Gray-Scott model with nonlocal diffusion. (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Session 6: Applications

This section focuses on PDE-based applications and modeling in Firedrake.

10:30
Firedrake for Magnetic Confinement Fusion Simulations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Golo Wimmer
11:00
Advancing High-Resolution 3D Printing: Modeling Photopolymerization for Microfluidic Device Fabrication (abstract)
11:30-12:00 Session 7: User/deverloper discussions

We encourage attendees to interact with each other for informal discussions related to Firedrake usage, feature requests, or other kinds of feedback.

12:00-13:30Lunch Break

Lunch will be taken in the Penland Dining Hall on campus, a short walk from the Baylor SUB.   Make sure you bring the meal card provided with your nametag!

13:30-15:00 Session 8: HPC issues

This session focuses on HPC issues such as automatic differentiation, data structures, and Python/CUDA interaction.

13:30
Automatic Differentiation in MFEM (abstract)
14:00
pyop3: a better code generator for mesh-based computations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Connor Ward
14:30
CUDA Python (abstract)
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 9: User/developer discussions

We encourage attendees to interact with each other for informal discussions related to Firedrake usage, feature requests, or other kinds of feedback.