The Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division (CEMSE) is proud to announce an exciting seminar with a distinguished speaker.
Franco Brezzi, professor of Mathematics at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, will present the basic structure and the fundamental ideas behind Virtual Element Methods.
The main features of the method will be outlined including guidelines for its implementation as well as the essential mathematical instruments to be used in analysis.
Monday, April 28
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Engineering Science Hall (bldg. 9)
Hall 1, Room 2322
Franco Brezzi was a professor of Mathematics at the Politecnico di Torino from 1975 to 1977 and at the University of Pavia from 1977 to 2006. He currently is a professor of Mathematics at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS).
He served as Director of the IMATI-CNR, formerly known as Institute of Numerical Analysis, from 1992 to 2012, and President of the Italian Mathematical Union from 2006 to 2012. Currently he is Vice President of the European Mathematical Society as well as a member of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Milano), of the Accademia Nazonale dei Lincei (Roma), and of the European Academy of Sciences. He received the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM in 2004, and the Von Neumann Award from SIAM in 2009.
His interests are mainly in scientific computing, and numerical analysis of PDEs for various applications. Recently he has been working on discontinuous Galerkin methods, co-chain discretizations of differential forms and virtual element methods.