NumKin 2025
Program
The talks will be broadcast on zoom, connection details can be given to participants upon email request.
Monday, October 27, 2025
08:30 am Registration
09:00 am Michael Kraus - "Formulations and integration of reduced charged particle models”
09:45 am Sandra Jeyakumar - "Particle discretisations of metriplectic brackets for collision operators"
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Junjie Wen - "Finite Element Approximations for Vlasov Equations"
11:45 am Danny Finn - "Entropy Monotonicity using Discrete Gradients in the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau System"
12:30 pm Lunch
14:00 pm Lukas Einkemmer - "Suppressing kinetic plasma instabilities without feedback"
14:45 pm Paul Wilhelm - "A Feasibality Study of Low-Rank Compression for Distribution Functions from Vlasov simulations"
15:30 pm Coffee Break
16:00 pm Philipp Krah - "Fast & Flow-rious: A Hybrid Ride Through Phase Space"
16:45 pm Eric Sonnendrücker - "Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory"
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
09:00 am Zhixin Lu - "Recent development of triangular mesh based gyrokinetic code"
09:45 am Ibrahim Almuslimani - "Stabilized and Adaptive Time-Stepping Schemes in GENE-X"
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Bernardo Collufio - "Time-step selection for kinetic equations: an adaptive semi-Lagrangian scheme for the stiff BGK model"
11:45 pm Byung Kyu Na - "Structure-Preserving MHD–Driftkinetic Discretization for Wave–Particle Interactions"
12:30 pm Lunch
14:00 pm Matthew Knepley - "A 2-level method for hybrid kinetic-moment simulation"
14:45 pm Ruiyang Dai - "On the conservation properties of the Hermite spectral method with non-orthogonal projection for the Vlasov-Poisson system"
15:30 pm longer break
16:45 Claudia Negulescu - "Spectral scheme for an energetic Fokker-Planck equation with $\kappa$-distribution steady states"
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
09:00 am Mark Adams - "A projection method for particle resampling"
09:45 am Theresa Pollinger - "Omnitrees: AMR for higher-dimensional simulations"
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Kim Han Trinh - "A modified Crank-Nicolson scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson system with a strong external magnetic field"
11:45 am Michel Mehrenberger - "The cascade method for Vlasov type equations"
12:30pm Lunch
Afternoon Free
19:00 pm Social Dinner
Thuersday, October 30, 2025
09:00 am Giacomo Dimarco - "Instantaneous control strategies for magnetically confined fusion plasma"
09:45 am Dominik Bell - "Hamiltonian Delta-F Models for the Vlasov-Maxwell Equations"
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Nicolas Crouseilles - "Semi-Lagrangian SAV method for Vlasov-Maxwell equations"
11:45 am Hongtao Liu - "Energy-Conserving Semi-Lagrangian Scheme for the Vlasov–Maxwell System"
12:30 pm Lunch
14:00 pm Bruno Després - "Thoughts on Mathematics, Plasma Physics and Machine Learning"
14:45 pm Chinmay Datar - "Can we make physics-informed neural networks fast, accurate, and causal?"
15:30 pm Coffee Break
16:00 pm Qiang Liu - "Physics-constrained diffusion models for sparse data reconstruction of flow fields"
16:45 pm Emmanuel Franck - "Hierarchy of Neural Network-Based Approximations for the Vlasov-Poisson Equation"
Friday, October 31, 2025
09:00 am Nils Thuerey - "Generative AI & Probabilistic Learned Solvers"
09:45 am Konrad Janik - "Symplectic Convolutional Neural Networks"
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00am Zeyuan Li - "Structure Preserving Nonlinear Integration of Differential Equations"
11:45 am Benedikt Brantner - "Structure-Preserving Optimizers for Geometric Machine Learning"
Afternoon Free