Numerical simulation

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DotBlocks Lectures

Where industry and research converge to turn emerging ideas into real-world impact.

DotBlocks Lectures are high-level research seminars showcasing cutting-edge advances in applied mathematics and numerical methods. Hosted at DotBlocks (16 rue Martel, Paris) and accessible in person or online, they connect academic excellence with industrial innovation.

They give industry professionals a focused window into emerging methods, while offering researchers a platform to demonstrate the real-world relevance and impact of their work beyond academia.

LECTURE #17
June 25, 2026
LECTURE #17

ArcaneFEM: Toward Exascale FEM on Unstructured Meshes with GPUs

Mohd Afeef Badri - Research Engineer - CEA LESIM

LECTURE #16
June 11, 2026
LECTURE #16

TBD

Pierre-Henri Maire - Directeur de recherche au CEA/Cesta

LECTURE #15
May 28, 2026
LECTURE #15

Estimateurs d'erreur a posteriori pour le calcul adaptatif d'écoulements multiphasiques en milieu poreux

Ibtissem Lannabi - Applied mathematics researcher - Inria / IFPEN

LECTURE #14
April 9, 2026
LECTURE #14

Approche probabiliste de la résistance à la fatigue des structures

Alain Ehrlacher - Professor - Head of Department - Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées

LECTURE #13
April 2, 2026
LECTURE #13

A unified approach for multi-physics and reduced‑order modelling for Wind Energy applications

Matteo Capaldo - Head of R&D team for design optimization & costing of Renewables - TotalEnergies

LECTURE #12
March 12, 2026
LECTURE #12

Modelling complex particle suspensions

Blaise Delmotte - CNRS Researcher at LadHyX - Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique

LECTURE #11
February 26, 2026
LECTURE #11

Aspects of the Industrial Applications of SPH

Argiris Kamoulakos - Associate Fellow of the AIAA - ex ESI Group Scientific Director

LECTURE #10
February 12, 2026
LECTURE #10

How to write reasonably performant GPGPU kernels

Rémi Bourgeois - Research Engineer - CEA Saclay

LECTURE #9
December 11, 2025
LECTURE #9

Multi-GPU implementation of kinetic Lattice Boltzmann method for multi-scale plasma simulations

Emmanuel Lévêque - CNRS senior researcher & Raffaello Foldes - Ecole Centrale de Lyon

LECTURE #8
December 4, 2025
LECTURE #8

Stratégies éléments finis pour l'équation de transport radiatif - applications au solaire concentré

Yann Favennec - Maître de Conférences à l'Université de Nantes

LECTURE #7
November 19, 2025
LECTURE #7

The use of phase change for thermo-regulation of porous media

Romain Noël - Researcher - Université Gustave Eiffel / INRIA

LECTURE #6
November 12, 2025
LECTURE #6

Quantitative Analysis of Numerical Schemes: Selected topics

Daniel Bouche - Research Director CEA - Direction des applications militaires

LECTURE #5
November 6, 2025
LECTURE #5

Méthodes HHO (hybrides d'ordre élevé) pour la propagation d'ondes géophysiques

Alexandre Ern - Senior Researcher INRIA / CERMICS - Ecole des ponts et chaussées

LECTURE #4
October 16, 2025
LECTURE #4

Accelerating non-local exchange in generalized optimized Schwarz methods

Xavier Claeys - Professor of applied mathematics - ENSTA"

LECTURE #3
October 7, 2025
LECTURE #3

A multi-scale strategy for turbulent liquid-liquid suspensions

Victor Boniou - Research Engineer IFP EN

LECTURE #2
September 25, 2025
LECTURE #2

Cost effective digital twin of directed energy deposition additive manufacturing

Daniel Weisz-Patrault - Chargé de Recherches CNRS, LMS, Ecole Polytechnique - Professeur à l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Délégué scientifique à la Mission Intégrité Scientifique du CNRS

LECTURE #1
September 19, 2025
LECTURE #1

Birth, life and death of bubbles in high viscous glass-forming liquid

Franck Pigeonneau - Research Director at Mines Paris, PSL University

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The DotBlocks Lectures feature researchers working at the intersection of advanced numerical methods and industrial application. The series explores mathematical analysis, scientific computing, and computational physics, with particular interest in contributions connected to the real challenges of industry and materials science. Speakers are selected on the depth and originality of their work. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis by our programming committee.

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