Section: Dissemination

Leadership within scientific community

Conferences, meetings and tutorial organization

• Giovanni Manfredi was co-organizer of the "Vlasovia 2009" conference, CIRM, Marseille, August 31st - September 4th, 2009.

• Nicolas Crouseilles and Eric Sonnendrücker organized the Summer school of the Large Scale Initiative "FUSION" : September 15-18, 2009, Strasbourg.

• Eric Sonnendrücker was co-organizer of the conference on "Numerical Methods for Controlled Fusion", 20-24 Avril 2009, Porquerolles, France

• Pierre Navaro and Eric Sonnendrücker organized the semestrial Euforia (European 7th FP project) meeting in Strasbourg, 25-27 November 2009.

Invitations at conferences and summer schools

• Nicolas Besse gave a lecture at the 7th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rethymno, Crete (Greece) September 18-22, 2009. Title: Reduced models for gyrokinetic turbulence.

• Mihai Bostan gave the following lectures:

  • Equations cinétiques et applications

    Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques Marseille, February 2009. Title: Asymptotic regimes for strongly magnetized plasmas. Gyro-kinetic models.

  • Numerical models for controlled fusion, Porquerolles, France 20-24 April 2009. Title: Gyro-kinetic models for strongly magnetized plasmas and ergodic theory.

  • Modeling and simulation for magnetic fusion, Strasbourg, France 15-18 september 2009. Title: Second order accurate models for strongly magnetized plasmas.

  • Physical and mathematical challenges in light of Iter, Marseille, France 26-30 October 2009. Title: Rigorous derivation of gyro-kinetic models for strongly magnetized plasmas.

  • International workshop on Hamiltonian approaches of Iter physics; Marseille, France 2nd-6th november 2009. Title: Asymptotic models for magnetic confinement.

  • Theory and Numerics of kinetic equations, University of Saarland, Saarbruecken Germany November 16-18 2009. Title: Asymptotic models for strongly magnetized plasmas.

• Martin Campos Pinto gave the following lectures:

  • “How to predict accurate grids in adaptive semi-Lagrangian schemes” at the Workshop Multiresolution and Adaptive Methods for Convection-Dominated Problems held at University Paris 6, January 22-23, 2009, Paris.

  • “Consistent coupling in FEM-PIC codes for Vlasov-Maxwell Simulation” at the 10th International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference, August 31st - September 4th, 2009, San Francisco.

• Nicolas Crouseilles taught a course ”New formulations of semi-Lagrangian methods” at the "Vlasovia 2009" conference, CIRM, Marseille, August 31st - September 4th, 2009.

• Alain Ghizzo gave the following lectures:

  • ”Eulerian-Vlasov models for plasma simulation”, at the 9th International School for Space Simulations, July 3-11, 2009, Paris

  • ”Gyrokinetic simulation of Trapped Ion Modes for ITG instabilities”, at the International Workshop on "Hamiltonian Approaches of ITER Physics" held in CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille, November 2nd-6th, 2009.

• Giovanni Manfredi taught a course at the Summer school of the Large Scale Initiative "FUSION": September 15-18, 2009, Strasbourg. Title: Plasma-wall transition in magnetized plasmas.

• Jean-Rodolphe Roche gave the following invited lectures:

  • ”A domain decomposition method for second order non-linear PDE's equations”, at Laboratoire National de Calcul Scientifique, Petropolis, Brasil.

  • ”Shape optimization for electromagnetic casting problem” at Instituto Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.

  • ”La méthode de décomposition de domaines” at Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy, France.

• Stéphanie Salmon gave the following invited lecture

  • "Exact Charge Conservation in a High-Order Conforming Maxwell Solver coupled with Particles" in the Minisymposium "High-order methods for the solution of wave propagation" organized by Stéphane Lanteri at Waves 2009, 15th-19th June 2009, Pau.

• Eric Sonnendrücker gave the following invited lectures:

  • "Adaptive methods for the Vlasov equation" at "Multiresolution and Adaptive Methods for Convection-Dominated Problems", January 22-23, 2009, Paris, France.

  • "Adaptive semi-Lagrangian methods for the Vlasov equation", at SMAI 2009 conference, mini-symposium on Multiresolution methods, 25-29 May 2009, La Colle sur Loup, France.

  • "Geometric formulation of the Vlasov-Maxwell" Equations at "Workshop on Hamiltonian methods for ITER physics", 2-6 November 2009, CIRM, Luminy.

Administrative duties

• Vladimir Latocha is assistant head of the Mathematics Department at the University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1. He is also in charge of the international relations.

• Vladimir Latocha gives lectures for "training of trainers" of the Education Office of Nancy-Metz on the theme of algorithmics at the secondary school.

• Jean Rodolphe Roche is the head of the Mathematics Science department of the “École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy" .

• Jean Rodolphe Roche is the research coordinator of the L.R.C. projet ”Full wave modeling of lower hybrid current drive in tokamaks”

• Jean Rodolphe Roche is the research coordinator of a CAPES-COFECUB bilateral agreement with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing of Brazil.

• Eric Sonnendrücker is a member of the National Committee of Universities (26th section: applied mathematics).

• Eric Sonnendrücker is a member of the Scientific Committee of CIRM.