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Seminar of MIP laboratory (Toulouse) 2009-2010

Applied Mathematics Researcher CNRS  CNRS (National Science Research Center) Toulouse University IMT - Math. Institute of Toulouse  (ex MIP -UMR5219 - Mathematics for the Industry and Physics, Bur 214) F-31 062 Toulouse  FRANCE tel: (011 33) 5 61 55 76 52   fax (011 33) 5 61 55 83 85   loubere@mip.ups-tlse.fr

WORK EXPERIENCES

• PhD (Applied Mathematics), Applied Math of Bordeaux (MAB) University of Bordeaux, France - October 1999 / October 2002 
      Professor: R.Abgrall, Colleagues: J.Ovadia, B.Despres
  "A New Discontinuous Galerkin Lagrangian Particle method. Applications: fluid mechanics and laser/plasma interactions"  (link)

• Post-doct, Mathematics, Modeling and Analysis group (T7), Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA - February 2002 / December 2005
      Colleagues: M.Shashkov, B.Wendroff,E.J.Caramana                         Visit http://math.lanl.gov/

• CNRS Researcher CR2 (UMR 5219), at the Math Institute of Toulouse (IMT), University of Toulouse, France, since January 2006
                                                                                              Visit http://www.mip.ups-tlse.fr

ADMINISTR/REVIEWER/ORGANIZER:

• Organizer of the weekly Applied Mathematics seminar: see Seminar of MIP laboratory (Toulouse)
• Co-organizer of the minisymposium 
  
  •  Modeling and simulation of multi-phase and multi-material flows with Hyung Ahn, and Sam Schofield, 9th US Nat Congress on Comp. Mech., San Francisco July 2007
  • Numerical Methods for multiD Lagrangian schemes with Pierre-Henri Maire, The eighth European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, ENUMATH 2009, Upssala, Sweden, July 2009

• Projects: PI on Egide Czech-French collaboration 2006-2008 and 2009-2010, PI on CEA contract, Collab. on ANR-06-CIS-009 project SINE
• Reviewer for J.Comp.Phys, Intern.J.Num.Meth.Fluids, International Meshing Roundtable 

ON GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

*Numerical methods for compressible hydrodynamics, laser/plasma interactions and plasma simulation

• Staggered Lagrangian numerical schemes
  Collaborators: A.L.Bauer, E.J.Caramana, M.Shashkov, B.Wendroff

• Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) schemes
  Collaborators: M.Shashkov, R.Liska, B.Wendroff, B.Despres, R.Abgrall, J.Ovadia, P.H.Maire, J.Breil, P.Vachal

• Cell-centered Lagrangian schemes
  Collaborators: B.Despres, P.H.Maire, G.Breil, J.Ovadia

• ALE with reconnection
  Collaborators: P.H.Maire, G.Breil, J.Ovadia, M.Shashkov, M.Kucharik

• Multiscale Finite Volume Method
  Collaborators: P.Degond, L.Carballal-Perdix, F.Deluzet, J.M.Rovarch

*Meshing, Remapping and Particle methods

• Rezoning and conservative remapping strategy
  Collaborators: M.Shashkov, M.Kucharik

• Repair methods
  Collaborators: B.Wendroff, M.Staley, B.Despres

• Interface reconstruction via Power Diagram  
  Collaborators: R.Garimella, M.Francois, J.Ovadia

LECTURES  and   STUDENTS 

*At Toulouse University

• PhD student: L.Carballal-Perdix, defense on Dec 2010

• Postdocs : J.M.Rovarch started on April 2008

• Lecture : MasterI Fondmental Mathematics -- "Formal and Scientific Computation" --- 48 hours

*At Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Students and collaborators: 
  Jaisankar Subramanian PhD Bangalore India
  A.L.Bauer PhD - University of Michigan (working as Postdoc at Los Alamos Nat Laboratory)
  P.Bures Master - Czech Technical University in Prague (working for Sun Microsyst.)