Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

In 2019, RAPSODI members have been the laureates of several calls for projects.

• T. Rey has been awarded an ERC Generator grant (116 545 euros) from I-SITE Université Lille - Nord Europe for his project MANAKINEQO (R-ERCGEN-19-007-REY). Upon the next two years, T. Rey aims at investigating mathematical properties, as well as developing efficient numerical schemes, for multiscale collisional kinetic equations of the Boltzmann type. A 20-months post-doc will be funded using this grant, as well as an international conference. Following this ERC Generator grant, T. Rey will apply for an ERC Consolidator grant.

• S. Lemaire is the PI of the ADT project ParaSkel++ , which is one of the funded Actions of Technological Development of the Inria Lille - Nord Europe 2019 campaign. The aim of the project is to develop an optimized C++ platform for the arbitrary-order numerical approximation of PDEs by skeletal methods on general 2D/3D meshes, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of HPC facilities. L. Beaude has been hired as a development engineer for this project. She will start in February 2020.

• C. Cancès, C. Chainais-Hillairet and B. Merlet are involved in the H2020 project EURAD (EU ropean Joint Programme on RAD ioactive Waste Management). The aim of their project inside EURAD is to establish an energetic formulation of the Diffusion Poisson Coupled Model leading to new large-time robust numerical methods for the simulation of the corrosion processes in an underground repository. C. Cancès is the leader of the task “Numerical methods for high-performance computing of coupled processes” within the EURAD project.

One can also mention the obtention by T. Rey of a Young Researcher PEPS grant from CNRS's INSMI (3 500 euros, from March to November 2019). The granted project aimed at investigating high-order (in time and velocity) numerical methods for approximating the solutions to the granular gases equation.