International Workshop on Structure-Preserving Finite Element Methods

Workshop Schedule

The workshop will take place in the South Building of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, in room N219 (2nd floor) on January 9th, 2026, and in room N204 (2nd floor) on January 10th, 2026.
January 9, 2026, Friday (South Building N219)
Time Speaker Title Host
8:20-8:30 Opening Ceremony Welcome speech by Prof. Ping Zhang Weiying Zheng
8:30-9:10 Ralf Hiptmair Semi-Lagrangian Timestepping for the Transport of Differential Form Zhiming Chen
9:10-9:50 Joachim Schoeberl Distributional Finite Elements with Applications for Elasticity, Fluids, and Curvature Zhiming Chen
Tea Break
10:10-10:50 Wei Gong Numerical analysis of PDE-constrained shape optimization via shape gradient flow Pingbing Ming
10:50-11:30 Shipeng Mao Efficient structure-preserving FEM for MHD systems Pingbing Ming
Lunch
14:00-14:40 Johnny Guzman Discrete Poincare and Bogovskii operators Kaibo Hu
14:40-15:20 Anil Hirani Convergence and Stability of Discrete Exterior Calculus for the Hodge Laplace Problem in Two Dimensions Kaibo Hu
Tea Break
15:40-16:20 Evan Gawlik Distributional curvature with double forms Shuo Zhang
16:20-17:00 Marien Hanot The structure of the DivDiv complex in the linearized Einstein field equations Shuo Zhang
January 10, 2026, Saturday (South Building N204)
Time Speaker Title Host
8:30-9:10 Patrick Farrell Enforcing conservation laws and dissipation inequalities numerically via auxiliary variables Weiying Zheng
9:10-9:50 Michael Neilan Structure-preserving finite element methods for the surface Stokes problem Weiying Zheng
Tea Break
10:10-10:50 Snorre Christiansen Interpretation of a Discrete de Rham method with Finite Element Systems Shipeng Mao
10:50-11:30 Shuo Zhang A nonconforming framework for finite element exterior calculus Shipeng Mao
Lunch, Workshop End