Student and Staff Exchanges

With the relative easing of pandemic travel restrictions in recent months, the DRIVEN partners have been able to implement several successful student and staff exchanges. Student Exchanges The University of Luxembourg (UL) has been developing and using a software called FEniCS for numerical simulations. On the other hand, INRIA uses SOFA, another software for numerical … Continued

EUROMECH Colloquium: Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Mechanics

Dr. Lars Beex from the University of Luxembourg’s Institute of Computational Engineering & Sciences will be chairing a EUROMECH Colloquium dedicated to “Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Mechanics” during 13-14 December 2021. This free virtual colloquium will focus on the exploitation of data for increasing confidence in computational mechanics simulations. Key to this endeavour is the … Continued

LEGATO Seminars on Machine Learning

Since October 2020, Prof. Stéphane Bordas’ LEGATO team has been holding regular seminars about machine learning. The aim of the seminar series is to harbour presentations of fundamental and methodological advances in data science and machine learning as well as to discuss application areas presented by domain specialists. The uniqueness of the seminar series lies … Continued

Online Course on Iso-Geometric Analysis

In order to counterbalance the travel restrictions due to COVID-19, the DRIVEN team decided to transform some of the project activities into virtual ones. After several discussions between the University of Luxembourg and the University of Limerick, both partners defined a topic of high interest for their use of data-driven simulations, namely Iso-Geometric Analysis (IGA). … Continued

Interview of the DRIVEN Coordinator

The Coordinator of DRIVEN project, Prof. Stéphane Bordas, was recently interviewed by the Letzebuerger Journal. In this interview, he discussed science, research in Luxembourg and more generally his life as a renowned mathematician. His inspiring interview was captured by the Letzebuerger Journal into a podcast you can listen at the following links: Journal.lu Spotify

DRIVEN at the FNR “Chercheurs à l’école” 2021

The FNR organised the 11th edition of their “Chercheurs à l’école – Researchers go back to school” event the 15-19 March 2021. Researchers from Luxembourg are invited to interact and motivate future generations and share their passion for science and research. As part of DRIVEN project, the partners are welcome to organise outreach activities to … Continued

The new Seminar Programme

During the year 2020, the DRIVEN partners had to be creative to achieve the project’s objectives in the COVID-19 context. One of the project activity was to organise two training workshops each year which was done successfully in 2019 and where we obtain excellent results surpassing our targets. In 2020, the national restrictions for travels … Continued

The DRIVEN international conference

The DRIVEN conference was originally planned as a satellite event of the world renowned WCCM-ECCOMAS Congress held in Paris (France) on the 19-24 July 2020. Unfortunately, the conference has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the event was finally organised on the 11-15 January 2021 with a new format, totally virtual. The DRIVEN … Continued

The DRIVEN Coordinator in the media

Our DRIVEN coordinator, Prof. Stéphane Bordas, was recently approached by two scientific media to give an interview about his research work and achievements such as his appearance into the “Highly Cited Researchers 2019” ranking. Find below the links to these interviews: