The conference will contain 5 plenary lectures and 2 keynote lectures of 50 minutes, standard sessions of 30 minutes talks, and a poster session. Time for the talks includes 5 minutes for the discussion & switching to the next speaker.
Tuesday, December 3rd
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome of the participants
14:00 – 17:40 Session 1
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 14:00 to 14:50 | Lourenço Beirão da Veiga | Virtual Element complexes of general order and application to Magnetohydrodynamics | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy |
| 14:50 to 15:20 | Marco Verani | Virtual Element discretization of non-Newtonian Stokes problems | Politecnico of Milano | Italy |
15:20 to 15:40 Coffee break
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 15:40 to 16:10 | Stella Krell | Optimized Schwarz algorithms for DDFV discretization | Université Côte d’Azur | France |
| 16:10 to 16:40 | Shipeng Mao | A linear, mass-conserving, Gauss’s law preserving, charge-conserving, helicity-conserving finite element method for three dimensional MHD equations | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| 16:40 to 17:10 | Alberth Silgado | Conforming stream virtual element approximations for fluid flow problems | University of Bari Aldo Moro | Italy |
| 17:10 to 17:40 | Lina Zhao | A unified HDG method for fluid-structure interaction | City University of Hong Kong | China |
Wednesday, December 4th
09:00 – 12:10 Session 2: Industry Session
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 09:00 to 09:50 | Guillaume Enchery | Virtual-element and finite-volume methods applied to multi-physics CO2 storage simulations | IFPEN | France |
| 09:50 to 10:20 | Timothée Bouchez | A stabilization-free VEM formulation for structural analysis on polyhedral meshes | Ansys | France |
10:20 to 10:40 Coffee break
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 10:40 to 11:10 | Laurence Beaude | Coming soon | BRGM | France |
| 11:10 to 11:40 | Nicolas Rechatin-Noël | Adaptive polyhedral meshing | CEA | France |
| 11:40 to 12:10 | Ryan Aronson | Virtual Element Methods and Mimetic Finite Differences for simulations of multiphase flow and poromechanics | TotalEnergies | USA |
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch (some possibilities are listed at https://poems2024.inria.fr/restaurants/)
14:00 – 14:50 Session 2: Industry Session
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 14:00 to 14:50 | Jérôme Bonelle | Polyhedral discretizations for CFD applications in an industrial context | EDF | France |
14:50 to 16:20 Poster Session & Coffee break
16:20 – 17:50 Session 3
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 16:20 to 16:50 | Francesca Marcon | Recent developments in structure preserving polygonal methods | Politecnico di Torino | Italy |
| 16:50 to 17:20 | Lorenzo Mascotto | A Nečas-Lions inequality with symmetric gradients on star-shaped domains based on a first order Babuška-Aziz inequality | University of Milan Bicocca | Italy |
| 17:20 to 17:50 | Michele Botti | Coming soon | Politecnico of Milano | Italy |
Thursday, December 5th
09:00 – 12:10 Session 4
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 09:00 to 09:50 | Daniele Di Pietro | An introduction to Polytopal Exterior Calculus | University of Montpellier | France |
| 09:50 to 10:20 | Jérôme Droniou | The exterior calculus Discrete De Rham method on manifolds and application to the Maxwell equations | University of Montpellier | France |
10:20 to 10:40 Coffee break
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 10:40 to 11:10 | Gabriel Barrenechea | A positivity-preserving discretisation in polytopal meshes | University of Strathclyde | UK |
| 11:10 to 11:40 | Tristan Pryer | Recovered elements and sweeping for Boltzmann transport | University of Bath | UK |
| 11:40 to 12:10 | Emmanuil Georgoulis | Level-set shape optimization via polytopic discontinuous Galerkin methods | Heriot-Watt University & National Technical University of Athens | UK&Greece |
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch (some possibilities are listed at https://poems2024.inria.fr/restaurants/)
14:00 – 18:00 Session 5
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 14:00 to 14:50 | Guosheng Fu | Finite Element de Rham Complex on Polytopal Meshes and HDG methods | University of Notre Dame | USA |
| 14:50 to 15:20 | Christoph Lehrenfeld | Trefftzification of polytopal DG methods | University of Göttingen | Germany |
15:20 to 15:40 Coffee break
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 15:40 to 16:30 | Silvia Bertoluzza | The virtual element method on pixel based approximation domains | CNR – IMATI “Enrico Magenes” | Italy |
| 16:30 to 17:00 | Simon Lemaire | Hybrid polyhedral approximation of div-curl systems on arbitrary topologies | Inria | France |
| 17:00 to 17:30 | Guillaume Delay | Solving a unique continuation problem for some transient equations by means of a high-order space-time method | LJLL | France |
| 17:30 to 18:00 | Edoardo Artioli | Curvilinear Virtual Elements for incompressible non-stationary Navier-Stokes equations | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia | Italy |
Friday, December 6th
09:00 – 12:10 Session 6
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 09:00 to 09:50 | Paola Antonietti | Machine Learning enhanced polytopal methods for modelling neurodegenerative diseases. | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| 09:50 to 10:20 | Andrea Cangiani | R3MG: R-tree based agglomeration of polytopal grids with applications to multilevel methods | SISSA | Italy |
10:20 to 10:40 Coffee break
| Time slots | Speakers | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| 10:40 to 11:10 | Scott Congreve | A posteriori error analysis of the virtual element method for second-order quasilinear elliptic PDE | Charles University | Czech Republic |
| 11:10 to 11:40 | Eun-Jae Park | Some New Staggered DG methods on polygons | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 11:40 to 12:10 | Roland Masson | VEM fully discrete discretisations of frictional contact mechanics with application to fluid induced fault reactivation | Université Côte d’Azur & Inria | France |
12:10 to 12:30 Closing remarks
