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2023-11-21: Ye Ji defends his PhD work at Dalian University of Technology

Congratulations Ye to your succesful defense of your PhD work 'On Domain Parameterization for Isogeometric Analysis'.

2023-09-26: New collaboration with Fujitsu on Quantum CFD

I am very happy to announce that Fujitsu will support our research on Quantum CFD for the next five years. Read more about this fruitful collaboration here. Thank you Fujitsu for your trust in our work.

2023-09-01: New PhD candidate Calin Georgescu

Calin Georgescu has started as a new PhD candidate in our group working on quantum algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. Welcome Calin!

2023-07-07: Best paper award at GMP 2023

Our paper 'On an improved PDE-based parametrization method for IsoGeometric Analysis using preconditioned Anderson acceleration' presented at GMP 2023 in Genova won the Best paper award. Congratulations to Ye Ji, Kewang Chen, and Kees Vuik.

2023-07-01: New PhD candidate Jingya Li

Jingya Li has started as a new PhD candidate in our group working on the NWO-OTP project FlexFloat. Welcome Jingya!

2023-07-01: New CSC visiting PhD candidate Mengyun Wang

Mengyun Wang has started her two-years stay in our group working on multi-sided parametrization techniques. Welcome Mengyun!

2023-01-24: MSc defense Tim Driebergen

Tim Driebergen defended his master project 'QAOA Mixing Hamiltonians for MinVertexCover'. Goed gedaan, Tim!

2023-01-19: MSc defense Jingya Li

Jingya Li defended her excellent master project 'A New Contact Method for Simcenter Madymo: Contact Method based on IsoGeometric Analysis'. Great job, Jingya and many thanks to Siemens for the co-supervision!

2022-12-22: MSc defense Stijn Ruiter

Stijn Ruiter defended his master project 'Improving the stability of the B-spline material point method: Using extended and truncated hierarchical B-splines'. Goed gedaan, Stijn!

2022-12-19: MSc defense Frank van Ruiten

Frank van Ruiten defended his master project 'PINNs for parametrized problems'. Good work, Frank!

2022-11-28: Preprint on Quantum-CFD

We just submitted exciting work on quantum computational fluid dynamics. Check out our latest preprint on arXiv.

2022-11-25: Paper in GEOPHYSICS

Our recent paper entitled Quantum computer-assisted global optimization in geophysics illustrated with stack power maximization for refraction residual statics estimation just appeared in GEOPHYSICS. Kudos to all co-authors.

2022-10-24: QCUP grant renewed

Our grant from the OLCF Quantum Computing User Program has been renewed for another 6 months. Thank you very much, OLCF.

2022-09-15: Launch of the QAIMS lab

Our Quantum-enhanced Artificial Intelligence for sustainable Materials and Structural design in aerospace (QAIMS) lab has finally been launched. Big thanks to the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and welcome to our four new PhD candidates.

2022-09-01: Strategic Research Initiative 'Bridging Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning'

Our 2-years Strategic Research Initiatives (SRI) Bridging Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning started officially with funding from 4TU.AMI.

2022-08-25: MSc defense Dylan Everingham

Dylan Everingham defended his outstanding master project 'Topology optimization and physics-informed neural networks for metamaterial optics design'. Great work, Dylan!

2022-08-24: MSc defense Sannia Ul Haq

Rana Sannia Ul Haq defended her master project 'Stabilizing convection-dominated flow problems using neural networks based on flux-limiting techniques'. Gefeliciteerd Sannia!

2022-08-24: MSc defense Samarth Kakkar

Samarth Kakkar defended his master project 'Physics-informed deep learning for computational fluid flow analysis: Coupling of physics-informed neural networks and autoencoders for aerodynamic flow predictions on variable geometries'. Congratulation Samarth and many thanks to Monolith AI for all support!

2022-08-22: BEP defense Nicky Wanningen

Nicky Wanningen defended her double bachelor project 'Optimization of single-qubit gate fidelities in silicon quantum computers in the presence of crosstalk'. Gefeliciteerd Nicky!

2022-08-22: MSc defense Bart de Koning

Bart de Koning defended his master project 'Designing free-form optics for multiple source illumination using differentiable ray-tracing and neural networks'. Gefeliciteerd Bart!

2022-07-08: MSc defense Marek Oerlemans

Marek Oerlemans defended his master project 'Diffractive optical elements are all you need: Designing an optical system using physics-informed and data-driven methods'. Gefeliciteerd Marek!

2022-07-07: MSc defense Huub Donkers

Huub Donkers defended his outstanding master project 'QPack: A cross-platform quantum benchmakr suite'. Gefeliciteerd Huub!

2022-06-15: Merel Schalkers wins three prizes at I4CS 2022

Merel Schalkers was awarded three prizes at the 22nd International Conference on Innovation for Community Services: best presentation award, best paper award and young scientist award. Gefeliciteerd Merel!

2022-05-30: Paper on quantum annealing published

Our latest paper on Residual Statics Estimation with Quantum Annealing has been published in the Proceedings of the 83rd EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition and will be presented by Dr. Marcin Dukalski on June 7, 2022.

2021-12-01: New MSc student Bart de Koning

Bart de Koning started as a new master student in our group working on machine learning techniques for designing optical systems. Bart, welkom!

2021-11-11: MSc defense Stan van der Linde

Stan van der Linde defended his master project 'Quantum annealing for seismic imaging'. Gefeliciteerd Stan!

2021-11-01: Hugo Verhelst wins student prize

Hugo Verhelst was awarded the best presentation in the session High-Performance Computing during the 24th Engineering Mechanics Symposium 2021. Gefeliciteerd Hugo!

2021-11-01: Presentation at Lorentz workshop

I have presented our novel hybrid approach that combines isogeometric analysis with machine learning at the invited Lorentz workshop Computational Mathematics and Machine Learning. It was a great one-week event with great keynote speakers.

2021-10-21: PhD defense Roel Tielen

Today, Roel Tielen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled P-multigrid methods for Isogeometric analysis. Many good years come to an end. Gefeliciteerd Roel en succes met je nieuwe baan.

2021-10-15: New MSc student Samarth Kakkar

Samarth Kakkar started as a new master student in our group working on physics-informed auto-encoders together with Monolith AI. Welcome Samarth and thank you Monolith AI for this great opportunity to collaborate with you on this exciting topic!

2021-09-21: New MSc student Dylan Everingham

Dylan Everingham started as a new master student in our group working on machine learning techniques for designing optical systems. Welcome Dylan!

2021-09-17: MSc defense Enrico Cappanera

Enrico Cappanera defended his outstanding master project 'Variational quantum linear solver for finite element problems: a Poisson equation test case'. Congratulazioni Enrico!

2021-09-14: New MSc student Marek Oerlemans

Marek Oerlemans started as a new master student in our group working on machine learning techniques for designing optical systems. Welkom Marek!

2021-09-10: MSc defense Jens de Zoete

Jens de Zoete defended his master project 'A practical quantum algorithm for solving structural optimization problems: a proof-of-concept!'. Gefeliciteerd Jens!

2021-09-06: MSc defense Sebastiaan van Schie

Sebastiaan van Schie succesfully defended his master project 'Mimetic isogeometric modeling and discretization of compressible Euler flows'. Gefeliciteerd Sebastiaan en een goede tijd in de VS!

2021-09-14: New MSc student Marek Oerlemans

Marek Oerlemans started as a new master student in our group working on machine learning techniques for designing optical systems. Welkom Marek!

2021-09-10: MSc defense Jens de Zoete

Jens de Zoete defended his master project 'A practical quantum algorithm for solving structural optimization problems: a proof-of-concept!'. Gefeliciteerd Jens!

2021-09-06: MSc defense Sebastiaan van Schie

Sebastiaan van Schie succesfully defended his master project 'Mimetic isogeometric modeling and discretization of compressible Euler flows'. Gefeliciteerd Sebastiaan en een goede tijd in de VS!

2021-07-12: BEP defense Lucas Crijns

Lucas Crijns defended his bachelor project 'PINN inspired Freeform Design: Using Fraunhofer Diffraction to find Freeforms described by B-spline Surfaces '. Gefeliciteerd Lucas!

2021-07-06: MSc defense Smaran Adarsh

Smaran Adarsh defended his outstanding work on 'Resource optimal executable quantum circuit generation using approximate computing'. Congratulations, Smaran!

2021-07-02: MSc defense Fernando Wangüemert uerra

Fernando Wangüemert uerra successfully defended his master thesis on 'Physics Informed Neural Networks: A new approach to the solution of Partial Differential Equations'. Congratulations, Fernando! Also many thanks to Richard Ahlfeld and Will Jennings from Monolith AI for the good collaboration.

2021-06-03: MSc defense Miquel Herrera Clapera

Miquel Herrera Clapera has defended his master project on 'High-order discretization of hyperbolic equations: Characterization of an isogeometric discontinuous Galerkin method' successfully in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering. ¡ Felidades, Miquel!

2021-05-19: MSc defense Merel Schalkers

Merel Schalkers successfully defended her outstanding work on the master project 'Learning based hardware-centric quantum circuit generation. Gefeliciteerd Merel! Merel will continue working on this topic as a PhD candidate in our group. Welkom Merel!

2021-02-25: ORNL quantum computing user program application granted

Today, I got notified that our application to the OLCF Quantum Computing User Program has been approved by Quantum Resource Utilization Council at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. That's great news since it enables us to access state-of-the-art quantum computers by Rigetti and Xanadu for the next 6 months. We are all excited to test our open-source LibKet framework on these two quantum backends.

2021-01-22: Proceedings of IGAA 2018 out now

Today, I received the first copies of our book Isogeometric Analysis and Applications 2018. The conference proceedings are published in Springer's esteemed Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering series as volume 133. Thanks to the Springer publishing team and the authors of all contributions!

2021-01-21: Second paper in 2021 got accepted

Our recent paper entitled Accuracy and Scalability: Combining Isogeometric Analysis with Deflation to Obtain Scalable Convergence for the Helmholtz Equation by Vandana Dwarka, Roel Tielen, Kees Vuik and myself got accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

2021-01-16: First paper in 2021 got accepted

Out recent paper entitled The Role of PDE-Based Parameterization Techniques in Gradient-Based IGA Shape Optimization Applications by Jochen Hinz, Andrzej Jaeschke, Kees Vuik and myself got accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

2020-08-28: BEP defense Jort Bouma

Jort Bouma successfully defended his double-bachelor project 'Using a Physics-Informed Neural Network to solve the Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Equations'. Gefeliciteerd Jort!

2020-08-19: BEP defense Ariena Budko

Ariena Budko successfully defended her bachelor project 'Time integration parallel in time'. Gefeliciteerd Ariena!

2020-07-24: BEP defense Susan Veldkamp

Susan Veldkamp successfully defended her bachelor project 'Het ontbinden van een matrix m.b.v. een getraind neuraal netwerk'. Gefeliciteerd Susan!

2020-07-23: BEP defense Joost Bus

Joost Bus successfully defended his bachelor project 'The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm'. Congratulations Joost!

2020-07-17: PhD defense Jochen Hinz

Jochen Hinz successfully defended his PhD thesis PDE-Based Parameterisation Techniques for Isogeometric Analysis Applications. Congratulations Jochen, outstanding piece of work! (foto1, foto2)

2020-07-07: Interview in Next Platform TV

I got interviewed by Next Platform TV about our quantum programming framework LibKet. See the full interview here.

2020-07-06: New preprint available

Hugo Verhelst has submitted a paper entitled Stretch-Based Hyperelastic Material Formulations for Isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love Shells on our latest work in this field.

2020-06-15: New paper published

Our most recent paper entitled |Lib>: A Cross-Platform Programming Framework for Quantum-Accelerated Scientific Computing has been published in the Proceedings of ICCS 2020.

2020-03-11: New website launched

The new website has been launched March 11th, 2020 with a responsive theme that should be easily readable from a mobile device, a tablet as well as a full size screen.

2020-02-14: Mini-tutorial at SIAM CSE21

We are very happy that our mini-tutorial LibKet: A Software Framework for Quantum-Accelerated Scientific Computing has been accepted for SIAM CSE21.