FerriteCon 2024 & Julia Meetup Gothenburg
This year FerriteCon 2024 will be co-located with the first Julia meetup in Gothenburg, Sweden! Find the program and information about time and location below.
Ferrite.jl User & Developer Conference 2024
Ferrite.jl is an open-source finite element package written in the Julia programming language. On Monday the 16th of September 2024 we will host the third annual Ferrite.jl user and developer conference at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The conference aims to improve existing, and find new, technical and scientific collaborations among Ferrite.jl users and developers, as well as to discuss how the package can be further developed in the future.
Chris Rackauckas will give a keynote lecture about Extending the Julia SciML Ecosystem to a Backbone for PDEs.
The program of the conference will consist of both beginner-friendly and advanced presentations on Ferrite.jl and of current research using Ferrite.jl.
You can also have a look at the program of previous editions of FerriteCon:
Target audience for FerriteCon
If you have used, contributed to, or are just curious about Ferrite.jl we encourage you to participate.
If you have experience with Ferrite.jl we also encourage you to contribute to the conference by giving a presentation. Here are some suggested topics that would fit well:
Present your research and how you use Ferrite.jl (take this opportunity to discuss implementation aspects which are normally not discussed much on regular scientific conferences!)
Present interesting synergies between Ferrite.jl and the rest of the Julia package ecosystem
Present how you use Ferrite.jl for teaching or for student projects
Describe what you would like to use Ferrite.jl for, and the reasons why you are currently using something else.
Present ideas for future Ferrite.jl improvements and describe how you would like to incorporate it (perhaps describe prior art from other software packages)
If you have another topic you would like to discuss, please feel free to do so, as long as you can relate it to Ferrite.jl!
Presentations for FerriteCon
In the spirit of last year we allocate 20+5 minutes per presentation. All presenters have to use their own laptop. The presentations will be streamed via a Zoom meeting. Online presentations are possible, but in-person talks will be prioritized if necessary.
Julia Meetup Gothenburg
We are happy to announce the first Julia user meetup in Gothenburg, Sweden. The meetup will be held in conjunction with FerriteCon, and will take place at Chalmers University of Technology. During the meetup Dr. Chris Rackauckas will give a keynote lecture about Extending the Julia SciML Ecosystem to a Backbone for PDEs. The keynote will start at 15.00.
About Dr. Chris Rackauckas: Dr. Chris Rackauckas is the VP of Modeling and Simulation at JuliaHub, the Director of Scientific Research at Pumas-AI, Co-PI of the Julia Lab at MIT, and the lead developer of the SciML Open Source Software Organization. For his work in mechanistic machine learning, his work is credited for the 15,000x acceleration of NASA Launch Services simulations and recently demonstrated a 60x-570x acceleration over Modelica tools in HVAC simulation, earning Chris the US Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator Scientific Excellence Award. See more at https://chrisrackauckas.com/. He is the lead developer of the Pumas project and has received a top presentation award at every ACoP in the last 3 years for improving methods for uncertainty quantification, automated GPU acceleration of nonlinear mixed effects modeling (NLME), and machine learning assisted construction of NLME models with DeepNLME. For these achievements, Chris received the Emerging Scientist award from ISoP.
To register for the julia meet-up, please send an email to Elias Börjesson (elias.borjesson@chalmers.se)
Time and location
The conference and meetup will be held at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg at the Division of Material and Computational Mechanics on September 16th. FerriteCon will start at 9.30, and the Julia meetup will be in the afternoon (exact time will be given at a later date).
The conference and Julia meetup will be in room VDL (see Chalmers Map or Google Map). Entrence to VDL is from Chalmers Tvärgata 4C. Path from tram stop "Chalmers" or bus stop "Chalmers Tvärgata" seen here: 
The entrance is indicated by the red arrow (image is taken from the location indicated in the image above). 
Program
A preliminary program is given below, more details will follow after registration.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30-10:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 10:00-10:05 | Opening and introduction |
| 10:05-10:50 | Introduction to Ferrite.jl (slides) Knut Andreas Meyer |
| 10:50-11:15 | Ferrite.jl version 1.0.0 – What has changed and why? Fredrik Ekre |
| 11:15-11:40 | Mesh-adaptivity - Another Year of Bitshifting, Progress Report on Morton Index-based Octree Datastructures Max Köhler |
| 11.40-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13:05-13.30 | Efficient adaptive mesh refinement data-structures and algorithms for local timestepping. Abdulaziz Mohamed |
| 13:30-13.55 | Adventures in PDE Discretizations - Utilizing Spatial Structure for Fast Solvers. Dennis Ogiermann |
| 13:55-14.20 | 5 years of working with Ferrite.jl in research Kim Louisa Auth and Elias Börjesson |
| Julia user Meet-up | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Fika and mingle |
| 15.00-16.00 | [Keynote] Extending the Julia SciML Ecosystem to a Backbone for PDEs Chris Rackauckas |
| 16:00 - | Hackathon and open discussion |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
Coffee and snacks for the morning will be provided (for free).
The dinner will be arranged for those who want, and will be at Ölstugan Tullen Avenyn, where we can order drinks and food.
Watch online:
If you want to watch the presentation online, join the following zoom link: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/64330023585 (Password: ferrite24)
Registration and abstract submission
The conference and meetup is free of charge, but registration is necessary. To register as a speaker, please send an email containing a title and a brief abstract (~100 words, 3-4 sentences) to Elias Börjesson (elias.borjesson@chalmers.se) at the latest the 31th of August (2024-08-31). If you want to attend without presenting, please register as soon as possible, but latest 13th of September (2024-09-13).
Contact
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask by sending an email to the organizers:
Elias Börjesson elias.borjesson@chalmers.se
Kim Auth kim.auth@chalmers.se
Fredrik Ekre ekrefredrik@gmail.com
