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Tzanio Kolev
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Computational mathematician working on efficient finite element #meshing, #discretization and #solver algorithms for #HPC applications at #LLNL. Project lead of 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 (mfem.org). Former director of 𝗖𝗘𝗘𝗗 (ceed.exascaleproject.org).
Reposted by Tzanio Kolev
Make time at #SC25 to visit the #ArtOfHPC exhibition - beauty and science all in one place - well worth a few minutes of your time

#HPC #Supercomputing #HPCignites

All these and much more …
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
All slides and video recordings from the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop are now available at:

👉 mfem.org/workshop

You can rewatch the full workshop at this playlist:

📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For more MFEM-related videos, see:

🌟 mfem.org/videos/

#MFEM25 #FEM #HPC #OpenSource
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 18th, 9:00-10:30am PDT.

🌟 Dr. Robert Falgout from @Livermore_Lab will present: "New advances in hypre 3.0 for mixed precision and semi-structured problems".

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 4th, 9:00-10:30am PDT.

🌟 Dr. Bill Henshaw @rpi will present: "An O(N) Helmholtz Solver by time-filtering the Wave Equation".

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
📆 Join us at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 in the minisymposium on "Open-Source Software in Mechanics".

wccm-eccomas2026.org/event/area/7...

🌟 We welcome contributions from any #OpenSource project in the area of computational mechanics.

Hope to see you in Munich!
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🌟 We have a new post-doc opening on the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 team at @Livermore_Lab.

🚀 Join us to work on

💠 differentiable finite element simulations
💠 for challenging multiphysics applications
💠 targeting the world's largest HPC GPU systems

Apply at: us.smrtr.io/4bmzz
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October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest!

📺 Best simulation video:

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮 for "Real-time digital twin for tsunami early warning applied to the Cascadia subduction zone."

👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery
October 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest!

🖼️ Best simulation image:

𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶 for "Electric field during RF ablation procedure on idealized intracardiac geometry."

👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📅 We are resuming our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series with a talk on Tuesday, Sep 30, 9:00-10:30am PDT

🌟 Dr. Florian Schäfer from @nyucourant.bsky.social will present: "Toward Information Geometric Mechanics"

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thank you to all participants for the fun and inspiring 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 workshop this week! 🙏

It was really exciting to see all the amazing things that the community is building 🚀

Congrats 🎉 to the visualization contest winners!

MFEM is awesome because of you 🔥
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
⏳The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop registration closes this week!

We welcome presentations 🧑‍🏫, demos🔮 and visualization contest 🖼 entries from the community.

Student travel support 🧑‍🎓 is still available!

Please register/apply by Wednesday, August 27th at:

👉 mfem.org/workshop
August 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Tzanio Kolev
Reposted by Tzanio Kolev
Scientists at LLNL have developed a real-time tsunami forecasting system powered by the El Capitan supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second.

#Tsunami #AI #Supercomputer #ElCapitan #DisasterPreparedness #EarlyWarning #Earthquake
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📆 Registration deadline for the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop is less than a month away!

👉 Learn more at mfem.org/workshop

🧑‍🏫 We welcome presentations + demos from the community

🖼 Winners of the visualization contest get an MFEM t-shirt

🧑‍🎓 Student support is available

#MFEM25 #HPC #FEM #OpenSource
July 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Thursday, June 12th, 9:00-10:30am PDT

🌟 Dr. John Evans from @colorado.edu will present:
"Interpolation-Based Immersed Finite Element and Isogeometric Analysis"

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar
June 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🎉 The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community is gathering for its 2025 workshop on September 10-11!

👉 Join us in Portland (or virtually) if you are interested in #HPC finite elements

✓ Sign up at mfem.org/workshop
✓ Submit research/student talks
✓ Join the visualization contest

#MFEM25
May 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🌟 GLVis 4.4 released with many new features:

✓ support for external color palettes
✓ new (optional) palette sets
✓ loading of MFEM data collections
✓ up to 3D vector fields in 1D/2D
✓ bugfixes and refactoring

Learn more at glvis.org

Try the web version glvis.org/live
May 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, May 6th, 9:00-10:30am PDT

🌟 Dr. David Williams from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social will present:

"Finite element exterior calculus in four-dimensional space"

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar
April 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday, April 22nd, 10:00-11:30am PDT.

🌟 Dr. Freddie Witherden from @tamu.bsky.social will present:

"High Performance Asynchronous I/O for Exascale Spectral Element Methods"

👉 Sign up and learn more at mfem.org/seminar.
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Tzanio Kolev
My talk at mfem.org/seminar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) on the Mixed Finite Element formulation and MoFEM. Thanks to @tzanio.bsky.social
for the invitation. It was a great pleasure.
April 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Tzanio Kolev
Just published in JOSS: 'MFEM/MGIS, a HPC mini-application targeting nonlinear thermo-mechanical simulations of nuclear fuels at mesoscale' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07719
April 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some stats for this week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟴 release:

‣ months in development = 11
‣ number of contributors = 36
‣ new lines of code = 53,481
‣ PRs merged = 212
‣ number of commits = 2922
‣ issues closed = 284
‣ 100% @opensource

🌟 Star and Download at: github.com/mfem/mfem
April 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🌟 MFEM 4.8 released with many new features:

✓ high-order pyramids
✓ parallel p- and hp-refinement
✓ nonuniform anisotropic AMR
✓ field interpolation on GPUs
✓ SubMesh extraction with AMR
✓ improved hyperbolic problems
✓ optimization of periodic meshes
✓ and much more!

Visit mfem.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, April 8th, 9:00-10:30am PDT.

🌟 Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarczyk (@likask.bsky.social) from University of Glasgow will present: "Mixed finite element formulation for solid mechanics problems".

👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.
March 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📅 Next 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on March 11th at 9:00am PDT, see mfem.org/seminar.

🌟 Dr. Stefan Turek (TU_Dortmund) will present: "Hardware-oriented Numerics for Massively Parallel & Low Precision Accelerator Hardware and Application to large scale CFD Problems"

👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM