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Francky LUDDENS

DoB: January 2nd, 1985 in Saint-Dié (France)
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Current position

  • 2013-2014 Post-doc fellow at INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest. On level-set methods allowing accurate computation of the interface curvature.

PhD (Sept. 1st, 2009 - Dec. 6th, 2012)

Title : Theoretical and numerical analysis of the magnetohydrodynamics equations: applications to dynamo action.
Commitee
Patrick Ciarlet (ENSTA-ParisTech) (chair)
Martin Costabel (Université de Rennes I),
Yannick Ponty (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur),
Frédéric Bouillault (LGEP),
Vivette Girault (Université Pierre et Marie Curie),
Caroline Nore (LIMSI) (advisor),
Jean-Luc Guermond (Texas A&M University) (advisor).

Education

  • 2012-2013: ATER (Assistant teacher/researcher), department of mathematics, University Paris Sud (Orsay, France).
  • 2009-2012 : PhD in physics (LIMSI, University Paris-Sud). Numerical simulations of dynamo action in heterogeneous media
  • 2009-2012 : Assistant teacher, department of mathematics, University Paris Sud (Orsay, France).
  • 2005-2009 : Scholarship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Brittany extension).
  • 2008-2009 : 2nd year of Master (Applied Mathematics, Partial Differential Equations, Scientific Computing), University Paris Sud.
  • 2008 : French Agrégation (mathematics): rank 30.
  • 2006-2007 : 1st year of Master (mathematics), University of Rennes I (Rennes, France).
  • 2005-2006 : Bachelor's degree (mathematics), University of Rennes I (Rennes, France).

Internships

  • 2010 : 1 year internship at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA): collaboration with J.-L. Guermond and A. Bonito.
  • 2009 : 5 months internship at LIMSI. Topic: magnetohydrodynamics equations. Supervisor: C. Nore.
  • 2007 : Research training (M1). Topic: Kronecker-Weber theorem. Supervisor: C. Naumovic (joint work with P. Lezowski).
  • 2007 : 4 months traineeship at Helsinki University of Technology (Helsinki, Finland). Topic: Front-tracking methods for conservation laws. Supervisor: G. Gripenberg.
  • 2006 : 3 months traineeship at LPMIA (Nancy, France). Topic: Darwin and "Poisswell" models for Maxwell equations. Supervisor: N. Besse.

Other skills

  • Scientific computing: Maple, SciLab, MatLab, FreeFem++ (finite element), LateX
  • Programming: Fortran, C/C++, HTML (basic notion), PHP (basic notion), MySQL (basic notion)
  • Parallel computing: MPI, PETSc, Metis
  • Spoken languages: French (mother tongue), English (fluent)