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Francesco Ballarin ========================================================= .. meta:: :description lang=en: Francesco Ballarin is Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 affiliation contact events projects publications software students teaching .. grid:: 1 1 3 3 :gutter: 2 .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Affiliation ` ^^^ Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the `Department of Mathematics and Physics `_, `Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore `_. +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid-item-card:: Research interests ^^^ * Numerical analysis * Reduced order modelling * Computational fluid dynamics * Open-source software development .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Contact ` ^^^ .. line-block:: :fas:`user;sd-text-primary` Francesco Ballarin :fas:`suitcase;sd-text-primary` `Department of Mathematics and Physics `_ :fas:`building-columns;sd-text-primary` `Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore `_ :fas:`location-dot;sd-text-primary` `via Garzetta 48, I-25133 Brescia, Italy `_ :fas:`at;sd-text-primary` `francesco.ballarin@unicatt.it `_ +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. card:: :margin: 0 4 2 2 Highlights ^^^ .. carousel:: :show_controls: :show_indicators: :show_dark: :show_fade: :data-bs-ride: carousel .. figure:: _static/images/gbl-slider.png .. New preprint on glioblastoma growth by means of reduced order models based on AI, by D. Cerrone, D. Riccobelli, P. Vitullo, F. Ballarin, J. Falco, F. Acerbi, A. Manzoni, P. Zunino, P. Ciarletta (December 2024). .. figure:: _static/images/vms-ef-slider.png .. New preprint on variational multiscale evolve and filter models for convection dominated flows, by M. Strazzullo, F. Ballarin, T. Iliescu, T. Chacón Rebollo (November 2024). .. figure:: _static/images/ocp-cardiovascular-slider.png .. New preprint on unsteady optimal control problems for cardiovascular flows, by S. Rathore, P. C. Africa, F. Ballarin, F. Pichi, M. Girfoglio, G. Rozza (October 2024). .. figure:: _static/images/na-adl-rom-slider.png .. New preprint on a priori error bounds for the approximate deconvolution Leray ROM in fluid dynamics, by I. Moore, A. Sanfilippo, F. Ballarin, T. Iliescu (October 2024). .. figure:: _static/images/semmat-slider.png .. I was appointed vice-director of the Seminario Matematico di Brescia (September 2024). .. figure:: _static/images/a-priori-slider.png .. New preprint on a priori error bounds for reduced order models based on proper orthogonal decomposition for applications in fluid dynamics, by F. Ballarin and T. Iliescu (September 2024). .. grid:: 1 1 2 2 :gutter: 2 .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Software ` ^^^ * Lead developer of `RBniCS - reduced order modelling in FEniCS `_, 2015-ongoing. * Lead developer of `multiphenics/multiphenicsx - easy prototyping of multiphysics problems in FEniCS/FEniCSx `_, 2016-ongoing. * Lead developer of `FEMlium - interactive visualization of finite element simulations on geographic maps with folium `_, 2021-ongoing. * Lead developer of `FEM on Colab/FEM on Kaggle `_, 2021-ongoing. * Lead developer of `viskex - interactive visualization for firedrake and FEniCSx `_, 2023-ongoing. +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Publications ` ^^^ .. bibliography:: :all: :list: bullet :style: custom_bib_style_limited_list +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid:: 1 1 2 2 :gutter: 2 .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Teaching ` ^^^ * Lecturer for course on "Elements of numerical analysis". Master degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Spring 2025). * Lecturer for course on "Computational fluid dynamics". Master degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Fall 2024). * Lecturer for course on "Numerical analysis". Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Fall 2024 + Spring 2025). * Lecturer for course on "Stochastic processes and optimization for machine learning". Master degree in Data analytics for business, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Fall 2024). +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Students ` ^^^ * Advisor in the Ph.D. thesis of Anna Sanfilippo, "Regularization Techniques for Reduced Order Models in Convection-Dominated Flows". Ph.D. in Mathematics, Università di Trento, Italy (Apr. 2025). * Advisor in the master thesis of Anuja Saira Abraham, "Skin Cancer Prediction: A comparative analysis of CNN, VGG, AlexNet and ResNet Deep Learning models". Master degree in Data Analytics for Business, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy (Feb. 2025). * Advisor in the master thesis of Riccardo Carotenuto, "Efficiency of neural networks: an approach with ReLU and Adam". Master degree in Data Analytics for Business, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy (Feb. 2025). +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid:: 1 1 2 2 :gutter: 2 .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Events ` ^^^ * Organizing committee, `FEniCS 2025 `_, Groningen, The Netherlands (18-20 Jun. 2025). * Talk in a minisymposium, `XII International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation ADMOS 2025 `_, Barcelona, Spain (9-11 Jun. 2025). * Minisymposium organizer, `XII International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation ADMOS 2025 `_, Barcelona, Spain (9-11 Jun. 2025). * Organizing committee, `YoungPeople4Math 2025 `_, Brescia, Italy (20 May 2025). +++ :doc:`Read more ` .. grid-item-card:: :doc:`Projects ` ^^^ * Member and unit leader of "ROMEU: Reduced Order Models for Environmental and Urban flows", PRIN 2022 PNRR, 2023-2025. * Member of "Mathematical models for viscoelastic biological matter", PRIN 2022, 2023-2025. * Member of "Metodi numerici per lo studio di strutture geometriche parametriche complesse", INdAM GNCS 2023, 2023. * Member and unit leader of "`ARIA: Accurate ROMs for Industrial Applications `_", MSCA-RISE-2019, 2022-2024. +++ :doc:`Read more `