InterPore UK Meetings – 1st InterPore UK Meeting and 1st PMPM

1^st PMPM and UK InterPore Joint Annual Meeting 2016

Organisers

Fourth PMPM Annual meeting and the first annual meeting of the UK chapter of InterPore  took place on the 13-15th of January 2016 at the ICMS in Edinburgh.

After four years of successful events, this meeting marked the closing event of the PMPM network. Porous Media – Processes and Mathematics (PMPM, http://www.pmpm.org.uk/) is a UK wide research network (funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, UK) focused on all aspects of porous media flow at the interface between engineering, applied mathematics and scientific computing.

This year’s meeting featured a full day of training/workshops, followed by two days of keynote and invited talks from international renowned researchers.

The general themes for the meeting:
— Biomedical and environmental applications (Yuhang Chen, Diganta Das)
— Geomechanics (Chris MacMinn)
— Homogenization and multi-scale modelling  (Gabriel Lord, Arthur Moncorge, Markus Schmuck)
— Pore scale modelling and imaging (Vahid Joekar-Niasar, Tannaz Pak)
— Uncertainty quantification (Matteo Icardi, Ahmed Elsheikh)

Scientific organising committee:
Vahid J Niasar, University of Manchester
Arthur Moncorge, TOTAL
Tannaz Pak, Teesside University
Nima Shokri, University of Manchester
Matteo Icardi, Warwick University
Diganta B Das, Loughborough University
Christopher Macminn, Oxford University
Yingfang Zhou, University of Aberdeen

The audience 1st annual meeting	Prof. Huyghe gives the invited talk as the InterPore representative.	Dinner of the 1st anual meeting