All slides and video recordings from the 2026 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/ #MFEM26 #FEM #HPC #OpenSource

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Monday (Nov 9), at 9:00am PST 🌟 Dr. Will Pazner from Portland State University will present: "Matrix-Free Preconditioners for High-Order Finite Elements on Triangles via the Duffy de Rham Complex" 👉 Sign up + learn more at mfem.org/seminar

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Oct 20), at 9:00am PST 🌟 Dr. Dylan Copeland from @Livermore_Lab will present: "Conforming NURBS meshes with non-conforming patch topology" 👉 Sign up and learn more at mfem.org/seminar

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2026 MFEM Workshop Visualization Contest! 🖼️ Best simulation image: 𝗚𝗿é𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 for "High-order fictitious domain thermal computation on a scan-based geometry" 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery 👉 All 2026 submissions: youtu.be/zptZrXhxJEU #MFEM26

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2026 MFEM Workshop Visualization Contest! 📺 Best simulation video: 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮 for "Plasma temperature and vorticity in a linear plasma device" 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery 👉 All 2026 submissions: youtu.be/zptZrXhxJEU #MFEM26

Thank you to all participants for the fun and inspiring 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 workshop @gtresearch.bsky.social last week! 🙏 It was really exciting to see all the amazing things that the community is building 🌟 Let's continue pushing 🚀 and working together 🙌 MFEM is awesome because of you 🔥 #MFEM26 #Community

We are truly honored to receive 2026 Director’s Science and Technology Award for MFEM at LLNL 🎉 Working with this wonderful team has been an absolute highlight of my career 🙏 Thank you to all developers, collaborators and application teams that helped make MFEM what it is today! 🚀 #TeamMFEM #LLNL

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Sep 15), at 9:00am PDT 🌟 Dr. Ben Southworth from @LosAlamosNatLab will present: "BRoken-Space Additive Schwarz (BRAS) for Mass Matrix Preconditioning" 👉 Sign up at mfem.org/seminar

Some stats for last week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟭𝟬 release: ‣ months in development = 9 ‣ number of contributors = 48 ‣ new lines of code = 47,652 ‣ PRs merged = 190 ‣ number of commits = 2,529 ‣ issues closed = 59 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star + Download: github.com/mfem/mfem

🌟 MFEM 4.10 is out! ✓ expanded GPU PA support, including triangles/tets ✓ nonuniform anisotropic quad/hex refinement ✓ cuDSS + distributed Ginkgo solvers ✓ positive-weight simplex quadratures ✓ GridFunction extrema estimates ✓ 7 new examples + electrostatic PIC miniapp ✓ much more! Visit mfem.org

🗓️ Registration deadline for the 2026 MFEM Community Workshop is only 4 weeks away! 👉 Sign up by Sep 11th: forms.gle/5sqBL3p7ReDT... 🧑‍🏫 We welcome talks from the community 🖼 Visualization contest winners get an MFEM t-shirt 🧑‍🎓 Students register at 50% off + present in dedicated session

MFEM Community Workshop 2026

September 22-25, 2026, Georgia Tech + Virtual https://mfem.org/workshop As you make travel plans, please note that the first day of the workshop (September 22) will be reserved for a hands-on MFEM tu...

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📢 Call for the 2026 MFEM Visualization Contest! Part of the MFEM workshop mfem.org/workshop, Sep 21-25 at Georgia Tech 🤝 Submit for a chance to win a t-shirt 👕 + eternal glory in the MFEM Gallery 🖼️ mfem.org/gallery 👉 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be tomorrow, June 9, 9:00-10:30am PST! 🌟 Dr. Xevi Roca from @bsc-cns.bsky.social will present: "Enabling high-fidelity aeronautic simulations with high-order methods: geometry, numerics, and physics" 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar

🎉 The MFEM community is gathering for its 2026 workshop on Sep 22-25! 👉 Join us in Atlanta (or virtually) if you are interested in #HPC finite elements: ✓ Sign up at mfem.org/workshop ✓ Submit research/student talks ✓ Join the visualization contest #MFEM26

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday, May 5, 9:00-10:30am PST. 🌟 Dr. Brendan Keith from @brown.edu will present: "Proximal Galerkin: A Unified Framework for Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints". 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar. #FEM@LLNL

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday (Apr 21), 9:00-10:30am PST 🌟 Dr. Jed Brown from @colorado.edu will present: "Performance-portable multiscale mechanics with libCEED" 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar #FEM @jedbrown.org

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Tuesday, March 10, 9-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Ido Akkerman from Delft university of Technology will present: "NURBS-Based Isogeometric Analysis: Past, Present, and Future". 👉 Sign up and Learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

🙌 Our FEM@LLNL seminar series just hit 50 talks. 🙏 Huge thanks to all our speakers and attendees for making the series a success! 👉 If you are interested in finite elements, PDEs, solvers, or HPC, check out the talk recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #FEM #HPC #OpenSource

🌟 GLVis 4.5 released with many new features: ✓ complex data visualization ✓ color palettes enhancements ✓ visualization of finite element DOF locations ✓ new headless mode based on EGL/CGL ✓ code refactoring and glvis-js improvements Learn more at glvis.org Try the web version glvis.org/live

📅 The 50th (!) 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Tuesday, Feb 10, 9-10:30am PDT 🌟 David Moxey and Edward Erasmie-Jones from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will present: "NektarIR: A Domain-Specific Compiler for High-Order Finite Element Operations on Heterogeneous Hardware" 👉 See mfem.org/seminar

📅 The next 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Monday, Feb 2, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Andrea Beck from @unistuttgart.bsky.social will present: "Efficient solution strategies for multiscale flow problems: combining adaptive high order discretizations, models and data". 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Jan 20), 9:30-11:00am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Jay Gopalakrishnan from @Portland_State will present: "Matrix-valued finite elements". 👉 Sign up + Learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

Some stats for last week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟵 release: ‣ months in development = 8 ‣ number of contributors = 38 ‣ new lines of code = 55,423 ‣ PRs merged = 247 ‣ number of commits = 2456 ‣ issues closed = 131 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star + Download: github.com/mfem/mfem

🌟 MFEM 4.9 released with many new features: ✓ ∂FEM interface for differentiable simulations ✓ initial support for particle methods ✓ AMGF solver + miniapp for contact problems ✓ improved GPU kernels, TMOP, NURBS, AMR ✓ 10 new examples and miniapps ✓ switch to C++17 ✓ and much more! Visit mfem.org

Congratulations to Team Cascadia (featuring CRESCENT-affiliated Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel) who've been awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in high-performance computing for their billion-parameter Cascadia Subduction Zone tsunami model using the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan!

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It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Scripps researcher wins Gordon Bell Prize for real-time tsunami forecasting Alice Gabriel from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for her team's real-time tsunami forecasting system. Using advanced algorith…

Scripps researcher wins Gordon Bell Prize for real-time tsunami forecasting

A UC San Diego seismologist has won an award often called the "Nobel Prize of supercomputing" for developing a tsunami forecasting system.

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It was an unbelievable honor to win the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize with #TeamCascadia last week! 🏆 This is the culmination of many years of work by the #MFEM team and just one example of the power that GPU-accelerated high-order finite elements can bring to #HPC applications 🙌

🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡ Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️

Reader’s Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences - Thank you! And a huge thank you to the interdisciplinary team making all of this possible: Stefan Henneking, Sreeram Venkat, Veselin Dobrev, John Camier, Tzanio Kolev, Milinda Fernando, and Omar Ghattas. @scrippsocean.bsky.social

It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....