Welcome to the webpage of Model reduction and CFD: a workshop to celebrate the contributions of the actual AI (Angelo Iollo) for his 60th birthday. This workshop will be held at BCAM in Bilbao (Spain) from 28/09/26 to 2/10/26.
Angelo Iollo is Professeur des Universités de classe exceptionnelle (Distinguished Full Professor) in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bordeaux and a senior resercher at INRIA, France’s national institute for research in digital sciences and technology. He leads the Memphis research team, devoted to advance mathematical and computational modeling of physical systems.
After earning his degree and PhD in Aerospace Engineering through a joint program between the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and the NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia, USA), where he worked on optimal shape design and computational fluid dynamics. After research appointment in the United States and Italy, he joined INRIA in France and became Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux in 2004.
He currently co-holds the PROVE Chair on Green Propulsion, a collaboration between ONERA, the French aerospace research center, and the Nouvelle-Aquitain region. He has coordinated several majoir European research projects, including H2020 ARIA and AEROGUST, focused on the development of efficient numerical models for aerospace and industrial applications.
His scientific work spans both high-fidelity full-order models, which aim at accurately reproducing complex physical phenomena, and reduced-ordeer models (ROMs), which achieve similar predictive power with drastically lower computational cost. His research bridges physics-based simulations and data-driven approaches, contributing to advances in nonlinear interpolation, multiphysics coupling and efficient hierarchical mesh schemes.
Prof. Iollo has supervised more than 30 PhD theses and established strong interbational collaborations, notably with Standford University and leading joint research groups with CWI, the national research institute form mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, and across Europe and USA, throgh ARIA and PROVE networks. his work has influenced multiple domains — aerospace, energy and biomedical engineering — and has led collaborations with ONERA, Boeing, Valorem and Intitut Bergonié Cancer Center in Bordeaux.
He is also an entrepreneur in scientific computing, co-founding Optimad (Italy, 2006) and Nurea (France, 2019), two companies translating academic research into industrial innovation. Recipient of the La Recherche Prize in Mathematics (2011), Prof. Iollo continues to shape the field of computational modeling, with current interests in physics-informed machine learning, model reduction for complex flow and elastic systems, and the development of numerical methods combining accuracy, efficiency, and theoretical rigor.
Organizers
Michel Bergmann ✉️, Michele Giuliano Carlino ✉️, Alessia Del Grosso ✉️, Francesco Fanelli ✉️, Raphaël Loubère ✉️, Gabriella Puppo ✉️, Mario Ricchiuto ✉️, Andrea Thomann ✉️.
Date and Venue
The workshop will be held at BCAM in Bilbao (Spain) from 28 September to 2 October 2026.
Title and abstract
TBD