Recent Circuses
The Spring 2024 Circus was held at Brown University on April 19-20. The local website for the meeting is at https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/femcircusspring2024/home
The Fall 2023 Circus was held at the University of Notre Dame October 20-21. The website for the meeting is at https://sites.google.com/nd.edu/fall2023fec/home
The Spring 2023 Circus was held at Bridgewater State University March 17-18, 2023. The website for the meeting is at https://sites.google.com/view/finite-element-circus-sp23/home
The Fall 2022 Circus was held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA October 21-22, 2022. The website for the meeting is at https://sites.google.com/view/fall2022fec/home
The Spring 2022 Circus was held at the University of Florida, Gainesville Florida April 8-9, 2022. This was the second hybrid circus. The meeting website is https://sites.google.com/ufl.edu/spring2022fecuf
The Fall 2021 Circus was held at Penn State Nov- 5-6. The first hybrid in person and online circus featured a record number of talks and a large turnout. It was nice to see people people in person!
The Spring 2018 Circus was held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville March 16-17, 2018. The meeting website is https://sites.google.com/utk.edu/fecircuss18/home. For a list of talks see the Talks: Spring 18 talks page.
The Fall 2017 Circus was held at the University of Marylan Baltimore County, Oct 20-21, 2018. The meeting website is http://circus2017.umbc.edu. For a list of talks see the Talks: Fall 2017 talks page.
The Spring 2017 was held at Rutgers University April 21-22, 2017. The meeting website is at http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~falk/fecircus/fecircus-s17.html. For a list of talks see the Talks: Spring 17 talks page.
The meeting website The Fall, 2016 Finite Element Circus was held at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute October 14-15, 2016. The meeting website is at https://users.wpi.edu/~zzhang7/fec.html, see also for a photograph of the partcipants. For a list of talks see the Talks: Fall '16 talks page, and for participants see Participants: Fall '16. Several photographs (1, 2, 3) are also of the lovely 60th birthday cake for myself (P. Monk). Thanks everyone!
The Spring, 2016 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Maryland April 15-16, 2016. The meeting website is at http://circus.math.umd.edu, see also for a photograph of the partcipants. For a list of talks see the Talks: Spring '16 talks page, and for participants see Participants: Spring '16.
The Fall, 2015 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on October 16-17, 2015. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the UMass Dartmouth web page
The Spring, 2015 Finite Element Circus was held at George Mason University on March 27-28. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the George Mason Circus web page
The Fall, 2014 Finite Element Circus was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) on October 24-25, 2014. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the IMA Circus web page The Circus immediately followed a workshop on "Structure Preserving Discretizations of Partial Differential Equations" IMA Workshop web page held October 22-24, 2014. This workshop was also a celebration of the 60th birthday of Douglas N. Arnold, whose work has made profound conributions to the field of numerical analysis of partial differential equations.
The Spring, 2014 Finite Element Circus was held at Wayne State University on March 28-29, 2014. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the Wayne State Circus web page
The Fall, 2013 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Delaware on October 18-19, 2013. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the Delaware Circus web page.
The Spring, 2013 Finite Element Circus was held at Lousiana State University (joint with the Finite Element Rodeo) on March 8-9, 2013. Details regarding this event can be found on the LSU Circus web page.
The Fall, 2012 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, October 19-Saturday, October 20. Details regarding this event can be found on the Pittsburgh Circus web page.
The Spring, 2012 Finite Element Circus was held at Rutgers University (in Piscataway, NJ) on Friday, April 13 -- Saturday, April 14. Details regarding this event can be found on the Rutgers Circus web page.
The Fall, 2011 Finite Element Circus was held at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut on October 14-15. Details regarding this Circus can be found on the Connecticut Circus web page.
A joint Finite Element Fair, Finite Element Circus, and Finite Element Rodeo was held at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, France on June 3-4, 2011. Some details regarding this event can be found on the Paris Finite Element Fair/Circus/Rodeo web page and also at Report on the Paris Finite Element Fair/Circus/Rodeo.
The Fall 2010 Finite Element Circus was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, MN on November 5-6, 2010. Some details regarding this Circus can be found on the IMA Circus web page.
The Spring 2010 Finite Element Circus was held at Brown University April 30 - May 1, 2010. Some details regarding this Circus can be found on the Brown Circus web page.
The Fall 2009 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Tennessee on October 16-17, 2009. Some details regarding this Circus can be found on the Tennessee Circus web page.
The Spring 2009 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Delaware on April 24-25, 2009. Some details regarding this Circus can be found on the Delaware Circus web page.
The Fall 2008 Finite Element Circus was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on October 24-25, 2008. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the RPI Circus web page.
The Spring 2008 Finite Element Circus-Finite Element Rodeo was held at Louisiana State University on March 7-8. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the LSU Circus web page.
The Fall 2007 Finite Element Circus was held at Cornell University on October 19-20. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Cornell Circus web page.
The Spring 2007 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Maryland in College Park on April 20-21. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the University of Maryland Circus web page.
The Fall 2006 Finite Element Circus was held at Penn State University on November 3-4, 2006. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Penn State Circus web page.
The Spring 2006 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Some details regarding this circus can be found on theUMBC Circus web page.
The Fall 2005 Finite Element Circus was held at Rutgers University on October 21-2, 2005. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Rutgers Circus web page.
The Spring 2005 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Delaware on April 29-30, 2005. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Delaware Circus web page.
The Fall 2004 Finite Element Circus was held at Syracuse University on October 15-16, 2004. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Syracuse Circus web page.
The Spring 2004 Finite Element Circus was held at the University of Pittsburgh on April 16-17, 2004. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Pittsburgh Circus web page.
The Fall 2003 Finite Element Circus was held at Cornell University on November 7-8, 2003. Some details regarding this circus can be found on the Cornell Circus web page.