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Laura Grigori is a Full Professor at EPFL and PSI and Chair of high performance Numerical algorithms and simulations. She has received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Henri Poincaré, France, INRIA Lorraine. After spending two years at UC Berkeley and LBNL as a postdoctoral researcher, she has joined INRIA where she has lead Alpines group from 2013 to 2023, a joint group between INRIA and J.L. Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, in Paris. She is a SIAM Fellow, the recipient of an ERC Synergy Grant, and of the SIAM Supercomputing Career Prize in 2024. Her field of expertise is numerical linear, multilinear algebra, and high performance scientific computing for challenging applications ranging from astrophysics to molecular simulations.

Peter is a Professor in the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College, working at the interface between mathematics, computing, fluid dynamics, and aeronautical engineering. He has a PhD from the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He is a 2016 Gordon Bell Prize finalist, and a 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. He plays an active role in his community, co-leading the PyFR project, and acting as a Principal Editor for Computer Physics Communications. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.