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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN NUMERICAL INTEGRATION

To be held in Room 210 at Espace Gruyère in Bulle (canton of Fribourg), Switzerland

Monday July 6 - Friday July 10, 2026

http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~ljay/Bulle26.html


GENERAL INFORMATION

The main theme of the conference is numerical integration, in particular for ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, differential algebraic equations, optimal control problems, and any type of problems involving integration in one way or another.

The number of invited speakers is limited to about 25 with everyone given at most one hour for a talk including questions. There will be no parallel sessions.

Bulle is a city in the canton of Fribourg and is located in the beautiful Gruyère region, one of the most scenic and touristic part of Switzerland. The spoken language in the region is mainly french. There is a train station in Bulle with connections to major cities in Switzerland: Fribourg, Lausanne, Bern, Geneva, Basel, Zurich, etc. There are airports in Geneva, Zurich, and Basel, these airports are almost all equidistant from Bulle.


TO-DO LIST FOR PARTICIPANTS


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Scientific Committee: Laurent O. Jay and Juan I. Montijano.
Laurent O. Jay acknowledges the generous support from International Programs of the University of Iowa.

PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS

Here is the preliminary Conference Schedule and Book of Abstracts (same in pdf).
Please email your title + abstract in Latex to both monti@unizar.es and laurent-jay@uiowa.edu before May 15. By default the length of talk is 60 minutes including questions. If you wish to have a shorter presentation please let us know how much time you need so we can optimize the schedule.

CONFERENCE FEE

The fee of 230 USD or 200 EUROS includes the conference dinner on Tuesday evening and an excursion on Wednesday late morning and afternoon, see below.
Please make your payment before May 15 if possible.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Monique Chyba has suggested the possibility to have conference proceedings as a special volume in the book series Applied Mathematics of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Monique is the Editor in Chief of this book series. Let Monique know at chyba@hawaii.edu if you are interested in submitting a paper to conference proceedings. More details will be given during the conference depending on the interest of participants.

CONFERENCE DINNER ON TUESDAY EVENING JULY 7

The Conference dinner will be held on Tuesday July 7 at 7pm at the restaurant Le Gruyérien (Grand-Rue 1, Bulle).

Choose your menu (Appetizer + Main + Dessert): Additional guest: 60 USD or 55 EUR or 50 CHF.

Email me your choice (as a simple 3 digits number) before June 30th, for example: 212 = Mixed salad...+ Cheese fondue...+ Panna cotta... If I do not hear from you, the choice will be 111.

EXCURSION ON WEDNESDAY JULY 8

An excursion from Bulle to the medieval city of Gruyères will take place by taking the train at 11:50am from the Bulle train station to the Gruyères train station with a visit at noon to a Gruyère cheese factory (check the cheese making timetable). Then free time for lunch in Gruyères. Then after lunch a guided tour (in English) at 3:00pm to the castle of Gruyères. See you at the gate entrance at 2:55pm.

For those who like hiking there is a bus from the Gruyères train station to the Moléson village (11 minutes) where you can take a funicular to Plan-Francey which is the starting point of many trails and of the cable car to the top of the Moléson mountain. Instead of taking the bus to Moléson village Mechthild Thalhammer has offered to take 4 people in her car to go hiking.

From Espace Gruyères it is a 15 minutes walk to the Bulle train station. On Wednesday July 8 there are trains at 10:50am, 11:20am, 11:50am, 12:20pm, 12:44pm from the Bulle train station to the Gruyères train station (it takes 8 minutes).

FOLKLORIC MARKET ON THURSDAY JULY 9

After the two morning talks, from 11:00am to 1:00pm the folkloric market in downtown Bulle.

HOTELS

In Bulle

In the medieval city of Gruyères (near the castle)

Expect at least a 40 minutes commute time by foot and train between the medieval city of Gruyères and Espace Gruyère in Bulle: First it is a 15 minutes walk from the medieval city of Gruyères to the train station in Gruyères, then a 7-8 minutes train ride between Gruyères and Bulle train stations, then a 13 minutes walk from the Bulle train station to the Espace Gruyère in Bulle. On Monday July 6 there are trains at 07:07am, 07:32am, 07:38am, 07:58am, 08:32am from the Gruyères train station to the Bulle train station.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN THE BULLE AREA

On Monday July 6 there are trains at 07:07am, 07:32am, 07:38am, 07:58am, 08:32am, etc., from the train station in Gruyères to Bulle (type the 0 in front!).

TOURISTIC INFORMATION

The Tourist Office La Gruyère Tourisme is located in Bulle near the train station. Take a peek at the Bulle train station and its unusual customer service at the ticket counter.

Wednesday afternoon July 8, Thursday late morning July 9, and Friday afternoon July 10 will be free time to enjoy some touristic activities. There are many places to visit in the Gruyère region, to name a few The local newspaper: La Gruyère.

The Gruyère anthem "Lioba-le Ranz des Vaches", 1955 short version at the "Fête des Vignerons".

Picture of castle of Gruyères


Laurent O. Jay
Department of Mathematics
14 MacLean Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
USA
Tel: (319)-335-0898
E-mail: laurent-jay@uiowa.edu