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  • Thu
    28
    May
    2026

    SC Seminar: Maoni Ngowa Msinda

    10:15Hybrid (Room 32-349 and via Zoom)

    Maoni Ngowa Msinda, Chair for Scientific Computing (SciComp), RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau

    Title: Modeling Glioblastoma Plasticity Using Partial Differential Equations and Machine Learning

    Abstract:

    The integration of mathematical modeling and machine learning is opening new directions in computational oncology. In this work, we present a partial integro-differential equation framework for modeling glioblastoma plasticity, incorporating anisotropic diffusion, convection, nonlocal interactions, and nonlinear reaction dynamics. Numerical simulations are performed using finite-difference discretizations together with fourth-order Runge–Kutta time integration, while parameter estimation is formulated as a PDE-constrained optimization problem. To efficiently compute gradients for large-scale inverse problems, we employ reverse-mode automatic differentiation using the CoDiPack library combined with a two-level uniform checkpointing strategy. Gradient-based optimization methods, including gradient descent and L-BFGS-B, are compared for recovering model parameters from observed tumor data. Finally, we discuss future directions involving spatially varying parameters, clinical data assimilation, and machine learning approaches for accelerated inverse modeling.

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    https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/69269239534?pwd=Z9UOzMpkhMjrxVhll3d49sNHFe9Fd1.1