Sarah SERHAL
Instructor
Faculty of Science
+961 (1) 421 000 sara.serhal1@usj.edu.lb
I am currently in the final year of my doctoral studies in Applied Mathematics, pursuing a PhD jointly between École Centrale de Nantes (under the supervision of Mazen Saad) Saint Joseph University of Beirut (under the supervision of Toni Sayah, with co-supervision by Georges Chamoun). My doctoral research focuses on optimal control of partial differential equations, numerical analysis, numerical simulations.
Alongside my research, I am deeply committed to teaching. This academic year, I have the opportunity to teach first-year engineering students at École Centrale de Nantes, conducting both theoretical tutorials and practical lab sessions starting from February 2025. Last year (February 2024), I also taught first-year engineering students, covering both tutorials and lab sessions. Furthermore, this year, I am teaching second-year bachelor students in Data Science, focusing on calculus. Additionally, I have experience in private tutoring.
In 2021, I was honoured to receive the Henry Lebesgue Excellence Scholarship, awarded by the Henry Lebesgue Centre in Nantes, where I completed my master’s degree in Analysis and Probability. My expertise spans several areas, including optimal control, partial differential equations, finite volume methods, and finite element methods.
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctorat - Mathématiques et leurs Interactions | Ecole centrale de Nantes / IFSTTAR | France | 2025 |
| Master - Mathématiques | Université de Nantes | France |
Research themes
My expertise spans several areas, including optimal control, partial differential equations, finite volume methods, finite element methods.
Publications and communications
-Article publié dans un journal scientifique indexed by scopus : Sarah Serhal, Georges Chamoun, Mazen Saad, Toni Sayah, Well-posedness of the Optimal Control Problem Related to Degenerate Chemo-attraction Models, WSEAS Transactions on Systems Control, vol. 19, pp. 200-208, 2024, DOI:10.37394/23203.2024.19.21
-Article soumis intitulé : Bilinear optimal control for chemotaxis model : The case of two-sidedly degenerate diffusion with Volume-Filling Effect dans un journal scientifique.
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