On 16 and 17 May 2018, Prof. Spencer Sherwin (Imperial College London) visited cfaed and gave a talk on recent developments of the Spectral Element Method achieved in his group.He discussed about common research questions related to the Spectral Element Method which is used in the ORCH path as an application challenge for running codes on wildely heterogeneous hardware. At this occasion Spencer Sherwin also participated in the defense of Karsten Bock dealing with high-order surface representation.