We congratulate Dr. Jie Chen for his Professorship at Tongji University in Shanghai. This is the culmination of two years of hard and ingenious work by Jie and a very proud moment for this lab.
Read MoreWe congratulate our Master student Simon Silvio Tödtli for his admission in the PhD program at Aureonautics in Caltech!
Read MoreThe life of a vortex knot: Linking coiling and twisting across scales April 20, 2015 from 2:15 p.m. in HG F 30 (aperitif after the lecture) Prof. William T. M. Irvine University of Chicago Abstract: Can you take a vortex loop – akin to a smoke ring in air – and tie it into a […]
Read MorePetascale Computing and High-Precision Arithmetic: Applications and Challenges Thrursday, March 26, 2015, 17:15, HG F 30 AudiMAX, ETH Zurich (an apero will follow at approx. 18:15) Prof. David H. Bailey Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (retired) and University of California, Davis Abstract: State-of-the-art high-performance computing systems, which feature performance rates over 30 quadrillion floating-point operations per […]
Read MoreMultilevel Monte Carlo Methods Wednesday, Feb.25, 2015, 17:15, ML E 12, ETH Zurich (an apero will follow at approx. 18:15) Prof. Mike Giles Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Abstract Multilevel Monte Carlo methods, developed independently by Stefan Heinrich and Mike Giles in different stochastic contexts, can be viewed as a hierarchical control variate approach to […]
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