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June 3-5, 2015: Frontiers in Computational Physics Conference: Energy Sciences

  • 2:06PM May 21, 2015
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The 2nd Frontiers in Computational Physics Conference: Energy Sciences will take place June 3-5 in Zurich. Computation plays an essential role in Energy Sciences with imaging, data analysis and simulation for applications ranging from nuclear to solar and wind energy. We envision that computational methods in areas of multi-scale/multi-physics modeling and uncertainty quantification will help […]

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June 1-3, 2015: PASC 2015

  • 1:51PM May 21, 2015
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PASC15 Conference provides an opportunity for scientists and practitioners to discuss key issues in the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in branches of science that require computer modelling and simulations. The scientific program will offer four invited plenary presentations; one public lecture with Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 Thomas Sargent; 126 minisymposium presentations, and up to 21 contributed […]

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April 27, 2015: Delayed dynamical systems in engineering: where the rubber meets the road, Gabor Stepan

  • 12:49PM Apr 15, 2015
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Delayed dynamical systems in engineering: where the rubber meets the road April 27, 2015 from 2:15 p.m. in HG F 30 (aperitif after the lecture) Prof. Gabor Stepan Budapest University of Technology and Economics Abstract: Delay differential equations have an increasing share in mathematical models of engineering since some relevant problems of control theory, mechanical-, […]

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May 13, 2015: Capturing Enzyme Evolution in silico

  • 12:49PM Apr 15, 2015
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Capturing Enzyme Evolution in silico May 13, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. in KOL-G-201 UZH Aula (aperitif after the lecture) Prof. Dame Janet M. Thornton Director EMBL-EBI Abstract: Enzyme activity is essential for almost all aspects of life.  With completely sequenced genomes, the full complement of enzymes in an organism can be defined, and 3D structures […]

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April, 2015: Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos is elected as SIAM fellow

  • 4:18PM Apr 11, 2015
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Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos has been elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for pioneering work in numerical methods, high-performance computing, multiscale modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and computational biology.

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March 26, 2015: Petascale Computing and High-Precision Arithmetic: Applications and Challenges, Prof. D. Bailey

  • 9:00AM Feb 05, 2015
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Petascale 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 […]

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Feb. 25, 2015: Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods, Prof. Mike Giles

  • 9:00AM Feb 05, 2015
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Multilevel 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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