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The student council awarded the "3rd Prize in Golden Teaching" in the category "Best Exercise Course in Undergraduate Studies" to Martin Pfaller for "Engineering Mechanics 3" offered during the winter term 2015/2016. [weiterlesen]

On June 8, 2016, at the ECCOMAS Congress in Crete, Dr. Alexander Popp was elected as new chairman of the Young Investigators Committee of the European Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). Together with Dr. Stefanie Elgeti (RWTH Aachen) as co-chairperson, he will lead… [weiterlesen]

On June 6, 2016, during the opening ceremony of the big ECCOMAS congress in Crete, Professor Wolfgang A. Wall received the Prandtl medal from the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. According to ECCOMAS (http://www.eccomas.org/spacehome/1/4), the Prandtl Medal is awarded… [weiterlesen]

In the scientific council meeting of CISM beginning of May 2016, Professor Wolfgang A. Wall has been elected to become a new rector of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, CISM (http://www.cism.it/) in Udine, Italy. He will take office in January 2017. CISM, International Centre for… [weiterlesen]

Dr. Ursula Rasthofer receives the "2016 ECCOMAS PhD Award" for her thesis entitled "Computational Multiscale Methods for Turbulent Single and Two-Phase Flows". The Award Presentation will take place during the European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS… [weiterlesen]

At the Extreme Scaling Workshop at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre a team consisting of Martin Kronbichler, Benjamin Krank, Niklas Fehn, Katharina Kormann and Wolfgang A. Wall scaled their code INDEXA (A high-order discontinuous Galerkin solver for turbulent incompressible flow towards the EXA scale)… [weiterlesen]

The Daimler and Benz Foundation has awarded a research fellowship to Dr. Alexander Popp for his project proposal "Bottom-Up Modeling of Self-Expandable Stent Grafts for Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms“. He is among the twelve awardees who were selected out of more than 200… [weiterlesen]

Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall together with Prof. Charbel Farhat from Stanford University are organizing a course on "Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction" at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (http://www.cism.it) in Udine, Italy from June 27 to July 1, 2016. More information on the… [weiterlesen]

Dr. Alexander Popp will organize a short course "Computational Contact and Interface Mechanics" at the prestigious International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM). His joint proposal with Prof. P. Wriggers (Leibniz University Hannover) has been approved by the CISM Executive Council and the… [weiterlesen]

The front cover of the International Journal Physiological Measurements for the whole year of 2016 will be based on an image from Christian Roth. It is adapted from Figure 6 of our paper: Christian J Roth et al 2015 Physiol. Meas. 36 1211. Click on the image for larger view. [weiterlesen]