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For his excellent master's thesis "Inverse analysis and uncertainty quantification for vascular growth and remodelling", M.Sc. François Kimmig was awarded the graduate award 2016 of the SEW-ERUODRIVE Foundation. His thesis was supervised by Dr.-Ing. Christian Cyron. The award will be presented… [read more]

On November 29th, 2016, the 2nd Symposium by the Munich Student Chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) took place in the Faculty Club of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Garching. The central organization of the symposium was conducted by Rui Fang, who has been vice president of… [read more]

Tobias Crönert received the "MINT-Award Technik 2016" for his Bachelor Thesis entitled "Monolithic Finite Element Simulation of Electrochemical Processes and Thermal Effects in Li-ion Batteries". The work was conducted in cooperation with supervisor Rui Fang at the Institute for Computational… [read more]

On the occasion of the Graduation Ceremony of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich on July 8th, 2016, Maximilian Grill was awarded the "Golden Teaching Award" from the student's association. This award was given for his committed and excellent performance in… [read more]

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. [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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)… [read more]