News and Events

Upcoming events

• On 6 December 2022, Josef Mergl will present his recent results on "Analysis and numerical approximation of a model for heat transfer via interfaces and radiation" in our Research Seminar.
• The Special Semester on Tomography Across the Scales, takes place from 3 October 2022 until 3 December 2022 at RICAM.

News

• Michael Mandlmayr successfully defended his PhD thesis on 5 October 2022; many congratulations!
• Eva-Maria Haslhofer joined our Institute as student assistant, Marvin Fritz joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM, both starting with 1 October 2022.
• Josef Mergl joined our Institute starting with 15 July 2022.
• Oliver Habrich joined our Institute, Nora Philippi joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM, both starting with 1 July 2022.
• The Collaborative Research Center Computational Electric Machine Laboratory (CREATOR) started on 1 March 2022.

Older news items

• Andreas Schafelner joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM starting with 1 May 2022.
• The Austrian Numerical Analysis Days 2022 took place from 4 until 6 May 2022 at NuMa and RICAM.
• Peter Gangl and Alessio Cesarano (FWF project of Peter Gangl) joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM starting with 1 April 2022.
• Andreas Schafelner successfully defended his PhD thesis on 2 March 2022.
• Nepomuk Krenn and Bogdan Radu joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM on 1 March 2022.
• The project "Fast Methods for Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis" (P 33956-NBL), proposed by Clemens Hofreither, was approved by the FWF in November 2020. Host institution is RICAM.
• Clemens Hofreither successfully defended his habilitation thesis on 26 June 2020.
• Stefan Takacs successfully defended his habilitation thesis on 19 June 2020.
• The project "Optimality and Stability in Optimization" (P 32832-N), proposed by Matúš Benko, was approved by the FWF in September 2019. Host institution is the University of Vienna.
• Svetoslav Nakov successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11 July 2019.
• The 12th Workshop on Analysis and Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, co-organized by NuMa, was held in St. Wolfgang / Strobl, Austria, 1 - 5 July 2019.
• The event "Mathematik-Spitzenforschung an der JKU" was held at JKU, Linz, Austria, 10 May 2019. See also
• Peter Gangl received the Erwin Wenzl Prize 2018 for his PhD thesis from the governor of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer.
• The 4th Workshop on "Frontier Technologies for High-Dimensional Problems and Uncertainty Quantification" within the Special Semester 2018, was held at RICAM, 17 - 21 December 2018.
• Jarle Sogn successfully defended his PhD thesis on 29 November 2018.
• The 11th Workshop on Analysis and Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations was held at Särkisaari, Finland, 6 - 10 August 2018.
• Christoph Hofer successfully defended his PhD thesis on 13 July 2018.
• Katharina Rafetseder successfully defended her PhD thesis on 13 July 2018.
• The 4th Austrian HPC Meeting 2018 was held in Linz, Austria, 19 - 21 February 2018.
• The MACH-2 Opening Celebration, was held at JKU, Linz, Austria, 19 February 2018.
• Peter Gangl received the Richard C. DiPrima Prize of SIAM for his PhD thesis at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2018 in Portland, USA.
• Peter Gangl received the Anile prize of the ECMI for his PhD thesis at the ECMI meeting 2018 in Budapest, Hungeria.
• Peter Gangl received Studienpreis of the ÖMG.
• Peter Gangl received doctorate sub auspiciis.
• The project "Fast Multigrid Solvers for Advanced Discretization Techniques in Isogeometric Analysis", proposed by Clemens Hofreither, was approved within the second LIT call of the JKU.
• Peter Gangl gave an invited talk (video) at the Special Workshop "Frontiers in PDE-constrained Optimization" in Minneapolis, USA.
• The Project "Regularity and stability of generalized equations" (P 29190), proposed by Helmut Gfrerer, was approved by the FWF.
• Peter Gangl presented topology optimization of a colander on the Science Slam 2016 (video).
• SIAM publishes "nugget" article about paper "Shape Optimization of an Electric Motor subject to Nonlinear Magnetostatics" that was authored by Peter Gangl, Ulrich Langer, Antoine Laurain, Houcine Meftahi and Kevin Sturm.
• The NFN S117 "Geometry + Simulation" has been prolonged by FWF for further 4 years (2016 - 2020).
• Special Semester on Computational Methode in Science and Engineering took place from 10 October until 16 December 2016 at RICAM.
• In 2012, Peter Gangl received a prize of Ministry for Science and Research for his masters thesis.