The SWICCOMAS committee awarded two SWICCOMAS prizes in 2023, for the best Ph.D. thesis, conducted in 2022: Dr. Alice Cortinovis , with the thesis title « Fast deterministic and randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation, matrix functions, and trace estimation” Thesis director – Professor Daniel Kressner, EPFL. Dr. Pier Giuseppe Ledda, with the thesis title “From coating flow patterns to porous body wake dynamics via multiscale models” Thesis director – Professor Francois Gallaire, EPFL. see Award page for abstracts
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2021 ECCOMAS best doctoral thesis award
Dr Erik Orvehed Hiltunen, winner of the SWICCOMAS 2021 PhD thesis award, is one of the two winners of the ECCOMAS award for the best doctoral thesis in 2021. Erik Orvehed Hiltunen wrote his thesis entitled Asymptotic analysis of high-contrast subwavelength resonator structures under the supervision of Professor Habib Ammari. The award has been handed over in Oslo on June 6th, during the opening ceremony of the 2022 ECCOMAS Congress.
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Election of the new managing board SWICCOMAS
During its AG on March 24, 2022, SWICCOMAS elected its new Managing Board see Board page for details
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Winners of the SWICCOMAS prize 2022
The SWICCOMAS committee awarded three SWICCOMAS prizes 2022, for the best Ph.D. thesis 2021: Dr. Erik O. Hiltunen, with the thesis title « Asymptotic analysis of high-contrast subwavelength resonator structures” Thesis director – Professor Habib Ammari, ETH Zürich. Dr. Mattia Cenedese, with the thesis title “A Geometric Approach to Nonlinear Mechanical Vibrations: from Analytic to Data-driven Methods” Thesis director – Professor George Haller, ETH Zürich. Dr. Adrien Laurent, with the thesis title “Algebraic Tools and Multiscale Methods for the Numerical Integration of Stochastic Evolutionary Problems” Thesis director – Professor Gilles Vilmart, Université de Genève. see Award page for abstracts
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ECCOMAS 2022 Congress
The ECCOMAS 2022 Congress will be held in Olso from 5th to 9th June, 2022 https://www.eccomas2022.org/frontal/introduction.asp
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Winners of the SWICCOMAS prize 2021
The SWICCOMAS award committee decided to split the SWICCOMAS prize 2021 between two nominees: Dr. Lucas Frérot, with the thesis title « Bridging scales in wear modeling with volume integral methods for elastic-plastic contact” Thesis director – Professor Jean-François Molinari and Dr. Guillaume Anciaux, EPFL and Dr. Tommaso Vanzan, with the thesis title “Domain decomposition methods for multiphysics problems” Thesis director – Professeur Martin J. Gander, UNIGE see Award page for abstracts
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WCCM-ECCOMAS 2020 congress in Paris is cancelled in July, due to Covid-19 outbreak.
Alternative options are currently being explored by the organizers along with the IACM and ECCOMAS https://www.wccm-eccomas2020.org/frontal/
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Winners of the SWICCOMAS prize 2020
The SWICCOMAS award committee decided to split the SWICCOMAS prize 2020 between two nominees: Dr. Predrag Andric, with the thesis title « The mechanics of crack-tip dislocation emission and twinning” Thesis director – William Curtin, EPFL and Dr. Maria Han Veiga,with the thesis title “High order structure preserving numerical schemes for astrophysical flows” Thesis director – Rémi Abgrall and Romain Teyssier, UZH see Award page for abstracts
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Poster session
In combination with the SWICCOMAS General assembly in ETHZ, February 2020 we had a poster session.
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SWICCOMAS 3rd General Assembly
The next GA will take place in ETH Zürich on Friday February 7th 2020. We will have a seminar by Prof. Nicolas Zabaras Viola D. Hank Professor of Computational Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame. The seminar will be followed by a poster session with a prize for best poster and an aperitif.
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