Winners of the SWICCOMAS prize 2019

We are pleased to inform you that the SWICCOMAS award committee chaired by Eleni Chatzi decided to split the SWICCOMAS prize 2019 between two nominees. Dr. Max Hodapp from EPFL with the thesis title “On flexible Green function methods for atomistic/continuum coupling” Thesis director – William Curtin, EPFL and Dr. Paola Bacigaluppi, from UZH with the thesis title “High Order Fully Explicit Residual Distribution Approximation for Conservative and Non-Conservative Systems in Fluid Dynamics” Thesis director – Rémi Abgrall, UZH
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Nominee for the ECCOMAS PhD best thesis award

Dr. Max Hodapp from LAMMM, EPFL, has been selected as the Swiss-based candidate for the 2018 ECCOMAS PhD best thesis award on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. Thesis title: On flexible Green function methods for atomistic/continuum coupling. Thesis director: Bill Curtin, EPFL
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SWICCOMAS General Assembly 2019

Next SWICCOMAS General Assembly 2019 at EPFL  in Lausanne on February 7th 2019 at 14h – 17, room MED2 2423 Seminar by Prof. Eleni Chatzi, Institute of Structural Engineering ETH Zürich Title “On the coalescence of models with data for infrastructure assessment” Followed by the General Assembly 2019 and an aperitif
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ECCM – ECFD June 2018

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems) (ECCM 6) and the 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7) will be jointly organized in Glasgow, UK, June 11 – 15, 2018.
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Seminar Feb. 15th 2018 – Prof. Tryggvason

Prof. Tryggvason, from the Johns Hopkins University, USA, are invited as speaker at our next seminar at Zurich University on February 15th 2018 at 14h Building Y27, room H12. Title: Direct Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows You are welcome to attend. Webpage of Prof Tryggvason The SWICCOMAS general assembly will be held directly after the seminar in the same room.
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Eccomas Congress 2020

The ECCOMAS CONGRESS 2020 will be jointly organized with the 14th WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS  in Paris, France, on 19-24 July 2020. The ECCOMAS Congress, together with the ECCOMAS Conference on Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics (ECCM) and the ECCOMAS Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD), constitute the three main scientific events of ECCOMAS organized every four years, on even years, which attract approximately 5000 participants in total.     Source: ECCOMAS.org
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ECCOMAS Award for the two best PhD theses in 2016

ECCOMAS Award for the two best PhD theses in 2016, on computational methods in applied sciences and engineering We are happy to announce that the thesis of Dr. Diane Guignard has been selected by ECCOMAS to win the ECCOMAS best PhD theses competition, see below. Dr. Diane Guignard conducted her Ph.D. under the supervison of Prof. Marco Picasso and Prof. Fabio Nobile at EPFL. The title of her Ph.D. is « A posteriori error estimation for partial differential equations with random input media ». OPEN CALL ECCOMAS Award for the two best PhD theses in 2016, on computational methods in applied sciences and engineering The European
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