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ERCIM News No. 81 (April 2010)

DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Monday 22 February 2010

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The sections of ERCIM News 81 are :

  • Joint ERCIM Actions
  • The European Scene
  • Special Theme: "Computational Science/ Scientific Computing: Modelling and Simulation for Research and Industry"
  • R&D and Technology Transfer
  • Events
  • In Brief

Special Theme:
Computational Science/ Scientific Computing:
Modelling and Simulation for Research and Industry

coordinated by:

  • Han La Poutré, CWI and Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
  • Ulrich Trottenberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI and University of Cologne, Germany.

Computational Science/ Scientific Computing (CS/SC) are multidisciplinary approaches in which advanced computing capabilities are used to understand and solve complex problems. As a methodology, CS/SC is seen as the "third way" in science, allowing researchers to address questions that are largely inaccessible to experimental or theoretical investigations.

CS/SC nowadays rages from modelling multi-scale phenomena and simulating complex systems, over advanced numerical algorithms and decentralized discrete strategies, to system software and data management. (For a more comprehensive list of computational science topics, see e.g. the PITAC 2005 Report (http://www.nitrd.gov/Pitac/reports/20050609_computational/computational.pdf).)

This ERCIM News special theme invites short articles on new approaches, frameworks and applications in the domain of computational science.

Topics:

  • modelling and simulation (like event-based, agent-based, continuous)
  • numerical methods (in particular for PDEs)
  • numerical analysis
  • multiphysics simulation
  • optimization (continuous, decentralized, discrete and vector-)
  • algorithms
  • parallelisation and High Performance Computing
  • visualisation
  • intelligent systems (multi-agent, learning, sensors)
  • infrastructure
  • formal analysis
  • applications:
    • Computational Physics
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics
    • Computational Structural Mechanics
    • Computational Meteorology
    • Computational Chemistry
    • Computational Biology (Life Science)
    • Computational Economics
    • Computational Logistics
    • Computational Finance
    • Computational Monitoring

Reviewing:
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