One Highlight Chases the Next
Highlight 1: Participants of the Ferienakademie come from universities of three different locations: Munich, Erlangen/Nuremberg, and Stuttgart. This mixture makes courses at Ferienakademie unique and, thus, fosters different views on scientific problems. The students of the “Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering” are familiar with this aspect to some extent due to the cross-university design of their curriculum in Erlangen and Munich.
Highlight 2: Another facet of Ferienakademie fits perfectly to the design of the Elite Graduate Program „Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering“ : a living form of interdisciplinarity. Each year, the ten to twelve courses of Ferienakademie are accommodated in five hotels in Sarntal. The resulting mix of courses with different topics and participants within one hotel leads to a widening of horizons in many aspects. Background information on topics and scientific fields are disseminated in discussions during, e.g., meals or hiking. This frequently results in long-lasting contacts across the borders of disciplines and beyond the actual Ferienakademie stay.
Each year, three courses at Ferienakademie tackle topics and challenges related to computational simulation of physics or engineering problems. In 2018, the following courses took place:
- course 4: Multiscale Problems in Mechanics: Models – Simulation – Application
- course 5: Simulation of Fluids and Wave Phenomena – High Order, High Performance, High Productivity
- course 6: Accelerating Physics Simulations with Deep Learning
BGCE students participated primarily but not only in these courses. In the last years, students reported on great experiences in courses that provided a project phase. In such a project phase, students in 2018’s course 5 simulated the Tohoku tsunami of 2011 which was partly responsible for the Fukushima incident in Japan.
In 2019, there will again be an interesting program at Ferienakademie. The organizers and lecturers are looking forward to meeting interesting and motivated participants in autumn.
Text: Elite Graduate Program "Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering“
