Ferienakademie 2011, Course 9
Simulation Technology for Health and Environment

Health and Environment, two of the currently most present topics. When you look through the public discussions of the last years you'll find the swine and bird flu, new pharmaceuticals with and without side effects, global warming, the Deepwater Horizon disaster etc. etc. Progress in all of these fields largely depends on simulation technology, be it to simulate the global expansion of viruses, climate models or the micro-scale dynamics of molecules.

The process of numerical simulation is highly interdisciplinary, since it is necessary to find a mathematical model of the actual real-life system, to discretize this model, to bring it into a computer, and then to transfer the results back to the real life. Thus, the intention of this course is to bring together students from mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry and engineering - and of course, in particular from computational or simulation technology programs. So you should be willing to cooperate with people from other fields of research, to discuss their ideas and to present a topic from your field in a talk by your own.

Due to the positive feedback last year, we will again do a project along with the seminar. So the presentation part will be reduced, while we will develop a programm, which implements the presented ideas.

As in the last years the course language is something similar to English ;-) - so don't worry if your English is not perfect, you won't be alone!

The course is open for early bachelor's up to advanced master's students.