Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Vitor Cardoso was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant. This is a 5 year-long grant, consisting typically on a 1 to 2 Million Euro financing awarded by the European Research Council, for outstanding junior researchers in any research field in Europe.
Citation: ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams and will strengthen others that have been recently created.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010: Ulrich Sperhake has been awarded the Habilitation Prize of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Due to conference travel, he will not be able to attend the official award ceremony on Jun 25, but will receive the award at the end of July 2010.
Congratulations Uli!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Congratulate us! We were just granted 1.5 million CPU hours under the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI-6). Citation:
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative is aiming at leading, ground breaking applications in selected areas of science and technology dealing with complex, demanding, innovative simulations with a label of excellence from at least one national evaluation committee.
The proposals submitted this year to the DEISA initiative involve researchers from 30 countries - 22 in Europe and eight from the continents of America, Asia, and Australasia. More than half a billion computer-hours have been requested, an over-subscription by a factor of ten.
For more info, see this webpage
Miguel and Vitor visited Frans Pretorius’s group at Princeton. After Miguel’s talk on our latest work, we were still able to visit Einstein’s low-profile former home.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Helvi is going to visit the numerical relativity group at the Theoretical Physics Institute at the FSU in Jena from the 14th to 18th of June, 2010.
She will present our work on “Numerical Relativity in D-dimensional space-times” in the SFB Videoseminar
