Thesis Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize students who write seminal doctoral and master's theses in the field of scientific computing with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and high performance computing.
Thesis Award 2021 - call open until 2021-07-30
We are glad to announce the call for submissions for the Thesis Award 2021 of the Research Area Scientific Computing, which is open as of now - till July 27, 2021!
The Research Area Scientific Computing awards a prize for an excellent master’s thesis and a PhD thesis in the field of Scientific Computing with a focus on High Performance Computing, and preferably with a highly interdisciplinary orientation. The award goes to a
- master's thesis (€ 500)
- doctoral thesis (€ 1000)
which was finished in the year 2020 (key date: day of the defensio) at the University of Innsbruck and is relevant for the Research Area Scientific Computing (e.g. in terms of Computational Engineering, Computer Science or High Performance Computing). Applications (an informal letter of application, a pdf of the original thesis, a pdf of the diploma) have to be submitted till July 30, 2021, in electronic form to scientific-computing@uibk.ac.at
Winner 2020
Doctoral Thesis
Evaluation of a High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model in Complex Terrain
Supervisors: Mathias Rotach and Alexander Gohm, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences,
University of Innsbruck; Oliver Fuhrer, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich
Winner 2019
Doctoral Thesis
Computational aspects of particle methods in environmental fluid mechanics
Supervisor: Wolfgang Rauch, Department for Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck
Winner 2018
Doctoral Thesis
Full-F gyro-fluid modelling of the tokamak edge and scrape-off layer
Supervisor: Alexander Kendl, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
Winner 2017
Master's Thesis
Assessing precipitation mechanisms on Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya: an idealized modeling study
Supervisors: Alexander Gohm and Georg Kaser, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of
Innsbruck
Winners 2016
Matthias Wiesenberger
Doctoral Thesis
Gyrofluid computations of filament dynamics in tokamak scrape-off layers
Supervisor: Alexander Kendl, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
Matthias Rauter
Master's Thesis
A novel basal friction model for snow avalanches
Supervisor: Wolfgang Fellin, Department of Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck
Winner 2015
Julian Fuchs
Doctoral Thesis
Local dynamics in protein function and specificity
Supervisor: Klaus Liedl, Department for General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Winners 2011
Bernhard Valentini
Doctoral Thesis
A three-dimensional constitutive model for concrete and its application to large scale finite element analyses
Supervisor: Günter Hofstetter, Department of Engineering Science, University of Innsbruck
Roland Huber
Master's Thesis
Entropy estimation from molecular dynamics ensembles
Supervisor: Klaus Liedl, Department for General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Winners 2010
David Geisler-Moroder
Doctoral Thesis
Accuracy improvements for computational methods and color rendering index calculations in global illumination models
Supvervisor: Arne Dür, Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck
Marcel Ritter
Master's Thesis
Computing geodesics in numerical space times
Supervisor: Sabine Schindler, Department of Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck
Winners 2009
Andreas Mauracher
Doctoral Thesis
Theoretical and experimental investigations of electron attachment to biomolecules
Supervisor: Michael Probst, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
Manuela Lehner
Master's Thesis
Idealized sensitivity study of pollution transport over alpine terrain
Supervisor: Alexander Gohm, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck