We are pleased to announce that Peter and Michael's project "Coupled renormalized integrals for snow and proteins: do all path integrals lead to Rome?" was selected for funding as a Wildcard by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. Wildcard is a program of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung to give interdisciplinary teams the opportunity to freely bring forward unconventional research ideas at a very early stage. Their moto is One ‘Wild’ Idea – Three Scientists – Maximum Freedom.
Dr. Arpit Babbar has just been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to work on the project "Discontinuous Galerkin methods for atmospheric flows", hosted by Prof. Hendrik Ranocha in the Institute of Mathematics. He joined JGU and M3ODEL by mid-2024. Congratulations, Arpit!
We will hold the annual meeting of M3ODEL on Thursday Sept. 12th and Friday Sept. 13th., 2024. It will take place at:
Hermann Staudinger Lecture Hall, MPI-P campus
The program will include an update on the PhD joint projects, the introduction of new PIs, presentation of proposed new projects for 2025, plenary discussion of planned activities, especially of the upcoming SCALES 2025 Conference, and a meeting of the Steering Committee to allocate funding. Please, check soon for a detailed program.
Dinner will be provided on Thursday evening, for those who wish to join. If you wish to participate in the meeting and/or dinner, please sign up here.
M3ODEL is happy to announce that the Numerics Seminar will host Valentin Churavy, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Valenting is an active member of the Julia Lab, which focuses on theoretical and numerical aspects of the core Julia language, base library, and several other packages.
The seminar will take place at 17 hs. on Thursday December 21st, Hilbertraum 05-432, Staudingerweg 9, JGU Mainz.
Following the successful workshop of October 2023, Professor E. Moulas from the Institute for Geosciences offers a workshop on modeling chemical diffusion with applications to problems in geochemistry. It will take place from 11 to 15 of March 2024 in the Inst. for Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
Over the past years, the development of computers and analytical equipment has made inverse diffusion modelling a very important tool in Geosciences. In this workshop, the participants will learn to develop numerical codes “from scratch” in order to solve diffusion problems for petrological applications. The overall schedule of the course is as follows:
1) Introduction to diffusion problems - analytical solutions and simple numerical implementations.
2) Introduction to time-transformation techniques - applications of Geospeedometry and Diffusion Chronometry.
3) Introduction to the Finite Element Method in 1-D.
4) Diffusion Couples and the application to Geospeedometry.
During the 5 days of the workshop the participants will develop their own diffusion codes that could be used in answering real-research questions. The participants will also learn how to benchmark their codes using available analytical solutions.
The registration fee is 80EUR per person.Members of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG) receive a 50% discount.
For more information, please contact Evangelos Moulas or check the website. Participants of the October 2023 Workshop
The annual meeting of M3ODEL PIs this year will be a larger one, organized together with the PIs of BINARY and Emergent AI. The program will include the presentation of proposed joint, interdisciplinary projects, which are supposed to start beginning of the next funding cycle (Jan. 2024).
The joint projects will differ from those of the first cycle; the new ones will last no more than to 2 years, and the work will be suitable for post-docs. That means that we will be able to fund more, smaller projects.
The meeting will be in person at the campus of the JGU. More information will come soon:
Date: Monday - Wednesday, late September or early October Time: all day Place: HIM Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Conference Room I-III
The next PI meeting will be held on May 5th.
The goal is start planning the projects that will be funded for the second cycle of M3ODEL, beginning in 2024. These projects will also be interdisciplinary, but are meant to last no more than to 2 years, and the work will be suitable for post-docs. That means that we will be able to fund more, smaller projects.
To encourage exchange and discussions, so that potential ideas become suitable projects, we will organize this PI meeting exclusively in presence. Please, save the date and location:
Tanja Weil, head of the Synthesis of Macromolecules group and director at the MPI-P, will give a special talk to introduce the project she is submitting as an excellence cluster, called “Communicating Biomaterials: Convergence Center for Life-like Soft and Biological Systems (C3BioMat)”, to all M3ODEL members.
Please join us for this interesting event. The information is below.
