NIC Symposium 2012
- begin
- 07.Feb.2012
- end
- 08.Feb.2012
- duration
- 2 days
The sixth NIC Symposium will give an overview of the activities of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) and of the results obtained in the last two years by research groups supported by the NIC.
NIC - a joint foundation of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) - supports with its members' supercomputer facilities about 130 research groups at universities and national labs working on computer simulations in various fields of science.
Fifteen invited lectures will cover selected topics in the following fields:
- Astrophysics
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Elementary particle physics
- Condensed matter
- Materials science
- Soft matter science
- Environmental research
- Hydrodynamics and turbulence
- Plasma physics
- Computer science
The talks are intended to inform a broad audience of scientists and the interested public about the research activities at NIC.
