Sebastian Kuckuck and Christian Schmitt received the SPPEXA best thesis award and Piet Jarmatz received the best thesis award for his master thesis 2020-02-06
Christian Schmitt and Sebastian Kuckuck both worked on domain-specific languages for HPC at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Titles were respectively "A Domain-Specific Language and Source-to-Source Compilation Framework for Geometric Multigrid Methods" and "Automatic Code Generation for Massively Parallel Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics". Very much in the spirit of SPPEXA: Science is not an individual competition, but a "team sport". Science benefits from cooperation. The student prizes were won by Piet Jarmatz, who wrote his master thesis at TUM. Title: "Parallel Noise Reduction for Transient Molecular-Continuum Coupled Flow Simulations". The promotion of young scientists is bearing fruit: Now Piet is a PhD student at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg with the newly appointed former SPPEXA program manager Professor Dr. Philipp Neumann.
The SPPEXA Thesis Award winners. On the left PhD winner Sebastian Kuckuk and Schmitt's supervising professor Jürgen Teich. On the right Masterand Piet Jarmatz with Hans Bungartz.