Special Seminar "Supercomputers and Earth Science"

Seminar and Book Launch
  • When Dec 02, 2016 from 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm (UTC / UTC0)
  • Where Luisenstrasse 37 Raum C106
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Friday December 2, 2016, 18:00 s.t.

Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, LMU

Luisenstraße 37, Room C106

Moderator – Heiner Igel, LMU


Opening

Supercomputers in Earth Sciences – brief history – impact on research and training – challenges


Talk – Tamiko Thiel

Early days of parallel computing –– working with Danny Hillis and Richard Feynman at Thinking Machines Corp. ––  package designing of the massively parallel Connection Machine


Book Launch

Computational Seismology: A Practical Introduction

Oxford University Press

Why? – training with Jupyter notebooks – acknowledgements


Reception