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Konstantin Rusch successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Physics-inspired machine learning". Congratulations!

Lorenzo Giacomel successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Electron cloud buildup simulations in 3D RF structures". Congratulations!

Marco Petrella successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Multi-scale computations of compressible two-phase flow problems". Congratulations!

Siddhartha Mishra has been awarded this year's Rössler Prize for his research on solutions for highly complex flow and wave phenomena. He is being recognised for his contributions to faster and more accurate predictions of weather, climate and tsunamis, and for the computer simulations that enable them.

We are delighted to announce that Tim De Ryck has been honoured with the 2023 PhD Award from the Analytics Club at ETH.

Joost Opschoor successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Constructive deep neural network approximations of weighted analytic solutions to partial differential equations in polygons". Congratulations!

Soumil Gurjar successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical simulation of a powder snow avalanche". Congratulations!

奥利弗Rietmann成功通过他的口腔doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Spawning semiclassical wavepackets and quantum dynamics with magnetic fields". Congratulations!

Marcello Longo successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Extrapolated polynomial lattices and adaptivity in computational uncertainty quantification". Congratulations!

Erick Schulz successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Boundary integral exterior calculus". Congratulations!

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) awarded Siddhartha Mishra with the 2021 Germund Dahlquist Prize.

At this year’s Women in Data Science Zürich Conference, Professor Rima Alaifari was invited to speak about robustness of machine learning algorithms.

Last Friday, the students of the Master's programmes in Mathematics, Statistics as well as Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) celebrated their graduation. Congratulations to all on the successful completion of their studies!

Matija Bucić, Erik Orvehed Hiltunen and Samuel Lanthaler were awarded an ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses. Congratulations!

埃里克博士Orvehed Hiltunen是两个获奖者之一of the ECCOMAS award for the best doctoral thesis in 2021.

Matthias Wellershoff successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Unknown Pleasures: Phase retrieval for time-frequency and time-scale structured data". Congratulations!

Matthias Wellershoff was given the opportunity to present his research on phase retrieval on the occasion of the 2021 ETH Day on 20 November.

The SAM Alumni Reunion was held on 12 and 13 November 2021.

Samuel Lanthaler successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Computation and analysis of statistical solutions of the incompressible Euler equations". Congratulations!

We are proud to announce that Habib Ammari has been named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Samuel Lanthaler, doctoral student at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics (SAM), has been elected as GAMM Junior Fellow 2022-2024.

Carlos Pares Pulido successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Statistical solutions for the incompressible Euler equations with finite volume methods". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Habib Ammari has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Pratyuksh Bansal successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical approximation of the acoustic wave equation and of statistical solutions of the incompressible Navier-stokes equations". Congratulations!

Last Friday, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) Master's degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!

Luc Grosheintz-Laval successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Well-balanced finite volume methods". Congratulations!

Lorenzo Baldassari successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematical models for bio-inspired imaging and plasmonics". Congratulations!

Andrea Scapin successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematics of biomimetics for active echo- and electro-sensing". Congratulations!

Bryn Davies successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematical analysis of subwavelength metamaterials: sensors, waveguides and biomimicry". Congratulations!

Kthim Imeri successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Focusing of acoustic and electromagnetic waves: a mathematical analysis". Congratulations!

埃里克Orvehed Hiltunen successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Asymptotic analysis of high-contrast subwavelength resonator structures". Congratulations!

Fernando Henríquez Barraza successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Shape uncertainty quantification in acoustic scattering". Congratulations!

In their new paper, Andrea Scapin and Lorenzo Baldassari, both doctoral students at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics (SAM), introduce an innovative algorithm for observing objects via electrosensing that is based on the real behaviour of weakly electric fish.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Florian Feppon has won the 2019 ECCOMAS PhD Award and the 2020 Prix Paul Caseau.

The 2020 Finnish Inverse Prize was awarded to postdoctoral researcher Dr Jesse Railo for his dissertation on geodesic tomography.

Roman Fuchs successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical modeling and simulation of electric arcs". Congratulations!

At yesterday's ceremony, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!

Dr Roger Käppeli has been Senior Scientist at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics (SAM) since June 2020.

Kjetil Olsen Lye successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Computation of statistical solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws". Congratulations!

Primoz Pusnik successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Strong convergence rates for full-discrete numerical approximations of stochastic partial differential equations with non-globally Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities". Congratulations!

Timo Welti successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "High-dimensional stochastic approximation: algorithms and convergence rates". Congratulations!

Daniele Casati successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Coupling finite elements and auxiliary sources". Congratulations!

The Infosys Science Foundation awarded the 2019 Infosys Prize for Mathematical Sciences to Professor Siddhartha Mishra.

Dr Kristin Kirchner will take over an assistant professorship at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Diyora Salimova successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical approximation results for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations". Congratulations!

Arnulf Jentzen has been appointed full professor at the University of Munster since September 2019.

The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics has elected Timo Welti as a GAMM Junior for the years 2020 to 2022.

Dr Sanghyeon Yu has accepted an offer for a tenure-track assistant professorship at Korea University.

Gioele Janett successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical methods for the transfer equation of polarized radiation". Congratulations!

On Friday 24 May, Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) students celebrated the completion of their studies together with their family and friends.

We are very pleased to announce, that Professor Ralf Hiptmair has been invited to speak at this year’s Aziz Lecture at the University of Maryland.

Lukas Herrmann successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Quasi-Monte Carlo integration in uncertainty quantification for PDEs with log-gaussian random field inputs". Congratulations!

Taha Koltukluoglu successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Data assimilation in hemodynamics". Congratulations!

Alexander Dabrowski successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Perturbations of eigenvalue and scattering resonances and applications in imaging". Congratulations!

Jakob Zech successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Sparse-grid approximation of high-dimensional parametric PDEs". Congratulations!

We are delighted to annouce that Professor Arnulf Jentzen is the winner of the 2018 Joseph F. Traub Information-Based Complexity Young Researcher Award.

Siddhartha Mishra is the winner of the 2019 ICIAM Collatz Prize which is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded in applied mathematics.

Dr Michaela Szoelgyeni has accepted an offer for a full professorship for stochastic processes at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Avalanches, tsunamis, solar storms: Siddhartha Mishra is captivated by unstable and turbulent flows. He combines mathematics with scientific computing in a bid to understand their common causes. Helping him in his quest are equations, first written down by the Swiss mathematician, Leonhard Euler.

Francisco Romero Hinrichsen successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematics of medical imaging with dynamic data". Congratulations!

Wei Wu successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematical and numerical frameworks for metamaterials and metasurfaces". Congratulations!

Ryan Kurniawan successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Weak convergence rates for numerical approximations of parabolic stochastic partial differential equations with non-additive noise". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Jacques Louis Lions Award has been awarded to Professor Siddharta Mishra at the ECCM-ECFD Conference in Glasgow.

Brian Fitzpatrick successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mathematical analysis of Minnaert resonances for acoustic metamaterials". Congratulations!

Filippo Leonardi successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical methods for ensemble based solutions to incompressible flow equations". Congratulations!

Carolina Urzúa Torres successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Operator preconditioning for Galerkin boundary element methods on screens". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Habib Ammari has been elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.

Simon Pintarelli successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Deterministic numerical methods for the Boltzmann equation". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Timo Welti has been granted one of the Mathematics Journal’s 2018 Travel Awards.

Siddharta Mishra is one of five ETH Zurich researchers that receive a ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around two million Swiss francs each.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Siddhartha Mishra will be an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro.

Denis Devaud successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "hp-approximation of linear parabolic evolution problems in H^1/2". Congratulations!

Fabian Müller successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Numerical analysis of finite element methods for second order wave equations in polygons". Congratulations!

Robert Gantner successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Computational higher-order quasi-Monte Carlo for random partial differential equations". Congratulations!

On 25 September, Professor Rima Alaifari gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Stable extraction of information from unstable systems". She has been assistant professor at the Department since October 2016.

The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics has elected Cecilia Pagliantini as a GAMM Junior for the years 2018 to 2020.

Michaela Szölgyenyi has been granted a postdoctoral fellowship from the AXA Research Fund. She will join the SAM at the beginning of August 2017.

We are delighted to announce that Denis Devaud is one of the three SIAM UKIE Prizewinners. He has received the prize at the 27th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis.

The Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering (BGCE) has awarded the 2017 Student Paper Prize to Robert Gantner for his outstanding work in computational science and engineering.

Raffael Casagrande successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Discontinuous finite element methods for eddy current simulation". Congratulations!

Pegah Souzangar successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Efficient numerical modeling of snom tips". Congratulations!

Raoul Bourquin successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Numerical agorithms for semiclassical wavepackets". Congratulations!

Professors Habib Ammari and Peter Bühlmann have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2016" published by Clarivate Analytics.

ETH Fellow Giovanni Alberti was offered an assistant professor position at the University of Genoa, Italy, starting on 1 December 2016. We thank Giovanni for his great work and wish him all the best for the future.

The conference: "Transport phenomena in collective dynamics: from micro to social hydrodynamics" brings together researchers working on different aspects of transport across multiple scales and present state of art theoretical and numerical results and their interplay with current applications. More than 70 participants have registered for the conference which has started today and will last until 4 November 2016.

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Cecilia Pagliantini successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Computational magnetohydrodynamics with discrete differential forms". Congratulations!

Zeljko Kereta successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Continuous parabolic molecules". Congratulations!

David Gontier was offered a Maître de Conférence position at Université Paris Dauphine, France. He will join the mathematical team CEREMADE on 1st September 2016. We wish him all the best for the future.

At the doctoral award ceremony last Friday two ETH Medals were awarded to former doctoral students of the Department of Mathematics.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Giovanni Alberti has received a fellowship of the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.

Elke Spindler successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Second kind single-trace boundary integral formulations for scattering at composite objects". Congratulations!

Markus Sprecher successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Numerical methods for optimization and variational problems with manifold-valued data". Congratulations!

Laura Scarabosio successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Shape uncertainty quantification in nano-optics ". Congratulations!

Dr Sandra May accepted an offer for a junior faculty position at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in the Department of Mathematics, starting on 1 August 2016. We wish her all the best for the future.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has elected Professor Christoph Schwab as a SIAM Fellow in the class of 2016.

Alberto Paganini successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Numerical shape optimization with finite elements ". Congratulations!

On 10 December, Prof. Habib Ammari gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Mathematics for imaging". He has been a professor at the Department since May 2015.

Axel Obermeier successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Ridgelets - an optimally adapted representation system for solving advection equations". Congratulations!

Vladimir Kazeev successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Quantized tensor-structured finite elements for second-order elliptic PDEs in two dimensions". Congratulations!