15.08.2018 “We cannot definitively say which physical processes are dominant or relevant in an earthquake.” Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, simulates earthquake…
10.07.2018 PASC18 Conference in Basel Grows in Attendance and Scope More than 400 scientists from across the globe met in Basel from July 2–4, convening for the fifth edition of the PASC…
03.07.2018 Quantum chromodynamics for everybody PASC18 conference in Basel presented an interdisciplinary dialogue between ETH professor Petros Koumoutsakos and…
06.06.2018 Swimming in schools saves energy Researchers at ETH Zurich have clarified the previously unresolved question of whether fish save energy by swimming…
25.05.2018 Simulations for InSight Mars mission On 5 May, a rocket launched the InSight lander on its journey to Mars. On board: a seismometer to investigate the…
15.03.2018 Fishing with simulations for two-dimensional materials Researchers from EPFL have developed a method to identify with simulations promising two-dimensional materials.
07.03.2018 A research career shaped by (super)computing ETH Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wanted to embark on a career at the United Nations. Today, he is one of the world's…
28.02.2018 Teaching quantum physics to a computer An international collaboration led by ETH physicists has used machine learning on "Piz Daint" to teach the CSCS-…
22.02.2018 Economists cash in on efficient high-performance computing method Ask two economists and you'll get three answers-or so the saying goes. Thankfully, a new method developed by physicists…
27.11.2017 Nano-sensor measures tension of tissue fibres Computer simulations have helped a team of researchers led by ETH professor Viola Vogel to develop a peptide that is…
21.11.2017 “The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics and CSCS are paving the way for the upcoming computational challenges” For more than ten years, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has been operating the cluster “Phoenix” for…
20.10.2017 Scientists use CSCS supercomputer to search for "memory molecules" Until now, searching for genes related to memory capacity has been comparable to seeking out the proverbial “needle in a…
09.10.2017 With help of "Piz Daint" supercomputer towards solving the proton spin puzzle Scientists in a research group led by Constantia Alexandrou, Professor of physics at the University of Cyprus and the…
03.10.2017 Simulations improve the theoretical description of experiments probing elusive properties of water Scientists from EPF Lausanne have improved the theoretical description of complex non-linear optical measurements by…
26.07.2017 “Where and how does consciousness develop (…)? That’s what I’d really like to know.” Doctor Katrin Amunts is a professor of brain research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Director of the Cécile…
