Last Monday, Paul Schwerdtner gave a talk on the editor Vim. Paul startet with a short introduction into Vim, which is an editor that enables you to “Edit Text at the Speed of Thought” by eliminating highly inefficient mouse-usage from
Tools Seminar: Reproducible Research
On the 4th of november, Daniel Bankmann gave a talk on different tools that can be used to ensure the longevity of mathematical software. As applied mathematicians, a good deal of our daily work concerns implementation of mathematical algorithms for
Meeting of the European SIAM and GAMM student chapters 2018
From September 19-21, the Berlin SIAM student chapter hosted the Meeting of the European SIAM and GAMM student chapters (MESIGA18). After the meetings in Trier (2012), Heidelberg (2013), Magdeburg (2014), Trier (2015), Hamburg (2016), and Prague (2017), this is the
Election of the new board
We have a new board of our chapter. These are the results from the election. President: Daniel Bankmann Vice-President: Christoph Zimmer Secretary: Felix Black Treasurer: Ines Ahrens
Scientific Literature Management & Potluck
This monday, we had a session about scientific literature management in our tools seminar. Reading (and understanding) scientific research results is part of our daily life. Instead of inventing clever folder structures to save the pdfs of the corresponding papers
Makefiles, Latexmk & Latexdiff
Last Monday, Benjamin Unger and Daniel Bankmann gave a talk on Makefiles and how these can be used with Latex. After some introduction to some basic usage of Makefiles, it was explained, how Makefiles are limited for compiling latex files
All you need to know about GIT
Last Monday, Daniel Bankmann and Benjamin Unger presented the version management system GIT in our tools seminar. After showing the general procedure about adding files, committing changes, pushing them to the server and pulling changes from the server, they spent
Open Access, the DEAL, and many ways to scientific content
In the first tools seminar for quite some time, Jan Heiland, the open access ambassador of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, explained us recent developments in the German publishing landscape. Besides a report
Meeting of the European SIAM and GAMM student chapters 2018 (MESIGA-18)
We are happy to announce that the Berlin SIAM student chapter will host the Meeting of the European SIAM and GAMM student chapters 2018 (MESIGA-18) from September 19 to September 21 and invite all student chapters from Europe to participate
Meeting of the European SIAM Student Chapters (MESIAM) in Prague
Since 2012 the German SIAM student chapters are organizing an annual meeting. This year, from August 28-30, the first meeting took place outside of Germany, in Prague, organized by the local SIAM student chapter.
