On June 24, Daniel Bankmann introduced an audience consisting of approximately 10 interested coworkers and students to Zenodo and Conda. The talk adressed an issue that researchers may face on the regular: Trying to validate or reproduce results of a
Daniel Bankmann receives award for outstanding service

Every year, SIAM recognizes outstanding students for outstanding contributions to their respective SIAM student chapter. In the academic year 2018-2019, our president Daniel Bankmann was the driving force of the Berlin SIAM student chapter: He was one of the main
Tools Seminar: Hands on TikZ
The first Tools Seminar talk this semester was given on May 13 by Christoph Zimmer. Christoph gave an introduction to one of the most well-known LaTeX packages for creating all kinds of different graphics and images, namely TikZ and the
Field Trip to 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
On April 11, around 30 interested students from the joined student chapters of Berlin and Magdeburg went on a field trip to 50Hertz Transmission GmbH. After boarding the S5 to the station Hoppegarten and a short bus ride, the group
5th Annual Conference of the SIAM-IMA Cambridge Student Chapter
The 5th Annual Conference of the SIAM-IMA Cambridge Student Chapter will take place very soon (see the attached invitation). This is a very good opportunity to connect with other SIAM chapters. Anyone, who is interested in joining the meeting, please
Introducing PhD Lunch
Whether you are sitting in your sparsely decorated office, in front of an age-old computer screen, hunched over a blank sheet of paper and wondering what you thought when you accepted the PhD position, or you are sitting in your
Student journal GAMMAS
The GAMM juniors founded the student journal GAMMAS. GAMMAS is meant to provide students with an early opportunity to make their work accessible to the scientific community. In particular, we also accept contributions which contain literature surveys or negative results
Tools Seminar: Xerus – A C++ Tensor Library
On the 14th of January, Michael Götte gave a talk about Xerus, a C++ tensor library. The library is able to perform numerical computations with higher order tensors, as well as Tensor-Train Decomposition and is also useful for general tensor
Tools Seminar: Designing user interfaces
This Monday, Felix Black gave a talk on how to design user interfaces. Felix started with a short motivation, why we actually should be interested in designing user interfaces. He showed some FORTRAN code, he had to use a couple
Tools Seminar: Vim – Boost Your Productivity through Multimodal Editing
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