An Insight
Summer School 2025 | Erlangen-Nürnberg | 19.05.25 - 23.05.25
What happens when 21 talented young scientists come together for a week of high-performance computing (HPC) training? They have a great time, participate in a variety of scientific exchanges, make friends, and gain new insights into the offered topics:
- CI/CD for research software
- GPU programming
- code generation for HPC
- scaling AI frameworks on supercomputing clusters.
Our fellows of the NHR Graduate School had a great time and a lot of fun during the NHR Summer School 2025, whether at the poster exhibition, attending HPC training courses, or enjoying evening events together. We also visited Fritz and Helma, the two supercomputers at the NHR center at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Georg Wellein, a board member of the NHR-Verein and a professor of high-performance computing at FAU, took time out of his busy schedule to give us a personal tour. We were particularly pleased to meet the fourth cohort fellows, who joined the NHR Graduate School at the beginning of April 2025.
We would like to congratulate our newly elected NHR Graduate School speakers. We look forward to working with them!
Anila Ghazanfar | Keshvi Tuteja | Anushka Pahuja | Gülçin Gedik | Giovanna Tosato | Lennart van Hirtum | Markus Vieth
We would like to thank the team of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (NHR@FAU, Dr. Georg Hager, Dr. Dr. Sebastian Kuckuk, Katja Augustin, Judith Carl) and the NHR centers and trainers: NHR@ZIB Zuse Institute Berlin, Dr. Anita Rágyanszki, Dr. Nicholas Charron, Dr. Steffen Christgau and NHR4CES@TUDa, Dr. Tomislav Maric, Moritz Schwarzmeier, once again for their exceptional HPC training and organization of this successful event.
First Retreat NHR Graduate School | Kassel | 28.11.24 - 12.12.24
The inaugural NHR Graduate School Retreat was spanning four days and served as a platform for our fellows to convene, fostering enhanced collaboration and networking opportunities.
The event was meticulously organized by the speakers of the NHR Graduate School, with the invaluable support of the NHR Office. The program encompassed a series of educational and collaborative activities, including soft skills training in public speaking and academic writing. The event also featured joint sporting events and dinners, a visit to the Christmas market, and a trip to Herkules Park.
We are glad to repeat this enjoyable experience at the 2025 retreat.
Congratulations to our Fellow Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm on successfully completing his doctoral thesis
We are delighted to congratulate our NHR Graduate School Fellow, Rostislav-Paul Wilhem, on his incredible accomplishment of completing his doctoral thesis with the highest distinction, summa cum laude, on the topic "Structure-preserving numerical methods for the Vlasov equation without a phase-space mesh."
The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Manuel Torrilhon and Prof. Dr. Eric Sonnendrücker at the NHR Center of the RWTH Aachen University.
The NHR-Association provided financial support in the form of a monthly scholarship, opportunities for scientific training and further education as well as access to high-performance computers.
Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm’s research focused on the fundamental challenges in the numerical solution of the kinetic Vlasov equation for plasmas. He developed a novel approach to overcoming these challenges, showing that the system dynamics can be reconstructed from stored electromagnetic potentials using the Lagrange and Hamilton structure of the Vlasov equation. This results in reduced memory requirements and eliminates a numerical discretization error. Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm's innovative approach to numerical solution of the kinetic Vlasov equation has yielded novel findings that hold immense potential for future advancements in the scientific community.
Further information on his research as well as the respective code base can be found here.
We wish Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm continued success in his professional scientific career.
NHR Conference '24 | Darmstadt | 09.09.24 - 12.09.24
By participating in the NHR Conference 2024 from September 9-12, 2024, our Fellows successfully took advantage of numerous opportunities to present and discuss their research topics within the NHR community.
Noteworthy contributions to the Contributed Talks were made by Paul Wilhelm and Zoya Masih (Computational Engineering) and Giovanna Tosato (Materials Science). Six Fellows from the first cohort successfully presented their posters in the scientific conference section: Zoya Masih, Wenling Ren, Aasish Kumar Sharma, Raviraj Chandreshbhai Mandalia, Shore Salle Chota, and Paul Wilhelm.
We look forward to the next NHR conference, which will take place from September 22-25, 2025, in Göttingen, and we wish all Fellows continued success!
Summer School 2024 | Dresden | 10.06.24 - 14.06.24
During the NHR Summer School at ZIH | NHR@TUD, our NHR Graduate School Fellows experienced a week with exciting topics and many opportunities to exchange ideas. There were many new topics to discover: IO and parallel programming, quantum computing and machine learning, as well as workshops on career planning, networking, self-presentation and anti-bias. The get-together on the Elbe meadows and the evening boat trip on the Elbe were excellent opportunities to exchange ideas and get to know each other in a relaxed atmosphere.
The winners of the hackathon: Keshvi Tuteja, Marvin Kaster, Raviraj Mandalia und Wenling Ren
Our newly elected speakers of the NHR Graduate School:
- 1st Cohort: Aasish Sharma, Raviraj Mandalia, Robert Rabben
- 2nd Cohort: Lennart van Hirtum, Markus Vieht
- 3rd Cohort: Jorge Antonio Amador Balderas, Giovanna Tosato, Keshvi Tuteja
We look forward to the next Summer School in 2025!
Summer School 2023 | Paderborn | 12.06.23 - 16.06.23
An interesting and intensive program week has come to an end. Our fellows traveled from all NHR centers across Germany and were welcomed in Paderborn by Prof. Christian Plessl, the director of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing. The focus of the program week was on various HPC workshops, including e.g. "Julia for High-Performance Computing", “MPI Correctness Checking” and training on” Parallel Neural Networks”. On the last day, our fellows participated in soft skills seminars on "self-presentation" and "anti-bias & intercultural communication". In addition, all participants had the opportunity to present their projects and to get to know and network with each other during various activities. We are already looking forward to the next NHR Summer School!
We would like to thank our trainers of the NHR Summer School 2023: Dr. Xin Wu (PC2), Dr. Carsten Bauer (PC2), Joachim Jenke (RWTH), Alexander Hück (TUDa), Simon Schwitanski (RWTH), Adrian Schmitz (RWTH), Dr. Charlotte Debus (KIT), Dr. Marie Weiel (KIT), David Li (KIT).
Summer School 2022 | Berlin | 10.06.22 - 14.06.22
We are excited to announce the inaugural cohort of NHR Graduate School fellows!
From June 13-17, 2022, nine fellows from eight different NHR centers traveled to the Konrad Zuse Institute in Berlin for an exciting week of interesting topics and HPC training. At the Welcome Event, Prof. Christof Schütte, Director of the Zuse Institute in Berlin, welcomed the NHR Graduate School fellows. Over the next few days, the fellows participated in training sessions on the following topics:
- "Node-level computer architecture and performance engineering"
- "Introduction to Continuous Integration for Research Software"
- "Introduction to the methodology of combining molecular simulation and AI".
There were also plenty of chances to network with experts from other NHR centers that organized the NHR Summer School 2022: NHR@ZIB, NHR@TUDa, and NHR@FAU. In addition, all fellows get to know each other better during a tour of Harnack House and a boat trip on the Spree.
We wish all fellows a great start and a warm welcome to the NHR Graduate School!
