We are happy to announce that we founded a SIAM Student Chapter in Potsdam in February 2021. See here for general information about SIAM student chapters.
We are also very happy to announce that, as of September 2024, we are now a GAMM Nachwuchsgruppe as well! Learn here more about GAMM Nachwuchsgruppen.
The Student Chapter is an association of students at the University of Potsdam.
What are the benefits of being organised as a SIAM Student Chapter?
Who can become a member?
How to become a member?
General information:
If you have any questions feel free to ask the PhD representatives Giuseppe and Martin. The faculty advisor of this Chapter is Prof. Dr. Melina Freitag.
Open to all early career researchers. Get to know what your fellow Ph.D. students are working on!
Date: 25.06.2025
Room: 2.09.1.22
Details are announced via mailing list "SIAM-chapter-list", or ask Giuseppe or Martin.
Speaker: Toky Andriamanalina
Title: 'Untangling triply periodic entanglements'.
Abstract: In this talk, I will present the 'untangling number', a new measure of entanglement complexity in crystalline materials. The untangling number is reminiscent of the 'unknotting number' in knot theory, but it is specifically designed for crystalline (triply periodic) structures such as 3D weavings or triply periodic networks. The talk will be very basic, so much so that no prior knowledge, either in mathematics or in materials science, is required.
Open to all early career researchers. Get to know what your fellow Ph.D. students are working on!
Time: 20.03.2025 at 4:00 pm
Place: Room 2.22 in house 9.
Details are announced via mailing list "SIAM-chapter-list", or ask Giuseppe or Martin.
Speaker: Thomas Mach
Title: Publishing Pole-Swapping Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem
Abstract:
Publishing books is not very different from publishing papers. In the first half of the part we discuss which steps we took to publish our latest book "Pole-Swapping Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem".
In the second part of the talk we present a high-level overview over pole-swapping algorithms. Pole-swapping algorithms are used to solve eigenvalue problems. Matrix eigenvalue problems arise in a wide variety of fields in science and engineering, so it is important to have reliable and efficient methods for solving them.
Pole-swapping algorithms are a new class of methods generalizing bulge chasing algorithms like QR and QZ. Pole-swapping algorithms typically require less iterations, less runtime and are faster than bulge-chasing algorithms.
The book is joint work with Daan Camps (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Raf Vandebril (KU Leuven), and Davd. S. Watkins (Washington State University).
The books is available for sale by SIAM, https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611978377. Unfortunately, the University of Potsdam does not subscribe to the full SIAM book catalogue.
Dear fellow Studis,
to honor and further revitalise the valuable tradition of bi-annually student chapter conferences, MESIGA, the hosting SIAM and GAMM student chapters at Uni Potsdam and the Berlin Universities are happy to invite you to the next iteration of this wonderful event from 11.03. to 13.03.2025. After an excellent event at Uni Trier in 2023, we want to match their spirit of hospitality for another great event. We hereby invite all Uni Potsdam students with a keen interest in the very broad topic to join us.
All required information can be found here: Information and Registration
Can you summarize the content of your research in 3 minutes? Can you do it in an entertaining way? Then our SIAM Slam might be for you!
As a joint initiative of our SIAM Chapter and the SIAM Chapters of Aachen, Heidelberg and Magdeburg, we would like to invite you to SIAM Slam. There, different participants will present their theses or other scientific findings in a very short amount of time. The audience will choose the most entertaining and informative presentation.
The event will take place via zoom on the 10th of June at 18:00. Feel free to ask Florian for the login data.
Each participant will have exactly 3 minutes for their presentation. A slideshow is allowed, however, we advise reducing the number of slides. There will be a prize for the best presentation.
If you just want to be a spectator, you are welcome to join as well. Then, no registration is needed. In the second part of the event, we will run a short quiz based on the presentations. Here, the winner will also get a small prize. We plan to close the event with an opportunity to together play games online.
If you always wanted to try your hand at being a science communicator, this is your time. Who knows, maybe you are the next Richard Feynman or Stephen Hawking? :)
We have compiled a list of past events here
