Heinz Billing Prize for the Promotion of Scientific Computing
The Heinz Billing Prize for the Promotion of Scientific Computing is an award that has been awarded by the Heinz Billing Association for the Promotion of Scientific Computing e. V., an association founded within the Max Planck Society , is awarded. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros (as of 2015) and is awarded to work under the motto “EDP as a tool of science”. It is named after the German computer pioneer Heinz Billing , who is also a member of the board of trustees. Since 2006, the award has been made by the Board of Trustees of the Heinz Billing Foundation of the Max Planck Society.
Board of Trustees
Sitting on the Board of Trustees (as of September 2013):
- Stefan Heinzel, Garching data center
- Antje Susanne Meyer , Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Torsten Stühn, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- Walter Thiel , Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
- Martin Vingron , Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Excellent work |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Hans Thomas Janka , Ewald Müller , Maximilian Ruffert ( Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics , Garching) | Simulation of turbulent convection in supernova explosions in massive stars |
| 1994 | Rainer Goebel ( Max Planck Institute for Brain Research , Frankfurt) | Neurolator - A program for simulating neural networks |
| 1995 | Ralf Giering ( Max Planck Institute for Meteorology , Hamburg) | AMC: A program for the automatic differentiation of Fortran programs |
| 1996 | Klaus Heumann ( Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry AG MPIS, Martinsried) | Systematic analysis and visualization of complete genomes using the example of Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 1997 | Florian Mueller ( Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics , Berlin) | ERNA-3D (editor for RNA, three-dimensional) |
| 1998 | Edward Seidel ( Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics , Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam) | Technologies for Collaborative, Large Scale Simulation in Astrophysics and a General Toolkit for solving PDEs in Science and Engineering |
| 1999 | Alexander Pukhov ( Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics , Garching) | Three-dimensional relativistic electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell code VLPL - Virtual Laser Plasma Laboratory |
| 2000 | Oliver Kohlbacher ( Max Planck Institute for Computer Science , Saarbrücken) | BALL - A Framework for Rapid Application Development in Molecular Modeling |
| 2001 | Jörg Haber (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken) | MEDUSA, a software system for modeling and animation of faces |
| 2002 | Daan Broeder , Hennie Brugman and Reiner Dirksmeyer ( Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics , Nijmegen) | NILE - Nijmegen Language Resource Environment |
| 2003 | Roland Chrobok , Sigurður F. Hafstein and Andreas Pottmeier ( University of Duisburg-Essen ) | OLSIM: A New Generation of Traffic Information Systems |
| 2004 | Markus Rampp and Thomas Soddemann (Garching data center of the Max Planck Society) | A Work Flow Engine for Microbial Genome Research |
| 2005 | Patrick Jöckel and Rolf Sander ( Max Planck Institute for Chemistry , Mainz) | The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) |
| 2006 | Rafał Mantiuk (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken) | High Dynamic Range Imaging: Towards the Limits of the Human Visual Perception |
| 2007 |
Holger Bast and Stefan Funke (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken) Axel Fingerle and Klaus Röller ( Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization , Göttingen) |
Ultrafast Shortest-Path Queries via Transit Nodes Efficient Simulation Techniques for Dry and Wet Granular Matter |
| 2011 | Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) | Development of linguistic multimedia annotations and lexicons, extension of artificial neural networks for the modeling of language processing phenomena |
| 2013 | Thomas Hrabe (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried) | PyTom: A modern software pipeline for the structural analysis of macromolecules by cryo electron tomography |
| 2015 | Andreas Brandmaier (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) | Roaming Entropy, SEM Tree and LIFESPAN |
| 2017 | Christian Schulz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | KaHIP - Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioning |
| 2019 | Tim Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) | Numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers |