Interdisciplinary center for scientific computing
The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) is a research institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .
The IWR was founded as the central institution of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . It bundles research activities and promotes research in the discipline of scientific computing. The IWR was founded in 1987 by the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the state of Baden-Württemberg . It participates in joint projects and in cooperation with industry in Germany and abroad. As a research facility with around 380 employees, the IWR is one of the largest university centers for scientific computing worldwide.
aims
The goals of the IWR include in particular
- mathematical modeling and computer simulation of complex systems from science and technology,
- Development and use of algorithms and programs for use in industry and business,
- Visualization, computer graphics, image processing, and the
- Training in scientific computing.
As part of measure 5.4 (scientific computing) of the future concept of the Excellence Initiative , the development of further areas of application has begun. The focus was on the areas of digital humanities and archaeological informatics .
Graduate school
Doctoral training at the IWR has been supported since November 2007 by the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computer-Aided Methods for Science (HGS MathComp), an institution funded as part of the Excellence Initiative, which was established as part of the IWR, to develop innovative concepts for structured doctoral training in interdisciplinary To implement research projects.
history
The IWR developed out of the Collaborative Research Center 123 and is based on concepts that were developed in the mid-1980s. In 1987 the IWR was founded as the central institute of Heidelberg University. Founding director was Professor Willi Jäger , who headed the IWR until 1998. Since 1992 there has been continuous funding for doctoral students through graduate colleges of the German Research Foundation .
Between 1999 and 2004, Professor Jürgen Warnatz took over the management and was replaced by Professor Hans Georg Bock in 2005 . From 2005 to 2016, the Executive Board comprised Professor Hans Georg Bock, Professor Willi Jäger, and Professor Bernd Jähne .
At the beginning of 2016, the company moved to the newly built Mathematikon (Im Neuenheimer Feld 205) in a convenient location on the edge of the campus on Berliner Straße. This created an optimal network of all IWR working groups with the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, which was also moved to the Mathematikon.
Andreas Dreuw has been the managing director since 2017. Michael Winckler is the administrative director of the IWR and the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp). The chairman of the HGS MathComp is Professor Peter Bastian with his deputies Dieter W. Hermann and Hans Georg Bock.
Web links
- IWR - Heidelberg University
- HGS MathComp - Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences