The PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data links new opportunities of computational materials modelling and data science with PSI’s unique large research facilities.
Scientific Highlights & News
Congratulations to Israa for winning the Poster Competition award for her poster “Efficient QR based Column Subset Selection through Randomized Sparse Embedding”
Doctoral student Israa Fakih, supervised by Prof. Laura Grigori, won the 1st place in Poster Competition award for her poster “Efficient QR based Column Subset Selection through Randomized Sparse Embedding”, at the SWICCOMAS Annual Event 2026, held at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
2nd GIF Molten Salt Reactor workshop at PSI
On 10 December 2025 the 2nd GIF Molten Salt Reactor workshop took place at PSI
MADICES Conference at PSI
The MADICES 3 workshop was about bringing representatives from the open research data (ORD) community, including research data management (RDM) platform developers/maintainers, ontology/semantics experts, those leveraging AI/LLM for RDM tasks, and FAIR principles advocators together to discuss (and implement solutions for) the problems hindering the adoption of ORD and FAIR principles and practices in the sciences.
The life of the Center
Day of skiing in Arosa Lenzerheide
The AMAS group spent a truly wonderful day in the Lenzerheide, surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery and fresh alpine air.
Cooking Team Event – LMS
On October 30th, the LMS team gathered in Kaltbrunn for a memorable cooking event !
CSD Science Day 2025
The CSD Science Day retreat with 100 participants was an exceptional experience, marked by a wealth of insightful contributions on Artificial Intelligence. The event included a series of thought presentations, exploring the latest trends and innovations in AI. A particularly engaging panel discussion provided an opportunity for deeper dialogue on key topics, offering diverse perspectives and stimulating discussions among the participants.
Publications
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Venditti G, Maccari I, Jouan A, Singh G, Budhani RC, Feuillet-Palma C, et al.
Superfluid response of two-dimensional filamentary superconductors
SciPost Physics. 2023; 15(6): 239 (24 pp.). https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.6.239
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Sato Y, Kossolapov A, Niceno B, Bucci M
Interface tracking simulation for subcooled flow boiling of water at 10 bar
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2026; 1030: A40 (47 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11253
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de Damas JG, Grigori L
Randomized implicitly restarted arnoldi method for the non-symmetric eigenvalue problem
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 2025; 46(4): 2395-2422. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1674352
DORA PSI