Scientific Highlights

Israa

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.

GIF

2nd GIF Molten Salt Reactor workshop at PSI

On 10 December 2025 the 2nd GIF Molten Salt Reactor workshop took place at PSI

Madices

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. 

HPCP

HPCP Summer School FHNW/PSI

The institute for Data Science of the FHNW in Brugg - Windisch and AWI department of PSI held a joint course on high performance computing. The course addressed computer science students of FHNW and interested individuals at PSI. Two full days at the FHNW (with Apero) were followed by two full days at PSI using Merlin6 (with tour).

PASC

Congratulations to Sonali for winning the ACM student research competition !

Congratulations to Sonali for winning the ACM student research competition that took place at PASC 2025 in Brugg as part of the SIGHPC ACM SIG conference

 

RSE

Research Software Engineering (RSE) Movement at PSI

The online information event on the “Research Software Engineering (RSE) Movement” at PSI on Wednesday 7th May, 2025 was a quite success with an unexpected high number of 100+ participants!