Seminar Scientific Computing

The allocation of the seminar topics is made through an online-allocation-portal that you can find HERE.

If you got a seminar theme via online-allocation-system, contact the organiser immediately, see section "Contact".

If a seminar theme is still freely available (nobody has chosen it till yet) after allocation, you can apply for it till to the 23'th of October 2009, see section "Contact".

At the beginning of the next semester, we will meet for a kick-off meeting with all organisers and all students (compulsory attendance).

Thuesday the 20. October at 5 pm in room 223

at the institut (in the Gauß IT-Zentrum)

Scattered Data Interpolation

Scattered Data Interpolation with General Regression Neural Networks


Learning vector quantization for probabilistic Neural Network


Implementing probabilistic Neural Networks


The Gauß-Newton method


Visualisation of high-dimensional Datasets

Parallel Coordinates


Numerical Methods for ODEs

Some general implicit processes for the numerical solution of ODEs


Automatic selection of methods for solving stiff and nonstiff systems of ODES


Partioned Runge-Kutta methods with Stiffness Detection and Stepsize Control


Numerical Methods for PDEs

Data-sparse representation of nonlocal operators in high dimensional problems


Parallel Multigrid-Methods for Finite Element Problems with Unstructured Meshes




Numerical Linear Algebra

Hierarchical Matrices


Numerical Optimisation

Interior Point Methods for Convex Numerical Optimization


Particle Swarm Optimization


Coupled Simulation

Nonlinear Solvers: Algebraic Methods for Strongly Coupled Systems


Nonlinear Solvers: Staggered Methods for Loosely Coupled Systems


Advanced Software Techniques

Resource Scheduling in Distributed Systems


Aspect Oriented Programming in Algorithm Design

If you participate the seminar at the Institute of Scientific Computing, the following rules are applied.

• You have a continuous period of three months to work on your seminar topic. The start of this period is fixed at the first meeting. You will be assigned an assistant of the institute, who will be the first address for questions relating to the seminar.
• You shall produce a paper and presentation foils. Deliveries shall be made at the corresponding deadlines (given at the first meeting). At the end of the semester you present the topic in a seminar talk. The duration of the talk should be approximatly 30 minutes. A small discussion of up to 15 minutes will follow your talk.
• Everything shall be written in your own words, either in german or english. The paper shall contain between 25 and 30 pages.
• The foils shall be made so that a reasonable presentation of the topic can be performed in the given time.
• Each student participating in the seminar has to be present at all seminar presentations.
• Detailed dates will be defined at the first meeting.
• Use the document templates of the institute. See download.

The time one needs for a seminar shall be equivalent with the time one needs for a 2 hours lecture with excercises and homeworks (4 credits). One credit is equivalent to 30 hours of work, i.e. for a seminar (4 credits) one has to plan 120 hours of work (3 weeks (Mo-Fr) with 8 hours per day).

Latex foils framework for the presentation: presentation.tar.gz

Latex framework for the written elaboration: seminarausarbeitung.tar.gz

• Der goldene Weg zum perfekten Seminarvortrag

Dominik Jürgens: mail