German National Science Week and ESOF in Munich:
Research Centre Jülich with Supercomputers and the Schools Laboratory
[10. Juli 2006]
Jülich/Munich, 10 July 2006 - Research Centre Jülich will participate once again in this year's German National Science Week. At its stand at ESOF ("EuroScience Open Forum") in Munich, the Research Centre will showcase its expertise in supercomputing with expert chats and live simulations - Jülich continues to have the only German supercomputer that is counted amongst the top ten supercomputers in the world. Together with the other Helmholtz Centres, the Jülich Schools Laboratory JULAB will demonstrate its work at the "Marienhof" - this year, the focus will be on the transport of information.
Under the motto "Supercomputing - key technology for the 21st century", Research Centre Jülich will address the role that supercomputers will play in the future. Every day at 10:00 at the Research Centre's stand, scientists will explain how and why they use computer simulations. The astroparticle physicist from Wuppertal, Zoltan Fodor, will show how and why it was only with computer simulations that we first began to understand the conditions surrounding the birth of our universe, and the materials scientist from Jülich, Stefan Blügel, will explain how the properties of new storage media can be determined using supercomputers.
By conducting live simulations on JUBL, the only German computer to make it into the world's top ten, Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich supercomputer centre, will demonstrate what supercomputers are capable of and the role that they play in the European research community. The presentations and live simulations will take place Monday to Wednesday (17 - 19 July) at 10:00 at Research Centre Jülich's stand (no. 3), which is located in the forum of the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich.
More information available at: Invitation (PDF)
The Jülich Schools Laboratory JuLab will show how even children can understand science together with other Helmholtz Centres at the "Marienhof". This year, JuLab will teach you how information is transported, whether it is electronic mails or information within the human body: sticky electrodes allow us to observe the transmission of stimulus in the body, the ear trumpet illustrates how surprisingly sensitive your own ear is and a computer mouse that drags and drops makes you feel as if you are moving real things although it is really only objects in a computer. JuLab will be there from 14 - 18 July.
More information available at: JuLab at German National Science Week (PDF)
Contact:
Kosta Schinarakis
Science Journalist
Research Centre Jülich
52425 Jülich, Germany
Tel. +49 2461 61-4771, Fax +49 2461 61-4666
E-Mail: k.schinarakis@fz-juelich.de
Dr. Angela Lindner
Head Public Relations
Research Centre Jülich
52425 Jülich, Germany
Tel. +49 2461 61-4661, Fax +49 2461 61-4666
E-Mail:a.lindner@fz-juelich.de
letzte Änderung: 12.07.2010