SCAT project launch at Technical University of Catalunya
February 2006
SCAT members at UPC
for the project kick-off
Barcelona— During the week starting on 20 Feb. 2006, the Scientific Computing Advanced Training (SCAT) project was launched at the Terrassa Campus of Technical University of Catalunya. The meeting was hosted by the Polytechnic School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering, and organized by the local SCAT members at the Technological Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, and the SCAT co-ordination personnel.
Representatives from all the 10 partner institutions of SCAT were present, and gave a series of scientific talks. The subjects spanned the wide spectrum of interests of the network, including:
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Elasticity, granular materials, microfluidics
- Multiphase flows, and related numerical methods
- Combustion, turbulence, interfaces
- Statistical physics, nonlinear phenomena
- Nonequilibrium systems, superfluid models
- Fluid dynamics and wave theory
- Environmental modelling
- Inverse problems in biophysical sciences
- Heat transfer, thermodynamics and physical chemistry
- Optimization methods
- Mathematical modelling of Earth systems
- Wavelet analysis and images
In addition, the group made an official visit to Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, where they were offered talks describing MareNostrum, the fastest computer in Europe and 8th in the world by November 2005, and toured the facilities. MareNostrum is breathtakingly housed in an old chapel of Girona Tower, in Barcelona.
Download or view a movie clip introducing some SCAT members:
A humorous introduction of some of the participants to the SCAT launch, with the soundtrack of the tango "Cambalache" (1.2 MB).
Appearances in the Press
Press Release (Catalan):
Prepared by the Technical University of Catalunya Press Office, in Calatan.
Interview in local press (Spanish):
Dr. Lorena Barba, SCAT co-ordinator, was interviewed for the local press during the project launch.
Full color announcement in "Perfiles" (Spanish):
Perfiles is the information bulletin of the Technical School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering of Terrassa.
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