This year, four awards were given at ICMMES-2016. The awards are aiming at supporting young scientists working in the ICMMES' focused areas. The winners were selected by a selection committee appointed by the ICMMES Scientific Committee and the local organizing committee. The awards were given by the head of the ICMMES scientific committee, Prof. Li-Shi Luo (ODU/CSRC), and the head of the ICMMES local organizing committee, Dr. Christian F. Janßen (TUHH), during the closing ceremony on Friday (see pictures here).
The ICMMES-Sugon Award is given to young scientists (up to 6 years after his/her PhD defense) working in the ICMMES' focused areas, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, HPC related applications. The award includes US$1000 plus a waive of registration fees to attend ICMMES conference
Award winners
| 2016 |
Songze Chen, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology For his study on gas kinetic schemes and unified gas kinetic schemes for flows in continuum and nonequilibrium regions. |
The ICMMES-CSRC Award is given to a young scientist who recently finished his/her PhD (up to 2 years after his/her PhD defense) in one of the ICMMES' focused areas. The award includes US$500 cash plus a waive of registration fees to attend ICMMES conference. Further details can be found here. The application or nomination should be submitted to awards@icmmes.org by Saturday, April 30, 2016.
Award winners
| 2016 |
Amin Safi, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen For his work GPU implementation and numerical investigation of LB models for multi-component fluids. |
The PNY Award for the Best Presentation on GPU Computing and Applications will be given to a student or post-doctoral researcher (up to 2 years after PhD degree). All students and post-doctral researchers who give presentations on GPU computing and applications are qualified to be a winner. The winner will be selected during the ICMMES Conference and will be annouced and presented during the Conference's Closing Ceremory. A selection committee appointed by ICMMES Scientific Committee will be responsible for deciding the winner. The winner will receive a recent NVIDIA high-performance GPU to support his/her research.
Award winners
| 2016 |
Dennis Mierke, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) For his presentation on the "Efficient Calculation of Sub-grid Distances for Higher-Order Boundary Conditions". |
The ICMMES-MDPI Best Poster Award is given to the best poster presentation at the ICMMES-2016 conference. All participants who make poster presentations automatically qualify to enter, and the winner will receive 300 CHF in cash.
Award winners
| 2016 |
Yu-Hang Tang, Brown University, USA For his poster on "Petascale Dissipative Particle Dynamics of Biomedical Microfluidic Devices" |
