Martin Weigel

A fascinating seminar for our students and postdocs by Sarah Polter from Gymnasium Einsiedel, providing insight into the life of a teacher and informing about the career perspectives in teaching when teachers are desparately needed. Part of our Computational Science Seminar at @tucphys.bsky.social.

Great talk of Arthur Stück of @dlr-de.bsky.social ‬, head of the Department of Simulation Frameworks, about their work in modelling systems in aerospace engineering! Part of our Computational Science Seminar at @tucphys.bsky.social.

Greetings from #DPG SKM Spring meetings at @uniregensburg.bsky.social . As always a great opportunity for students to present their work, learn about new physics and meet old friends!

Just completed a great visit to the National Institute of Science Education and Research #NISER in Bhubaneswar, India, working with my former postdoc Manoj Kumar on disordered systems and discussing with faculty Sumedha and Anil Kumar.

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond

To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)

Nice get together at the physics departments' research group presentation at TU Chemnitz yesterday! @tucphys.bsky.social

Just arrived in Aachen for a visit of Stefan Wessel and Francesco Paris Toldin. Looking forward to some great discussions on critical phenomena and percolation in disordered systems!

Supercomputing at your desktop. 1 Petaflop, 3000 us$.

Den ersten Petaflop in Europa hat 2009 "Jugene" erreicht, Forschungszentrum Jülich. Damals waren noch 73000 Powerpcs mit insgesamt ~300.000 Cores und ich schätze ein paar 100m Eur dafür notwendig.

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The Computational Statistical Physics lab wishes everyone Merry Christmas and a good start into 2025!

I am hiring a postdoctoral scholar with a start date summer or fall 2025. Projects will be focused on thermodynamically consistent generative models, broadly defined. If you’re interested, please send a CV and one paragraph about why you think you’d be a good fit to rotskoff@stanford.edu

Last week, Martin Breugst (of @breugstlab.bsky.social) and I ran a public explainer session to discuss this year's Nobel Prizes (@nobelprize.bsky.social) in Physics and Chemistry.

Both awards were for work related to machine learning - clearly up and coming also in the sciences!

Chemnitz as the gateway to the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) features a beautiful Christmas Market showcasing local traditions and craftsmanship such as the giant Christmas pyramids.

A great environment for a group outing with good spirits fueled by mulled wine!