D-MATH in the Media

The inaugural 2024 Elias M. Stein Prize for New Perspectives in Analysis is awarded jointly to Marcel Filoche and Svitlana Mayboroda for their original, powerful, elegant and impactful theory of the "localization landscape."

It doesn’t have to be a hurricane or a tsunami – even a simple running water tap induces a shock wave upon impact with the sink. Understanding such complex and violent fluid flow dynamics has helped scientists to design more efficient turbines and aircrafts, and to better predict weather and climate. Now, with the help of CSCS’s supercomputer "Piz Daint", mathematician Siddhartha Mishra is working to overcome current barriers to simulating and comprehending highly turbulent flows.

We sat down with Dr Laura Kobel-Keller, a former ETH student and now an ETH lecturer, to learn more about her path at the university, the connections between music and mathematics, and why she’s giving back to her alma mater.