The Bürger-Uni was launched in 2015 with the aim of providing interested citizens with free access to scientific topics. Since 2019, the TUM Heilbronn Campus has been a partner of the events. Here, emphasis is placed on making knowledge and science on current, socially relevant topics, which contain a strong scientific as well as socio-political relevance, accessible to everyone.
The event is aimed in particular at residents of Heilbronn and people of the region of all ages who are interested in scientific topics.
When?
November 11, 2026
6:30 pm
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8:00 pm
Where?
AULA Bildungscampus, Bildungscampus 6, 74076 Heilbronn
Take part in the next Bürger-Uni
Topic
Computing for Health and Climate – How Supercomputers are Changing our Lives
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Hartwig Anzt
Registration
You can register 4 weeks in advance of the event on the website of our co-operation partner Heilbronner Stimme.
Prof. Dr. Hartwig Anzt
Computing for Health and Climate – How Supercomputers are Changing our Lives
In his lecture, Hartwig Anzt takes the audience into the world of high-performance computing and shows how mathematical methods for solving equations are applied in practice, for example in medical simulations or climate predictions.
Hartwig Anzt researches on developing and optimizing computational algorithms for scientific high-performance computing. In particular, he focuses on computational linear algebra, iterative and asynchronous methods, Krylov solvers, and preconditioning. The algorithm research is complemented with efforts aiming at sustainable software development in an academic setting, and a healthy software lifecycle. He is the managing lead of the Ginkgo open source math software that is used for scientific high-performance computing applications.
After studying mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hartwig Anzt received his doctorate in 2012 on the topic of asynchronous mixed-precision algorithms on GPU architecture. After a postdoc at the University of Tennessee, Hartwig Anzt led a Helmholtz junior research group at KIT. In 2022 he received an appointment as a professor at the University of Tennessee and became director of the Innovative Computing Lab (ICL). Hartwig Anzt has been Chair of Computational Mathematics at TU Munich since 2024.