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Working at NAG (UK) via an secondment

by Arefeh Kavand, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

My secondment in NAG took place completely online in November-December 2021 in collaboration with Jan Fiala and Shuanghua Bai. As an introduction, NAG provides industry-leading numerical software and technical services to banking and finance, energy, engineering, and market research, as well as academic and government institutions. NAG also offers Automatic Differentiation, Machine Learning, and Mathematical Optimization products, as well as world-class technical consultancy across HPC and Cloud HPC, code porting and optimization, and other areas of numerical computing. Founded more than 50 years ago from a multi-university venture, NAG is headquartered in Oxford, UK with offices in the UK, US, EU and Asia[1].

Secondments at Inira and Artelys

by Sebastien Debus, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

As part of my POEMA project, I have the opportunity to complete two secondments in France. Both secondments last two months. I spend January and April 2022 at Inria Sophia Antipolis, where I am hosted by Evelyne Hubert. In February and March, I am at the company Artelys in Paris and am hosted by Michaël Gabay.

Monique Laurent elected as EUROPT 2021 Fellow

Monique Laurent, researcher and management team member at CWI and a professor at Tilburg University, a member of POEMA network was recently elected as EUROPT Fellow 2021.