The goodpractice project "Introduction to Computer-Aided Scientific Work" offers e-learning packages in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology and possibly geology, which can be used to show and explain even complex insights of the appropriate field. Students and teachers can modify and extend the interactive illustrative e-learning material according to needs.

All projects will use modern 3D visualization with open source software. The projects should aid the students in transfering and applying their analytical knowledge to practical applications of visualization. Both block courses as well as projects are planed.

The idea of this project is to provide better and stronger integration of the information and communication technologies into the lessons of secondary schools and to support the abilites of diverse complex applications of computers within independent projects.

The first pilot project will visualize the trajectory of a football describing a curve when flying into the goal with realistic physical behaviors.

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Im Rahmen des goodpractice Projekts "Einstieg ins rechnergestützte wissenschaftliche Arbeiten" werden Projektofferten (Unterrichtspakete) ausgearbeitet, welche von Lehrpersonen im Fachunterricht Mathematik, Physik bzw. Biologie als interaktives Anschauungsmaterial für komplexe Zusammenhänge eingesetzt werden können. Schülerinnen, Schüler und Lehrpersonen können die Unterrichtspakete erweitern, ergänzen oder auf andere Anwendungen anpassen.

Unterrichtsprojekte sollen in den Fächern Mathematik, Physik, Biologie und evtl. Geographie durchgeführt werden. In allen Unterrichtsprojekten wird es um Einsatz und Anwendung der modernen 3D- Visualisierung mit open source Software gehen. Die Projekte sollen den Schülerinnen und Schülern einen Transfer ihres analytischen Wissens in praktische Anwendungen der Visualisierung ermöglichen. Als Gefäss sind Projektarbeiten, wie auch Blockkurse vorgesehen.

Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Projekts sollen die facettenreichen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien stärker im Schulunterricht integriert werden und als Aufbaustufe für die Sekundarstufe II nicht nur Kenntnisse sondern auch Fertigkeiten verschiedener komplexer Anwendungen des Computers im Rahmen von selbständiger Projektarbeit fördern.

A thorough understanding of the physics of the human body is an essential prerequisite for practising medicine. Due to pressure of time, however, it is hardly possible for medical students to carry out experiments in this area during their studies. This is where the Physica pro medicis project comes in: e-learning modules simulate physical phenomena and trials that cannot be presented so clearly by means of traditional methods, using medical examples to illustrate and explain the physical fundamentals.

Physica pro medicis plans a combination of face-to-face teaching and self-studying on the Internet. The modules will mainly be used in the first year course, and be employed again in later years for the detailed discussion of individual medico-physical concepts such as X-rays and MRI.

Basel and Bern Universities have already worked together to design the content of the new "Physics for Doctors" lectures. This means that there is a considerable supply of copyright-free modules available for further use.

The project is a long-term cooperation with the Research Lab from Intel Inc - The grant is awarded for independent research in the area of computational sciences and algorithm engineering.

CoreiTeM contains a math course about "Comprehensive Mathematics for Computer Scientists" developed by the university of Zürich. It makes usage of the tetrodo self assessment system and contains one track about numerical calculations developed within the FGB.

The focus of this Swiss CTI project is on algorithmic research and software development in the area of nonlinear optimization, algebraic linear solvers and finite-element modelling for problems that arise in automotive sheet metal forming processes. This is a joint cooperation with AutoForm Engineering AG, a Spin-Off company from ETH Zurich.

The virtual Nanoscience laboratory, called Nano-World, is based on a problem-oriented and co-operative learning basis with interactive experiments from the field of Nano Sciences. Just like in a flight simulator, students from different fields learn to deal with new methods and instruments. The specific subject contents of the learning basis are elaborated in close co-operation with the newly established National Competence and Research Centre for Nano Sciences (NCCR, www.nccr-nano.org) i n Basle. Nano-World, the co-operative learning basis, is realised by means of the newest software technologies. All nano-scientific experiments are implemented in JAVA. The content of the courses, metainformation, as well as readings and user data are saved on the server in a data base as XML objects.

The PARDISO solver is a thread-safe, high-performance, memory-efficient software library for solving large sparse, symmetric, and nonsymmetric linear systems of equations on shared-memory multiprocessors. The PARDISO solver exploits pipelining parallelism and memory hierarchies with a combination of left- and right-looking Level-3 BLAS techniques. For sufficiently large problem sizes, numerical experiments demonstrate that the OpenMP scalability of the parallel algorithm is nearly independent of multiprocessing architecture, and speedups of up to seven times on eight processors have been observed. PARDISO supports a wide range of sparse matrix types and computes the solution of real or complex; symmetric, structurally symmetric, or nonsymmetric; positive definite, indefinite, or Hermitian sparse linear systems of equations.

The package has been licenced to a over hundreds of universities and academic research institutes with currently over 4000 of active users.

pharma2 [pharmasquare] is a blended learning concept for pharmaceutical sciences. It combines the strength of face-to-face learning and e-learning with the goal to optimize the student's learning process. Tetrodo specifies the technical framework used to build the e-Learning platform including learning modules, a glossary, and an extensive assessment system.