Uta Seidler deals with the solution of partial elliptic differential equations with uncertainties in the data which, for instance, can occur in the diffusion coefficients. The diffusion coefficient is a measure for the mobility of particles. The master thesis relies - after applying the Karhunen-Loève expansion to the stochastic diffusion and a corresponding truncation of the associated series to finite dimension - on the so-called method of sparse grids. She develops a dimension-adaptive sparse grid combination method and applies it to a practical problem of groundwater flow simulation.
Prof. Dr. Michael Griebel supervised the master's thesis "Sparse Grid Methods for High-dimensional Problems in Uncertainty Quantification."
The Ada Lovelace Prize was established in 2010 by the Institute for Numerical Simulation (INS) at the University of Bonn and has been awarded annually since then. It serves to promote young women in numerics. Outstanding bachelor and master theses as well as dissertations are considered for the award. The prize money ranges from 500 euros for the best bachelor's thesis to 1,000 euros for the best master's thesis and 2,000 euros for the best dissertation by young female scientists at INS.
Information about the Ada Lovelace Prize: https://ins.uni-bonn.de/content/student-prizes
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