An interdisciplinary team of young researchers is investigating how large amounts of data can be used to simulate economic problems and sustainability issues. The project is being funded under a new programme of the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “Shining a light into the data jungle”
A research group led by the physicist and economist Stefan Thurner is a member of the corona prognosis consortium of the Ministry of Health. The consortium’s models are the basis for the measures taken by the Federal Government to contain the corona pandemic in Austria. Thurner’s model calculations use methods from basic research projects that […] Continue reading “How a coincidence helps to control the pandemic”
In Queensland, in the northeast of Australia, the statistician Markus Hainy has discovered many exciting things that tie in with his life in Austria and his work. A Schrödinger fellowship enabled him to advance his research topic with the Australian colleagues. – An experience of maximum knowledge gain, as Hainy reports from Brisbane. Continue reading “Optimal conditions in Brisbane”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Innsbruck has explored how the local accuracy of weather forecasts for snowfall can be improved by means of past weather observations. Continue reading “Statistics for snow forecasting”
Her research interests took Elisa Perrone from her native Italy to Linz and Klosterneuburg and, most recently, to the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At the MIT, the mathematician and Schrödinger Fellow pursues groundbreaking research questions to help improve weather forecasts. Continue reading “Next stop Kendall, MIT”