I gave a talk at the Scientific Computing in Rust conference.

A naive and hopefully intuitive explanation of ownership rules in Rust.

In der letzten Zeit wurde ich immer öfter nach meinem Focaccia-Rezept gefragt. Damit ich in der Zukunft nicht jedes Mal alles von vorne beschreiben muss kommt hier jetzt die vollständige Anleitung. Das Rezept ist gut für Anfänger geeignet und kann aber je nach Belieben echt ganz einfach angepasst werden.

Over the past months I was supervising and helping the current iGEM Team from Freiburg in their Journey towards the Grand Jamboree. This weekend, we finally had the opportunity to present our work – CELLECT.

Today, I was at the bwHPC Symposium in Mannheim. I was curious to listen to interesting talks and get to know what other people are working on at the moment. The agenda featured a well-stirred mixture of diverse topics including not only research topics but also tools such as for file sharing and infrastrucure.

I recently came across a new typesetting system called typst. It is being developed by Martin Haug and Laurenz Mädje. It aims to modernize typesetting systems by introducing a new scripting language to control the layout of documents. There are many new and great things about typst and we could be talking about all of its aspects and compare it to $\LaTeX$ for quite some time. However, I would like to focus on how to actually use it and what this means in practice for someone that has used $\LaTeX$ since high-school.

(See german version below) I have decided to step back from actively participating in the organization surrounding the KjG Summer camp in Wiesloch for future events.

Last week I attended the Scientific Computing in Rust 2023 virtual conference. The organizers put together a well-stirred mixture of talks covering a wide range of topics. It was good to see so many other enthusiastic researchers using Rust as their main tool to build software surrounding computational needs.

During my years in school, I participated in the then very new First LEGO League. My brother and me were joining an already existing team, called the “SAP Nemo Kids” (SAP being the Sponsor of the Tournament at our location) and it immediately caught me by full force. This contest consists of multiple disciplines. While the Robot Game is probably well known, there is also the Core Values, which we just called Teamwork. In addition the Robot Design judges design and implementation of the Robot itself. And finally, there is also the Project, which is held in the spirit of the yearly theme. In this discipline, a team will prepare a short talk on a topic which was previously researched.

I am excited to share that I will be participating in this years iGEM competition as a supervisor. I will advise the students’ who are modeling their experimental setup. We aim to establish a concise model and acquire relevant parameters in a timely manner. This will probably be a more demanding task than initially believed That being said, the iGEM Freiburg Team is very motivated and I hope to be sharing more details in the coming months.

I was at the physics of life conference this week

If you are part of the scientific community, you must have heard of Linux. This small post is not meant to capture everything good and bad or even everything important there is to know about GNU, Linux and many of the other open source projects out there. It is simply my story and view and why it is my preferred operating system. Feel free to jump to the end to skip my personal story.

Back in 2007, I was first introduced to the summer camp of the KjG Wiesloch (Katholische Junge Gemeinde, community of young Catholics). The camp lasts for 2 weeks and is held in the first weeks of the summer holidays. At first I was rather unwilling to go since I did not really know many people there. You are not allowed to bring mobile phones or other electronic devices (maybe apart from a digital watch (no smart watch)). The only way of communicating is to by sending letters. And so I wrote a letter to my parents after being there for a week. I was complaining and frustrated with everything. However, my parents were extremely surprised to see that after I had returned from camp, liked it very much and had completely forgotten that I had written this letter. From thereon, my brother and I went every year.