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Milad Mafi is one of the winners of German federal contest for youngs researchers working with Microsoft HPC

Press release [more photos]: Milad Mafi, a 16 year old boy was participating in the federal contest of Germany named “Jugend Forscht”. In the contest about 10.000 young researchers participate and last weekend the 190 best from the whole country had the final in Bremerhaven. In the area of Physics Milad was one of the chosen to be awarded in the contest.

His project in the contest was “investigating turbulences caused by the wings on a Formular-1 car to make overtaking on the race easier and in this way Formular-1 more interesting for watchers”. The outstanding of his research was the direct connection to industry and the broad interest of the public in these matter, were other awarded researches were much more abstract.

Additional to the award in the contest he was awarded with the following special prices during this event:

* Special Award of the UNESCO “International Science and Engineering” with a participation on the Science and Engineering congress in Seoul Korea in September for one week

* Special Award of the "Erich Becker Stiftung" (research funding organization) for a extraordinary work in the area "Air- and Space research”.

* Invitation to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Berlin in September

CONGRATULATIONS to MILAD MAFI from the whole Microsoft HPC-TEAM!

He approached the HPC Product team in November 2006 as he wanted to do his research based on Windows HPC. The German HPC team sponsored him in the last year. In the general contest a lot of teams are working with Linux in their research projects so a Microsoft appearance got some good attention.

Milad is a great presenter and talked on congresses already promoting Windows HPC. Examples are several Ansys / Ansys Partner conferences all over Europe as well as also on the HPC user group meeting in Aachen, the organization of German Automotiv companies AVI, trades Shows like CEBIT and ISC/SC and several other events. His demos are an eye catcher on Microsoft demo places like ISC07/ISC08 in Dresden and SC07 in Reno as well as also CEBIT. Beside these activities we had about 7 articles in public magazines like “Formular-1 constructor”, “Race tech”, “Digital Engineering” Ansys-US user magazine “Advantage” Ansys Germany user Magazin “ Info Planer” and many more. (one German article enclosed)

Also Milad has now a practicum at Toyota Formular-1 for bringing in his research to the industry. Several other teams like BMW-Sauber, McLaren are also in talks with him.

Many thanks to Matej Ciesko for helping in setting up systems for him and supporting him, as well as also Ines Gensinger from the German Press team of helping to get the message out to public.

We are happy to have such a bright kid in our V-team and hope to be able to continue the collaboration also in the coming FY. [more photos]