The second meeting of the f(A)bulous Scientific Network took place at the calm campus of the University of Potsdam, not far from Sanssouci Palace. The first day included talks on fAbbench and fAbulab, ongoing projects for developing libraries of benchmark problems and standard f(A)b routines, respectively. Philipp Birken delivered the invited speaker talk on time integration for numerical weather prediction. The following two days featured talks by other network members on different flavors of Krylov subspace methods: rational, star-product, structure-preserving, and extended.
As with the last workshop, we spent the afternoons in break-out sessions, working on fAbbench, fAbulab, and the nearly finished survey. Throughout the workshop, we discussed how to engage with rapid developments in generative AI, how our roles as mathematicians are changing (or shouldn't be changing), and how to support our students through this turning point in human history. We finished each day a bit early to enjoy walks around Potsdam and the palace grounds.
Special thanks to Melina Freitag for her local organization efforts as well as to her SFB on Data Assimilation for sponsoring our coffee breaks and group dinner.