Welcome to this special issue with selected papers from the 8th edition of the European Seminar on COmputing (ESCO) Conference, held in Pilsen (Czech Republic) on June 13th to 17th.

ESCO is a successful series of interdisciplinary international conferences. It promotes modern technologies and practices in scientific computing and visualization, and strengthens the interaction between researchers and practitioners in various areas of computational engineering, sciences and education. The conference had a hybrid format: in person and online participations.

In this 8th edition of ESCO, there were over 200 participants from more than 30 countries all over the world. Five keynote lectures and 182 talks and posters were presented during the conference.

The main topics of the conference included the following areas:

  • Computational electromagnetics and coupled problems

  • Fluid–structure interaction and multi-phase flows

  • Computational chemistry and quantum physics

  • Computational civil and structural engineering

  • Computational biology and bioinformatics

  • Computational geometry and topology

  • Mathematics Education and Outreach

  • Hydrology and porous media flows

  • Petascale and exascale computing

  • Wave propagation and acoustics

  • Climate and weather modeling

  • GPU and cloud computing

  • Uncertainty quantification

  • Computational statistics

  • Open source software

  • Machine Learning

  • Applied statistics

1 Minisymposia and Software Workshops

ESCO 2022 was organized in 8 Minisymposia and 4 Software Workshops

1.1 Minisymposia

  1. 1.

    Applied Statistics and Data Science

    Organized by:

    • Anna Panorska (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)

    • Warren Davis (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

  2. 2.

    Computers and ICT in Mathematics Education

    Organized by:

    • Gabriel Aguilera-Venegas (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

    • José Luis Galán-García (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

    • Eugenio Roanes-Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

    • Pavel Solin (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)

  3. 3.

    Advanced Computational Methods for Climate Modeling and Analysis

    Organized by:

    • Pete Bosler (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

    • Mauro Perego (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

    • Kara Peterson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

    • Irina Tezaur (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

  4. 4.

    Smart Applications of Scientific Computing

    Organized by:

    • Gabriel Aguilera-Venegas (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

    • José Luis Galán-García (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

    • Eugenio Roanes-Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

  5. 5.

    Particle based simulations for industrial problems

    Organized by:

    • Nicolin Govender (University of Johannesburg, South Africa/RCPE, UK)

    • Anthony Thornton (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)

  6. 6.

    PDE Eigenvalue Problems: Computational Modeling and Numerical Analysis

    Organized by:

    • Christian Engstrom (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

    • Stefano Giani (Durham University, UK)

    • Luka Grubisic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

    • Harri Hakula (Aalto University, Finnland)

    • Jeffrey Ovall (Portland State University, US)

  7. 7.

    Digital Twins and Parameter Estimation

    Organized by:

    • Daniel. N. Wilke (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

  8. 8.

    Numerical simulation of ice accretion

    Organized by:

    • Barbara Re (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

    • Giulio Gori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

1.2 Software Workshops

  1. 1.

    Growing preCICE from an as-is coupling library to a widely-used, batteries-included ecosystem

    Organized by:

    • Gerasimos Chourdakis (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

  2. 2.

    pyMOR

    Organized by:

    • René Fritze (University of Münster, Germany)

  3. 3.

    MercuryDPM

    Organized by:

    • Anthony Thornton (University of Twente, Netherlands)

  4. 4.

    NCLab: Changing Education Through Software

    Organized by:

    • Pavel Solin (University of Nevada, Reno, United States)

2 Organizing Committee members

  • Pavel Solin (conference chair)

  • Pavel Karban (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia), co-chair

  • José Luis Galán García (Universidad de Málaga, Spain), co-chair

  • Petr Lukáš (Charles University, Prague, Czechia), co-chair

  • Iveta Petrášová (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia), co-chair

3 Scientific Committee members

  • Valmor de Almeida (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA)

  • Alain Bossavit (Laboratoire de Genie Electrique de Paris, France)

  • Ivo Dolezel (Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia)

  • José Luis Galán García (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

  • Stefano Giani (University of Durham, UK)

  • Alberto Matteo Attilio Guardone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

  • Pavel Karban (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia)

  • Tzanio Kolev (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

  • Tom Kozubowski (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)

  • Javier Morales-Castillo (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, México)

  • Francesca Rapetti (University of Nice, France)

  • Eugenio Roanes-Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

  • Irina Tezaur (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

4 Accepted papers

This special issue in Mathematics in Computer Science consists of a selection of papers from ESCO 2022. After the peer review process, the following 6 papers were finally accepted:

  1. 1.

    Equalising the Transmission Properties of Graph-Modelled Networks by Introducing the Control of the Resources Used to Transmit Information

    by Sławomir Bujnowski, Beata Marciniak, Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde, Zbigniew Lutowski, Adam Flizikowski and Sebastián García Galán.

  2. 2.

    Self-Paced, Instructor-Assisted Approach to Teaching Python Programming

    by Pavel Solin and Alexander Freyer.

  3. 3.

    Selected aspects of non orthogonal multiple access for future wireless communications

    by Adam Flizikowski, Tomasz Marciniak, Tadeusz A. Wysocki and Olutayo Oyerinde.

  4. 4.

    Recent advances in MercuryDPM

    by Anthony R. Thornton, Timo Plath, Igor Ostanin, Holger Götz, Jan-Willem Bisschop, Mohamed Hassan, Raïsa Roeplal, Xiuqi Wang, Sahar Pourandi and Thomas Weinhart.

  5. 5.

    Hyperbolic Lattice Boltzmann Method and Discrete Boltzmann Method for Solid–Liquid Phase Change Problem

    by Snehil Srivastava and Panchatcharam Mariappan.

  6. 6.

    Some reflections about the success and bibliographic impact of the Dynamic Geometry System GeoGebra

    by Eugenio Roanes-Lozano and Carmen Solano-Macías

We want to dedicate this special issue to the memory of Eugenio Roanes-Lozano.

June 2023.

José Luis Galán-García

Gabriel Aguilera-Venegas

María Ángeles Galán-García

Guest Editors