We review recent efforts to re-formulate the Einstein equations for fully relativistic numerical simulations. The so-called numerical relativity (computational simulations in general relativity) is a promising research field matching with ongoing astrophysical observations such as gravitational wave astronomy. Many trials for longterm stable and accurate simulations of binary compact objects ha...

Structured population models are a class of general evolution equations which are widely used in the study of biological systems. Many theoretical methods are available for establishing existence and stability of steady states of general evolution equations. However, except for very special cases, finding an analytical form of stationary solutions for evolution equations is a challenging task. ...

Evolution Strategies are global, direct optimisation algorithms, which have proven their efficiency in engineering applications for a large number of industrial applications. In this paper, the basic algorithm and some of its recent variants for design optimisation are presented. In addition, we give an overview of applications and a comparison to other optimisation algorithms. As an example we...