Understanding Wave Phenomena

Waves are everywhere, and understanding their behavior leads us to understand nature. The goal of CRC 1173 »Wave Phenomena« is therefore to analytically understand, numerically simulate, and eventually manipulate wave propagation under realistic scenarios by intertwining analysis and numerics.

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Oberwolfach Workshop

Next week there will be the Oberwolfach Workshop Nonlinear Optics: Physics, Analysis, and Numerics. Marlis Hochbruck is involved in the organization together with Kurt Busch and Houghton Ramy El-Ganainy.

To the workshop
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Workshop PDEs, Calculus of Variations, and Applications

The workshop organized by the Institute for Analysis is in honor of Prof. Dr. Catherine Bandle to celebrate her manifold contributions to the analysis of PDEs and her 80th birthday.

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KHYS Research Travel Grants

Congratulation to our young researchers Louis Garénaux and Benjamin Dörich for their successful applications for KHYS Research Travel Grants. Louis will go to Leiden and Benjamin to Zurich this summer.

KHYS Research Travel Grants
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Workshop in honor of Michael Plum

A workshop for Michael Plum will be held this week in honor of his rich contributions to the analysis of PDEs and to the field of computer assisted proofs.

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Annual meeting 2024

In four weeks we will be in Bad Herrenalb. It is the seventh annual meeting of our CRC. More information is available on the webpage we have set up.

Event's webpage
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Congratulations to Maria Paszkiewicz-Idzik

Our colleague Maria Paszkiewicz-Idzik won the Annual Shirt Competition 2023 with her hand-drawn KIT-Logo. In the image above you see the fan as a detail. The t-shirt is available.

To the competition
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Published book

We are happy that our new book Wave phenomena has been finally published in the Oberwolfach Seminars series.

Have a look at Springer
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Diversity film project

Finally, today we have published the video of our diversity project. You can share it now with friends and family. Have fun watching.

To the video (via Youtube)