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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Wolfgang Reichel in front of the Higher Technical Institute buildingKIT
Atlantic PDEs

Our colleague Wolfgang Reichel has currently travelled to Lisbon contributing to the 2nd Atlantic Conference in Nonlinear PDEs. He will present his plenary talk on Tuesday.

To the conference's webpage
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Workshop Women in PDEs

Looking back, we had a great time during this workshop. The speakers' presentations were impressive. The fishbowl discussion provided some truly unique insights. We are very grateful to the participants.

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Karlsruhe PDE Lectures

Next Monday and Tuesday Caroline Lasser (TUM) will give the mini course Quantum Waves in Phase Space in our Karlsruhe PDE Lectures series. This will be great.

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Opening with Benjamin Dörich as first presenterKIT
Time Integration of PDEs 2025

One workshop just follows the other. This week the annual workshop Time Integration of PDEs is scheduled in Hirschegg, Austria, again. This should lead to a lively exchange again.

To the event's webpage
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Spring school 2026

The registration to our spring school Numerical Approximation of Waves - Multiple Scales and High Frequencies in March 2026 has been opened. Take a look at it, register, and join us in Karlsruhe at KIT.

To the event's webpage
Portrait of Thomas BartschUniv. Giessen
Karlsruhe PDE Seminar talk

Thomas Bartsch from the University of Giessen will visit us for a few days. On Thursday at 2 pm, he will give his talk with the title Normalized solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations in our Karlsruhe PDE Seminar. We look forward to his presentation.

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Cover of the published bookBirkhäuser
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)