The Department of Mathematics at KIT invites applications for a Tenure-Track-Professorship position to support our CRC in one of the numerical analysis research areas. The deadline is September 7.

Two groups of us (see the image above) attended the Scica∂e and the Waves conferences in Reykjavík, Iceland and in Paris, France respectively.

The former iRTG doctoral spokesperson Julian Baumstark has received a little gift as a token of appreciation for his commitment in the last four years. It is a Pilsner glass with his engraved name and additionally a barrel of Pilsener.

Since we have some valuable colleagues from physics who work with us in this CRC, we would like to draw your attention to the German Conference of Women in Physics, which will take place at KIT in November this year.

On Saturday the team waves@kit will start at the KIT Meisterschaft organized by the KIT sports club. This is a running event over a distance of 10km which starts and ends on the KIT campus.

There is a nice interview report (in German) about one of our doctoral students published by mint-frauen-bw.de.

We are happy that Nicholas J. Higham will give two presentations of How to Write Mathematics. The first presentation will be on May 5th and the second two weeks later on May 19th.

Come and join us!
We are currently seeking to recruit, as soon as possible,
Doctoral Researchers (f/m/d – 75%) in Analysis of PDEs.

Take a look at the rich range of lectures related to topics of the Collaborative Research Center for the summer semester.

The CRC's management will be on a retreat for two days (February 23rd-24th) in Bad Herrenalb. Preparations for the upcoming annual meeting and the continuation proposal by the end of this year have to be made.

... for Barbara Verfürth. Her funding proposal to the Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG was successful. She has been granted the means for an independent junior research group. What a great achievement, congratulations to this!

Prof. Dr. Dmitry Pelinovsky from the McMaster Univ. will give his talk Domain walls in harmonic potentials on Thursday in our PDE seminar. He received last year's Humboldt Research Award.

We wish you all a healthy and successful year - both privately and professionally. For us this year will be devoted to the continuation proposal.

The iRTG has launched a new event format; CRC alumni were invited to an evening interview. The audience rated the format very positively, so it is expected to be relaunched in March 2022.

The board and additionally the administration of this CRC will do a strategic retreat in the Hotel Leinweiler Hof again. All of this mainly but not exclusively under the sign of the renewal proposal.

On the upcoming weekend the principal investigators and some of our JRGL/postdocs as well as the administration of our CRC will meet in the Hotel Leinsweiler Hof for the kick-off meeting to the third funding proposal.

It is Monday and today the lectures of this year's winter term start. Most of them take place in presence. Welcome back all together.

The summer school went quite well. We have taken a group shot of the on-site participants as well as of some of the online participants. The above image represents the hybrid format.

On Monday September 6th Marlis and Wolfgang represented our support of the Lernbrücken during the broadcast of Baden TV Aktuell - Monday a local TV station. Shortly after minute 6 their part begins and lasts for almost 5 minutes.

For the next two weeks our CRC goes to school. In five secondary schools in Karlsruhe we help children understanding math and solving math problems. We aim to close the learning gaps which appeared due to interrupted teaching during the Corona lockdown. 40 CRC members volunteer as substitute teachers in this project.

Since 2014 Marlis Hochbruck was Vice President of the DFG. Her term of office in the Executive Committee ended this July. There will be more time for Mathematics now.

You can register now to our international conference in February 2022. We plan it to be an on-site event. For further information follow the link below.

Barbara Verfürth has been awarded one of the Second Prizes at the 20th IMA Leslie Fox Prize Event for Numerical Analysis. It is a biennial prize honoring young numerical analysts worldwide. We cordially congratulate her and the other awardees.

We invite video and image film production companies to submit an offer for an image film of the CRC 1173. Highly motivated, dynamic and open-minded international researchers and scientists of mathematics are connected from all over the world in the CRC to investigate, analyse and simulate wave phenomena.

In this year there will be for the first time a lecture-free week right after the upcoming pentecost. Maybe time to spend with your kids at home.

Colleagues from the University of Vienna are organizing VDSP Academy on PDEs in Mathematical Physics. This is planned as a two weeks online event.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Lukas Einkemmer and Dr. Anna Geyer will be our speakers for this year's summer school. Both will give a lecture series with exercises. Registration has opened.

Our colleague Dorothee Frey is involved in the organization of a tandem workshop between MATRIX and MFO called Rough Wave Equations which will be in September.

Today are starting the lectures of the summer term 2021. Take a look at the wide range of lectures that are related to the CRC.

This workshop is held from March 28th to April 3rd. It is a hybrid meeting.

There is a new platform called Pop Math collecting POPular events on MATHematics in Europe and making them in a nice way available for you. Have a look!

Tomorrow on February 24th two of our doctoral researchers, Benjamin Dörich and Jan Leibold, will defend their theses in the afternoon. We wish every success.

Congratulations to Barbara Verfürth. Her group has been approved the title KIT-Nachwuchsgruppe. The way to KIT Associate Fellow has been paved.

Our colleague Michael Feischl at TU Vienna will give a talk about Black box algorithms for adaptive FEM on February 8th in the One World Numerical Analysis Series.

Our colleague Roland Griesmaier will give a lecture series on inverse source problems at the Virtual PhD Winter School Inverse problems in partial differential equations and geometry which takes place at DTU.

The KIT centers KCIST, MathSEE, and Materials are jointly organizing a workshop on Data Science for Material Sciences on 22.01.2020 beginning at 9:00 am.

The CRC has awarded Rebekka Zimmermann and Michael Kirn the CRC Prize 2020 for their outstanding Bachelor resp. Master theses.

The CRC workshop Time Integration of PDEs takes place in Bad Herrenalb from 28th to 30th of September 2020.

The colleagues at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) at Edinburgh have announced a virtual seminar series starting on July 20th.

We are really happy to welcome Dr. Barbara Verfürth in our team on a junior research group leader position. As a highly motivated researcher she received a price for her thesis at WWU Münster 2018 and the Dr.-Klaus-Körper-Preis of the GAMM in 2019.

The DFG tries everything that nobody has a disadvantage due to the current situation. The team of the CRC is available to you via telephone, email, Skype or whatever medium, of course.

We wish you a happy new year! Great news have reached us before Christmas. The DFG accepted a proposal of us for a new project. Now we have the new project A12 started on January 1st, 2020.

We congratulate our former CRC member and colleague Katharina Schratz who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Fantastic!

We offer postdoctoral and doctoral researcher positions. Have a look into our job descriptions.

We made it. The DFG will fund our CRC (official press release of the DFG) another four years.

On April 8th and 9th will be our iRTG Workhop and from 10th to 12th there will be two minicourses.

Save the date! Thursday, Januar 31, 2019, at 14:00-16:00 in seminar room 1.067, building 20.30.

We congratulate our CRC member Axel Loewe to the third place of his dissertation within the scope of the Gips-Schüle-Nachwuchspreis 2018.

We are seeking Postdoctoral Researchers. Look into your job advertisement.

On May 9th our visiting professor Dr. Jaroslaw Mederski will start with his lecture Nonlinear Maxwell equations – a variational approach

In the week July 23–27, 2018 our Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena will take place. Registration is closed.

We released this week PyFWI - an interactive software for the simulation of seismic waves.

Soliton frequency combs generated in optical microresonators allow to transmit data at rates of more than 50 terabits per second. 

We have an open PhD position in project B7. If you are interested have a look on our Jobs page.

On April 27-28, 2017 the workshop "Women in PDEs@Karlsruhe" will take place. Outstanding invited speakers from academia and industry will give talks. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss with them.

On Friday the 16th of September the official CRC opening event will happen.

The first CRCs annual retreat will take place from April 4-8, 2016 in Bildungshaus St. Bernhard (Rastatt).

The XXX EUPROMETA School will take place on April 11-15, 2016 at KIT and it is locally organized by Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics with members of this CRC.

Report on our CRC in the current issue (2015/4) of the lookkIT magazine.

Christine Grathwohl has been awarded the CRC prize 2015 for her outstanding Master thesis.

Joint workshop on November 17th and 18th with the group of Prof. Dr. Kurt Busch from HU Berlin with the aim of applying new methods and results on the numerics of Maxwell equations into optics and photonics simulations in Berlin.

Start of our CRC seminar with talks by Denis Bonheure and Ludwig Gauckler.

Andreas Sturm (Project A4) wins best student paper prize at the 12th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves (Waves 2015) in Karlsruhe. The paper is available here.

We have launched this new website for our Collaborative Research Centre 1173 funded by DFG.