Research Training Group
Energy, Entropy, and Dissipative Dynamics
Funded by German Research
Foundation
(DFG)
Weekly Seminar
TBA
Chiara Segala (USI, Lugano (Switzerland))
Thu, 12 Mar 2026
• 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Michael Herty)
Past Events
Weekly Seminar
Rectifiability and pointwise differentiability of higher order
Ulrich Menne (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (Taiwan))
Thu, 15 Jan 2026
• 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Heiko von der Mosel)
CRC 1481 Colloquium
A min-max variational approach to the existence of gravity water waves
Georg Weiss (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Fri, 09 Jan 2026
• 14:30-15:30h
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Wenhui Shi)
Joint PDE Seminar with CRC 1481
Linear stability of the self-similarly shrinking lens
Theresa Simon (University of Münster)
Thu, 11 Dec 2025
• 10:45-11:45h
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Maria G. Westdickenberg)
Weekly Seminar
The tangent-point energy for higher dimensional sets: a survey
Paweł Strzelecki (University of Warsaw (Poland))
Thu, 04 Dec 2025
• 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Heiko von der Mosel)
Weekly Seminar
A Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality for the tangent point energies
Elias Döhrer (TU Chemnitz)
Thu, 13 Nov 2025
• 10:45-11:45h
• Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Henrik Schumacher)
Jobs
All positions have been filled.
Open positions may be found at our CRC Sparsity and Singular Structures or at the institutes of the individual PIs.
No. 2026.01
Monotone-based Numerical Schemes for Two-Dimensional Systems of Nonlocal Conservation Laws
A. Beckers and J. Friedrich
Subject: Finite-volume schemes, hyperbolic systems, nonlocal conservation laws, monotone schemes, convergence rate, error estimates
No. 2025.12
Strong Global Convergence of the Consensus-Based Optimization Algorithm
S. Bonandin, K. Riedl, and S. Veneruso
Subject: Global optimization, derivative-free optimization,metaheuristics, consensus-based optimization, strong convergence, algorithm, mean-field limit, Euler-Maruyama
No. 2025.11
Convergence of gradient flows on knotted curves
E. Döhrer and N. Freches
Subject: Sobolev gradient flow, tangent point energy, Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality, full convergence
No. 2025.10
Saddle Point Configurations for Spherical Ferromagnets
S. Gustafson, D. Meinert, and Christof Melcher
Subject: Micromagnetics, Magnetic skyrmions, Harmonic map heat flow
No. 2025.08
Iterative thresholding low-rank time integration
M. Bachmayr, M. Dolbeault, and P. Sachsenmaier
Subject: Low-rank approximation, evolution equations, quasi-optimal ranks
No. 2025.07
Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Projected Gradient Descent for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
J. Nießen and J. Müller
Subject: Physics-informed neural networks, neural tangent kernel, reproducing kernel Hilbert space
No. 2025.06
Relaxation of perturbed circles in flat spaces for the Mullins-Sekerka evolution in two dimensions
S. Lukić
Subject: Analysis of PDEs
No. 2025.05
On the Palais-Smale condition in geometric knot theory
N. Freches, H. Schumacher, D. Steenebrügge, and H. von der Mosel
Subject: Differential geometry, functional analysis, geometric topology