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Weekly Seminar
Finsler geodesics and finite-strain plasticity
Oliver Sander (TU Dresden)
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Maria G. Westdickenberg)
Weekly Seminar
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Juliette Dubois (TU Berlin)
Thu, 06 Nov 2025 • 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)
Weekly Seminar
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Elias Döhrer (TU Chemnitz)
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Heiko von der Mosel)
Weekly Seminar
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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)
Joint PDE Seminar with CRC 1481
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Theresa Simon (University of Münster)
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Maria G. Westdickenberg)
Weekly Seminar
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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)
Past Events
CRC 1481 Colloquium
Instability theory of stationary kink and anti-kink profiles for the sine-Gordon equation on a Y-junction graph
Ramón G. Plaza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 • 14:30-15:30h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Christof Melcher)
Weekly Seminar
Optimal control of nonlocal conservation laws and the singular limit
Alexander Keimer (University of Rostock)
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (hosts: Michael Herty and Jan Friedrich)
Weekly Seminar
Nonlocal regularization of conservation laws
Giuseppe Maria Coclite (Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy))
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Michael Herty)
Weekly Seminar
Unique Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with a Strictly Convex Entropy
Graziano Guerra (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy))
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 • 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 and Aleksey Sikstel)
Weekly Seminar
Geometric nonlinearities in PDEs for Cosserat elasticity – how they affect the regularity of solutions
Vanessa Hüsken (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Sasa Lukic)
Seminar
Statistical conservation laws for scalar model problems
Qian Huang (Universität Stuttgart)
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 • 16:30-17:30h • Templergraben 55, 1st floor, room 114 (host: Michael Herty)
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Publications
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. 2025.09
Quadratic growth of geodesics on the two-sphere
B. Albach
Subject: Symplectic geometry
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
No. 2025.04
Kinetic variable-sample methods for stochastic optimization problems
S. Bonandin and M. Herty
Subject: Global optimization, stochastic optimization problems, particle-based methods, consensus-based optimization, Boltzmann equation, kinetic equations
No. 2025.03
High-dimensional stochastic finite volumes using the tensor train format
J. Dubois, M. Herty, and S. Müller
Subject: Numerical analysis
No. 2025.02
The Lax-Friedrichs method in one-dimensional hemodynamics
A. Beckers and N. Kolbe
Subject: Blood flow modeling, cardiovascular networks, finite volumes, coupled conservation laws, boundary conditions, hyperbolic systems
No. 2025.01
On the relation between approaches for boundary feedback control of hyperbolic systems
M. Herty and F. Thein
Subject: Boundary feedback control, stabilization, hyperbolic systems of PDEs, Lyapunov analysis, linear matrix inequality
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