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Energy, Entropy, and Dissipative Dynamics
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Travelling wave dynamics for periodic nonlocal-local traffic models
Claudia Nocita (University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy))
Wed, 13 May 2026 • 10:00-11:00h • Im Süsterfeld 2 (office-west), room 415 (host: Olivia Dressen)
Weekly Seminar
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Ramien Nek (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Thu, 21 May 2026 • 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)
Workshop
Young Researchers Workshop on Geometric Analysis, Singular PDEs and Numerics
Mon, 01 Jun 2026 • June 1-3, 2026 • Im Süsterfeld 2 (office-west), room 377
Weekly Seminar
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Stephan Mescher (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Nicolas Freches)
Weekly Seminar
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Jan Heiland (TU Ilmenau)
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Michael Herty)
Weekly Seminar
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Jan Giesselmann (Darmstadt University of Technology)
Thu, 02 Jul 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)
Weekly Seminar
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Sam Krupa (École Normale Supérieure Paris (France))
Thu, 06 Aug 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Aleksey Sikstel)
Past Events
Weekly Seminar
Random geometry, computation and the knot type of the Salmonella genome
Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia, Athens (U.S.A.))
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Henrik Schumacher)
Weekly Seminar
Results in relativistic hydrodynamics
Ferdinand Thein (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 • 10:45-11:45h • Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Siegfried Müller)
Weekly Seminar
Incremental low-rank semismooth Newton in samplet-compressed kernel approximation
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)
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)
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Research
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Publications
No. 2026.04
A Fenchel Theorem for the Gauss maps and uniqueness of minimizers of nonlocal curvature energies
E. Döhrer and A. Dohmen
Subject: Classical analysis and ODEs, differential geometry
No. 2026.03
MultiWave: A computational lab for adaptive numerical methods approximating hyperbolic balance laws
A. Kolb and A. Sikstel
Subject: Hyperbolic balance laws, adaptive methods, multiresolution analysis, discontinuous Galerkin, C++, MPI
No. 2026.02
Discontinuous Galerkin schemes for multi-dimensional coupled hyperbolic systems
N. Kolbe, S. Müller, and A. Sikstel
Subject: Numerical analysis
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. 2025.09
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
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