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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PoWER 2025

This week there is the workshop PoWER2025: Propagation of Waves, European Researchers in Vienna, Austria. PoWER brings together mathematicians and engineers, which belong to different groups of the scientific community, to discuss the most recent advances in the simulation of wave propagation problems. Our CRC participates with three invited speakers.

To the event's webpage
We are hiringKIT
Open doctoral researcher position

We have an open doctoral researcher position. Follow the link below to have a look into the job advertisement. The deadline is on July 31st, 2025. If you want to join us send us your application.

To the job advertisement
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11. KIT Meisterschaft 2025

On Saturday, July 5th there will be the 11th 10km KIT Championship in running. The registration deadline is on Wednesday, July 2nd or when the participant limit of 1000 runners is reached. The CRC will be represented by the team waves@KIT.

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Women in PDEs 2025

We are happy to announce that the registration to this year's edition of Women in PDEs has been opened. Come and join us in October at KIT.

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Senior Professorship

Congratulations to our colleague Michael Plum who has been awarded the academic honor of a Senior Professorship at KIT to excellent university professors. This honor has now only been given for the second time.

Senior Professors of KIT
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Something big is in the making

Thursday and Friday were all about something big. These two days marked the beginning of several days of filming that will continue in October. Our excitement for the result grows.

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FameLab Germany

Congratulations to Maria Paszkiewicz-Idzik who has won the regional heat in southwest Germany of FameLab Germany in Karlsruhe 2025. She has been awarded not only the 1st place but also the audience award. Great performance (video on YouTube).

To the Science Office of Karlsruhe
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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)