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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Dates of the conferenceKIT
Upcoming conference

We are very excited and looking forward to next week. There will be this year's edition of our Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena. We have over 330 participants from a wide range of institutions from 34 countries and almost 240 talks.

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Portrait of Moritz HauckKIT
Welcome Moritz Hauck

We welcome our new junior research group leader Dr. Moritz Hauck. We are glad that he joined us and we wish him a successfull time at KIT.

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Special workshop

On Friday we had a special workshop together with French pupils from the Europäische Schule Karlsruhe. Our postdoctoral researcher Louis Garénaux hosted this successful and atmospheric event.

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Bye bye, X

We say bye bye to X (formerly known as Twitter). Time has come to let it go.

Portrait of Serge NicaiseUniversité Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
PDE Seminar: Serge Nicaise

We are happy to welcome our colleague and collaborator Serge Nicaise this week as a guest at KIT. On Thursday he will give a talk in the Karlsruhe PDE Seminar series.

Details of his talk
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Project ATHENS: ERC Synergy Grant

Congratulations to Christian Koos, Stefan Bräse, and their collaborators. Their common project ATHENS will get funded by the ERC with a Synergy Grant over a period of six years and a funding volume of 14 million Euros. The goal is to make optical communication systems more powerful and energy efficient.

To the press release (only in German)
Cover of the published bookBirkhäuser
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)