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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Portrait of Michael PlumKIT
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
Group shot of all the workshop particpantsMFO (Photo by: Ruf, Marlene, changes were made, license: CC BY-SA 2.0 DE)
Oberwolfach Workshop

Our colleague Barbara Verfürth has been co-organizer of the Oberwolfach Workshop Computational Multiscale Methods which took place at the end of April.

To the event's webpage
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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.

Maria Paskiewicz-Idzik awarded at the FameLab Germany event in KarlsruheWissenschaftsbüro Karlsruhe (Photo: Jürgen Rösner)
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
Our doctoral researcher Hai Dang Nguyen Pham presents is current workKIT (Photo: M. Clus)
Annual meeting 2025

This year's annual meeting has been taken place in the Kloster Neustadt and its focus was on networking.

To the event's webpage
Group shot of the Conference's participantsKIT (Photo: M. Clus)
Conference group shot

Our conference went very well. As far as we can tell all had a great time. We are really satisfied with the accomplishment of this tremendous event. You can see all the happy faces.

To the group shot
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)