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.

International DFG funding logo DFG

Latest news

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.

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
Benjamin Unger (right) receives his certificate of appointment from KIT President Jan Hesthaven (left).KIT (Photo: L. Lauffer)
Certificate of appointment

Today, Benjamin Unger received his certificate of appointment from the KIT President Jan Hesthaven. He will start his professorship on April 1st. Congratulations, Benjamin!

Illustration with two female and two male persons discussing a chart at a table where lies a dog beneathKIT
Management retreat

The CRC's spokespersons and management went in the time of carnival on a retreat in Bad Herrenalb. We used the time for scheduling, preparing, and initiating upcoming events. We did also some aftermath of our recent conference.

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
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
GroupshotAmadeus Bramsiepe, KIT
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
IllustrationKIT
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)