Next Monday and Tuesday Caroline Lasser (TUM) will give the mini course Quantum Waves in Phase Space in our Karlsruhe PDE Lectures series. This will be great.

This week on October 1st and 2nd there is the joint workshop Meshfree Methods for Magnetic Schrödinger-Type Equations together with HU Berlin, Kiel University, and TU Munich.

This year’s ENUMATH (European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications) conference will take place in Heidelberg at the beginning of September. A few of us will be on-site presenting current research.

We've created and published the schedule. Follow the link below to take a look. The opportunity to apply for travel support (just females) ends on Thursday (July 31st). The registration deadline is September 15th, 2025.

Thomas Bartsch from the University of Giessen will visit us for a few days. On Thursday at 2 pm, he will give his talk with the title Normalized solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations in our Karlsruhe PDE Seminar. We look forward to his presentation.

Our team waves@KIT placed 5th out of 67 in the team ranking of the 11. KIT Meisterschaft. This is a great result about which we are very proud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

On next Monday the RTG lecture series will start. Marvin Knöller will give the first three lectures about Convolution Quadrature in Acoustic Obstacle Scattering. For upcoming speakers and more detials follw the link below.

This year's edition of the annual workshop Time Integration of PDEs will be in Bad Herrenalb. More than 20 people will be there and exchange scientific ideas about the topic.

This week, Cinc2024 is taking place in Karlsruhe with around 1,200 participants. It was organized by Axel Loewe and his colleagues from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, among others.

Once again we are offering a junior research group leader position. This time in the field of Numerical Analysis which includes Inverse Problems. Take a look into the job advertisement. Come and join us!

This week the SciCADE is held in Singapore. Some of us also represent the CRC there. Gianluca Ceruti, a former CRC colleague, has been awarded the New Talent Award. What a great success! Congratulations, Gianluca.

What a great success for the waves@KIT team at the 10th KIT Meisterschaft. The four best individual times of a team were added up and we placed 3rd out of 49 teams.

In February of 2025 there will be our next Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena. Register yourself and visit us in Karlsruhe. We are looking forward to meet you in person.

This year's edition of the Waves conference is being held in Berlin. Our CRC is represented by almost 20 people of us. The program is quite comprehensive.

On this week's Friday starting at 2 p.m. will be the workshop Numerics, Dynamics & Physics with these prestigious speakers: Kurt Busch, Caroline Lasser, and Christian Lubich.

Congratulation to Marlis Hochbruck. In May 2024 the Elite Network of Bavaria appointed her as a member of the International Commission. The Commission advises the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.

We cordially congratulate Benjamin Dörich. He has been awarded the KIT Associate Fellow status. This means he is allowed to adequately participate in doctoral procedures. Additionally, he now is a junior research group leader.

Congratulations to our colleague Michael Feischl who has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant 2023. The project is called New Frontiers in Optimal Adaptivity and it will start this year in June. We wish him and his project a bright future.

Next week there will be the Oberwolfach Workshop Nonlinear Optics: Physics, Analysis, and Numerics. Marlis Hochbruck is involved in the organization together with Kurt Busch and Houghton Ramy El-Ganainy.

Congratulation to our young researchers Louis Garénaux and Benjamin Dörich for their successful applications for KHYS Research Travel Grants. Louis will go to Leiden and Benjamin to Zurich this summer.

In four weeks we will be in Bad Herrenalb. It is the seventh annual meeting of our CRC. More information is available on the webpage we have set up.

The CRC's management will be on a retreat for two days (January 29th-30th) in Bad Herrenalb. Preparations for the upcoming annual meeting and planning for the year ahead.

On Wednesday there will be our sixth interview evening. Two alumni, Andreas Sturm and Piotr Idzik, talk about their careers after their time at the university.

A successful year for the CRC is coming to an end. We wish everyone out there happy holidays and a good transition into the New Year 2024.

This year's CRC Prizes has been awarded to James Andrew King for his Bachelor's thesis and to Julian Dörner for his Master's thesis.

A delegation from our analysis ranks attended the Atlantic Conference in Nonlinear PDEs at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. They had a great time there.

The page with the course offering related to the CRC has been updated for the winter term. Have a look into this.

Our postdoc Annalena Albicker has been awarded one of the two Best-Poster-Awards at the MathSEE Symposium. Christopher Bülte got the other one. Congratulations to both!

Last Thursday we had our kick off event and it was all just fantastic; be it the speakers, the audience, the guests, the food or the weather. We have added some impressions at the end of the event's webpage.

On June 15th have been the reelections of the CRC's spokespersons and also of the CRC's executive committee. There are no changes on these positions. Congratulations to all officeholders!

Come and join us!
We are currently seeking to recruit, as soon as possible,
Doctoral Researchers (f/m/d – 75-100%) and a
Postdoc Researcher (f/m/d – 100%).

We have lately received tremendous good news. The DFG will continue to fund our CRC for the next four years. We are very proud of this achievement and eager to carry on our work.

We are happy that Angkana Rüland from the University of Bonn accepted our invitation to Karlsruhe. She will give her PDE seminar talk On the fractional Calderon problem on Thursday at 14:00.

Due to the recent onsite review our annual meeting has been replaced by an iRTG workshop. It has been a great time in Bad Herrenalb again.

The page of lectures and other courses has been updated. Have a look into the offer for the upcoming summer term.

We wish a happy Pi Day! We have no much time to celebrate. On the next two days there will be the review of our CRC. We are good to go!

The first talk of 2023 within the Kalrsruhe PDE Seminar will be held by Sebastian Herr. His talk is about Global wellposedness of the Zakharov System below the ground state.

We are happy to welcome Nick Trefethen on Thursday in Karlsruhe. He will give two presentations; one will be an introduction to Chebfun and the other one about Applications of AAA Rational Approximation.

On Tuesday, January 17th, we submitted the continuation proposal in person to the DFG in Bonn. We are relieved to have achieved this important interim goal.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas. Have a great time with your loved ones, be it family or friends. Take a break from everyday life and enjoy your time.

Both spokespersons are going on a retreat on upcoming Friday. You're simply more productive if you can concentrate on the things that are currently essential, away from the day-to-day business.

Björn de Rijk and Christian Zillinger have reached the status "KIT Associate Fellows". This implies that they can be examiners in the doctoral procedure of their own doctoral candidates. Congratulations, again!

We wish everyone a good start to the lecture period and a successful completion of their courses.

We have updated the list of lectures related to the topics of the CRC. Take a look at our offer.

The board of the CRC had this week the third proposal writing days. They worked hard and are really satisfied with the outcome and their harmonious cooperation. On Friday, both speakers took another challenge running on top of the Turmberg located in Durlach.

This week we have María López-Fernández (Univ. of Málaga) as a guest. Together with Marlis' group she has this workshop and she gave an inspiring talk in the CRC Seminar.

Congratulations to Dirk Hundertmark, Peer Kunstmann, Tobias Ried, and Semjon Vugalter for publishing their paper Cwikel's bound reloaded in Inventiones mathematicae.

From August 28 to 31, 2022, the iRTG will hold its retreat in the monastery Kloster Hegne at Lake Constance. In addition to the presentation of their current research and discussions on topics of this CRC, the participants are sure to have fun together.

The Department of Mathematics at KIT invites applications for a Tenure-Track-Professorship position to support our CRC in one of the numerical analysis research areas. The deadline is September 7.

Two groups of us (see the image above) attended the Scica∂e and the Waves conferences in Reykjavík, Iceland and in Paris, France respectively.

The former iRTG doctoral spokesperson Julian Baumstark has received a little gift as a token of appreciation for his commitment in the last four years. It is a Pilsner glass with his engraved name and additionally a barrel of Pilsener.

Since we have some valuable colleagues from physics who work with us in this CRC, we would like to draw your attention to the German Conference of Women in Physics, which will take place at KIT in November this year.

On Saturday the team waves@kit will start at the KIT Meisterschaft organized by the KIT sports club. This is a running event over a distance of 10km which starts and ends on the KIT campus.

There is a nice interview report (in German) about one of our doctoral students published by mint-frauen-bw.de.

We are happy that Nicholas J. Higham will give two presentations of How to Write Mathematics. The first presentation will be on May 5th and the second two weeks later on May 19th.

Come and join us!
We are currently seeking to recruit, as soon as possible,
Doctoral Researchers (f/m/d – 75%) in Analysis of PDEs.

Take a look at the rich range of lectures related to topics of the Collaborative Research Center for the summer semester.

The CRC's management will be on a retreat for two days (February 23rd-24th) in Bad Herrenalb. Preparations for the upcoming annual meeting and the continuation proposal by the end of this year have to be made.

... for Barbara Verfürth. Her funding proposal to the Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG was successful. She has been granted the means for an independent junior research group. What a great achievement, congratulations to this!

Prof. Dr. Dmitry Pelinovsky from the McMaster Univ. will give his talk Domain walls in harmonic potentials on Thursday in our PDE seminar. He received last year's Humboldt Research Award.

We wish you all a healthy and successful year - both privately and professionally. For us this year will be devoted to the continuation proposal.

The iRTG has launched a new event format; CRC alumni were invited to an evening interview. The audience rated the format very positively, so it is expected to be relaunched in March 2022.

The board and additionally the administration of this CRC will do a strategic retreat in the Hotel Leinweiler Hof again. All of this mainly but not exclusively under the sign of the renewal proposal.

On the upcoming weekend the principal investigators and some of our JRGL/postdocs as well as the administration of our CRC will meet in the Hotel Leinsweiler Hof for the kick-off meeting to the third funding proposal.

It is Monday and today the lectures of this year's winter term start. Most of them take place in presence. Welcome back all together.

The summer school went quite well. We have taken a group shot of the on-site participants as well as of some of the online participants. The above image represents the hybrid format.

On Monday September 6th Marlis and Wolfgang represented our support of the Lernbrücken during the broadcast of Baden TV Aktuell - Monday a local TV station. Shortly after minute 6 their part begins and lasts for almost 5 minutes.

For the next two weeks our CRC goes to school. In five secondary schools in Karlsruhe we help children understanding math and solving math problems. We aim to close the learning gaps which appeared due to interrupted teaching during the Corona lockdown. 40 CRC members volunteer as substitute teachers in this project.

Since 2014 Marlis Hochbruck was Vice President of the DFG. Her term of office in the Executive Committee ended this July. There will be more time for Mathematics now.

You can register now to our international conference in February 2022. We plan it to be an on-site event. For further information follow the link below.

Barbara Verfürth has been awarded one of the Second Prizes at the 20th IMA Leslie Fox Prize Event for Numerical Analysis. It is a biennial prize honoring young numerical analysts worldwide. We cordially congratulate her and the other awardees.

We invite video and image film production companies to submit an offer for an image film of the CRC 1173. Highly motivated, dynamic and open-minded international researchers and scientists of mathematics are connected from all over the world in the CRC to investigate, analyse and simulate wave phenomena.

In this year there will be for the first time a lecture-free week right after the upcoming pentecost. Maybe time to spend with your kids at home.

Colleagues from the University of Vienna are organizing VDSP Academy on PDEs in Mathematical Physics. This is planned as a two weeks online event.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Lukas Einkemmer and Dr. Anna Geyer will be our speakers for this year's summer school. Both will give a lecture series with exercises. Registration has opened.

Our colleague Dorothee Frey is involved in the organization of a tandem workshop between MATRIX and MFO called Rough Wave Equations which will be in September.

Today are starting the lectures of the summer term 2021. Take a look at the wide range of lectures that are related to the CRC.

This workshop is held from March 28th to April 3rd. It is a hybrid meeting.

There is a new platform called Pop Math collecting POPular events on MATHematics in Europe and making them in a nice way available for you. Have a look!

Tomorrow on February 24th two of our doctoral researchers, Benjamin Dörich and Jan Leibold, will defend their theses in the afternoon. We wish every success.

Congratulations to Barbara Verfürth. Her group has been approved the title KIT-Nachwuchsgruppe. The way to KIT Associate Fellow has been paved.

Our colleague Michael Feischl at TU Vienna will give a talk about Black box algorithms for adaptive FEM on February 8th in the One World Numerical Analysis Series.

Our colleague Roland Griesmaier will give a lecture series on inverse source problems at the Virtual PhD Winter School Inverse problems in partial differential equations and geometry which takes place at DTU.

The KIT centers KCIST, MathSEE, and Materials are jointly organizing a workshop on Data Science for Material Sciences on 22.01.2020 beginning at 9:00 am.

The CRC has awarded Rebekka Zimmermann and Michael Kirn the CRC Prize 2020 for their outstanding Bachelor resp. Master theses.

The CRC workshop Time Integration of PDEs takes place in Bad Herrenalb from 28th to 30th of September 2020.

The colleagues at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) at Edinburgh have announced a virtual seminar series starting on July 20th.

We are really happy to welcome Dr. Barbara Verfürth in our team on a junior research group leader position. As a highly motivated researcher she received a price for her thesis at WWU Münster 2018 and the Dr.-Klaus-Körper-Preis of the GAMM in 2019.

The DFG tries everything that nobody has a disadvantage due to the current situation. The team of the CRC is available to you via telephone, email, Skype or whatever medium, of course.

We wish you a happy new year! Great news have reached us before Christmas. The DFG accepted a proposal of us for a new project. Now we have the new project A12 started on January 1st, 2020.

We congratulate our former CRC member and colleague Katharina Schratz who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Fantastic!

We offer postdoctoral and doctoral researcher positions. Have a look into our job descriptions.

We made it. The DFG will fund our CRC (official press release of the DFG) another four years.

On April 8th and 9th will be our iRTG Workhop and from 10th to 12th there will be two minicourses.

Save the date! Thursday, Januar 31, 2019, at 14:00-16:00 in seminar room 1.067, building 20.30.

We congratulate our CRC member Axel Loewe to the third place of his dissertation within the scope of the Gips-Schüle-Nachwuchspreis 2018.

We are seeking Postdoctoral Researchers. Look into your job advertisement.

On May 9th our visiting professor Dr. Jaroslaw Mederski will start with his lecture Nonlinear Maxwell equations – a variational approach

In the week July 23–27, 2018 our Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena will take place. Registration is closed.

We released this week PyFWI - an interactive software for the simulation of seismic waves.

Soliton frequency combs generated in optical microresonators allow to transmit data at rates of more than 50 terabits per second. 

We have an open PhD position in project B7. If you are interested have a look on our Jobs page.

On April 27-28, 2017 the workshop "Women in PDEs@Karlsruhe" will take place. Outstanding invited speakers from academia and industry will give talks. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss with them.

On Friday the 16th of September the official CRC opening event will happen.

The first CRCs annual retreat will take place from April 4-8, 2016 in Bildungshaus St. Bernhard (Rastatt).

The XXX EUPROMETA School will take place on April 11-15, 2016 at KIT and it is locally organized by Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics with members of this CRC.

Report on our CRC in the current issue (2015/4) of the lookkIT magazine.

Christine Grathwohl has been awarded the CRC prize 2015 for her outstanding Master thesis.

Joint workshop on November 17th and 18th with the group of Prof. Dr. Kurt Busch from HU Berlin with the aim of applying new methods and results on the numerics of Maxwell equations into optics and photonics simulations in Berlin.

Start of our CRC seminar with talks by Denis Bonheure and Ludwig Gauckler.

Andreas Sturm (Project A4) wins best student paper prize at the 12th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves (Waves 2015) in Karlsruhe. The paper is available here.

We have launched this new website for our Collaborative Research Centre 1173 funded by DFG.