Research Training Group
Energy, Entropy, and Dissipative Dynamics
Funded by
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Seminar WED at OFFICE-WEST
Isothermal two-phase flows with and without phase transition
Maren Hantke (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Wed, 29 Jul 2026 • 10:45-11:45h •
Im Süsterfeld 2 (office-west), room 377 (host: Siegfried Müller)
Weekly Seminar
Computer-assisted proofs and well-posedness for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
Sam Krupa (École Normale Supérieure Paris (France))
Thu, 06 Aug 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Aleksey Sikstel)
Weekly Seminar
Energy equations and entropy preserving discontinuous Galerkin spectral methods for the approximation of shallow water moment models
J.C. (Julio) Careaga Solis (University of Groningen (The Netherlands))
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Robin Paar)
Past Events
Weekly Seminar
A posteriori error estimators for convection dominated convection-diffusion problems
Jan Giesselmann (Darmstadt University of Technology)
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Michael Herty)
Weekly Seminar
Polytopic Autoencoders as a new model order reduction approach with applications in nonlinear controller design
Jan Heiland (TU Ilmenau)
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 • 10:45-11:45h •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Michael Herty)
Weekly Seminar
Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory and topological complexity
Stephan Mescher (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Nicolas Freches)
Workshop
Young Researchers Workshop on Geometric Analysis, Singular PDEs and Numerics
Mon, 01 Jun 2026 • June 1-3, 2026 •
Im Süsterfeld 2 (office-west), room 377
Weekly Seminar
Interpolation-Based Approximation of Quantum Control Functionals from Sampled Data
Ramien Nek (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Thu, 21 May 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Maria G. Westdickenberg)
Jobs
All positions have been filled.
Open positions may be found at the institutes of
the individual PIs.
No. 2026.04
A Fenchel Theorem for the Gauss maps and uniqueness of minimizers of nonlocal curvature energies
E. Döhrer and A. Dohmen
Subject: Classical analysis and ODEs, differential geometry
No. 2026.03
MultiWave: A computational lab for adaptive numerical methods approximating hyperbolic balance laws
A. Kolb and A. Sikstel
Subject: Hyperbolic balance laws, adaptive methods, multiresolution analysis, discontinuous Galerkin, C++, MPI
No. 2026.02
Discontinuous Galerkin schemes for multi-dimensional coupled hyperbolic systems
N. Kolbe, S. Müller, and A. Sikstel
Subject: Numerical analysis
No. 2026.01
Monotone-based Numerical Schemes for Two-Dimensional Systems of Nonlocal Conservation Laws
A. Beckers and J. Friedrich
Subject: Finite-volume schemes, hyperbolic systems, nonlocal conservation laws, monotone schemes, convergence rate, error estimates
No. 2025.12
Strong Global Convergence of the Consensus-Based Optimization Algorithm
S. Bonandin, K. Riedl, and S. Veneruso
Subject: Global optimization, derivative-free optimization,metaheuristics, consensus-based optimization, strong convergence, algorithm, mean-field limit, Euler-Maruyama
No. 2025.11
Convergence of gradient flows on knotted curves
E. Döhrer and N. Freches
Subject: Sobolev gradient flow, tangent point energy, Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality, full convergence
No. 2025.10
Saddle Point Configurations for Spherical Ferromagnets
S. Gustafson, D. Meinert, and Christof Melcher
Subject: Micromagnetics, Magnetic skyrmions, Harmonic map heat flow
No. 2025.08
Iterative thresholding low-rank time integration
M. Bachmayr, M. Dolbeault, and P. Sachsenmaier
Subject: Low-rank approximation, evolution equations, quasi-optimal ranks