Research Training Group
Energy, Entropy, and Dissipative Dynamics
Funded by
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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)
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
TBA
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
TBA
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
TBA
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
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)
Seminar WED at OFFICE-WEST
Travelling wave dynamics for periodic nonlocal-local traffic models
Claudia Nocita (University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy))
Wed, 13 May 2026 • 10:00-11:00h •
Im Süsterfeld 2 (office-west), room 415 (host: Olivia Dressen)
Weekly Seminar
Random geometry, computation and the knot type of the Salmonella genome
Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia, Athens (U.S.A.))
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 • 10:15 coffee/tea: EDDy's room 256, bldg 1953 // 10:45-11:45 talk in 008 •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Henrik Schumacher)
Weekly Seminar
Results in relativistic hydrodynamics
Ferdinand Thein (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 • 10:45-11:45h •
Pontdriesch 14, room 008 SeMath (host: Siegfried Müller)
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