Alessio Cesarano successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 15 April 2025; many congratulations!
MULTI-GRID PRIZE 2025 was awarded to Ulrich Langer for his great achievement and seminal contributions to Multi-Grid Methods by the IMG Committee at KAUST Thuwal, Saudi Arabia in February 2025; Many many congratulations to Prof. Langer!
Oliver Habrich successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 19 April 2024; many congratulations!
Vsevolod Shashkov successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 2 February 2024; many congratulations!
On February 1st 2024, Markus Schwarz officially joined our group as student assistant in the SFB F90 "Electric Machine Simulation".
Maria Heigl successfully defended her Master's Thesis on 30 October 2023; many congratulations!
On Monday, August 28, 2023, Nora Philippi defended her PhD-thesis entitled "Asymptotic Analysis and Numerical Approximation of some Partial Differential Equations on Networks" with distinction. Congratulations Dr. Philippi!
Andreas Schafelner joined our Institute starting with 1 February 2023.
Felix Engertsberger joined our Institute as student assistant, Michael Winkler joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM, both starting with 1 January 2023.
Research Seminar, April 15, 2025: Benedikt Oppeneiger (TU Ilmenau) speaks about "Spatial decay of perturbations in optimal control of general evolution equations".
Research Seminar, April 8, 2025: Gabriele Dürnberger speaks about "Numerical Methods for obstacle problems".
Research Seminar, April 1, 2025: Felix Engertsberger has his PhD Colloquium.
Research Seminar, April 1, 2025: Michael Winkler has his PhD Colloquium.
Methods Seminar, March 6, 2025: Felix Engertsberger speaks about "Reduced basis methods for the simulation of electric machines".
Research Seminar, January 28, 2025: Fatima Hasanova speaks about "Multigrid methods for the biharmonic equation in multipatch IGA (Computational aspects)".
Research Seminar, January 21, 2025: Nepomuk Krenn speaks about "Robust design optimization by the topological derivative".
Research Seminar, January 14, 2025: Eva-Maria Haslhofer speaks about "Reduced Basis Method for Heat Transfer in Electric Machine Simulation" and Phillip Baumann speaks about "The Topological State Derivative".
Research Seminar, December 17, 2024: Simon Prieur speaks about "The deflation method with topological derivative" and Stéphane Gaydier speaks about "shape and topology optimization".
Research Seminar, December 10, 2024: Stefan Tyoler speaks about "IETI-DP Solvers for Continuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis on multi-patch domains with non-matching interfaces" and Gabriele Dürnberger speaks about "Numerical Methods for obstacle and contact problems".
Research Seminar, November 26, 2024: Theodore Cherriere speaks about "Sizing and free-shape optimization of an inductance with a complex AC loss model".
Johannes Kepler Symposium: Sumaia Saad-Eddin (JKU) speaks about "Asymptotic Properties of Zeta-Functions, Constrained k-Primes, and Arithmetic Functions", 11 September 2024 in room S2 053.
Research Seminar, October 8, 2024: Florian Oberender speaks about "Density matrix reconstruction in ultrafast free electron optics".
Research Seminar, June 18, 2024: Stefan Takacs (NuMa) speaks about "A preconditioner for Isogeometric Analysis for a parabolic optimal control problem in primal formulation".
Research Seminar, June 4, 2024: Andreas Schafelner (NuMa) speaks about "Parallel multiple goal-oriented adaptive space-time nite element methods for quasi-linear parabolic evolution equations".
Research Seminar, May 28, 2024: Theodore Cherriere (RICAM) speaks about "On multi-material topology optimization of electrical machines".
Research Seminar, May 7, 2024: Stefan Tyoler (RICAM) speaks about "IETI-DP solver for conforming Galerkin discretizations with hanging nodes".
Research Seminar, April 23, 2024: Eva-Maria Haslhofer (NuMa) speaks about "Parameter estimation in lumped-parameter thermal networks" and Markus Schwarz (NuMa) speaks about "Modeling and Simulation of Anisotropic Magnetic Materials".
Research Seminar, April 16, 2024: Alessio Cesarano (RICAM) speaks about "Tracing pareto-optimal points in multi-objective shape optimization
applied to electric machines".
Research Seminar, April 9, 2024: Oliver Habrich (NuMa) speaks about "Parameter identification in the Cahn-Hilliard equation".
Research Seminar, March 19, 2024: Bogdan Radu (RICAM) speaks about "A scalar potential approach for magnetostatics avoiding the coenergy".
Methods Seminar, Jan 23, 2024: Stefan Tyoler (RICAM) speaks about "Monotonicity".
Methods Seminar, Jan 16, 2024: Gabriele Dürnberger (NuMa) speaks about "Monotone multigrid for obstacle problems".
Methods Seminar, Jan 9, 2024: Felix Engertsberger (NuMa) speaks about "Semismooth Newton Method - Theory and Application".
Methods Seminar, Dec 5, 2023: Michael Winkler (RICAM) speaks about "Continuation methods: theory".
Johannes Kepler Symposium: Nov 29, 2023: Cristian-Silviu Radu (RISC) gives a talk on "Algorithms and theorems for proving identities related to modular functions".
Methods Seminar, Nov 28, 2023: Theodore Cherriere (RICAM) speaks about "Newton methods".
Research Seminar, Nov 21, 2023: Matus Benko (RICAM) speaks about "Sensitivity analysis of the solution mapping for a large class of optimization problems".
Research Seminar, Nov 7, 2023: Richard Löscher (TU Graz) speaks about "Space-Time Least Squares Methods".
Research Seminar, Oct 31, 2023: Martin Halla (Göttingen) speaks about "Eigenvalue problems and compatible approximations".
Research Seminar, Oct 16, 2023: Maria Heigl speaks about "Isogeometric Analysis for a non-linear elasticity problem".
Research Seminar, Sep 14, 2023: Johanna Beier speaks about "Derivation and simulation of thermoelastic Kirchhoff plates" .
Research Seminar, July 25, 2023: Nora Philippi presented her results on "Asymptotic analysis and numerical approximation of some partial differential equations on networks".
Annual Meeting of the SFB F90 CREATOR, July 11-14, 2023, Seeheim-Jugenheim.
Research Seminar, July 10, 2023: Jarle Sogn (Oslo), "Preconditioning and fast diagonalization of a parabolic PDE-constrained optimization problem using IgA".
Research Seminar, June 27, 2023: Michael Winkler talks "On finding multiple stationary points of nonconvex, box-constrained optimization problems" and Maria Heigl presents her work on "Isogeometric Analysis for a non-linear elasticity problem".
Research Seminar, June 20, 2023: Bogdan Radu speaks about "A mixed finite element method for 2D nonlinear magnetostatics".
Research Seminar, June 13, 2023: Monika Wolfmayr (Jyväskylä) talks about "A posteriori error estimation for time-periodic eddy current problems".
Research Seminar, June 6, 2023: Franz Scharnreitner presents his preliminary results "On energy based vector-hysteresis models" and Eva-Maria Haslhofer reports about her progress on "Parameter estimation in lumped-parameter thermal networks (LPTNs)".
Theresa Köfler successfully defended her Master's Thesis on 5 June 2023.
Research Seminar, May 23, 2023: Massimiliano Leoni (RICAM) speaks about "Modelling and numerical simulation of Veno-Venous Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VV-ECMO)".
MSc-Defense, May 17, 2023: Felix Engertsberger presents his Master's Thesis "The Scalar Potential Approach in Nonlinear Magnetostatics".
Research Seminar, May 09, 2023: Argyrios Petras (RICAM) reveals his expertise in the "Computational assessment of High Power Short Duration (HPSD) protocols in cardiac radiofrequency ablation".
Research Seminar,May, 02, 2023: Andreas Schafelner talks about "Multigrid in Time for Time-Periodic Parabolic Evolution Problems".
Dissertation Colloquium, May 02, 2023: Stefan Tyoler presents "Efficient computation of a spline basis for adaptive multipatch discretizations".
Research Seminar, April 18, 2023: Astrid Pechstein (JKU) shares her expertise about "Joint finite element models for structures and continua at large deformations".
Research Seminar, March 14, 2023: Alex Ferrer (Universtiat Politècnica de Catalunya) presents his insight on "Structural optimization: past and recent advances".
Annual Meeting of the SFB F90 CREATOR, November 29-December 1st, 2022, online.
Michael Mandlmayr successfully defended his PhD thesis on 5 October 2022.
Eva-Maria Haslhofer joined our Institute as student assistant, Marvin Fritz joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM, both starting with 1 October 2022.
Clemens Hofreither successfully defended his habilitation thesis on 26 June 2020.
Stefan Takacs successfully defended his habilitation thesis on 19 June 2020.
The project "Optimality and Stability in Optimization" (P 32832-N), proposed by Matúš Benko, was approved by the FWF in September 2019. Host institution is the University of Vienna.
Svetoslav Nakov successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11 July 2019.
Peter Gangl received the Richard C. DiPrima Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2018 in Portland, USA, and the Anile prize of the ECMI at the ECMI meeting 2018 in Budapest, Hungeria, both for his PhD thesis.
Peter Gangl received Studienpreis of the ÖMG in 2017.
The project "Fast Multigrid Solvers for Advanced Discretization Techniques in Isogeometric Analysis", proposed by Clemens Hofreither, was approved within the second LIT call of the JKU.
Peter Gangl gave an invited talk (video) at the Special Workshop "Frontiers in PDE-constrained Optimization" in Minneapolis, USA.
The Project "Regularity and stability of generalized equations" (P 29190), proposed by Helmut Gfrerer, was approved by the FWF.
Peter Gangl presented topology optimization of a colander on the Science Slam 2016 (video).
SIAM publishes "nugget" article about paper "Shape Optimization of an Electric Motor subject to Nonlinear Magnetostatics" that was authored by Peter Gangl, Ulrich Langer, Antoine Laurain, Houcine Meftahi and Kevin Sturm.
We are looking for a POST DOC (f/m), full-time, 40h per week, in the research group "Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations" at RICAM, staring at 1 May 2022. For more information, see the call – position filled!
