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Events

• Research Seminar, July 15, 2025: Fatima Hasanova speaks about "Multigrid methods for the biharmonic equation on multi-patch domains".

Past Events

• The Special Semester on Rigidity and Flexibility, 26 February 2024 - 17 May 2024 at RICAM.
• Special Semester on Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 23 October 2023 – 8 December 2023 at RICAM.
• Workshop on topology optimization and isogeometric analysis, 11 – 13 September 2023, co-organized by P. Gangl.
• Mini-Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Electric Machines, 3 – 4 July, 2023, organized by P. Gangl.

News

• 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.
• The project "Fast Methods for Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis" (P 33956-NBL) of Clemens Hofreither was transferred to Stefan Takacs by 1 January 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.
• The Collaborative Research Center Computational Electric Machine Laboratory (CREATOR) started on 1 March 2022.

Older news items

• Research Seminar, June 4, 2025: Martin Halla speaks about "On the redundancy of regularity splittings for wavenumber explicit hp-FEM analysis".
• Research Seminar, June 3, 2025: Alessio Cesarano (NuMa) speaks about "Minimization of eddy currents in permanent magnets of an electric machine with shape derivatives".
• May 15, 2025: RICAM Colloquium - Birthday Colloquia to celabrate Walter Zulehner's 70th Birthday
• Research Seminar, April 29, 2025: Andreas Schafelner (NuMa) speaks about "A parallel-in-time solver for nonlinear degenerate time-periodic parabolic problems".
• 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".
• Colloquium and Scientific Workshop to celebrate the 20^th Anniversary of RICAM and the 70^th Birthday of Prof. Heinz W. Engl, March 27-29, 2023, JKU and RICAM, Linz.
• 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.
• The Special Semester on Tomography Across the Scales, took place from 3 October 2022 until 3 December 2022 at RICAM.
• Josef Mergl joined our Institute starting with 15 July 2022.
• Oliver Habrich joined our Institute, Nora Philippi joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM, both starting with 1 July 2022.
• Andreas Schafelner joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM starting with 1 May 2022.
• The Austrian Numerical Analysis Days 2022 took place from 4 until 6 May 2022 at NuMa and RICAM.
• Peter Gangl and Alessio Cesarano (FWF project of Peter Gangl) joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM starting with 1 April 2022.
• Andreas Schafelner successfully defended his PhD thesis on 2 March 2022.
• Nepomuk Krenn and Bogdan Radu joined the group Computational Methods for PDEs at RICAM on 1 March 2022.
• The project "Fast Methods for Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis" (P 33956-NBL), proposed by Clemens Hofreither, was approved by the FWF in November 2020. Host institution is RICAM.
• 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.
• The 12th Workshop on Analysis and Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, co-organized by NuMa, was held in St. Wolfgang / Strobl, Austria, 1 - 5 July 2019.
• The event "Mathematik-Spitzenforschung an der JKU" was held at JKU, Linz, Austria, 10 May 2019. See also
• Peter Gangl received the Erwin Wenzl Prize 2018 for his PhD thesis from the governor of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer.
• The 4th Workshop on "Frontier Technologies for High-Dimensional Problems and Uncertainty Quantification" within the Special Semester 2018, was held at RICAM, 17 - 21 December 2018.
• Jarle Sogn successfully defended his PhD thesis on 29 November 2018.
• The 11th Workshop on Analysis and Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations was held at Särkisaari, Finland, 6 - 10 August 2018.
• Christoph Hofer successfully defended his PhD thesis on 13 July 2018.
• Katharina Rafetseder successfully defended her PhD thesis on 13 July 2018.
• The 4th Austrian HPC Meeting 2018 was held in Linz, Austria, 19 - 21 February 2018.
• The MACH-2 Opening Celebration, was held at JKU, Linz, Austria, 19 February 2018.
• 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.
• Peter Gangl received doctorate sub auspiciis in November 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.
• The NFN S117 "Geometry + Simulation" has been prolonged by FWF for further 4 years (2016 - 2020).
• Special Semester on Computational Methode in Science and Engineering took place from 10 October until 16 December 2016 at RICAM.
• In 2012, Peter Gangl received a prize of Ministry for Science and Research for his masters thesis.

  

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