Aug 22, 2025
From machine learning to metamaterials: International Summer School in Dresden
Metamaterials - artificially developed structures with extraordinary properties - are seen as the key to tomorrow's technical innovations. From 25 to 29 August, the Research Training Group D³ (RTG 2868) Data-Driven Design of Resilient Metamaterials, the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS) and the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM) are organizing the summer school Perspectives in Data-Driven Materials Design: From Machine Learning to Autonomous Labs. Young researchers and students from all over the world will come together with internationally renowned experts to learn about the latest data-driven methods in materials science and discuss their application in the development of innovative materials.
The Summer School offers comprehensive, interdisciplinary insights - from the basics of machine learning and experimental characterization to alloy design and mechanical modelling. Top-class keynote speakers from Brown University, ETH Zurich, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Bauhaus University Weimar and TU Dresden will enrich the program. It will be complemented by presentations from Dresden researchers, who will give the 50 participants an overview of the diverse activities at the location as well as the aims and areas of work of the Research Training Group. Practical exercises enable a deeper understanding of the latest scientific advances.
In addition, the summer school strengthens cooperation between the participating institutions, pools their interdisciplinary expertise and helps to further increase Dresden's attractiveness for national and international students and early-career researchers.
The event is financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the Research Training Group D³ (RTG 2868) and the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.
Further information:
Prof. Dr. Markus Kästner
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Chair of Computational and Experimental Solid Mechanics
Spokesperson of the RTG 2868
+49 351 463-43065
Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology
+49 351 46331420
materials40@tu-dresden.de