Feb 04, 2026
Workshop on Mathematics of Thin Material Structures 12.02. – 14.02.2026
Z21, room 250
Where? Zellescher Weg 21, Room Z21 / 250
When? 12.02.2026 – 14.02.2026
This workshop on Mathematics of Thin Material Structures offers a series of public lectures.
Program
Thursday February 12th 2026
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome |
| 09:10 - 10:00 |
Alexander Mietke (University of Oxford) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Patrick Dondl (Uni Freiburg) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | - - - - - - - - - - Coffee break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Fridtjof Brauns (MPI PKS Dresden) "Emergent elasticity: continuum mechanics of active tension nets" |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Lea Happel (TU Dresden) "Towards multi-scale models for morphogenesis" |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | - - - - - - - - - - Lunch break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Balázs Kovács (Paderborn University) tba. |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Matthias Röger (TU Dortmund) "Variational models for biomembranes" |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | - - - - - - - - - - Coffee break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Hanne Hardering (TU Dresden) "Recent developments in geometric finite elements" |
| 16:20 - 17:10 | Discussion - scientific aspects of CRC/TR |
Friday February 13th 2026
| 09:10 - 10:00 | Pierre Haas (MPI PKS Dresden) "Mechanics of biological surfaces" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Agnes Lamacz-Keymling (TU Dortmund) "Waves in heterogeneous media: Derivation of dispersive effective models" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | - - - - - - - - - - Coffee break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Herbert Edelsbrunner (ISTA) tba. |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Jan Sischka (TU Dresden) "Euler characteristic transform (ETC) to compare shapes" |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | - - - - - - - - - - Lunch break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Stefan Neukamm (TU Dresden) tba. |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Sören Bartels (Uni Freiburg) "Modeling and simulation of singular elastic sheets" |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | - - - - - - - - - - Coffee break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Hennes Hajduk (TU Dortmund) "Shallow water modeling and property-preserving numerics" |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Discussion - administrative aspects of CRC/TR |
| 18:30 - 21:00 | - - - - - - - - Workshop dinner - - - - - - - - |
Saturday February 14th 2026
| 09:10 - 09:40 | Markus Schmidtchen (TU Dresden) "Excluded volume effects and anisotropic interactions in a system of hard needles" |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Nadine Große (Uni Freiburg) "Boundary value problems for Laplacian on stratified domains" |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Simon Praetorius (TU Dresden) "Surface Minkowski tensors" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | - - - - - - - - - - Coffee break - - - - - - - - - - |
| 11:10 - 12:20 | Discussion - preparation of "Beratungsgespräch" and final remarks |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | - - - - - - - - - Closure lunch - - - - - - - - - - - |
Contact: Prof. Dr. Axel Voigt