Conference

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for applied mathematicians from universities, research laboratories and industry to exchange ideas and present the latest results.

KLAIM 2025 will focus on the topic »Coupled Problems«. This focus topic reflects the increasing complexity of today's simulation and optimization methods, where different problem levels, different scales or different physical domains and effects are connected in different ways. 

Program and Main Topics

The conference is jointly hosted and organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU).
 

The Program is Structured Along the Tracks

1. Coupling Across Scales – Multiscale Methods in the Materials Sciences

Organized in collaboration with the French-German Graduate School Mathematical Image Processing and Synthetic Microstructures for Machine Learning

2.  Coupling Across Domains – Multiphysics Simulation 

3.  Co-simulation and Control in Coupled Engineering Applications

Organized in collaboration with the ECMI Special Interest Group Math for the Digital Factory

4. Coupled Discrete and Bilevel Optimization Problems

5. Solver Coupling and High Performance Computing 

Additionally, we plan a special session on Success stories from collaboration projects with industry organized by the European Network EU-MATHS-IN.

In collaboration with the open access journal Computational Science and Engineering (editor-in-chief Peter Benner), we intend to publish a special issue containing a selection of peer-reviewed papers on KLAIM 2025.

Keynote Speakers 

• Marco Discacciati (Loughborough University) 
• Peter Gangl (RICAM Linz: Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• Johannes Gerstmayr (University Innsbruck)
• Martine Labbé (University Brussel)
• Alexander Schweitzer (University Bonn)
• Wolfgang Wall (TU München)
• Margaret Wiecek (Clemson University)
• Jan Zeman (Czech Technical University Prague)

Scientific Committee

• Gustavo (Jesus) Angulo (Mines Paris PSL University)
• Martin Arnold (University Halle)
• Annalisa Buffa (EPF Lausanne)
• Michael Burger (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Johan Carlson (Fraunhofer Chalmers Göteborg)
• Matthias Ehrhardt (University of Wuppertal)
• Claus Fieker (RPTU) 
• Simone Göttlich (University Mannheim)
• Felix Fritzen (University Stuttgart)
• Karl-Heinz Küfer (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Christian Leithäuser (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC Paris)
• René Pinnau (RPTU)
• Claudia Redenbach (RPTU)
• Stefan Ruzika (RPTU)
• Anita Schöbel (RPTU, Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Bernd Simeon (RPTU)
• Konrad Steiner (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Claudia Totzeck (University of Wuppertal)

Organizing Committee

• Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel (Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern)
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Simeon (RPTU of Kaiserslautern)