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  • Preparing for the Final Round: One Week Math Camp / 2024

    Twelve Talents Wanted for the National Round of the 63rd Mathematical Olympiad in Flensburg!

    Press Release / March 18, 2024

    Die 36 Teilnehmenden des »Mathematik-Camp« 2024
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    An intensive week of learning and competition lies behind 36 mathematical talents from all over Rhineland-Palatinate. The pupils, selected from a pool of 1500 participants in the school round, took part in the mathematics camp at the »Mathematics« department of the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). For twelve of them, the motto in June is: We're going to Flensburg! The winners were announced at the graduation ceremony at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM on March 15, 2024.

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  • State Government Funds Battery Cell Research at Fraunhofer ITWM / 2024

    Digital Twin for All Process Steps in Battery Production

    Press Release / March 05, 2024

    Dr. Daniel Molter (left) explains how terahertz waves are used in the quality control of batteries.
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    Optimizing batteries, whether for e-mobility or for large storage systems, is one of the most important tasks for industry and science. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, the simulation of battery models has been part of day-to-day business for years. The Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Science and Health is now supporting a new project with just under one million euros to model the entire manufacturing process.

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  • Fraunhofer ITWM at the International Trade Fair Jec World in Paris / 2024

    Testing and Analyzing Composite Materials With Fraunhofer Expertise

    Press Release / February 29, 2024

    Many fiber-reinforced plastics are used in vehicles to save weight.
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    JEC World describes itself as the »Festival of Composites«, as composites professionals from all over the world gather under its roof in Paris every year. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern will also be there. They will be presenting testing and analysis methods for composite materials at the joint Fraunhofer stand from March 5 to 7 2024.

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  • QUIP Winter School 2024 / 2024

    From the Classical to the Quantum World

    Press Release / February 26, 2024

    QUIP Quantencomputing Ausbildung
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    As part of the Project »Quantum Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate« (QUIP), the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM and its partners organized the »QUIP International Winter School on Quantum Machine Learning / Quickstart 2024« last week. Students and young researchers from all over the world as well as industry came together to discuss the latest developments, challenges and applications in this specialized field.

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  • Fraunhofer ITWM at the E-World Energy & Water 2024 / 2024

    Saving Energy With Artificial Intelligence

    Press Release / February 07, 2024

    Condition Monitoring und Predictive Maintenance
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    The energy transition is a major challenge; the leading trade fair E-world energy & water from February 20 to 22, 2024 in Essen will show which innovative methods and technological advances are giving it momentum. The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM will be among the exhibitors with exciting projects for the energy sector.

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  • State Secretary Dr. Denis Alt Hands Over Funding Decision in Kaiserslautern / 2024

    Project Equality: Finding Defects in Interfaces Faster Thanks to Artificial Intelligence

    Press Release / January 15, 2024

    Oberflächeninspektion
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    From household items to vehicle components and medical technology – when manufacturing products, even the smallest defects need to be detected reliably and quickly, preferably automatically. In the project »eQuality«, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM are investigating how this process can be improved thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is supporting the project with 600,000 euros.

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  • Mathematics Optimizes Tours in Outpatient Care / 2024

    Shorter Journeys, More Time for Care

    Press Release / January 11, 2024

    KoGGe – Krankenpflegerin in Auto
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    If the routes are well planned, there is more time for care. A study carried out by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM together with the billing service provider ARZ Haan shows just how much potential there is for improvement in route planning.

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  • Fraunhofer ITWM Conducts Study on the Costs of Pension Insurance Products / 2023

    Prescribed Cost Information Only Shows Theoretical Extreme Cases Instead of a Realistic Picture

    Press Release / December 04, 2023

    Prof. Dr. Ralf Korn in conversation
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    A new study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM analyzes how high the effective costs of typical pension products are under realistic cost parameters. It shows that the costs resulting from calculations based on the specifications of the Federal Ministry of Finance significantly exceed the realistic costs.

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  • Fraunhofer ITWM at Foam Expo Europe in Stuttgart / 2023

    Developing Optimal Foam Components With Simulation

    Press Release / November 27, 2023

    Digitaler Zwilling: Unsere Multiskalen-Simulationskette für Schaumstoff-Komponenten
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    The Foam Expo trade fair, which takes place in Stuttgart from December 5 to 7, promises new connections and new insights. The researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern are taking the latter literally: the FOAM software enables insights into the microstructure of a wide variety of foams. The tool will be presented in Hall 1 at Booth 250.

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  • Fraunhofer ITWM auf der Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) / 2023

    The Future of High Performance Computing

    Press Release / November 03, 2023

    Supercomputing HPC 2023
    © Fraunhofer ITWM / SC Conference

    From 12 to 17 November 2023 in Denver, Colorado, everything will revolve around the topics of »High Performance Computing«, »Networking«, »Storage« and »Analysis«. The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern will be presenting the groundbreaking exascale-capable tools, the well-known parallel file system »BeeGFS«, the Fraunhofer STX processor technology and much more at booth 1563!

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