Sebastian Brandstäter and Martin Frank contribute to ICCB 2025 IMCS showcases research at the XI International Conference on Computational Bioengineering held from September 8–10 at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.
A Heartfelt Welcome to Benno Schönstein The IMCS welcomes Benno Schönstein as a new member of the computer-based simulation group.
The IMCS at the 38th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium 2025 – On Tour in Mülheim an der Ruhr From September 15 to 17, the 38th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium 2025 – On Tour took place in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Successful Participation at IGA2025 in Eindhoven Our team took part in the 13th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA2025), held from September 14–17, 2025 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Institute Trip 2025 – Nature, Team Spirit, and Sporting Challenges at Spitzingsee This year’s institute trip took us to the picturesque Spitzingsee area, combining outdoor activities, nature, and collegial exchange.
Workshop on PDE Constrained Optimization in Essen From July 28 to 30, 2025, the University of Duisburg-Essen hosted the PDE Constrained Optimization workshop.
IMCS participates in an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Brain Aneurysm Research Martin Frank and Ratnadeep Pramanik contributed to the Interdisciplinary Aneurysm Science Workshop at TUM, presenting their work on mechanical modeling of contour devices.
3rd German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics From July 29 to 31, the 3rd German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics took place at the Palotti House in Freising.
Research Exchange in the Alps: IMCS at “FE ohne Schnee” 2025 Four members of our institute took part in this year’s “FE ohne Schnee” seminar in Kleinwalsertal, with two of them presenting their latest research in a uniquely informal and scenic setting.
Math Group on Tour: Presentations in Vienna and Glasgow With two scientific talks at international conferences, the Mathematics Group of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer-based Simulation once again demonstrated international visibility in the summer of 2025.
Sebastian Brandstäter Presents Biomechanics Research at ESB 2025 Sebastian Brandstäter presented his research on coupled electromechanical simulations of the human stomach at ESB 2025 congress that took place at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from July 6–9, 2025.
ICCCM 2025: International top researchers on campus of UniBw M The ICCCM 2025 conference focused on computer-aided simulation in contact mechanics. Over 100 experts from all over the world discussed the latest developments.
Exciting PhD Opportunity in Computational Science and Engineering at IMCS! Join us! We are offering a PhD/research assistant position at our institute, fully funded at TVöD E13 (100%).
CSE Colloquium Talk by Christian Weißenfels On June 25, 2025, the second lecture of the year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.
Sebastian Brandstäter participates at UNCECOMP 2025 IMCS researcher Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Brandstäter presented his latest research and co-organised a minisymposium at the UNCECOMP 2025 conference.
DSC Lab Computing Cluster Enhanced with GPU-Accelerated Nodes Our cluster, operated by the Data Science & Computing Lab at IMCS, has been upgraded with four new compute nodes, each equipped with a NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerator.
First in-person meeting of the joint AutoStent project between IMCS and TU Wien Three members of our research group traveled to Vienna to meet with our collaboration partners at TU Wien for the first in-person meeting of the joint AutoStent project.
A heartfelt welcome to Regina Bühler! IMCS welcomes Regina Bühler as a new member of the computer-based simulation work group.
IMCS contributes to the 2025 Coupled Problems conference Researchers from IMCS contributed to the XI International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering with three presentations and the organization of a minisymposium.
IMCS Visits Salzburg for the Numerical Analysis Day 2025 The IMCS is taking part in the 19th Austrian Numerical Analysis Day in the historic city of Salzburg.
New preprint on error estimates for IGA with polar parameterizations In our recent preprint, we present a new approach for locally refined isogeometric analysis (IGA) on polar domains — geometries parametrized by mappings resembling polar coordinate transformations.
New preprint on data-driven surrogate modeling of rough surface contact The new preprint presents a surrogate modeling framework for predicting the effective contact area in rough surface contact problems.
IMCS on tour at the 95th GAMM Annual Meeting in Poznań Once again this year, IMCS took part in the traditionally annual GAMM Conference. The 95th edition of the event was held from April 7 to 11, 2025, in Poznań, the capital of the Greater Poland region.
Welcome to Our New PhD Researchers We welcome Aswin Nath and Simon Völkl to our team, who started their PhD with us April.
IMCS greets a new team member IMCS greets Ratnadeep Pramanik, who joined our team as postdoctoral researcher in February.
New preprint on the software library Trilinos The new preprint describes the design of Trilinos, introduces its new organization in product areas, and highlights established and newly available features.
IMCS at IACM DTE & AICOMAS 2025 The IMCS participated in the 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering (DTE 2025) and the 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (AICOMAS 2025) conferences. The event featured insightful talks and interdisciplinary discussions.
Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Popp has been appointed Fellow of the newly founded Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance was established in 2024 with the support of the Bavarian University Conference (Universität Bayern e.V.) to bundle excellent interdisciplinary research on peace, conflict and security in Bavaria and make it internationally visible.
CSE Colloquium Talk by Karsten Urban On February 3, 2025, the first lecture of the new year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.