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Chemnitz FE Symposium 2026:   Program

Monday, September 7, 2026
09:00 Opening
CFD
Chair: Fleurianne Bertrand
09:05 Gianluigi Rozza Reduced order methods meet machine learning for accelerating computational fluid dynamics: focus on turbulent parametric flows
09:55 Timo Höllein Numerical simulations of wetting on biomembranes
10:20 Oliver Sander Formation of wrinkles on a coated substrate
10:45 Coffee Break
Preconditioning
Chair: Martin Stoll		 Discontinuous Galerkin
Chair: Arnd Rösch
11:15 Yue Xiang Tee Overlapping Schwarz Preconditioners for Pose Graph SLAM in Robotics Petr Knobloch On positivity preservation of HDG methods for the diffusion equation on hypergraphs
11:40 Oliver Rheinbach Overlapping Schwarz Attention Sven Beuchler High order biorthogonal functions for H(div) on simplices
12:05 Regina Bühler Surrogate-Assisted Global Sensitivity Analysis of Multilevel Block Preconditioners for Coupled Multiphysics Systems Bernhard Endtmayer An Anisotropic h-p Approach for Goal Oriented Adaptivity in Time and Space
12:30 Lunch Break
Applications
Chair: Oliver Rheinbach
13:30 Cecilia Pagliantini Dynamical approximation and sensor placement for the state estimation of conservative dynamics
14:20 Hanna Luise Gertack Modes of Mechanical Guidance of Adhesion-Independent Cell Migration
14:45 Colin Fox Efficient Mapping of Objects to FEM Mesh for Bayesian Imaging
Poster Presentation
Chair: Philipp Zilk
15:10 Hanyue Gu Conditional Rectified Flow for stochastic homogenization of materials with random non-periodic structures
15:12 Tomáš Hammerbauer Schwarz preconditioners for Discontinuous Galerkin method
15:15 Coffee Break + Poster Discussion
Stokes
Chair: Thomas Apel		 Numerical Analysis I
Chair: Max Winkler
15:45 Lukas Keller Numerical challenges and techniques for higher order temporal discretizations applied to time-dependent generalized Stokes problems Shahin Heydari A flux-corrected ALE finite element scheme for porous-media conservation laws
16:10 Gunar Matthies General postprocessing for higher order hybrid temporal discretizations applied to transient Stokes problems Benedikt Gräßle Kernel-free BEM for variable coefficients
16:35 Tobias Kaltenbacher A Space-Time Finite Element Method for the Stokes System on simplicial meshes Johannes Pfefferer Local Neural Network Corrections for Finite Element Solutions
17:00 Katharina Lorenz Numerical Analysis of a Dirichlet Boundary Control Problem for the Stokes Equation Manoj Prakash ML-Enhanced SUPG Stabilization for General Meshes
18:00 Hike around Schloßteich
18:30 Dinner in Miramar
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Modelling
Chair: Roland Herzog
09:00 Inga Berre Numerical Modeling of Flow, Energy Transfer, and Deformation in Fractured Geothermal Systems
09:50 Maximilian Kloppe Phase-Field Modeling of Complex Interfaces: From Elastic Membranes to Energy-Stable Models for Viscous Surfaces
10:15 Christos Pervolianakis A positivity preserving finite element scheme for a Keller-Segel system
10:40 Coffee Break
Uncertainty
Chair: Oliver Ernst		 Numerical Analsis II
Chair: Sven Beuchler
11:10 Helmut Harbrecht Elliptic PDEs on log-Gaussian Shapes: Sparsity and Finite Element Discretization Franziska Eickmann Construction of trace-preserving Fortin operators
11:35 Moataz Dawor Nested Stochastic and Geometric Multigrid for Matrix-Free Space-Time Stochastic Galerkin Systems Tabea Tscherpel Exactly divergence-free finite element functions and boundary approximation
12:00 Lisa Kühn Multi-Fidelity Monte Carlo Methods for Gas Dispersion Problems under Uncertain Inflow Conditions Thomas Apel Numerical treatment of Dirichlet boundary conditions in the finite element method
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Travel to Einsiedel
16:00 Einsiedel Brewery Tour + Dinner
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Curved Boundaries
Chair: Helmut Harbrecht
09:00 Rigdway Scott Curved Boundaries in Finite Elements
09:50 Yupei Xie Maximum-Norm Stability of Isoparametric Finite Element Methods for Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Curvilinear Polyhedra
10:15 Philipp Zilk Isogeometric analysis on domains with curved boundaries and polar corners
10:40 Coffee Break
Novel Discretizations
Chair: Johannes Pfefferer		 Computational Mechanics
Chair: Gundolf Haase
11:10 Antonia Stavemann Laplace-Beltrami operators non-planar polygonal meshes Ann-Sophie Schotte Robust subspace correction methods for primal plasticity
11:35 Roland Herzog Virtual element methods on non-planar polygons Yoshi Diepelt Solving small-strain crystal plasticity without evaluating a return map
12:00 Johan Marguet A ϕ-FEM approach for time-dependent domains with unfitted meshes Reza Mokhtari Causality-Aware Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Wave Equation with Hard Constraints
12:25 Closing
12:45 Lunch