On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, the Christmas party of our institute took place in the "Kaminzimmer" of the Uni-Casino Neubiberg. With homemade cookies and a Christmas menu, all our colleagues reviewed an exciting and very successful year...

The purchase and commissioning of the institute's brand new DELTA Intel Xeon Cluster for high-performance computing is progressing in big steps - and we are all very excited about that! On Thursday, November 29, the rack itself and the water-cooling unit have been delivered...

Our recent research article "Biorthogonal splines for optimal weak patch coupling in isogeometric analysis with applications to finite deformation elasticity" has been accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering...

IMCS researchers visited the Multi-scale Analysis of Materials Group (MUSAM) directed by Prof. Paggi (IMT Lucca) for our collaborative research on multi-scale modelling of contact phenomena. After MUSAM researchers have visited IMCS in September 2018 to initiate the collaboration, Nora Hagmeyer and Matthias Mayr now travelled to IMT Lucca to discuss progress and achievements.

At this year's "Day of the Munich School of Engineering (MSE)" at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching on Friday, July 6, Prof. Alexander Popp was awarded the "Top Teaching Trophy (t3)" by the students of the MSE student body for the best lecture in the B.Sc. program Engineering Science in the academic year 2017/18.

At this year's Open Day of the University of the German Armed Forces Munich on Saturday, June 30, our institute was represented in the main building with an extensive range of exhibits on the topic of "Hands-on Mathematics". Our stand quickly developed into a real visitor magnet, where young and old alike ...

On June 11, 2018, Prof. Alexander Popp was awarded the O.C. Zienkiewicz Award of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) at the opening ceremony of the ECCM-ECFD Conference 2018 in Glasgow (Scotland).

The whole IMCS team congratulates Sergejs Rogovs on his successful PhD graduation! The oral examination for his dissertation entitled "Pointwise Error Estimates for Boundary Control Problems on Polygonal Domains" took place on Monday, 25 June under the chairmanship of Prof. Klaus Bogenberger. The examiners were Prof. Thomas Apel, Prof. Olaf Steinbach (TU Graz) and Prof. Dmitriy Leykekhman (University of Connecticut).

As part of the book series "CISM-Springer" of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in cooperation with Springer-Verlag, the new volume "Contact Modeling for Solids and Particles" has been published under the editorship of Prof. Alexander Popp and Prof. Peter Wriggers (Hannover).

This year's IMCS excursion took us to Sea Life Munich on Wednesday, June 20 in beautiful summer weather. After learning everything about turtles, sharks, rays and seahorses during a guided tour through the aquarium, we had a Bavarian snack ready in the saving shade of the beer garden at the "Bamberger Haus".

Prof. Apel is one of the keynote speakers at the 8th International Conference Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics: CMAM-8.

The ECCOMAS Advanced Course on Computational Structural Dynamics will take place from 4th to 8th June 2018 in Prague (Czech Republic) and gives participants an overview of the basics of modern modelling and simulation methods...

In the spring term 2018 Prof. Popp will offer the new lecture "Nonlinear FEM" in the master courses BAU and ME for the first time. The lecture provides students with an in-depth overview of nonlinear problems and their numerical solutions...

Thomas Apel, Ulrich Langer, Arnd Meyer and Olaf Steinbach edit the collection "Advanced Finite Element Methods with Applications - Proceedings of the 30th Chemnitz FEM Symposium 2017" which will be published by Springer.

Prof. Apel will hold a compact course entitled "Advanced finite element error estimates" in Graz from 23 to 27 April 2018.

At the beginning of the new year 2018 there will be some major changes at the institute. Prof. Alexander Popp (previously Technische Universität München) takes over the newly founded professorship for computer-based simulation in civil engineering...