On December 01, 2021, Mr. Martin Frank joined the computational simulation group (Prof. Popp).

Our computing cluster operated by the Data Science & Computing Lab has been equipped with more computing power to support research projects at IMCS.

On Monday, November 15, 2021, the RISK.twin Kick-Off Workshop took place at the UniCasino in compliance with the valid Corona rules. In addition to the project strategy, first research results were discussed.

Within the framework of dtec.bw, the two universities of the Bundeswehr cooperate in research on the digitalization of bridges. To strengthen joint research and communication between the disciplines, the "Digital Bridge" doctoral student network has now been launched.

The IMCS is organizing the "35th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium on tour in Herrsching", which will take place from September 15 to 17, 2022.

We are pleased to welcome our new collaborator in the Computational Simulation group (Prof. Popp) as of October 1, 2021.

Company Outing with the IMCS team to the Schliersee and the Markus Wasmeier Museum, as well as the Slyrs distillery.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved Prof. Popp's project proposal entitled "Multi-scale algorithms and simulation methods for patient-specific optimization of endovascular interventions in cerebral aneurysms". We are looking forward to a new exciting research project at IMCS with an initial duration of three years and especially to the collaboration with our cooperation partners!

Renovation of the institute and the DSC laboratory included replacing floors, painting walls and doors, and installing new ceiling lights and blinds.

IMCS is collaborating with the Professorship of Concrete Structures to integrate sensor data and FEM models into a hybrid digital twin.

Jacopo Bonari successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Novel Interface Discretisation Methods for Contact Mechanics". Congratulations!

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Max von Danwitz in the computer-based simulation group (Prof. Popp) as of May 1, 2021.

We are pleased to welcome two new members to the computer-based simulation group at IMCS (Prof. Popp) as of April 1, 2021.

We are pleased to welcome two new staff members to the IMCS as of March 1, 2021.

Our institute is a proud partner in two recently approved research projects within the framework of the new Center for Digitalization and Technology Research of the Bundeswehr (dtec.bw).

We are pleased to welcome two new members in the computer-based simulation group at IMCS (Prof. Popp) as of February 1, 2021.

A big day for 18 students of the BAU-17 class last Wednesday, October 21, 2020: The ceremonial presentation of the Bachelor's certificates was on the agenda. Due to the ongoing Corona pandemic, the usual ceremony in the ballroom of the University Casino had to be cancelled this year, but was more than adequately replaced by the creative commitment of the student department 6/B.

The newly founded Data Science & Computing Lab (DSC Lab) will support the institute's research activities through its bundled expertise in data science and high performance computing (HPC). Moreover, the DSC Lab will operate our parallel computing clusters as well as contribute to our teaching agenda. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Mayr has been appointed as Head of Laboratory. Have a look at the new DSC Lab!

We are pleased to announce that the institute is now an official member of the interdisciplinary Research Center RISK at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Both Prof. Alexander Popp and Dr. Matthias Mayr will make scientific contributions to RISK in the coming years with research projects in the field of risk modeling and high-performance computing (HPC).

IMCS is proud to announce that Prof. Alexander Popp has been elected as one of the ten Founding Associate Editors of the brand-new Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics (JTCAM). Different to all existing scholarly journals in mechanics, JTCAM is provided provided on a so-called Fair /Diamond Open Access basis, i.e. without cost to both readers and authors.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the project proposal of Prof. Popp entitled "Combining Isogeometric Analysis (IGA), Finite Element Methods (FEM) and Embedded Mesh (EM) Coupling for Contact Problems". We are looking forward to an exciting new research project at IMCS with an initial funding duration of three years!

The article “A hybrid interface preconditioner for monolithic fluid-structure interaction solvers” has been published in Springer’s open-access journal “Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences”.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, this year's Christmas party of our institute took place in the Neubiberger room of the Uni-Casino. With homemade cookies and a Christmas menu, there was plenty of opportunity for colleagues, students and alumni to exchange ideas about an exciting and successful year in research and teaching.

Have a look at our new paper "A multi-scale FEM-BEM formulation for contact mechanics between rough surfaces" in Springer's "Computational Mechanics" journal! This publication originated from a collaboration of IMCS with the MUSAM Lab (directed by Prof. Marco Paggi, IMT Lucca).

Dr. Matthias Mayr co-organizes the minisymposium “Algorithms for coupled multi-physics problems” as part of the Young Researchers’ Minisymposia series at the GAMM Annual Meeting 2020. Contributions will revolve around the topics of modelling, discretization techniques and solution schemes — all tailored to multi-physics phenomena.

Prof. Alexander Popp, together with four colleagues from across Europe, is the main organizer of the Young Investigators Minisymposium that will take place within the joint WCCM-ECCOMAS 2020 Congress in Paris / France, 19-24 July 2020. This minisymposium is organized by young investigators (all of whom are members of the ECCOMAS Young Investigators Committee) for young investigators.

For his contribution „Mesh Tying and Contact Algorithms for Nonlinear Beam-to-Solid Interactions“, Ivo Steinbrecher, PhD candidate at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation, was awarded the „GACM Best-Poster-Award“ at the „8th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics“ in Kassel, Germany.

On Tuesday, June 25, this year's IMCS excursion took us at temperatures up to 35 degrees to the beautiful city of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The most important item on our agenda was a visit to the "Chocolaterie Amelie" in the historic Ludwigstraße, where we learned everything we could possibly know about chocolate.

The institute contributed to the European Trilinos User Group Meeting 2019, held at ETH Zurich on June 11, 2019. Dr. Matthias Mayr gave a talk on "Using Trilinos/MueLu for Scalable Multigrid Preconditioning" aiming at introducing new users to MueLu, but also at highlighting current MueLu capabilities and development activities.

The Institute actively participated in the VIII International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering on June 3-5, 2019. Dr. Matthias Mayr was appointed to the Scientific Committee of the conference. In collaboration with Prof. Guglielmo Scovazzi (Duke University) and Prof. Michael W. Gee (Technical University of Munich), he has organized an invited minisymposium entitled "Coupled Multiphysics Problems: Discretization Approaches and Solution Methods".