General

Last week, the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, the GAMM 2020@21, was held virtually with about 1000 participants by the great organizing team from Kassel. We are deeply honored and grateful for receiving the Richard-von-Mises-Preis for outstandin...

Last week, we participated in the virtual joined World Congress of Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress, which would originally have taken place in Paris, June 2020. It was an impressive event with more than 3000 participants from more than 30 countries. The organizors did a great job in se...

A special year is coming to an end and we met online to have some Glühwein and cookies together and to get into festive mood. We may look back at an eventful and productive year, despite the circumstances. Still it has challenged all of us - in one way or another - and it was great to exchange our i...

From September 21-22, 2020, we organized the annual meeting of the GAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) expert committee "Computational Biomechanics", which was held as a hybrid workshop via Zoom and in presence. The meeting took place at Kloster Banz in the beautiful landscape...

At the end of a special semester under very special circumstances, we met at the beer garden to exchange experiences, thoughts, and ideas. Of course, we made sure to strictly follow the hygiene regulations and act responsibly to not put anyone at risk. It was great to meet in person and to share tho...

Although the famous Bergkirchweih in Erlangen had to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we had our private celebration over Zoom. The special Zoom-Background by the FAU immediately created the appropriate atmosphere and Alex definitely won the 'Costume Contest'. We had a great afternoon talking about a l...

Proud of the BRAINIACS team, who has even increased productivity during these difficult times. We try to stay home but still keep everything going. Many thanks to all members of the team fo their enthusiastic engagement. Stay healthy!

On 12th of March we had our BRAINIACS meeting under special circumstances. Despite disinfecting agent and social distancing, everyone actively presented the progress of their individual projects. We had inspiring discussions on future steps. It is great to see how all BRAINIACS members support each ...

On 14th of February, Silvia Budday was a referee at the PhD defence of Dr. Annaclaudia Montanino from the Division of Neuronic Engineering at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. Congratulations to Annaclaudia for a persuasive performance and a great thesis with the title "Definition of Axonal Injury Toleranc...

On December 13, we had our 2nd BRAINIACS meeting and Christmas party. It was a great platform to practice student seminar presentations, and to exchange our newest findings, challenges, and perspectives in a warm Christmassy atmosphere. Thanks to everyone for being such a great team and for your gr...