On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD), we are pleased to invite you to the 5th IAVSD Symposium on »Tyre Models for Vehicle Dynamics Analysis«. This prestigious event will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany on 25 – 26 March 2026.
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Mathematical methods of image processing and Condition Monitoring play a key role in industrial production – in our »Re(Pro)³« project we show how predictive models help to reduce waste and optimize processes sustainably.
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The Schoonschip energy community is an association of 30 floating houses with photovoltaic systems, heat pumps and battery storage units in a side arm of the IJ canal, north of Amsterdam. What makes it special is the innovative technologies that enable the members to manage their energy supply collectively. Since 2018, for example, they have been able to maximize the use of their own energy generation by integrating the Amperix energy management system developed at the Fraunhofer ITWM and thus jointly reduce the amount of energy they still need to purchase.
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How can AI research effectively bridge the gap to industry and drive innovation in practice? In Rhineland-Palatinate, a dedicated initiative is tackling this challenge: the Ministry of Science, Further Education and Culture launched a program featuring »AI Pilots« (in German »KI-Lotsin«) to connect expertise with real-world applications.
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Quantum Science has developed rapidly in recent years, and technologies such as Quantum Sensors and Quantum Computing have the potential to fundamentally change our digital lives. To establish a strong center for Quantum Science in Europe, the »INTERREG« project »UpQuantVal« was launched this year. This pioneering project brings together institutions from Germany, France and Switzerland, including players from the fields of research, business and politics.
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Announcement of the International Conference on Highly Flexible Slender Structures (HFSS) 2025.
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Happy Easter from Kaiserslautern! Why is Easter NOW and why is it on a different date every year? There’s mathematics behind it: For a long time, it took a lot of effort to calculate. Astronomers had to calculate the phases of the moon in advance and scholars wrote entire books on how to calculate the date of Easter. The famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss found this procedure far too complicated and created a formula consisting of just a few equations – the Gaussian Easter formula. Even today, we can still use this formula, which is over two hundred years old, to calculate the date of Easter every year.
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Large battery factories are being built in many places in Europe to meet the demand for cells. As this production is very space-, energy- and time-intensive, it is important to design the production processes as efficiently as possible without negatively affecting the product properties of the battery cells. This is where our researchers at the Fraunhofer ITWM provide support with physical simulation models for specific process steps.
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The district heating of the future as a central component of a sustainable energy system requires new control concepts as well as communicative approaches. With our software tool »AD-Net District Heating«, we at the Fraunhofer ITWM dynamically simulate and optimize the operation of heating networks in real time.
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With the EMMA4Drive project, our researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM are further developing the dynamic human model EMMA for use in fully or partially autonomous driving vehicles.
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