Modellansatz - English episodes only
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★ - 1 ratingOn closer inspection, we find science and especially mathematics throughout our everyday lives, from the tap to automatic speed regulation on motorways, in medical technology or on our mobile phone. What the researchers, graduates and academic teachers in Karlsruhe puzzle about, you experience firsthand in our podcast "The modeling approach".
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Spectral Geometry
June 01, 2022 11:30 - 40 minutes - 18.3 MBGudrun talks with Polyxeni Spilioti at Aarhus university about spectral geometry. Before working in Aarhus Polyxeni was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Anton Deitmar at the University of Tübingen. She received her PhD from the University of Bonn, under the supervision of Werner Mueller after earning her Master's at the National and Technical University of Athens (Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Physics). As postdoc she was also guest at the MPI for Mathematics in Bonn,...
Allyship
January 27, 2022 16:30 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBOne of the reasons we started this podcast in 2013 was to provide a more realistic picture of mathematics and of the way mathematicians work. On Nov. 19 2021 Gudrun talked to Stephanie Anne Salomone who is Professor and Chair in Mathematics at the University of Portland. She is also Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center and Faculty Athletic Representative at UP. She is an Associate Director of Project NExT, a program of the Mathematical Association of America that provides netw...
Photoacoustic Tomography
February 27, 2020 21:45 - 45 minutes - 21.3 MBIn March 2018 Gudrun had a day available in London when travelling back from the FENICS workshop in Oxford. She contacted a few people working in mathematics at the University College London (ULC) and asked for their time in order to talk about their research. In the end she brought back three episodes for the podcast. This is the second of these conversations. Gudrun talks to Marta Betcke. Marta is associate professor at the UCL Department of Computer Science, member of Centre for Inv...
Waveguides
February 06, 2020 23:45 - 31 minutes - 15.1 MBThis is the third of three conversation recorded during the Conference on mathematics of wave phenomena 23-27 July 2018 in Karlsruhe. Gudrun is in conversation with Anne-Sophie Bonnet-BenDhia from ENSTA in Paris about transmission properties in perturbed waveguides. The spectral theory is essential to study wave phenomena. For instance, everybody has experimented with resonating frequencies in a bathtube filled with water. These resonant eigenfrequencies are eigenvalues of some o...
Pattern Formation
January 16, 2020 22:00 - 30 minutes - 14.8 MBIn den nächsten Wochen bis zum 20.2.2020 möchte Anna Hein, Studentin der Wissenschaftskommunikation am KIT, eine Studie im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit über den Podcast Modellansatz durchführen. Dazu möchte sie gerne einige Interviews mit Ihnen, den Hörerinnen und Hörern des Podcast Modellansatz führen, um herauszufinden, wer den Podcast hört und wie und wofür er genutzt wird. Die Interviews werden anonymisiert und werden jeweils circa 15 Minuten in Anspruch nehmen. Für die Teilnahme an der St...
Linear Sampling
January 09, 2020 22:30 - 47 minutes - 22.8 MBIn den nächsten Wochen bis zum 20.2.2020 möchte Anna Hein, Studentin der Wissenschaftskommunikation am KIT, eine Studie im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit über den Podcast Modellansatz durchführen. Dazu möchte sie gerne einige Interviews mit Ihnen, den Hörerinnen und Hörern des Podcast Modellansatz führen, um herauszufinden, wer den Podcast hört und wie und wofür er genutzt wird. Die Interviews werden anonymisiert und werden jeweils circa 15 Minuten in Anspruch nehmen. Für die Teilnahme an der St...
Peaked Waves
October 31, 2019 23:30 - 36 minutes - 17 MBGudrun talks to Anna Geyer. Anna is Assistant professer at TU Delft in the Mathematical Physics group at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics. She is interested in the behaviour of solutions to equations which model shallow water waves. The day before (04.07.2019) Anna gave a talk at the Kick-off meeting for the second funding period of the CRC Wave phenomena at the mathematics faculty in Karlsruhe, where she discussed instability of peaked periodic waves. Therefore, Gudrun asks h...
Cancer Research
October 17, 2019 23:30 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MBGudrun talks with Changjing Zhuge. He is a guest in the group of Lennart Hilbert and works at the College of applied sciences and the Beijing Institute for Scientific and Engineering Computing (BISEC) at the Beijing University of Technology. He is a mathematician who is interested in system biology. In some cases he studies delay differential equations or systems of ordinary differential equations to characterize processes and interactions in the context of cancer research. The in...
Batteries
July 11, 2019 21:45 - 56 minutes - 26.5 MBIn June 2019 Gudrun talked with Serena Carelli. Serena is member of the Research Training Group (RTG) Simet, which is based in Karlsruhe, Ulm and Offenburg. It started its work in 2017 and Gudrun is associated postdoc therein. The aim of that graduate school is to work on the better understanding of Lithium-ion batteries. For that it covers all scales, namley from micro (particles), meso (electrodes as pairs) to macro (cell) and involves scientists from chemistry, chemical engineering, mate...
Portrait of Science
February 22, 2019 09:45 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBGudrun met Magdalena Gonciarz in Dresden. They sat down in a very quiet Coffeeshop in Dreikönigskirche and talked about their experiences as scientists giving science an image. Magda started Portrait of science in 2016 with two objectives: to show that science is a process with many contributors at all carreer levels and to have a get-away from a demanding PhD-project, to express her creativity and have tangible results. The person who pointed Gudrun in Magda's direction is Lennart Hil...
Energy Markets
December 21, 2018 15:30 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBGudrun Talks to Sema Coşkun who at the moment of the conversation in 2018 is a Post Doc researcher at the University Kaiserslautern in the group of financial mathematics. She constructs models for the behaviour of energy markets. In short the conversation covers the questions How are classical markets modelled? In which way are energy markets different and need new ideas? The seminal work of Black and Scholes (1973) established the modern financial theory. In a Black-Scholes sett...
Inno2Grid
December 06, 2018 20:30 - 35 minutes - 15.5 MBGudrun talks to Carlos Mauricio Rojas La Rotta. They use a Skype connection since Carlos is in Berlin and Gudrun in Karlsruhe. Carlos is an electrical engineer from Colombia. His first degree is from Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. For five years now he has been working at Schneider Electric in Berlin. In September 2018 Gudrun met Carlos at the EUREF-Campus in Berlin for discussing the work of Claire Harvey on her Master's thesis. The schedule on that day was very full but Gud...
Micro Grids
November 09, 2018 01:30 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBGudrun talks with the Scotish engineer Claire Harvey. After already having finished a Master's degree in Product design engineering at the University of Glasgow for the last two years Claire has been a student of the Energy Technologies (ENTECH) Master program. This is an international and interdisciplinary program under the label of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) inbetween a number of European technical universities. She spent her first year in Lisbon at Institut...
Electric Vehicles on the Grid
October 19, 2018 11:00 - 49 minutes - 20.9 MBGudrun talks to Zaheer Ahamed about the influence of an increasing number of Electric vehicles (EV) to the electrical grid. Zaheer just finished the ENTECH Master's program. He started it with his first year at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and continued in Uppsala University for the second year. Gudrun was part of the grading process of Zaheer's master thesis "Estimating Balancing Capacities of Electric Vehicles on the German and Swedish grids in 2030". The rising awarene...
SimScale
October 11, 2018 19:30 - 36 minutes - 16.3 MBGudrun talks to Jousef Murad about the computing platform SimScale. Jousef is currently studying mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and focuses on turbulence modelling and computational mechanics in his Master's studies. He first learned about the existence of SimScale early in the year 2015 and started as a FEA (finite element analysis) simulation assistant in November 2016. Meanwhile he switched to Community Management and now is Community and Academic P...
Mechanical Engineering
August 02, 2018 21:00 - 53 minutes - 22.4 MBIn the last two semesters Gudrun has taught the courses Advanced Mathematics I and II for Mechanical Engineers. This is a mandatory lecture for the International mechanical engineering students at KIT in their first year of the Bachelor program. This program is organized by the Carl Benz School of Engineering. Beside the study courses, the school also provides common housing for students coming to Karlsruhe from all over the world. The general structure and topics of the first year in Adv...
Dynamical Sampling
July 12, 2018 22:30 - 33 minutes - 16.6 MBGudrun met the USA-based mathematician Roza Aceska from Macedonia in Turin at the Conference MicroLocal and Time-Frequency Analysis 2018. The topic of the recorded conversation is dynamical sampling. The situation which Roza and other mathematician study is: There is a process which develops over time which in principle is well understood. In mathematical terms this means we know the equation which governs our model of the process or in other words we know the family of evolution operator...
Algebraic Geometry
June 28, 2018 23:59 - 51 minutes - 22.7 MBGudrun spent an afternoon at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MSI) in Leipzig. There she met the Colombian mathematician Eliana Maria Duarte Gelvez. Eliana is a PostDoc at the MPI MSI in the Research group in Nonlinear Algebra. Its head is Bernd Sturmfels. They started the conversation with the question: What is algebraic geometry? It is a generalisation of what one learns in linear algebra insofar as it studies properties of polynomials such as its roots. Bu...
Automatic Differentiation
May 24, 2018 22:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBGudrun talks with Asher Zarth. He finished his Master thesis in the Lattice Boltzmann Research group at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in April 2018. Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) are an established method of computational fluid dynamics. Also, the solution of temperature-dependent problems - modeled by the Boussinesq approximation - with LBM has been done for some time. Moreover, LBM have been used to solve optimization problems, including parameter identification, shape ...
Singular Pertubation
April 05, 2018 14:45 - 21 minutes - 10.8 MBGudrun had two podcast conversations at the FEniCS18 workshop in Oxford (21.-23. March 2018). FEniCS is an open source computing platform for solving partial differential equations with Finite Element methods. This is the first of the two episodes from Oxford in 2018. Roisin Hill works at the National University of Ireland in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The university has 19.000 students and 2.000 staff. Roisin is a PhD student in Numerical Analysis at the School of Mathematic...
Embryonic Patterns
March 29, 2018 21:30 - 51 minutes - 24.5 MBIn March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page. She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into the DNA but how the pattern develops over time is a very complicated process which we understa...
Turbulence
February 01, 2018 22:00 - 30 minutes - 14.9 MBMartina Hofmanová has been working as a professor at the University of Bielefeld since October 2017. Previously, she was a Junior Professor at TU Berlin from February 2016 onwards, and before that an Assistant Lecturer, there. She studied at the Charles University in Prague, and got her PhD in 2013 at the École normale supérieure de Cachan in Rennes. Her time in Germany started in 2013 when she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig as a postdoc. Gud...
Weather Generator
November 16, 2017 22:00 - 38 minutes - 179 MBGudrun is speaking with the portuguese engineer Bruno Pousinho. He has been a student of the Energy Technologies (ENTECH) Master program. This is an international and interdisciplinary program under the label of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) inbetween a number of European technical universities. Bruno spent his second master year at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Gudrun had the role of his supervisor at KIT while he worked on his Master's thesis ...
Advanced Mathematics
October 12, 2017 19:30 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBGudrun Thäter and Jonathan Rollin talk about their plans for the course Advanced Mathematics (taught in English) for mechanical engineers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The topics of their conversation are relevant in the mathematical education for engineers in general (though the structure of courses differs between universities). They discuss how to embrace university mathematics, how to study, what is the structure of the educational program and what topics w...
Cerebral Fluid Flow
May 25, 2017 21:30 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MBThis is one of two conversations which Gudrun Thäter recorded alongside the conference Women in PDEs which took place at our faculty in Karlsruhe on 27-28 April 2017. Marie Elisabeth Rognes was one of the seven invited speakers. Marie is Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian research laboratory Simula near Oslo. She is Head of department for Biomedical Computing there. Marie got her university education with a focus on Applied Mathematics, Mechanics and Numerical Physics as well as h...
Convolution Quadrature
May 18, 2017 21:30 - 30 minutes - 13.3 MBThis is one of two conversations which Gudrun Thäter recorded alongside the conference Women in PDEs which took place at our Department in Karlsruhe on 27-28 April 2017. Maria Lopez-Fernandez from the University La Sapienza in Rome was one of the seven invited speakers. She got her university degree at the University of Valladolid in Spain and worked as an academic researcher in Madrid and at the University of Zürich. Her field of research is numerical analyis and in particular the robu...
Rage of the Blackboard
January 19, 2017 10:30 - 42 minutes - 14 MBConstanza Rojas-Molina is a postdoc at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the University of Bonn. Gudrun Thäter met her in Bonn to talk about Constanza's blog The Rage of the Blackboard. The blog’s title makes reference to an angry blackboard, but also to the RAGE Theorem, named after the mathematical physicists D. Ruelle, W. Amrein, V. Georgescu, and V. Enss." Standing at a blackboard can be intimidating and quite a few might remember moments of anxiety when being asked to develop a...
Julia Sets
December 22, 2016 09:00 - 58 minutes - 26.4 MBPascal Kraft is a researcher at the Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and he introduces us to Julia Sets which he investigated for his Bachelors Thesis. It is natural for us to think something like this: If I take two simple things and put them together in some sense, nothing too complex should arise from that. A fascinating result of the work of mathematicians like Gaston Julia and Benoît Mandelbrot dating back to the first half ...
Homogenization
December 01, 2016 22:00 - 56 minutes - 24.9 MBAndrii Khrabustovskyi works at our faculty in the group Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and is a member of the CRC Wave phenomena: analysis and numerics. He was born in Kharkiv in the Ukraine and finished his studies as well as his PhD at the Kharkiv National University and the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He joined our faculty in 2012 as postdoc in the former Research Training Group 1294 Analysis, Simulation ...
Filters
November 03, 2016 20:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBLiliana de Luca Xavier Augusto is PhD student of chemical engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos in Brasil. She spent one year of her PhD (October 2015-2016) at the KIT in Karlsruhe to work with the group developing the software OpenLB at the Mathematical Department and the Department of Chemical Engineering. Liliana Augusto investigates filtering devices which work on a micro () and nano () level, and computes the pressure drop between in- and outlet of the filter as well as...
Crime Prevention
October 13, 2016 15:30 - 40 minutes - 22.9 MBThis is the last of four conversation Gudrun had during the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium which took place 5th – 8th April 2016 in Oxford. Andrea Bertozzi from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) held a public lecture on The Mathematics of Crime. She has been Professor of Mathematics at UCLA since 2003 and Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity (since 2012). From 1995-2004 she worked mostly at Duke University first as Associate Professor of Mathemati...
Robots
October 06, 2016 22:00 - 20 minutes - 11.7 MBThis is another conversation Gudrun had during the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium which took place 5th – 8th April 2016 in Oxford. Since 2002 Anette Hosoi has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (in Cambridge, Massachusetts). She is also a member of the Mathematical Faculty at MIT. After undergraduate education in Princeton she changed to Chicago for a Master's and her PhD in physics. Anette Hosoi wanted to do fluid dynamics even before she had any course on that t...
Banach-Tarski Paradox
June 02, 2016 23:45 - 27 minutes - 14 MBNicolas Monod teaches at the École polytechnique fédérale in Lausanne and leads the Ergodic and Geometric Group Theory group there. In May 2016 he was invited to give the Gauß lecture of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) at the Technical University in Dresden. He presented 100 Jahre Zweisamkeit – The Banach-Tarski Paradox. The morning after his lecture we met to talk about paradoxes and hidden assumptions our mind makes in struggling with geometrical representations and measures. A ...
Viscoelastic Fluids
May 05, 2016 15:00 - 21 minutes - 10.7 MBThis is the second of four conversations Gudrun had during the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium which took place 5th – 8th of April 2016 in Oxford. Helen Wilson always wanted to do maths and had imagined herself becoming a mathematician from a very young age. But after graduation she did not have any road map ready in her mind. So she applied for jobs which - due to a recession - did not exist. Today she considers herself lucky for that since she took a Master's course instead (at C...
Crop Growth
April 14, 2016 09:00 - 20 minutes - 7.93 MBThis is the first of four conversation Gudrun had during the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium which took place 5th – 8th of April 2016 in Oxford. Josie Dodd finished her Master's in Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Oceans at the University of Reading. In her PhD project she is working in the Mathematical Biology Group inside the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Reading. In this group she develops models that describe plant and canopy growth of ...
Complex Geometries
March 24, 2016 09:00 - 32 minutes - 15.7 MBSandra May works at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich and visited Karlsruhe for a talk at the CRC Wave phenomena. Her research is in numerical analysis, more specifically in numerical methods for solving PDEs. The focus is on hyperbolic PDEs and systems of conservation laws. She is both interested in theoretical aspects (such as proving stability of a certain method) and practical aspects (such as working on high-performance implementations of algorithms). Sandra May gradua...
Transparent Boundaries
December 17, 2015 07:30 - 26 minutes - 12.9 MBIf we are interested in the propagation of waves around a small region of interest, like e.g. an obstacle inside a very big ("unbounded") domain, one way to bring such problems to the computer and solve them numerically is to cut that unbounded domain to a bounded domain. But to have a well-posed problem we have to prescribe boundary conditions on the so-called artificial boundary, which are not inherent in our original problem. This is a classical problem which is not only connected to wav...
Population Models
December 10, 2015 07:30 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBHow do populations evolve? This question inspired Alberto Saldaña to his PhD thesis on Partial symmetries of solutions to nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems in bounded radial domains. He considered an extended Lotka-Volterra models which is describing the dynamics of two species such as wolves in a bounded radial domain: For each species, the model contains the diffusion of a individual beings, the birth rate , the saturation rate or concentration , and the aggressiveness rate . ...
Electrodynamics
October 29, 2015 07:30 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MBThis episode discusses the Born-Infeld model for Electromagnetodynamics. Here, the standard model are the Maxwell equations coupling the interaction of magnetic and electric field with the help of a system of partial differential equations. This is a well-understood classical system. But in this classical model, one serious drawback is that the action of a point charge (which is represented by a Dirac measure on the right-hand side) leads to an infinite energy in the electric field which phy...
Nanophotonics
October 01, 2015 07:30 - 39 minutes - 18.6 MBNanophotonics is one great path into our future since it renders possible to build e.g. absorber, emitter or amplifier on a scale of a few dozen nanometers. To use this effectively we will have to understand firstly the resonances of plasmons and secondly the interaction of electromagnetic waves with complex media. Here on the one hand we can model light as waves and describe what is happening for the different frequencies of monochromatic light waves. We have to model the evolution in air ...
Splitting Waves
July 30, 2015 07:30 - 19 minutes - 9.51 MBTo separate one single instrument from the acoustic sound of a whole orchestra- just by knowing its exact position- gives a good idea of the concept of wave splitting, the research topic of Marie Kray. Interestingly, an approach for solving this problem was found by the investigation of side-effects of absorbing boundary conditions (ABC) for time-dependent wave problems- the perfectly matched layers are an important example for ABCs. Marie Kray works in the Numerical Analysis group of Pro...
Acoustic Scattering
July 02, 2015 07:30 - 40 minutes - 19 MBProf. Francisco Sayas from the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Delaware in Newark has been visiting our faculty in June 2015. He is an expert in the simulation of scattering of transient acoustic waves. Scattering is a phenomenon in the propagation of waves. An interesting example from our everyday experience is when sound waves hit obstacles the wave field gets distorted. So, in a way, we can "hear" the obstacle. Sound waves are scalar, namely, changes in press...
Waves
May 07, 2015 07:30 - 48 minutes - 22.6 MBProf. Enrique Zuazua is a Distinguished Professor of Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) and Founding Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), which he pushed into life in 2008. He is also Professor in leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and a Humboldt Awardee at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) as well. He was invited by the PDE-group of our Faculty in Karlsruhe to join our work on Wave Phenomena for s...