Leibniz MMS Days 2026 - Program

Mini Workshop, March 2, 10:00 - 12:00, D1
10:00 - 12:00Dirk Peschka (WIAS Berlin)AI-assisted scientific computing Slides (abstract)
 
Registration and Snack, March 2, 12:00 - 13:10, Foyer D1
 
Plenary Session, March 2, 13:10 - 17:00, D1
13:10 - 13:30Welcome / Opening by Nicolas Hübener (Administrative Director of IHP), Christian Wenger (IHP Department Head Materials Research), Costanza Manganelli (IHP, on behalf of the Scientific Committee), and Denis Korolev (WIAS)
13:30 - 15:00  —  Chair: Denis Korolev
13:30 - 14:30Alena Kopanicakova (U Toulouse - ANITI)Keynote Lecture: Towards trustworthy use of scientific machine-learning in large scale numerical simulations (abstract)
14:30 - 15:00Shalva Amiranashvili (WIAS Berlin)Nonlinear waves and computational photonics Slides (abstract)
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00  —  Chair: Costanza Lucia Manganelli
15:30 - 16:30Bernd Witzigmann (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)Keynote Lecture: Optoelectronic chip design - beyond mainstream models (abstract)
16:30 - 17:00Ulf Gräwe (IOW Rostock-Warnemünde)How to pick a representative year (abstract)
 
Guided Tour at IHP (small groups, parallel to poster session), March 2, 17:30 - 18:30, IHP Labs / Clean Room
 
Poster Session I / Social Event, March 2, 17:30 - 20:00, Foyer D1
 
Poster Session II, March 3, 09:00 - 10:25, D1
 
Parallel Session Solids, Fluids, Light I, March 3, 10:25 - 13:45, D1
10:25 - 11:25  —  Chair: Jon Schlipf
10:25 - 10:45Nils Werner (FBH Berlin)Fast Multi-Physics Simulation for Edge-Emitting Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Slides (abstract)
10:45 - 11:05Lilli Kuen (WIAS Berlin)Numerical study of all-semiconductor PCSELs with RIT and SIT PC features (abstract)
11:05 - 11:25Zeina Amer (WIAS Berlin)Van Roosbroeck-Helmholtz model for a semiconductor laser diode: Model and analysis (abstract)
11:25 - 11:35Short Break
11:35 - 12:35  —  Chair: Inga Anita Fischer
11:35 - 11:55Mindaugas Radziunas (WIAS Berlin)Modeling and analysis of dynamics in semiconductor lasers (abstract)
11:55 - 12:15Eduard Kuhn (WIAS Berlin)Simulation of high-power diode lasers with stacked multiple active regions and tunnel junctions Slides (abstract)
12:15 - 12:35Ondrej Partl (WIAS Berlin)Computational framework for modeling, simulation, and optimization of geothermal energy production from naturally fractured reservoirs Slides (abstract)
12:35 - 13:45Lunch Break
 
Parallel Session AI, Language, Data I, March 3, 10:25 - 13:45, E1/E2
10:25 - 11:25  —  Chair: Anton Benz
10:25 - 10:45Christian Lang (IDS Mannheim)Does size matter? Integrating corpus and eye-tracking data with LLM surprisals Slides (abstract)
10:45 - 11:05Natalia Moskvina (U Autònoma de Barcelona)Cross-linguistic Language Comprehension in Large Language Models Slides (abstract)
11:05 - 11:25Janina E. Schütte (WIAS Berlin)Integration of logical tensor networks into LLMs for explainable and efficient reasoning Slides (abstract)
11:25 - 11:35Short Break
11:35 - 12:35  —  Chair: Sascha Wolfer
11:35 - 11:55Gemma Boleda (U Pompeu Fabra / ICREA, Barcelona)Syntax in Large Language Models Slides (abstract)
11:55 - 12:15Roland Mühlenbernd (ZAS Berlin)Do Large Language Models Approximate Social Meaning? Evidence from the Social Evaluation Model Slides (abstract)
12:15 - 12:35Holger Israel (TIB Hannover)FID Physik - a discipline-specific information service for physics Slides (abstract)
12:35 - 13:45Lunch Break
 
Parallel Session Solids, Fluids, Lightt II, March 3, 13:45 - 16:20, D1
13:45 - 14:45  —  Chair: Nadire Nayir
13:45 - 14:05Wolfram Miller (IKZ Berlin)Further development of EpiKMC - the julia module for kinetic Monte Carlo of thin film growth (abstract)
14:05 - 14:25Volker John (WIAS Berlin)Finite element methods respecting the discrete maximum principle for convection-diffusion problems Slides (abstract)
14:25 - 14:45Yiannis Hadjimichael (WIAS Berlin)Simulations and curvature analysis in zincblende and wurtzite nanowires bent by a one-sided stressor shell (abstract)
14:45 - 15:00Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:20  —  Chair: Hans Wenzel
15:00 - 15:20Christian Merdon (WIAS Berlin)Pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem (abstract)
15:20 - 15:40Sarah Katz (WIAS Berlin)Conditional LDDM flow matching: an application to shape uncertainty quantification of biomedical models Slides (abstract)
15:40 - 16:00Markus Kantner (WIAS Berlin)Theory of Valley Splitting in Silicon Qubits: From Stochastic Modeling to Optimal Design for Scalable Quantum Computing (abstract)
16:00 - 16:20Steven Rendon Restrepo (AIP Potsdam)An efficient spectral Poisson solver for the NIRVANA-III code: the shearing-box case with vertical vacuum boundary conditions Slides (abstract)
 
Parallel Session AI, Language, Data II, March 3, 13:45 - 16:20, E1/E2
13:45 - 14:45  —  Chair: Janina E. Schütte
13:45 - 14:15Masahiro Ryo (ZALF Müncheberg)Artificial intelligence for agricultural landscape (abstract)
14:15 - 14:45Anna Kaniowska (TROPOS Leipzig)Predicting urban air pollution time series with machine learning models Slides (abstract)
14:45 - 15:00Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:20  —  Chair: Markus Becker
15:00 - 15:20Denis Korolev (WIAS Berlin)Domain Decomposition and Hybridization of PINNs for scalable neural network computing (abstract)
15:40 - 16:00Burkhard Schmidt (WIAS Berlin)MathModDB in the MaRDI Portal: Semantic Infrastructure for Documentation of Mathematical Models -- Overview and Use Cases Slides (abstract)
16:00 - 16:20Marco Reidelbach (ZIB Berlin)MaRDMO: FAIR Documentation for Modeling and Simulation Slides (abstract)
 
3rd Leibniz MMS Science Slam, March 3, 16:45 - 18:15, D1
 
Conference Dinner (Restaurant Olympia, Große Scharnstr. 60, 15230 Frankfurt/O.), March 3, 19:15 - 21:30, tba
 
Plenary Session, March 4, 09:00 - 13:45, D1
09:00 - 10:30  —  Chair: Dirk Peschka
09:00 - 10:00Thomas Wick (Leibniz U Hannover)Keynote Lecture: Modeling, Discretization, Optimization, and Simulation of Nonstationary, Nonlinear, Coupled PDE systems and Coupled Variational Inequality Systems Slides (abstract)
10:00 - 10:30Nadire Nayir (PDI Berlin)The Art and Science of Thin Film Growth: Multiscale Modeling at the Interface of Physics, Chemistry, & Mathematics (abstract)
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:30  —  Chair: Tommaso Rizzi
11:00 - 11:30Tom Dörffel (IAP Kühlungsborn)Numerical Weather and Climate Predictions to the Edge of Space (abstract)
11:30 - 12:00Markus Becker (INP Greifswald)Towards the integration of knowledge graphs and databases for plasma physics, mathematical models and numerical algorithms Slides (abstract)
12:00 - 12:30Olga Bokareva (LIKAT Rostock)Chasing Excited States: How Simulations Reveal Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Slides (abstract)
12:30 - 12:45Final Discussion and Goodbye