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Dienstag, 24.03.2026, 15:00 Uhr (WIAS-405-406)
Seminar Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics
Dr. Helena Kremp, WIAS Berlin:
Overcoming the spatial order barrier for SPDEs with additive space-time white noise
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, 4. Etage, Raum: 405/406

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WIAS Berlin
Mittwoch, 15.04.2026, 11:30 Uhr (WIAS-406)
Seminar Interacting Random Systems
Willem van Zuijlen, WIAS Berlin:
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, 4. Etage, Weierstraß-Hörsaal (Raum: 406)

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Seminar Interactin Random Systems

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WIAS Berlin
Mittwoch, 15.04.2026, 14:15 Uhr (WIAS-ESH)
Berliner Oberseminar „Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Colli, Università di Pavia, Italien:
Well-posedness and optimal velocity control of a Brinkman--Cahn--Hilliard system with curvature effects
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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Diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows have attracted considerable interest due to their ability to describe complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified and energetically consistent framework. In this talk, we present joint results for a Brinkman--Cahn--Hilliard system coupling a sixth-order phase-field evolution with a Brinkman-type momentum equation with variable shear viscosity. The Cahn--Hilliard equation includes a nonconservative source term modeling mass exchange, while the momentum equation involves a forcing term that is not divergence-free. We prove the existence of weak solutions in a divergence-free variational framework and, in the case of constant mobility and shear viscosity, establish uniqueness and continuous dependence on the forcing. We also analyze the Darcy limit and obtain existence results for the corresponding reduced system. Finally, we consider an optimal control problem with distributed velocity control, prove the existence of optimal controls, show the Fréchet differentiability of the control-to-state operator, and derive first-order necessary optimality conditions via an adjoint system.

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Oberseminar “Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
WIAS Berlin
Donnerstag, 16.04.2026, 14:15 Uhr (WIAS-ESH)
Berliner Oberseminar „Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)
Prof. Dr. José A. Carrillo de la Plata, University of Oxford, GB:
Primal dual methods for Wasserstein gradient flows
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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Many nonlinear evolution equations arising in porous media flow, materials science, and collective behavior can be understood as gradient flows in the space of probability measures. In this talk, we present a new numerical framework that exploits this variational structure by combining ideas from optimal transport with modern operator splitting methods. Our approach is based on the Jordan--Kinderlehrer--Otto (JKO) scheme and the Benamou--Brenier formulation of the Wasserstein distance, which together recast the solution of certain nonlinear, nonlocal PDEs as a sequence of convex optimization problems. We show how these problems can be solved efficiently using a recent primal-dual splitting algorithm with rigorous convergence guarantees. We illustrate the method with numerical examples for nonlinear PDEs and Wasserstein geodesics. We conclude by outlining extensions to more general nonlinear mobilities and transport costs, highlighting the flexibility of the approach and its potential for a wide range of applications.

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Oberseminar “Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
WIAS Berlin
Mittwoch, 22.04.2026, 14:15 Uhr (WIAS-ESH)
Berliner Oberseminar „Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)
Ass.-Prof. Malte Kampschulte, Charles University, Tschechische Republik:
Variational methods for problems with inertia and their limits
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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For static and quasi-static problems, (iterated) minimization has long been one of the most important tools to prove existence of solutions. The main advantage of these variational approaches is that they able to deal with complicated nonlinearities and nonconvexities in a rather natural fashion, directly relying on the description of a problem in terms of its physical energy. In contrast, for dynamic problems, i.e. those involving inertia, such variational approaches so far have been much less used in practical existence proofs. The aim of this talk is to present our recent and not so recent attempts at bridging this gap, using a "time-delayed" approach which uses energetical descriptions and minimization as both a modelling approach, as well as a way of showing existence of solutions. This will be illustrated in with a number of problems from recent publications, involving solids, fluids and their interaction. Furthermore we will see how the same ideas can be used to study limit systems of parameter-dependent families of such problems in a similarly general fashion. This is based on joint works with, among others, B.Benešová, D.Breit, A.Češík, G.Gravina, M.Kružík and S.Schwarzacher.

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Oberseminar “Nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichungen” (Langenbach-Seminar)

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
WIAS Berlin
Donnerstag, 23.04.2026, 10:00 Uhr (WIAS-ESH)
Forschungsseminar Mathematische Modelle der Photonik
Lasse Ermoneit, WIAS Berlin:
Epitaxial profile optimization in Si/SiGe heterostructures: Engineering valley splitting for spin qubits
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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Forschungsseminar Mathematische Modelle der Photonik

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WIAS Berlin
Mittwoch, 27.05.2026, 11:30 Uhr (WIAS-406)
Seminar Interacting Random Systems
David Dereudre, University of Lille:
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, 4. Etage, Weierstraß-Hörsaal (Raum: 406)

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Seminar Interactin Random Systems

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WIAS Berlin
1. – 5. Juni 2026 (WIAS-ESH)
Workshop/Konferenz: ESGI 194 - The Berlin Study Group with Industry
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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WIAS Berlin
6. – 8. Juli 2026 (WIAS-ESH)
Workshop/Konferenz: Spreading Dynamics in Random Environment
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Weierstraß-Institut, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 39, 10117 Berlin, Erdgeschoss, Erhard-Schmidt-Hörsaal

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WIAS Berlin