Programm

Thursday February 12th 2026

09:00 - 09:10
Welcome
09:10 - 10:00
Alexander Mietke (University of Oxford)
"Active surfaces - Discontinuous phase transitions, spontaneous shape transformations and confinement-induced polarization"
10:00 - 10:30
Patrick Dondl (Uni Freiburg)
"Modeling soma-germline interactions in Drosophila oogenesis"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:50
Fridtjof Brauns (MPI PKS Dresden)
"Emergent elasticity: continuum mechanics of active tension nets"
11:50 - 12:20
Lea Happel (TU Dresden)
"Towards multi-scale models for morphogenesis"
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50
Balázs Kovács (Paderborn University) "TBA"
14:50 - 15:20
Matthias Röger (TU Dortmund)
"Variational models for biomembranes"
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee
15:50 - 16:20
Hanne Hardering (TU Dresden)
"Recent developments in geometric finite elements"
16:20 - 17:10
Discussion - scientific aspects of CRC/TR

Friday February 13th 2026

09:10 - 10:00
Pierre Haas (MPI PKS Dresden)
"Mechanics of biological surfaces"
10:00 - 10:30
Agnes Lamacz-Keymling (TU Dortmund)
"Waves in heterogeneous media: Derivation of dispersive effective models"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:50
Herbert Edelsbrunner (ISTA) "TBA"
11:50 - 12:20
Jan Sischka (TU Dresden)
"Euler characteristic transform (ETC) to compare shapes"
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Nikola Sadovek (MPI CBG Dresden) "TBA"
14:30 - 15:00
Stefan Neukamm (TU Dresden) "TBA"
15:00 - 15:30
Sören Bartels (Uni Freiburg)
"Modeling and simulation of singular elastic sheets"
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Hennes Hajduk (TU Dortmund)
"Shallow water modeling and property-preserving numerics"
16:30 - 17:20
Discussion - administrative aspects of CRC/TR
18:30 - 21:00
Dinner: Restaurant Raskolnikoff, Böhmische Straße 34

Saturday February 14th 2026

09:10 - 09:40
Markus Schmidtchen (TU Dresden)
"Excluded volume effects and anisotropic interactions in a system of hard needles"
09:40 - 10:10
Nadine Große (Uni Freiburg)
"Boundary value problems for Laplacian on stratified domains"
10:10 - 10:40
Simon Praetorius (TU Dresden)
"Surface Minkowski tensors"
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee
11:10 - 12:20
Discussion - preparation of "Beratungsgespräch" and final remarks
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch