Author: Johannes Walter

The conference "Women in Optimization 2024" at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was held from April 10 - 12th, 2024, as the fifth meeting in this series. About 70 female researchers from both industry and academia, doctoral candidates, and students in mathematical optimization...

According to an evaluation by Stanford University, our PIs Prof. Martin Hartmann and Prof. Matthias Thommes are among the top 2 percent of the most cited scientists worldwide. The list was published by researchers at Stanford University who evaluated the Scopus database, the largest abstract and cit...

From 6-10 November 2022, the Erlangen Collaborative Research Centre 1411 organises an International Workshop on "Optics: Simulation and Optimization". Optical properties of particulate products play a crucial role in many applications. Already the composition, size and shape of nanoparticles throug...

Polymeric additives enable homogeneous drying of dispersed particles Have you ever spilled your coffee? You may have noticed how the coffee dries into an intriguing stain with a bright centre and a dark ring encircling it. This ‘coffee ring’ forms because the liquid evaporates faster at the ...

The Particle-Based Materials Symposium 2022 Enhancing Sustainability is co-organized by CRC 1411 and will take place at FAU from 6 to 7 October 2022. Particles and particle-based materials (PBM) are everywhere and will play a crucial role to enhance sustainability of processes and products. The P...

The 2022 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium SB05 "Emergent Order and Mesoscale Structure Formation in Soft Condensed Matter", co-organized by CRC PI Prof. Nicolas Vogel, will take place in Boston, MA, USA on November 27 – December 2. The symposium will cover topics including structure formation in a variety...

As part of the ARIADNETechNat master 2022, PI Frauke Liers, Professor for Optimization under Uncertainty & Data Analysis, gave an overview of optimization problems as they appear in energy, engineering, and the Natural sciences, together with some insight into how to solve them. She sh...

In November 2021, Professor and PI Nicolas Vogel of the Institute of Particle Technology was awarded the “Lehrpreis der technischen Fakultät” (Teaching award of the Faculty of Engineering). According to the selection committee, the awards reflects the excellent student evaluations of the courses giv...

From 4-6 October 2021, the Erlangen-based Collaborative Research Centre 1411 organised an international online workshop on continuous particle synthesis and product design. Continuous particle synthesis is of key importance for the understanding and scalable fabrication of complex particulate produc...

The Erlangen Collaborative Research Centre 1411 on “Design of Particulate Products” and the EFCE Section on “Product Design and Engineering” jointly organise a satellite session on “Future Directions in Product Design and Engineering” as part of the 13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (sa...