Latest News

Here we will inform you about the latest research topics, upcoming events and other news of the department.

Latest News

 

Press Release / 23.01.2025

E-world Energy and Water 2025

Saving energy and using it sensibly – this goal runs through many of our projects. That's why we will be at E-world Energy and Water 2025 in Essen from February 11 to 13 to present our latest developments in the context of »Using AI, Digital Twins and Smart Algorithms to Achieve a Resource-Efficient Energy Industry«.

 

News / 18.11.2024

Our Project »KIDAGO« Wins Fraunhofer Alumni Award 2024

The project »KIDAGO – Digitization of Health Data for Innovative Billing Systems« has been awarded the Fraunhofer Alumni Award »TECHNOLOGY4DEVELOPMENT«. The team, consisting of researchers from the »Image Processing« and »Financial Mathematics« departments, is being supported with a grant of 10,000 euros.

 

News / 14.11.2024

EIOPA Consultation on the Topic of »Value for Money«

EIOPA has published a consultation paper on the topic of »Value for Money«. A team from our »Financial Mathematics« department worked as a scientific partner to evaluate insurance products and thus support supervisory authorities in measuring and monitoring the benefits for customers.

 

Article / abi.de / 04.11.2024

Insights Into the Daily Work of a Statistician

In an online article, our colleague Merrin Shajan, a financial mathematician and statistician, provides insights into her daily work at the Fraunhofer ITWM. Merrin works with statistical methods: she works on models to predict interest rate developments and to evaluate complex financial products. For example, she classifies pension products on behalf of the Product Information Office for Retirement Provision gGmbH (PIA).

 

Interview / 01.08.2024

Quantum Computing: Gold-Rush Fever in Research

What will the computer of the future look like? What opportunities and risks does this technology offer? Our institute director Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel and Dr. Pascal Halffmann, research coordinator for quantum computing at the Fraunhofer ITWM, talk to Eva Fröhlich from the »Communication« team about the current state of quantum computing research at the Fraunhofer ITWM.

Our EP-KI Team Blog

Here, the EP-KI team blogs. This stands for decision support for business management processes with the help of new AI methods. Our junior research group »EP-KI: Decision Support for Business Processes using New AI Methods« works at the interface of business administration and artificial intelligence (AI). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the junior research group focuses its research on future-oriented issues and their solution by user-friendly methods.

Our AI Group team of scientists has set itself the goal of supporting current developments in digitization in public administration and SMEs. In the blog, we regularly report on our work, activities and comment on current developments.

Events

 

Karlsruhe / Conference / 25.02. – 26.02.2025

Quantum Computing and Applications

The »QBN WG QC and A« meeting discusses use cases and algorithms in quantum computing as well as the path to fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Our expert Dr. Pascal Halffmann, Research Coordinator »Quantum Computing« is on site and gives a presentation on the topic »QC Meets HPC: Quantum Algorithms With Application in Finance«.

 

Essen / Fair / 11.02. – 13.02.2025

E-world Energy and Water 2025

The fair is the central meeting point for the European energy industry. A team from our departments »System Analysis, Prognosis and Control« and »Financial Mathematics« as well as our division »High Performance Computing« are on site to present our innovative research results and solutions with a focus on the energy industry.

 

Kaiserslautern / Lecture / 16.01.2025

Quanten-Lecture: QPerfect

Experts from »QPerfect« visit our Institute in january. They give a lecture on the latest developments in the field of Quantum Computing and demonstrate a quantum simulator. In addition to employees of the institute, Fraunhofer IESE, DFKI and RPTU, interested parties from outside these organizations can also attend. 

Recurring Workshop

Federated learning makes it possible to train your own machine learning models. Our recurring workshop »Federated Learning: Decentralized Machine Learning that Ensures Data Protection« consists of several presentations on different aspects of federated learning followed by discussion rounds.

 

Current Research Topics

Our doctoral students and post-docs research and researched current topics in financial mathematics and data science.

Vacancies

Scientific Assistants / Interns

We are always looking for scientific assistants an interns as support in projects from the industry and research. Besides your interest on financial mathematical context, basic knowledge in a common programing language is requested. The remuneration is to be agreed upon.

 

Topics for Master Thesis

Do you have your own idea for a thesis? This is also possible with us. Present us your proposed topic in a speculative application so that we can assess whether it reflects our core competencies.