2020

[Due to the developments regarding the spread of the corona virus in Germany, the event is cancelled. The organizer will provide the conference contributions in digital and printed form.] The major goal of the VLA4, organized by the German Association for Materials Research and Testing (DVM), is to look at advanced material mechanics and fatigue under variable amplitude loading as well as the utilization of these fundamentals to most modern applications.

[The fair is postponed to October 20- 23] The trade fair INDEX in Geneva is an international trade fair for nonwovens. About 580 exhibitors will present their latest products and services at the fair. We will be on site with a team from the department »Transport Processes« and present our expertise and research on technical textiles and nonwovens.

[SPIE Photonics Europe, which was to take place in Strasbourg from 29.03.2020 to 02.04.2020, will be replaced by a digital forum from 06.04.2020 to 10.04.2020]. With several conferences and a wide range of topics, Photonics Europe is the place for exchange and networking within the photonic research community, analogous to Photonics West in the USA. Our experts from the department »Materials Characterization and Testing« will be on site and present several talks.

[HANNOVER MESSE cannot be held this year. The reason is the increasingly critical situation due to the Covid 19 pandemic.] HANNOVER MESSE is the world's most important industrial fair. All key technologies and core areas of industry are concentrated in one place - from research and development, industrial automation and IT, subcontracting, production technologies and services to energy and mobility technologies.

[The organizer of PaintExpo has decided to postpone the world's leading trade fair for industrial painting technology to next year]. For the eighth time, PaintExpo will showcase innovations, applications, future technologies and trends covering all aspects of coating from the 21st through the 24th of April, 2020. It presents the full spectrum of international product and service offerings in the field of industrial coating technology throughout the entire value creation chain. We are on site with a booth and a team from our department »Materials Characterization and Testing«.

[Due to developments regarding the spread of the Corona virus in Germany, the event will be held virtually.]

[Control 2020 is cancelled. The next Control will take place from 04 to 07 May 2021]. The Control international trade fair for quality assurance provides suppliers and users with a technical event, that explores all pertinent aspects in theory and offers a highly practical presentation of current worldwide offerings for useful technologies, processes, products and system solutions in the field of industrial quality assurance. We are on site with experts from our department »Materials Characterization and Testing« and present our research in the field of non-destructive testing with Terahertz technology.

[The seminar cannot take place on the planned date. An alternative date in autumn 2020 or 2021 will be announced later.] Only available in German: Ziel dieses Seminar ist es, grundlegende Methoden, Verfahren und Techniken aus den Bereichen Datenanalyse und Maschinelles Lernen zu vermitteln und anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aufzuzeigen, wie diese den Fahrzeugentwicklungsprozess verbessern.

[The JEC World 2020 is cancelled. The next JEC World will take place from 9 to 11 March 2021.] JEC World in Paris is the only trade fair that unites the global composites industry. A sign of the industry's engagement on an international platform where users can find a wide range of processes, new materials and composite solutions. The trade fair will bring together a wide range of players – from materials production to user industries.

[Due to the current developments with Covid-19 the annual meeting in Würzburg was cancelled without replacement.] Content only available in German: Auf der Jahrestagung treffen sich Interessierte zum gemeinsamen Austausch zur zerstörungsfreien Materialprüfung. Organisiert wird die Veranstaltung von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Zertstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP). Unser Experte Joachim Jonuscheit aus der Abteilung »Materialcharakterisierung und -prüfung« stellt dort das Projekt »Radom-Inspektion mit Terahertz-Wellen« vor.

The Deep Learning Seminar is organized by employees from the field »Data Analysis and Machine Learning« in the department »High Performance Computing«. It is intended to give interested persons an insight into this large field of research and a deeper understanding. Everyone who wants to learn more about Deep Learning, Machine Learning or AI in general is invited. The event takes place regularly on Thursdays. This week Dr. Peter Labus, Sabine Müller and Dr. Yang Yang (allFraunhofer ITWM) will talk about their impressions from ICLR 2020 (The International Conference on Learning Representations).

[The seminar cannot take place on the planned date. An alternative date in autumn 2020 or 2021 will be announced later.] Only available in German: Bei der Entwicklung mechanisch beanspruchter Systeme spielen die im Feld auftretenden dynamischen Lasten eine zentrale Rolle. Für eine Auslegung im Hinblick auf funktionale Eigenschaften wie Festigkeit und Schwingungsverhalten ist ein gutes Verständnis der Betriebslasten entscheidend.

Control is a specialist event available to suppliers and users, which in theory sheds light on all aspects and in practice presents the current world range of usable technologies, processes, products and system solutions for industrial quality assurance. We will be on site with experts from our "Material Characterization and Testing" department and provide information on non-destructive testing with terahertz technology.

The Deep Learning Seminar is organized by employees from the field »Data Analysis and Machine Learning« in the department »High Performance Computing«. It is intended to give interested persons an insight into this large field of research and a deeper understanding. Everyone who wants to learn more about Deep Learning, Machine Learning or AI in general is invited. The event takes place regularly on Thursdays. This week Ricard Durall Lopez (Fraunhofer ITWM) will talk about »Deep Fake: The Impact of Generative Models«.

The seminar KL-Regelungstechnik (Kaiserslautern – Control Theory and Control Engineering) is organized by our department as well as several research groups of the TU Kaiserslautern. Topic of the talks in June 2020 are »Mitigation and Herd Immunity for Covid-19 Is Likely to Fail« and »Distributed Consensus Optimization Becomes Relaxed«.

[Due to the progressing corona propagation, the Day of Mathematics planned for June 6, 2020 is postponed]. Content only available in German: Der Tag der Mathematik ist eine Informationsveranstaltung des Fachbereichs Mathematik der TU Kaiserslautern, die sich in erster Linie an Schülerinnen und Schüler weiterführender Schulen aller Klassenstufen sowie begleitende Lehrkräfte und Eltern, aber auch an Studierende richtet.

[The organizers of the WCNDT have decided to postpone the conference. A final decision on the new date and venue will be announced.] The World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing is organized by the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing (KSNT) in cooperation with the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT). At the conference with accompanying exhibition, experts from the field of non-destructive testing will meet to discuss and exchange the latest research. We will be on site with our department »Materials Characterization and Testing«.

The Deep Learning Seminar is organized by employees from the field »Data Analysis and Machine Learning« in the department »High Performance Computing«. It is intended to give interested persons an insight into this large field of research and a deeper understanding. Everyone who wants to learn more about Deep Learning, Machine Learning or AI in general is invited. The event takes place regularly on Thursdays. This week Avraam Chatzimichailidis (Fraunhofer ITWM) will talk about »Natural Gradient Descent«.

Expert Sessions Projection Methodes - a weekly online seminar series with high-level academic specialists working on various industrial applications.

[The seminar cannot take place on the planned date. An alternative date in 2021 will be announced later.] The workshop will bring together high-level academic specialists in various fields (mathematics, engineering, and computer science) and scientists working on industrial applications to explore and discuss opportunities for joint projects such as publications, grant proposals and industrial consulting projects.

Expert Sessions Projection Methodes - a weekly webinar with high-level academic specialists working on various industrial applications.

[only available in German] Um den Zuverlässigkeitsnachweis von Bauteilen statistisch korrekt zu führen sind besondere Methoden der Statistik gefragt. In einem zweitägigen Kompaktseminar vermitteln wir Ihnen die notwendigen Kenntnisse, um Kernfragen souverän zu beantworten.

The Deep Learning Seminar is organized by employees from the field »Data Analysis and Machine Learning« in the department »High Performance Computing«. It is intended to give interested persons an insight into this large field of research and a deeper understanding. Everyone who wants to learn more about Deep Learning, Machine Learning or AI in general is invited. The event takes place regularly on Thursdays. This week Sharad Kakran (Fraunhofer ITWM) will talk about »Neural Architecture Search for Semantic Segmentation«.

The seminar KL-Regelungstechnik (Kaiserslautern – Control Theory and Control Engineering) is organized by our department as well as several research groups of the TU Kaiserslautern. Topics of the talks June 26, 2020 are »Control of Active Suspensions « and »Finite-time Estimation for Time Varying Systems with Delay«.

[The 5th Young Researchers Symposium is postponed until 2021. The exact date will be announced later.] Every two years, the TU-Nachwuchsring and the High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation organize a competition for young researchers with all kinds of scientific background, awarding prices with a total value of up to 6.000 € for the most exciting presentations and best posters.

In diesem Jahr ist unser Institut Gastgeber – diesmal digital. Es werden Expertinnen und Experten unserer Abteilung »Bildverarbeitung« die Fortschritte in der Bildverarbeitungsalgorithmik vorstellen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Frage, wie Lernverfahren praxistauglich und zuverlässig werden.

The Deep Learning Seminar is organized by employees from the field »Data Analysis and Machine Learning« in the department »High Performance Computing«. It is intended to give interested persons an insight into this large field of research and a deeper understanding. Everyone who wants to learn more about Deep Learning, Machine Learning or AI in general is invited. The event takes place regularly on Thursdays. This week Kalun Ho (Fraunhofer ITWM) will talk about »DCare (Distance Care)«.

[HANNOVER MESSE cannot be held this year. The reason is the increasingly critical situation due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The next HANNOVER MESSE will take place from 12 to 16 April 2021.] HANNOVER MESSE is the world's most important industrial fair. It takes place every spring at the Hannover Exhibition Grounds, the world's largest exhibition center. We present the latest results of our research together with a joint stand of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Our spin-off fleXstructures will also be present at our stand.

Das Deep Learning Seminar wird von Mitarbeitenden unseres Schwerpunktes »Datenanalyse und Maschinelles Lernen« der Abteilung »High Performance Computing« organisiert. Damit sollen Interessierte Einblicke in dieses große Forschungsgebiet und ein tieferes Verständnis erhalten. Eigenladen sind alle, die mehr über Deep Learning, Machine Learning oder auch KI allgemein erfahren möchten. Die Veranstaltung findet regelmäßig donnerstags statt. Diese Woche referiert Alexander Nikolas Breuer (Fraunhofer ITWM) zum Thema »Deep Learning in Seismic Processing: Demultiple and Trim Statics«.

The DHM2020 provides an international forum for researchers to report their latest innovations, summarize state-of-the-art in the field, as well as exchange ideas, results, and visions in all fields of digital human modeling research and applications.