Autumn School of the Felix Klein Academy 2024

Once a year, the one-week fall school for scholarship holders of the Felix Klein Academy takes place at our institute. The students work together with us in groups on various projects. In addition to tasks from the Institute's working practice, the groups can also expect exciting specialist lectures and a varied leisure program.

The groups are made up of math students in various semesters at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). Their task is to translate a real-life problem into a mathematical one. They present their results in a plenary session at the end of the week. The participants were able to choose between three projects with different thematic focuses in advance:

Our Groups in the Fall School

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Group 1

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Participants of the FKZ Autumn School 2024

»The First Rule of the Park Club Is: You Don’t Say a Word About the Park Club«

Supervisor: Tobias Wolf, department »System Analysis, Prognosis and Control«

In this workshop, the group works together to develop a parking assistant for a car. First, they create a model of the vehicle in order to understand its behavior when accelerating and steering. Simulations can then be used to understand and analyze the vehicle's behavior.
Participants learn the basics of vehicle dynamics, simulation and control technology.

Group 2

»Instabilities and Nonlinear Fe Analysis: The Snap-Through Phenomenon in Flat Arches«

Supervisors: Quirin Hoesch and Tian Zhao, Division »Mathematics for Vehicle Engineering«, Fraunhofer ITWM

In this project, participants explore the fascinating world of nonlinear structural analysis by modeling and simulating the snap-through behavior of a flat arch. This phenomenon, in which a structure suddenly »snaps« from one stable to another configuration, is of great importance in engineering applications such as bridges or airplane wings. The aim is to understand the mechanisms of this instability and to investigate them using the finite element method (FEM).

Group 3

»Spread of Infectious Diseases in Contact Networks«

Supervisor: Marvin Schulte, Department »Transport Processes «, Fraunhofer ITWM

Infectious diseases (e.g. influenza, Covid-19) spread through contact between people. These can be represented in a network. By modeling this network and the infection dynamics taking place within it, it is possible to obtain information about the future course of the spread. In particular, various intervention measures can be simulated and their effectiveness predicted.

In this workshop, participants will try to create a contact network and model the spread of an infectious disease in this network. They will also analyze how intervention measures (e.g. vaccinations, contact reduction and testing and isolation strategies) can be implemented.

Leisure Program – Between Escape Room and Chemical Company

As a non-mathematical balance, the participants go in groups to an escape room where they have to solve exciting puzzles together. The scholarship holders also have the opportunity to get to know the institute better at the in-house exhibition at the Fraunhofer ITWM and to exchange ideas with researchers. At the end of the event, an excursion to BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein is also offered.

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Participants of the FKZ Autumn School 2024 in the Escape Room

Interview and Portrait in the Autumn School 2024

12.09.2023

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We spoke to Alyssa Mori, Anton Heydenreich and Leonie Kremer about their experiences at university, the Felix Klein Scholarship and this year's Autumn School.