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Battery simulation has been a focus of research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern for many years. Quality control has recently been added to this area of research. The focus here is on electrodes and their conductive properties. At the leading trade fair »Battery Show Europe« in Stuttgart, the institute will be presenting its innovations in Hall 9 at Booth B85.

From the automotive sector to production: Simulations and digital twins are crucial to many companies. highly dynamic processes often cannot be satisfactorily mapped with conventional software, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM have developed a new method that works without a rigid computational grid and is able to simulate complex processes with great time savings and thus cost-effectively. Their efforts have earned them the 2024 Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize.

Germany is facing major challenges in providing long-term inpatient care for those who need it. According to Statista, the number of people in need of care will increase by 50 percent by 2030. At the same time, the workforce is expected to decrease further over the next few years. AI-based, digital systems offer a way to tackle this challenge: In the »Care-Integrated Artificial Intelligence in the Professional Care Process« (ViKI pro) project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, together with their partners, enable specialists in the care sector to identify individual care needs and plan appropriate measures with the support of AI.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports the doctorates of young scientists with Research Training Groups. The University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM have succeeded in bringing such a Research Training Group to Kaiserslautern! The interdisciplinary program called MIMO – Mathematics of Interdisciplinary Multiobjective Optimization – offers doctoral students the opportunity to combine mathematics and engineering sciences.

The division »High Performance Computing« of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, known for its exascale-capable programming tools and the BeeGFS parallel file system, is coming to Hamburg with innovative solutions for the HPC community in the fields of parallel programming and Artificial Intelligence. At the joint booth with ThinkparQ, a Fraunhofer ITWM spin-off, the experts will be presenting various innovations from the institute at ISC High Performance Computing 2024.

Incisive events and challenging life circumstances place an enormous burden on mental health. People with a high level of resilience are better prepared for stress and strokes of fate. But can this mental resilience be learned? Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM and the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research LIR have developed the freely accessible web application »resiLIR« as part of the »APPWAG« project, which allows users to assess and train their personal resilience online.

The »Virtual Inspection Planning« team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM and the BMW Group have successfully completed a joint research project investigating the use of synthetic image data, for development of automated surface inspection. This supports the inspection process using Artificial Intelligence and the standardized detection of defects. The project used synthetic image data to develop Machine Learning methods for inspecting highly specular metal surfaces. The experts, including representatives of the Fraunhofer ITWM and BMW Group from both Munich and Steyr InnoLab, presented their findings during a workshop at the BMW Group plant in Steyr, Austria.

For three years, they have been tinkering and volunteering – and at the beginning of April, they were rewarded for their efforts. 27 pupils from Rhineland-Palatinate successfully took part in the state mathematics competition, beating 72 others. The competition concluded with the award ceremony at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM. On site, they were congratulated by Mayor Beate Kimmel, Vice President of the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) Dr. Stefan Löhrke and Prof. Dr. Ralf Korn, scientific advisor to the Fraunhofer ITWM.

The amount of data produced worldwide continues to increase. This also increases the need for efficient data processing in order to reduce energy and infrastructure costs. The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM is working on a hardware-aware NAS (Neural Architecture Search) that brings together several promising technologies. At the »Embedded World« trade fair in Nuremberg, researchers from Fraunhofer ITWM will present their work at the joint Fraunhofer booth (Hall 4, Booth 422) from April 9 to 11, 2024.

The project »Applied Quantum Computing« (AnQuC), funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government, will come to an end at the end of April 2024. The Fraunhofer ITWM's Quantum Computing working group has therefore now met with the industrial advisory board, which accompanied the project for two years, for a final summary.