Seminarraum 226, 2nd floor, Rechenzentrum, Hermann-Herder-Str. 10, 79104 Freiburg (map)
Participants arriving on Sunday are welcome to meet at 20:00 in Restaurant Paradies (map)
The talks will be transmitted via zoom, details will be provided via email.
Medical masks have to be worn throughout the workshop inside university buildings; speakers are excluded while giving their presentations.
| Monday | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30-10:25 | Cy Maor | Shape transitions in non-Euclidean ribbons |
| 10:25-10:50 | Stefan Neukamm | A homogenized bending theory for prestrained plates |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20-11:45 | Philipp Reiter | Simulation of impermeable curves and rods |
| 11:45-12:10 | Axel Voigt | The mathematics behind Film Forms |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:55 | Thomas Speck | Mechanical properties of plants: structural background and what can be learnt for biomimetic applications |
| 14:55-15:20 | Georg Dolzmann | Variational models for the interaction of surfactants with curvature - short time existence and properties in special cases |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50-16:45 | Andrea Bonito | Numerical Approximations of Thin Structures Undergoing Large Deformations |
| 16:45-17:10 | Ardavan Shabanian | Developing the new generation of microvalves and micropumps, utilizing high stroke bending and buckling piezoelectric actuators |
| 19:30 | Dinner | Restaurant Paradies (map) |
| Tuesday | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30-10:25 | Andreas Fery | Wrinkles in nature and technology |
| 10:25-10:50 | Philipp Tscherner | Numerical Simulation of a von-Kármán Model for Multilayer Plates |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20-11:45 | Josua Sassen | Repulsive Discrete Shells |
| 11:45-12:10 | Alexander Müller | Application of optimization on manifolds to nonlinear shell theory |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:55 | Yasmine Meroz | Understanding the mechanical interaction of plants with their environment |
| 14:55-15:20 | Matthias Wapler | Piezo bending and buckling actuators for adaptive optics |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50-16:45 | Richard D. James | Design of origami structures with curved tiles between the creases |
| 16:45-17:10 | David Padilla-Garza | Connecting energy to irregularity in pre-strained elastic sheets |
| 17:05-18:00 | Discussions | |
| 18:30-19:30 | Excursion | Botanical Garden (guided tour by FIT, map) |
| 20:00 | Dinner | Schlossbergrestaurant Dattler (map) |
| Wednesday | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30-9:55 | Olga Speck | Learning from plant leaves: the mechanical trade-off between flexural and torsional rigidity |
| 9:55-10:20 | Lucas Bouck | Numerical Approximation of a Membrane Model of Liquid Crystal Elastomers |
| 10:20-10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45-11:10 | Klaus Böhnlein | Discretization methods for harmonic maps into spheres |
| 11:10-11:35 | Steve Wolff-Vorbeck | Shape optimization in bending and torsion of inextensible rods: an approach to modeling plant stem morphology |
| 11:35-12:00 | Christian Palus | Simulating nematic liquid crystal elastomer plates |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch and end of workshop | |
