Modellansatz - English episodes only

Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph. D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap wi...

This episode was recorded in March 2026. Gudrun speaks again with Nadja Klein and Moussa Kassem Sbeyti who work at the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) at KIT in Karlsruhe. As a new person in our conversation we welcome Nicolas Bianco . The research of the scientists in Nadja's MBD Lab is at the intersection of statistics and machine learning. It spans theoretical analysis, method development and...

In this episode Gudrun speaks with Nadja Klein and Moussa Kassem Sbeyti who work at the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) at KIT in Karlsruhe. Since August 2024, Nadja has been professor at KIT leading the research group Methods for Big Data (MBD) there. She is an Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, and a member of AcademiaNet , and Die Junge Akademie , among others. In 2025, Nadja was awarded the...

Gudrun talks with Polyxeni Spilioti at Aarhus university about spectral geometry . Before working in Aarhus Polyxeni was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Anton Deitmar at the University of Tübingen. She received her PhD from the University of Bonn, under the supervision of Werner Mueller after earning her Master's at the National and Technical University of Athens (Faculty of Applied Math...

One of the reasons we started this podcast in 2013 was to provide a more realistic picture of mathematics and of the way mathematicians work. On Nov. 19 2021 Gudrun talked to Stephanie Anne Salomone who is Professor and Chair in Mathematics at the University of Portland . She is also Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center and Faculty Athletic Representative at UP. She is an Associate D...

In March 2018 Gudrun had a day available in London when travelling back from the FENICS workshop in Oxford. She contacted a few people working in mathematics at the University College London (ULC) and asked for their time in order to talk about their research. In the end she brought back three episodes for the podcast. This is the second of these conversations. Gudrun talks to Marta Betcke . Marta...

This is the third of three conversation recorded during the Conference on mathematics of wave phenomena 23-27 July 2018 in Karlsruhe. Gudrun is in conversation with Anne-Sophie Bonnet-BenDhia from ENSTA in Paris about transmission properties in perturbed waveguides. The spectral theory is essential to study wave phenomena. For instance, everybody has experimented with resonating frequencies in a b...

In den nächsten Wochen bis zum 20.2.2020 möchte Anna Hein, Studentin der Wissenschaftskommunikation am KIT, eine Studie im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit über den Podcast Modellansatz durchführen. Dazu möchte sie gerne einige Interviews mit Ihnen, den Hörerinnen und Hörern des Podcast Modellansatz führen, um herauszufinden, wer den Podcast hört und wie und wofür er genutzt wird. Die Interviews werden a...

In den nächsten Wochen bis zum 20.2.2020 möchte Anna Hein, Studentin der Wissenschaftskommunikation am KIT, eine Studie im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit über den Podcast Modellansatz durchführen. Dazu möchte sie gerne einige Interviews mit Ihnen, den Hörerinnen und Hörern des Podcast Modellansatz führen, um herauszufinden, wer den Podcast hört und wie und wofür er genutzt wird. Die Interviews werden a...

Gudrun talks to Anna Geyer . Anna is Assistant professer at TU Delft in the Mathematical Physics group at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics . She is interested in the behaviour of solutions to equations which model shallow water waves. The day before (04.07.2019) Anna gave a talk at the Kick-off meeting for the second funding period of the CRC Wave phenomena at the mathematics faculty in...

Gudrun talks with Changjing Zhuge . He is a guest in the group of Lennart Hilbert and works at the College of applied sciences and the Beijing Institute for Scientific and Engineering Computing (BISEC) at the Beijing University of Technology. He is a mathematician who is interested in system biology. In some cases he studies delay differential equations or systems of ordinary differential equation...

In June 2019 Gudrun talked with Serena Carelli . Serena is member of the Research Training Group (RTG) Simet , which is based in Karlsruhe, Ulm and Offenburg . It started its work in 2017 and Gudrun is associated postdoc therein. The aim of that graduate school is to work on the better understanding of Lithium-ion batteries . For that it covers all scales, namley from micro (particles), meso (elec...

Gudrun met Magdalena Gonciarz in Dresden. They sat down in a very quiet Coffeeshop in Dreikönigskirche and talked about their experiences as scientists giving science an image. Magda started Portrait of science in 2016 with two objectives: to show that science is a process with many contributors at all carreer levels and to have a get-away from a demanding PhD-project, to express her creativity an...

Gudrun Talks to Sema Coşkun who at the moment of the conversation in 2018 is a Post Doc researcher at the University Kaiserslautern in the group of financial mathematics . She constructs models for the behaviour of energy markets. In short the conversation covers the questions How are classical markets modelled? In which way are energy markets different and need new ideas? The seminal work of Blac...

In this episode Gudrun talks with her new colleague Xian Liao . In November 2018 Xian has been appointed as Junior Professor (with tenure track) at the KIT-Faculty of Mathematics . She belongs to the Institute of Analysis and works in the group Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations . She is very much interested in Dispersive Partial Differential Equations . These equations model, e.g., the beha...

Gudrun talks to Carlos Mauricio Rojas La Rotta. They use a Skype connection since Carlos is in Berlin and Gudrun in Karlsruhe. Carlos is an electrical engineer from Colombia . His first degree is from Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá . For five years now he has been working at Schneider Electric in Berlin. In September 2018 Gudrun met Carlos at the EUREF-Campus in Berlin for discussing th...

Gudrun talks with the Scotish engineer Claire Harvey. After already having finished a Master's degree in Product design engineering at the University of Glasgow for the last two years Claire has been a student of the Energy Technologies (ENTECH) Master program. This is an international and interdisciplinary program under the label of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) inbetw...

Gudrun talks to Zaheer Ahamed about the influence of an increasing number of Electric vehicles (EV) to the electrical grid . Zaheer just finished the ENTECH Master's program. He started it with his first year at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and continued in Uppsala University for the second year. Gudrun was part of the grading process of Zaheer's master thesis "Estimating Balancing...

Gudrun talks to Jousef Murad about the computing platform SimScale . Jousef is currently studying mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and focuses on turbulence modelling and computational mechanics in his Master's studies. He first learned about the existence of SimScale early in the year 2015 and started as a FEA (finite element analysis) simulation assistant in...

In the last two semesters Gudrun has taught the courses Advanced Mathematics I and II for Mechanical Engineers. This is a mandatory lecture for the International mechanical engineering students at KIT in their first year of the Bachelor program. This program is organized by the Carl Benz School of Engineering . Beside the study courses, the school also provides common housing for students coming t...

Gudrun met the USA-based mathematician Roza Aceska from Macedonia in Turin at the Conference MicroLocal and Time-Frequency Analysis 2018 . The topic of the recorded conversation is dynamical sampling. The situation which Roza and other mathematician study is: There is a process which develops over time which in principle is well understood. In mathematical terms this means we know the equation whi...

Gudrun spent an afternoon at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MSI) in Leipzig. There she met the Colombian mathematician Eliana Maria Duarte Gelvez . Eliana is a PostDoc at the MPI MSI in the Research group in Nonlinear Algebra . Its head is Bernd Sturmfels . They started the conversation with the question: What is algebraic geometry ? It is a generalisation of what on...

Gudrun talks with Asher Zarth. He finished his Master thesis in the Lattice Boltzmann Research group at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in April 2018. Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) are an established method of computational fluid dynamics . Also, the solution of temperature-dependent problems - modeled by the Boussinesq approximation - with LBM has been done for some time. Moreover,...

Gudrun had two podcast conversations at the FEniCS18 workshop in Oxford (21.-23. March 2018). FEniCS is an open source computing platform for solving partial differential equations with Finite Element methods. This is the first of the two episodes from Oxford in 2018. Roisin Hill works at the National University of Ireland in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The university has 19.000 students...

In March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page . She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into t...