Programme
All scheduled talks and plenary sessions will be held in lecture hall W1019. Four nearby seminar rooms (W1020, W1021, W1023 and W1024) will host the breakout sessions. The foyer of Building W will serve as the catering area for lunch and coffee breaks. If you need a quiet place for a call or a meeting during the workshop, a separate room will be available for that purpose.
See Venue for maps and directions.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
| from 09:30 | Welcome reception & coffee |
| 10:00–11:15 | Welcome Address Dr. Ursula Weiß (CAAPS) Public Keynote: Do I have enough data for SciML? The math of functional identifiability Dr. Christopher Rackauckas (MIT) Session chair: Prof. Lars Mikelsons |
| 11:15–12:00 | Workshop Opening & Track Overview Prof. Michael Schlottke-Lakemper, Prof. Lars Mikelsons |
| 12:00–12:45 | Lunch break & track sign-up |
| 12:45–14:45 | Breakout Session 1 Track 1: Numerical Foundation of SciML (W1020) Track host: Dr. Tobias Thummerer Track 2: Beyond Prediction (W1021) Track host: Julius Aka Track 3: Automation and Scalability in SciML (W1023) Track hosts: Julian Trommer, Dr. Damian Boborzi Track 4: Domain Awareness and Interpretability (W1024) Track hosts: Valentin Höpfner, Benjamin Schaab |
| 14:45–15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00–15:45 | Opportunities and Challenges of SciML in the Transfer to Production Technology Prof. Philipp Lechner (University of Augsburg) Linking SciML and classical numerical methods through nonlinear approximation spaces Dr. Victor Michel-Dansac (Inria) Session chair: Andreas Hofmann |
| 15:45–17:15 | Breakout Session 2 Track 1: Numerical Foundation of SciML (W1020) Track 2: Beyond Prediction (W1021) Track 3: Automation and Scalability in SciML (W1023) Track 4: Domain Awareness and Interpretability (W1024) |
| 17:15–17:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:30–18:00 | Status Sync Andreas Hofmann |
| from 18:00 |
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
| 08:00–08:15 | Welcome reception & coffee |
| 08:15–08:30 | Opening Remarks & Day 2 Objectives Prof. Michael Schlottke-Lakemper |
| 08:30–09:15 | Improving Numerical Schemes for Hyperbolic PDEs with Machine Learning Sophia Horak (University of Cologne) From models to decisions: open questions that energy systems put to SciML and how a new European doctoral network intends to answer them. Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Tahar Mabrouk (IMT Atlantique) Session chair: Prof. Michael Schlottke-Lakemper |
| 09:15–10:15 | Breakout Session 3 Track 1: Numerical Foundation of SciML (W1020) Track 2: Beyond Prediction (W1021) Track 3: Automation and Scalability in SciML (W1023) Track 4: Domain Awareness and Interpretability (W1024) |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30–10:50 | An ML usecase in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Ioan-Daniel Crăciun (Technical University of Munich) Session chair: Prof. Lars Mikelsons |
| 10:50–12:15 | Breakout Session 4 Track 1: Numerical Foundation of SciML (W1020) Track 2: Beyond Prediction (W1021) Track 3: Automation and Scalability in SciML (W1023) Track 4: Domain Awareness and Interpretability (W1024) |
| 12:15–13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00–13:45 | Final Result Preparation Track 1: Numerical Foundation of SciML (W1020) Track 2: Beyond Prediction (W1021) Track 3: Automation and Scalability in SciML (W1023) Track 4: Domain Awareness and Interpretability (W1024) |
| 13:45–14:45 | Presentation of Breakout Findings Andreas Hofmann |
| 14:45–15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00–15:45 | Strategic Synthesis & Workshop Closing Prof. Lars Mikelsons, Prof. Michael Schlottke-Lakemper |
Session types
The programme combines an invited keynote, contributed presentations, and collaborative breakout sessions:
- The Keynote fills a 60-minute slot — a speaker introduction, a 45-minute presentation and time for questions — and sets the stage for the workshop.
- Presentations are contributed talks of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.
- Breakout sessions are the core of the workshop. They run in four parallel tracks, one per research direction, with the goal of critically assessing progress since the original priority research directions and identifying open challenges. The track overview introduces the four tracks, and participants sign up for the track they would like to join.
- Presentation of breakout findings brings the groups back together to report their results to all participants.
- Organisational and collaborative slots — track overview, track sign-up, status sync, final result preparation, and the evening event — are used to coordinate between the groups and to prepare the joint outcome of the workshop.
The findings collected during the breakout sessions form the basis of the joint scientific article that will be prepared after the workshop.