Name: Free Boundary Problems 2026
Start: 2026-09-07T08:55:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Monday, 7 September 2026

10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:15
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 0 - Foyer

Registration
Registration
10:00 - 11:15
Room: DOR24/Floor EG-Room 0 - Vestibule/Entrance Hall

11:15 Plenary Talk: Welcoming and Opening
Welcoming and Opening
11:15 - 11:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
11:30 Plenary Talk: Martin Burger
Martin Burger
11:30 - 12:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

11:30 Phase Separation in Transport-Cross-Diffusion Models - Martin Burger
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Thin Material Structures: MS-11-1
MS-11-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Sharp Interface Models for Solid-State Dewetting Problems - Weizhu Bao (National University of Singapore)

14:30 Convergence of finite elements for a bulk-surface coupled free boundary problem - Yifei Li (Tuebingen University)

15:00 A Multi-Phase-Field Approach to Solid-State Dewetting of Polycrystalline Thin Films - Marco Salvalaglio (TU Dresden)

15:30 Optimal L² error analysis of a loosely coupled finite element scheme for thin-structure interactions - Buyang Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Free Boundary Problems in Data Science and Machine Learning: MS-13-1
MS-13-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 103 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Adversarial training: non-local perimeter regularization - Ryan Murray (North Carolina State University)

14:30 Decomposability and extremality properties of nonlocal perimeters and variations - José A. Iglesias (University of Twente)

15:00 Mathematical Foundations of Multiple Operator Learning - Adrien Weihs (University of California Los Angeles)

15:30 Discrete-to-continuum limits of gradient flows & discrete Sobolev inequalities - Yves van Gennip
Geometric Flows and Evolving Free Boundaries: MS-2-1
MS-2-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 2-Room 205 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 The area preserving curve shortening flow with Neumann free boundary conditions - Elena Mäder-Baumdicker (Freie Universität Berlin)

14:30 On the two-phase Mullins--Sekerka flow: Convergence and Existence - Saša Lukić (RWTH Aachen University)

15:00 De Giorgi varifold solutions to Volume Preserving Mean Curvature Flow - Andrea Poiatti (University of Parma)

15:30 Quantitative homogenization of forced geometric motions through random fields of obstacles - Jonas Ingmanns (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 0 - Foyer
16:30 Plenary Talk: Maria Giovanna Mora
Maria Giovanna Mora
16:30 - 17:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 On the Minimization of Nonlocal Interaction Energies - Maria Giovanna Mora (Università di Pavia)
17:30 Reception, Poster-Session, and Discussions
Reception, Poster-Session, and Discussions
17:30 - 18:45
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 102 - Lecture Hall
18:00 Plenary Talk: José Francisco Rodrigues
José Francisco Rodrigues
18:00 - 18:45
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

18:00 Mathematics of Free Boundaries — A Brief History - José Francisco Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
09:00 Plenary Talk: Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer
09:00 - 10:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Geometric relative energy methods for interface evolution problems and sharp-interface limits - Julian Fischer
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Foyer
10:30 Thin Material Structures: MS-11-2
MS-11-2
10:30 - 12:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 102 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Self-avoiding Fluid Deformable Surfaces - Maik Porrmann (Dresden University of Technology)

11:00 Numerical Simulation of Fluid Deformable Surfaces in Stream Function Formulation - Enno Igel (TU Dresden)

11:30 Vorticity-Homology and Variational Formulations for Navier--Stokes and Scriven Flows on Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology - Albert Chern (University of California San Diego)

12:00 Surface Beris-Edwards-Helfrich models - how local orientational order can influence global shape - Axel Voigt
Free Boundary Problems in Data Science and Machine Learning: MS-13-2
MS-13-2
10:30 - 12:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 103 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Classification of large data with phase-field models - Riccardo Cristoferi

11:00 Parametrizing Convex Sets Using A Sublinear Layer - Eloi Martinet (JMU Würzburg)

11:30 Learning the Willmore flow with lightweight neural operators - Simon Masnou (Université Lyon 1)

12:00 Medial Axis Aware Learning of Signed Distance Functions - Samuel Weidemaier
Free Boundaries in Shape Optimization: MS-5-1
MS-5-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 2-Room 205 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 $2D$-lattice models for magnetic skyrmions under confinement - Maria Stella Gelli (Università di Pisa Dipartimento di Matematica)

11:00 A De Giorgi conjecture on the regularity of cartesian minimizers of the area in 1D - Shokhrukh Kholmatov (University of Vienna)

11:30 Equilibrium shapes of liquid drops in the presence of discrete charges - Cyrill Muratov (University of Pisa)

12:00 On the shape optimization for Hartree energies - berardo ruffini (Università di Bologna)
Phase Field Methods in Real-World Applications: MS-7-1
MS-7-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Uniform higher order estimates for the sharp interface limit of a Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system - Helmut Abels (Universität Regensburg)

11:00 Homogenization of Viscoelastoplastic Flows in Randomly Perforated Domains - Fan Cheng (Freie Universität Berlin)

11:30 Long-time dynamics of a convective Cahn--Hilliard model with dynamic boundary conditions - Jonas Stange (Universität Regensburg)

12:00 Global weak solutions to a diffuse-interface model for quasi-incompressible two-phase flows with unmatched densities and singular potential - Yadong Liu (Nanjing Normal University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Free Boundaries in Active Matter: MS-12-1
MS-12-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 103 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Efficient Numerical Schemes for a Two-Phase Hydrodynamical Model of Active Liquid Crystals and Solids - Qi Wang (U of South Carolina)

14:30 Instability of microbial droplets growing on viscous substrates - Scott Weady (Flatiron Institute)

15:00 The Scalar Truesdell Time Derivative and (L²,H⁻¹)-Gradient Flows on Evolving Surfaces - Ingo Nitschke (TU Dresden - Institute of Scientific Computing)

15:30 Stability and Bifurcations in Free Boundary PDE Models of Cell Motility - Oleksii Krupchytskyi (The Pennsylvania State University)
Domain Walls and Patterns in Local and Non-local Geometric Variational Problems: MS-14-1
MS-14-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 2-Room 205 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Existence and Structure of 360 degree walls in Thin Ferromagnetic Films - Hans Knüpfer (University of Heidelberg)

14:30 Lipschitz regularity of almost-minimizers in one-phase problems with generalized Orlicz growth - Chiara Leone (University of Naples Federico II)

15:00 Magnetic domains in finite thin films - Mirco Piccinini (Politecnico di Milano)

15:30 Magnetic skyrmions beyond the conformal limit - Theresa Simon (University of Münster)
Phase Transitions and Pattern Formation: MS-8-1
MS-8-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Analysis of an Allen--Cahn system in two scale topology optimization - Robert Lasarzik (WIAS)

14:30 Stochastic phase-separation driven by transport noise - Luca Scarpa (Politecnico di Milano)

15:00 On the numerical treatment of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular potential - Stefan Metzger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

15:30 Anisotropic crystal growth on surfaces - Robert Nürnberg
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Contributed Talks: CS-1
CS-1
16:30 - 18:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 102 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 A Stokes-Reaction System with Evolving Microstructure - Michael Eden (University of Regensburg)

17:00 Nonlinear stability of self-similar shrinkers in mean curvature flow - Lauro Silini

17:30 A convergent algorithm for mean curvature flow of surfaces with Dirichlet boundary condition. - Bárbara Solange Ivaniszyn (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET))
Numerical Methods for Geometric PDEs: MS-3-1
MS-3-1
16:30 - 18:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 103 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 Boundary Shape Derivatives with Unfitted Finite Elements - Shawn Walker (Louisiana State University)

17:00 Curvature tensors for piecewise smooth metrics - Evan Gawlik (Santa Clara University)

17:30 Blow-up finite elements for tensor fields on surfaces - Yakov Berchenko-Kogan (Florida Institute of Technology)

18:00 BGN–MDR and MDR methods for mean curvature flow and surface diffusion - RONG TANG (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Free Boundaries in Shape Optimization: MS-5-2
MS-5-2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: DOR24/Floor 2-Room 205 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 Spectrum of the p−Laplacian on general open sets. - Luca Briani (Technische Universität München)

17:00 Fourth order eigenvalue problems in geometry - Maria del Mar Gonzalez Nogueras (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

17:30 Boundary regularity of a fourth-order free boundary problems. - Mickaël Nahon (Université Grenoble Alpes)

18:00 From diffuse dislocations to polygonization: a Beltrami-driven instability - Nicolas Van Goethem (Universidade de Lisboa)
Phase Field Methods in Real-World Applications: MS-7-2
MS-7-2
16:30 - 19:00
Room: DOR24/Floor 1-Room 101 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 Optimal control of a tumor growth model with hyperbolic relaxation of the chemical potential - Jürgen Sprekels (Weierstrass Institute, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany)

17:00 The Cahn–Hilliard Equation with Nonlinear Diffusion Beyond Convexity - Monica Conti

17:30 Analysis and coarsening dynamics of the Active Cahn-Hilliard equation - Abramo Agosti (University of Pavia)

18:00 Split-step algorithms for generalized gradient systems in phase-field models - RICCARDA ROSSI (Università degli studi di Brescia)

18:30 A multiphase model for saline droplets - Erica Ipocoana (Freie Universität Berlin)
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
09:00 Plenary Talk: Joaquim Serra
Joaquim Serra
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

09:00 Regularity of Stable Free Boundaries - JOAQUIM SERRA (ETH ZURICH)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
10:30 Contributed Talks: CS-2
CS-2
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 2-Room 3075 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 From fluid structure interaction towards Navier-Stokes-Vlasov - Malte Kampschulte (Charles University Prague)

11:00 Finite element analysis of a coupled Navier–Stokes flow -- linear elasticity problem - Nishant Ranwan (PhD scholar at School of Mathematics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram)

11:30 Well-posedness and Conditional Regularity for Compressible Fluid--Shell Interaction - Pierre Marie Ngougoue (University of Duisburg-Essen)

12:00 No-contact results for fluid-plate interaction - Mario Bukal (University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing)
Numerical Methods for Geometric PDEs: MS-3-2
MS-3-2
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2097 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Minimal horizontal triods - Paola Pozzi

11:00 An Onsager variational framework for Willmore flow with relaxed-MDR tangential velocity - Quan Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China)

11:30 Error analysis of a nonconforming surface finite element method for the vector Laplacian - Carolin Mehlmann

12:00 Viscoelastic two-phase flows - Dennis Trautwein (Universität Regensburg)
Hydrodynamic Models with Moving Contact Lines: MS-6-1
MS-6-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main building/Floor 1-Room 2094 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Sharp-Interface Modeling of Dynamic Wetting with a Contact-Region Generalized Navier Boundary Condition - Dieter Bothe

11:00 Dynamics of a 3d rimming-flow equation - Christina Lienstromberg (University of Stuttgart)

11:30 Strong solutions and stability for a non-Newtonian thin-film equation with a moving contact line - Katerina Nik (KAUST)

12:00 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the nonlinear degenerate PDEs describing evolution of thin viscous sheets - Georgy Kitavtsev (Middle East Technical University, Nothern Cyprus Campus)
Phase Transitions and Pattern Formation: MS-8-2
MS-8-2
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Phase-field models for growing viscoelastic solids - Ulisse Stefanelli (Unviersity of Vienna)

11:00 Discretization of Cahn--Hilliard equations with dynamic boundary conditions: error estimates and adaptivity - Nils Bullerjahn

11:30 Gradient flows of degenerate viscoelastic phase separation - Moritz Gau (WIAS Berlin)

12:00 Local Well-posedness of a Diffuse Interface Two-phase Flow Model with Surfactants - Songzhuang Chen
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Contributed Talks: CS-3
CS-3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 2-Room 3075 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Generalized BMO-type seminorms and vector-valued Sobolev functions - Konstantinos Bessas (University of Pavia)

14:30 On a stochastic phase-field model of cell motility with singular diffusion - Amjad Saef

15:00 Analysis of a Surface Crouzeix-Raviart Element for the Stokes Problem - Manisha Chowdhury (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)

15:30 The generic structure of the singular set in the Stefan problem - Giacomo Colombo (ETH Zürich)
Free Boundaries in Active Matter: MS-12-2
MS-12-2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2097 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Patterns in active nematic films - Dmitry Golovaty

14:30 Defects, geometric frustration and free boundaries in liquid crystals - Timothy Atherton (Tufts University)

15:00 Constrained active nematics - Slobodan Zumer (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)

15:30 Free boundary-value problems in the Landau-de Gennes theory for Nematic Liquid Crystals - Spindles, Tactoids and Bacterial Biofilms - APALA MAJUMDAR (University of Manchester)
Hydrodynamic Models with Moving Contact Lines: MS-6-2
MS-6-2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main building/Floor 1-Room 2094 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Generalised gradient flows for thin sliding droplets with compact support - Dirk Peschka (Weierstrass-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik)

14:30 A Phase-Field Method for Curvature Flow of Networks with Triple Junction Drag - Yuchuan Yang (University of Michigan)

15:00 Thermodynamically consistent discretization of the stochastic thin film equation - Benjamin Gess (TU Berlin & MPI MiS Leipzig)

15:30 A variational front-tracking method for multiphase flow with triple junctions - Robert Nürnberg
Phase Transitions and Pattern Formation: MS-8-3
MS-8-3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Incompressible limit and pressure jump in the Cahn-Hilliard equation - Charles Elbar (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

14:30 Global Weak Solutions to the Cahn–Hilliard Equation with Degenerate Mobility and Singular Diffusion - Andrea Giorgini (Politecnico di Milano)

15:00 A new approach to convergence to equilibrium for Cahn--Hilliard type equations with non-degenerate mobility - Andrea Poiatti (University of Parma)

15:30 Sharp Interface Limit of a 3D Navier--Stokes/Allen--Cahn system - Yadong Liu (Nanjing Normal University)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 0 - Lobby in Front of Senatssaal
16:30 Plenary Talk: Matteo Novaga
Matteo Novaga
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

16:30 The periodic Kelvin problem - Matteo Novaga (University of Pisa)
19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: S-Bahn Bogen/0-0 - Restaurant Nolle
Thursday, 10 September 2026
09:00 Plenary Talk: Senjo Shimizu
Senjo Shimizu
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Free boundary problems for the Navier-Stokes equations in scaling critical spaces - Senjo Shimizu (Kyoto University)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 0 - Lobby in Front of Senatssaal
10:30 Degenerate PDEs and Free Boundary Problems: MS-1-1
MS-1-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2097 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 An unstable parabolic problem - Mark Allen (Brigham Young University)

11:00 Multiscale Mechanisms in Elliptic Regularity - Hector Chang-Lara (Universidade de Coimbra and CIMAT)

11:30 Constraint maps: singularities vs. free boundaries - Sunghan Kim (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

12:00 A free boundary problem with non-local obstacle - Hayk Mikayelyan (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
Optimization and Free Boundaries: MS-4-1
MS-4-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main building/Floor 1-Room 2094 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Gradient Flow Dynamical System for Free Boundary Problems - Jan Sokolowski (Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:00 Proximal Point Methods for Variational Inequalities and Free Boundaries - Chenghao Dong (University of Oxford)

11:30 Can we Control the Free Boundary in the Obstacle Problem? - José Francisco Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)
Phase Field Methods in Real-World Applications: MS-7-3
MS-7-3
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 A constrained-growth problem. - Ulisse Stefanelli (Unviersity of Vienna)

11:00 Curvature-driven pattern formation in biomembranes: A gradient flow approach - Dennis Trautwein (Universität Regensburg)

11:30 Nonlocal-to-local convergence of convolution operators and its application to phase-field models - Patrik Knopf (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT))

12:00 A morphoelastic phase field model predicts buckling instability in tumor growth - Sebastian Aland (HTW Dresden & TU Freiberg)
Fluid-structure Interactions: MS-9-1
MS-9-1
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 2-Room 3075 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:30 Range failure, resolvent growth, and resonance in partially dissipative systems - Boris Muha (University of Zagreb Faculty of Science)

11:00 Finite-time contact in fluid-elastic structure interactions - Krutika Tawri (University of Washington)

11:30 Variational methods for fluid-structure interactions - Sebastian Schwarzacher
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch for Women*
Lunch for Women*
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 0/0-0 - Café Wilhelm
14:00 Degenerate PDEs and Free Boundary Problems: MS-1-2
MS-1-2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2097 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Unified A-priori Estimates for Minimizers under p,q-Growth and Exponential Growth - Cintia Pacchiano (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

14:30 Well-posedness for fully nonlinear free transmission problems - Edgard Pimentel (CMUC, University of Coimbra)

15:00 Dead core problems in the nonlocal setting - Disson dos Prazeres (Universidade Federal de Sergipe)

15:30 The degenerate quenching problem - Rafayel Teymurazyan (KAUST)
Free Boundaries in Biology: MS-10-1
MS-10-1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main building/Floor 1-Room 2094 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Local well-posedness of a model for fluidic elastic membranes - Helmut Abels (Universität Regensburg)

14:30 Asymptotic problems for the Keller-Segel system with density cut-off - Mingyue Zhang (TU Wien)

15:00 Two-phase flows with bulk-surface interaction in an evolving domain with applications to cell biology - Patrik Knopf (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT))

15:30 Curvature Driven Interface Evolution: Gradient Flow Structures and Stability - Sebastian Hensel
Phase Field Methods in Real-World Applications: MS-7-4
MS-7-4
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Well-posedness, Darcy limit, and optimal control for a Brinkman–Cahn–Hilliard phase-field system with curvature effects - Pierluigi Colli (University of Pavia)

14:30 On a Diffuse-Interface Model for Incompressible Two-Phase Flows with Chemotaxis - Andrea Giorgini (Politecnico di Milano)

15:00 Growth of active droplets by chemical reactions: Instability and splitting - Kei Fong Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University)

15:30 A phase field model of Cahn–Hilliard type for tumour growth with mechanical effects and damage - Giulia Cavalleri (WIAS)
Fluid-structure Interactions: MS-9-2
MS-9-2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 2-Room 3075 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Numerical Modeling and Analysis of Self-Propelled Motion of Deformable Bodies in Fluids - Thomas Richter (Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg)

14:30 Well-posedness theorems in fluid-structure interaction: perfectly elastic shells - Dominic Breit

15:00 New results on the asymptotics of Stokes problem with application to fluid solid problems - Matthieu Hillairet (Université de Montpellier)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 0 - Lobby in Front of Senatssaal
16:30 Plenary Talk: Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

16:30 Free boundaries on moving boundaries - Stefan-type problems on evolving surfaces - Chandrasekhar Venkataraman (University of Sussex)
17:30 Plenary Talk: Klaus Deckelnick
Klaus Deckelnick
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

17:30 Error analysis of a finite element scheme for parametric mean curvature flow - Klaus Deckelnick (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg)
Friday, 11 September 2026
09:00 Degenerate PDEs and Free Boundary Problems: MS-1-3
MS-1-3
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2097 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 On the regularity of minimizers arising from singular minimal surface-like energies - Aelson Sobral (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

09:30 A Fully Nonlinear Parabolic Segregation Problem - María Soria Carro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

10:00 Higher regularity in nonlocal free boundary problems - Marvin Weidner (University of Bonn)
Free Boundaries in Biology: MS-10-2
MS-10-2
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 2091 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 The elastica functional as the critical Gamma-limit of the screened Gamow model - Theresa Simon (University of Münster)

09:30 On a viscoelastic Mullins-Sekerka system - Jonas Haselböck (Universität Regensburg)

10:00 Interface dynamics in viscoelastic phase separation - Katharina Hopf

10:30 On Cahn-Hilliard-Keller-Segel type models in biology - Elisabetta Rocca (Università di Pavia)
Optimization and Free Boundaries: MS-4-2
MS-4-2
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Main building/Floor 1-Room 2094 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Optimal design of linearly Cosserat and thermal spectral structures: A phase field approach - Kei Fong Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University)

09:30 Convergence of a shape optimisation algorithm for a semi-linear elliptic equtions in function spaces using $W^{1,\infty}$-steepest descent - Philip Herbert (University of Sussex)

10:00 Reduced Order CFD based Reactor Shape Optimization for Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems - Muhammad Uzair Qureshi
Fluid-structure Interactions: MS-9-3
MS-9-3
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Main Building/Floor 2-Room 3075 - Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 On the motion of a rigid body in a perfect compressible fluid - Pei SU

09:30 Boundary Layer Criterion of Low Mach and Inviscid Limits in Compressible Fluid-Rigid Body Interaction - Sarka Necasova (Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10:00 Collective effect of a large system of heavy particles immersed in a Newtonian fluid - Arnab Roy (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)

10:30 Long-Time Behavior of Fluid-Structure Interaction Models - Igor Kukavica (University of Southern California)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room 0 - Lobby in Front of Senatssaal
11:30 Plenary Talk: Balázs Kovács
Balázs Kovács
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

11:30 A Lagrange-multiplier algorithm for mean curvature flow: structure-preservation and error estimates - Balázs Kovács (Paderborn University)
12:30 Plenary Talk: Maxim Olshanskii
Maxim Olshanskii
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal
Contributions

12:30 Parabolic PDEs on evolving domains with topological transitions: well-posedness and numerical analysis - Maxim Olshanskii (University of Houston)
13:30 Plenary Talk: Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
13:30 - 13:45
Room: Main Building/Floor 1-Room Senatssaal - Senatssaal

13:45 Lunch Break and End of Conference
Lunch Break and End of Conference
13:45 - 14:45