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What does the professional world of a mathematician look like and what is applied mathematics? This and much more is what 15 schoolgirls from schools in the national Excellence School Network MINT-EC are currently discovering at Fraunhofer ITWM. In three exciting projects, they are learning about current research topics from the fields of mathematics, computer science and physics.

Kaiserslautern, a medium-sized, charming city in the Palatinate Forest. Unknown to many: Pioneering technologies are developed on the Science Mile. The TU Kaiserslautern with the Department of Mathematics and we, the largest institute for industrial mathematics, are within walking distance of each other and all benefit from the synergies. Behind this are very special stories of mathematicians:

The competence center »Quantum HPC and Algorithms for Industry« at Fraunhofer ITWM is entering the next round. This future technology is funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with a total of five million euros. The Minister for Science and Health, Clemens Hoch, handed over the notification of funding.  [Only available in German]

I AM AI – What can Artificial Intelligence do? Does an AI make mistakes? How does a neural network learn? Curious people can get answers in the foyer of the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern, where they can get involved with AI. [Press Release only available in German, exhibition also in English]

Regenerative power generation runs at full speed when the wind is strong or the sun is shining brightly. To better coordinate energy supply and demand, power plants and supply networks must be intelligently networked. 5G provides a basis for this. The online magazine InnoVisions reports on the project »5Gain«.

In addition to the development of a Corona vaccine, the company BioNTech is also interested in research on personalized mRNA-based therapy against cancer. For both applications, a team of ITWM researchers has developed two software platforms for the optimal planning and control of the production processes in cooperation with BioNTech.

The Young Researchers Symposium (YRS 2022) took place for the fifth time at the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern on July 22. This year's winners impressed with topics such as the Netflix algorithm, cat (pictures), mosquitoes and a lot of humor.

Agile machine learning processes can be a true success factor for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Our experts at Fraunhofer IESE support companies at the interface between agility and data science, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), from the conception of innovative data-based services to their implementation.

The close cooperation between university and non-university research produces outstanding results – especially in Kaiserslautern: For the first time, a panel of experts from Fraunhofer evaluated all 21 High Performance Centers of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

The result: We ranked first.

In the »MultiskalenBEV« project, researchers are focusing on customized and intelligent solutions in the virtual product development of e-vehicles. The project is funded by the Ministry of Science and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate. Yesterday, Minister Clemens Hoch handed over the funding notification.

DFKI, in cooperation with TU Kaiserslautern, is coodinating the new EU project  »HumanTech«, in which human-centered concepts for cooperation between workers and machines, digital twins, intelligent protection and support equipment, and robot technologies are being developed. 

The pandemic confronted Germany's public health departments with major challenges. Help also came from mathematics: Together with partners,  experts at Fraunhofer ITWM used statistical modeling to support the health offices in the multitude of decisions that had to be made on a daily basis. Now the »EsteR« project is coming to an end and some exciting results and tools can be presented – tools that will also be relevant in the future.

For more than ten years, Volvo Construction Equipment has been using the interactive driving and operating simulator »RODOS« at Fraunhofer ITWM for simulator-based production development. Two experts from the institute report in an article in the newsletter of the »Commercial Vehicle Cluster Südwest« (CVC).

The development of new composite materials is precision work. The micrometer-sized structures of the high-performance materials must later ensure the functionality, durability and safety of complex components for aircraft fuselages, wind turbine rotors or in buildings. We already have excellent mathematical methods. One problem lies with computation time. Is the solution quantum computing? Will it soon make everything much faster? [only available in German]

The topic of energy is more present than ever before: Both industry and private households are facing new challenges.

Our Experts have been developing innovative methods and models for the energy sector for several years. From June 21 to 23, the researchers will present the most exciting energy projects at the leading trade fair E-world.

In the monthly »Jour Fixe« of the CU West cluster of Composites United e. V. on May 16, 2022, the CU members discussed the opportunities for efficiency gains through automation, digital twins and machine learning. As the key to mass production of composites parts, digitization is a central topic for the future.

Federated learning is a novel, decentralized AI method where only the locally learned models are shared instead of the data. Coordinating the participating devices is a complex issue that requires a scalable and fault-tolerant runtime environment.

Dr. Thomas Kuhn from Fraunhofer IESE, as deputy of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the project »BaSys«, has signed a »Memorandum of Understanding« (MoU for short) with the Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA) at Hannover Messe 2022. The two partners are thus entering into a contractually agreed cooperation for the standardization of asset administration shells for industry.

With the »Offenen Digitalisierungsallianz Pfalz«, the two Kaiserslautern universities are once again successful in the federal-state initiative »Innovative University« and can pursue the goal of sustainably shaping the digital future and creating innovations with the region and for the region in the second funding phase. 

The book by Michael Bortz of Fraunhofer ITWM and Norbert Asprion of BASF introduces the scientific progress of process engineering. Using illustrative examples, it shows how this progress has been translated into technical innovations and goes into details about the methods used. It also takes a look at the industrial challenges of a digitalized world. ISBN: 9780323850438

The efficient use of energy is becoming increasingly important. The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate also wants to counteract climate change and therefore promotes efficiency-increasing and energy-saving measures such as our "ENERDIG" project. Ministerial Director Daniel Stich handed over the funding notification to ITWM Director Anita Schöbel and Project Manager Dietmar Hietel.