Events

  On September 14th and 15th, the combined 1st RTG Retreat & 4th RTG Seminar was held by the Research Training Group (RTG) GRK 2423 FRASCAL at the Fraunhofer Research Campus in Waischenfeld. The Capriccio group participated as part of FRASCAL. On the first day, Christof Bauer, FRASCAL doc...

From August 27th to 29th, the Capriccio group held a mini retreat with particular focus on current scientific issues, current publication preparations, upcoming conferences, and many more issues that are difficult to focus on within everyone’s daily routine. The first day was dedicated to the prepa...

From February, 24th to 29th, 2020, the Capriccio group visited the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in India’s capital. Within the joint programme “Multi-Scale Modeling, Simulation and Optimization for Energy, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing“, we...

On March 12th, 2020 the 2nd Visitors Workshop of the GRK 2423 FRASCAL took place at Atzelsberg castle. The Research Training Group welcomed experts from the field of fracture research, namely Gilles Francfort (Department of Mathematics, University 13, Paris, France and visiting professor at the Cour...

Once a month Capriccio and the PULS Group of Ana-Sunčana Smith meet for a joint "coffee break" – a good chance to discuss scientific topics in a relaxed atmosphere and to bring up current issues to be looked at from various perspectives. The close exchange between our groups allows us to assess our ...

On February 20th, 2020, the third RTG seminar of the Research Training Group GRK 2423 FRASCAL took place at the Chair of Applied Mechanics (LTM) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Capriccio group participated as part of FRASCAL with three presentations. Within the scope of...

Maximilian Ries published his paper on “Extensive CGMD simulations of atactic PS providing pseudo experimental data to calibrate nonlinear inelastic continuum mechanical constitutive laws” in the renowned journal “Polymers”. This contribution presents a characterization methodology which is an impor...

From September 23rd to 25th, the Capriccio group spent several days in Paris for a productive research stay. On September 23rd, the group visited the “Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert” at Sorbonne Université at Paris. There, a presentation about “Multiscale Simulations of Polymers with the Capric...

On 10 September, the Capriccio group visited the Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. There, the Capriccio method was presented and a fruitful discussion on possible collaboration on optimizing the Capriccio method followed. -

From June 16th to 19th, 2019, the Capriccio group attended the International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (ICoNSoM) in Rome, Italy. Maximilian Ries gave a talk about his ongoing research entitled “Charaterization of polystyrene under uniaxial and shear deformation using molecular dynamics...