Pre-GAMM 2026 – Stuttgart
The Pre-GAMM at the GAMM Annual Meeting 2026 in Stuttgart will take place on the following dates:
- Scientific Onboarding: Mo. 02.03.2026 – Thu. 05.03.2026, online
- Soft Skill Seminar: Mo. 16.03.2026, 11:00 – 12:30,
on-site (Room K II, M 17.02)
The Scientific Onboarding does not require registration. Registration for the Soft Skill Seminar is now open. Participation in the event is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited on a first-come first-served basis.
Registration is possible alongside with the conference registration (ConfTool).
What is the Pre-GAMM?
The Pre-GAMM is an event organized by the GAMM Juniors and intends to prepare researchers for the GAMM Annual Meeting, firstly with introductory lectures on the topics of the plenary lectures (Scientific Onboarding Events) and secondly with a soft skill seminar on “how to conference”. This seminar targets especially first-time participants and early-career PhD-students.
Scientific Onboarding Events
The event is held online (Link) and free to access for any researcher, in the weeks before the conference starts. Here, introductory courses on a wide range of topics will be given by plenary speakers of the GAMM Annual Meeting. No prerequisite knowledge is required as these courses are meant to onboard you to a topic outside your own scientific field and prepare you for the plenary talks.
Soft Skill Seminar
The seminar is an on-site event and requires registration. It addresses especially first-time participants, who just started with their PhD and have none / very little conference experience. The event is held as a panel discussion and prepares you for the upcoming week, answering your questions on “How to conference?” with a board of excellent researchers ranging from Post-Docs to professors! The number of participants is limited on a first-come first-served basis. Participation in the event is free of charge.
Please register here.
Schedule
Scientific on-boarding: online lectures
Mo. 02.03.2026 – Thu. 05.03.2026
Meeting via Zoom: Link
Invited Speakers:
| Monday, 02.03.2026 | |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Nilasis Chaudhuri University of Warsaw Introduction to the analysis of the Aw-Rascle model |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | David Nordsletten University of Michigan, USA An Introduction to Biomechanics in the Heart |
| Wednesday, 04.03.2026 | |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Eleni Chatzi and Konstantinos Vlachas ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hybrid Modelling as an enabler to Monitoring and adaptive Twinning |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Per-Olof Persson University of California, Berkeley High-Order Methods on Unstructured Meshes for Fluid and Solid Mechanics |
| Thursday, 05.03.2026 | |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Michael Ulbrich Technical University of Munich, Germany Fundamentals of Nonsmooth Optimization and Semismooth Newton Methods for PDE-Constrained Problems |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Daniel Balzani Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Modeling of damage at finite strains |
Soft Skill Seminar: How to conference
Monday, March 16th, 11:00 – 12:30, on-site (Room K II, M 17.02)
Discussion and Q&A with our experts:
| Fabia Bayer | University of Stuttgart – Institute for Nonlinear Mechanics | |
| Eugenia Franco | University of Bonn – Institute for Applied Mathematics | |
| Stefanie Schindler | WIAS – Research Group “Partial Differential Equations” | |
| Peter Manzl | University of Innsbruck – AI and Simulation-based Engineering | |
| Sonja Hellebrand | University of Duisburg-Essen – Institute of Mechanics | |
| Gianna Götzmann | Augsburg University – Institute of Mathematics, Chair for Inverse Problems |