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The 4th Focus Retreat on Hiddensee took place from April 11th to 15th, 2025. The research groups of Sebastian Reich (UP), Wilhelm Stannat (TU Berlin),… more ›

Melina Freitag was invited speaker at the 7th Day of Mathematics at the TU Chemnitz. As part of her keynote speech on "Looking into the Future with… more ›

This month, a new project on organoids kicks-off. The project is funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation and will investigate the precise description of… more ›

A new publication on Digital Twins: Synergy Between Data Assimilation and Optimal Control was announced in the SIAM News section. Please find the… more ›

Sebastian Reich was invited speaker at Oden Institute, University of Austin in Texas, and gave a talk on "Generative modelling using Schrödinger… more ›

The CRC 1294 started the new year with restructures in the leading team. Melina Freitag is speaker of the CRC and will be supported by Han Lie as vice… more ›

The CRC International Summer School 2024 took place from September 16th to 20th at the Lindner Hotels & Resorts Boltenhagen. Set in the beautiful… more ›

Congratulations to Jakiw Pidstrigach who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Diverse Paths, One Destination A Study of Modern Sampling Methods"… more ›

Congratulations to Josie König (PhD candidate in project A07) who succesfully applied for a Fulbright Germany Grant. With this Grant, Josie will… more ›

The 3rd Focus Retreat on Hiddensee took place from 4th to 8th of April, 2024. Sebastian Reich (Z01, A02, A06, B03, B09) invited Jan Albrecht (B07),… more ›

From March 13th to 15th, the PhD students and Postdocs of the IRTG as well as associated members traveled to Thuringia for their annual Jamboree. They… more ›

The SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ24) took place in Trieste (Italy) from February 27th to March 1st and our CRC members used this… more ›

Our 3rd Data Think Tank took place at the Potsdamer Wissenschaftsetage on February 14th and 15th. This year, the Think Tank was an internal event with… more ›

The Collaborative Research Centre SFB1294 “Data Assimilation - The Seamless Integration of Data and Models” in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications… more ›

Congratulations to Jin W. Kim (project A02) who won the CSL PhD Thesis Award from the University of Illinois for his thesis entitled "Duality for… more ›

This year a Focus Retreat on Hiddensee took place again. Jan Albrecht (B07), Diksha Bhandari (B09), Katherine Briceno Guerrero (B08), Gottfried… more ›

PhD candidates, Postdocs, and guests of the Centre met from September 6th to 8th at the KiEZ Inselparadies for the 2nd IRTG Jamboree. The event was… more ›

The workshop on Modern Approaches in SPDEs & Data Assimilation took place from July 3rd to 8th  in Sibiu, Romania. The event was organized by the… more ›

Congratulations to Lisa Schwetlick who successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Data Assimilation for Neurocognitive Models of Eye Movement" on June… more ›

Our doctoral candidates Angelica Maria Castillo Tibocha and Marina Garcia Penaranda from the B06 as well as Giuseppe Carere from project A07… more ›

The University of Potsdam joins the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). ELLIS was founded in 2018 and aims to ensure the… more ›

In January, the INI Programme "The mathematical and statistical foundation of future data-driven engineering" has been started. This program is… more ›

Congratulations to Angelica M. Castillo Tibocha from project B06. We are proud that Angelica was awarded with the EGU 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD… more ›

This focus retreat took place from October 8 to 11, 2022, at the Biological Station Hiddensee of the University of Greifswald on the beautiful island… more ›

We were delighted to welcome about 100 participants at the 1st Potsdam DA Days, the Symposium on Inverse Problems, from 19th to 21st of September,… more ›

Congratulations! We are proud that Jakiw Pidstrigach's article "Score-Based Generative Models Detect Manifolds" (abstract below, arxiv link) has been… more ›

From September 7th to September 9th the KiEZ Inselparadies in Petzow witnessed the first Jamboree of the new cohort of the SFB 1294. This event aimed… more ›

We are happy that Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) visited our CRC for one week and that we welcomed him as speaker for… more ›

Congratulations! We are proud that Jana de Wiljes, PI on A02, A03, B06 and B08, was awarded the title of Docent for Mathematics for Machine Learning… more ›

In June 2022, Carsten Beta (PI of A01, B02 and B07), Wilhelm Stannat (PI of A01 and A02), and Gregor Pasemann (Postdoc in A01) participated at the 3rd… more ›

The focus retreat of project A01 (Markus Reiß, Wilhelm Stannat, Gregor Pasemann, Jan Szalankiewicz, and associated member Sascha Gaudlitz) and project… more ›

The Symposium on Inverse Problems: From experimental data to models and back will take place in Potsdam (Campus Griebnitzsee) as part of the newly… more ›

New format - SFB Data Think Tank Event: The Data Think Tank is organized by the IRTG and aims to bring together mathematicians and scientists from… more ›

New format - Potsdam Data Assimilation Days: Our joint ‘Conference on Inverse Problems: From experimental data to models and back’, co-organized the … more ›

The Isaac Newton Institute Cambridge (www.newton.ac.uk) has approved a 6-month programme on the statistical and mathematical foundation of future… more ›

We are looking for 8 new doctoral researchers and 2 postdoctoral researchers to join the SFB and the integrated research training group for the second… more ›

We are kicking of the 2nd Phase of our SFB with a 1,5 day Kick-Off Event on the 14th and 15th of September! This includes our annual meeting, poster… more ›

The 21th Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra will take place at the University of Potsdam on the 16th and 17th… more ›

Last Friday, the 21st of May, the DFG decided to support our SFB 1294 for a second funding period! We are delighted that we will be able to continue… more ›

The paper  "Modeling the effects of perisaccadic attention of gaze statistics during scene viewing” of our doctoral researcher Lisa Schwetlick and our… more ›

The study our PIs Ralf Engbert and Sebastian Reich on Sequential Data Assimilation of the Stochastic SEIR Epidemic Model for Regional COVID-19… more ›

Our PI Jana de Wiljes organised a Mini Seminiar Series together with the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT), which will take place on… more ›

Congratulations! We are very proud that our PI Alexandra Carpentier received the von Kaven Ehrenpreis 2020 awarded by the DFG for her work on the… more ›

Our PhD researcher Lisa Schwetlick recorded her talk on 'Adding Attentional Mechanisms to a Scan Path Model' for the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)… more ›

Unter dem Motto „Gemeinsam #fürdasWissen“ verweist die DFG auf 100 Jahre freie, erkenntnisgeleitete Wissenschaft, welche durch selbstverwaltete und… more ›

From January to March 2020 our PhD student Gregor Pasemann from project A01 went for a research stay to the Illinois Institute of Technology in… more ›

Our PIs Ralf Engbert and Sebastian Reich together with Maximilian Rabe and Reinhold Kliegl just published the preprint to a study where they modelled… more ›

The 20th Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra will take place at the University of Potsdam on the 24th and 25th… more ›

*Please note that the PTDW 2020 has been cancelled due to the current Corona pandemic* - Details are available on the PTDW webpage This year the… more ›

During three weeks in December, our postdoc Pierre Houdebert, from project A05, did a research at the University of Lille, France, to work with Prof.… more ›

We are very happy to have Julianne Chung and Matthias Chung from Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) as guest for… more ›

Our next CoderDojo will take place on Saturday the 30.11. from 11 am to 3 pm. Can you help our little robots to save Christmas? A whole bunch of new… more ›

We co-organized the 3. Career Day that took place on the 7th of November with the overarching headline “Research-based job opportunities – new careers… more ›

In September, members of the SFB and Igor Cialenco from the Illinois Institute of Technology organised together the first workshop on statistics for… more ›

From September 25th to September 27 the Feld-Wald-und-Wiesen-Schule in Brandenburg witnessed the second edition of the Jamboree of the SFB 1294. This… more ›

Registration for the workshop on Statistical Inference for Stochastic PDEs co-organized by Randolf Altmeyer, Markus Reiß and Wilhelm Stannat, members… more ›

Once a year the research institutes, including the University of Potsdam, present their work to the interested fellow citizens and give insights into… more ›

Congratulations to our SFB speaker Sebastian Reich for having been selected into the SIAM Fellows Class of 2019. The Society for Industrial and… more ›

Our joint ‘Workshop on Conservation Principles, Data and Uncertainty in Atmosphere-Ocean Modelling’ of the TRR 181, SFB 1114 and SFB 1294 took place… more ›

Our 2nd SpringSchool took place at the Ostseehotel Dierhagen from the 18.03. to the 22.03.2019, where 60 members and associated members of the SFB,… more ›

Data Assimilation and related topics are at the focus of a month-long program at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) of the University of… more ›

We give a little insight into what we do in one of the applied projects of the SFB 1294 in the exhibiton 'Science in the City Center' (Wissenschaft im… more ›

Dr. Ester Mariucci will give a 2-part short course on Lévy Processes on the 31st of January and 07th of February 2019 from 14:15 to 17:45 The exercise… more ›

The second annual SFB Spring School will take place from the 18th to the 22nd of March 2019 at the Ostseehotel Dierhagen. Our invited guests for the… more ›

This three-day workshop will review our state of knowledge on energy budgets and energy transfers in the climate system and how they are … more ›

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC/SFB) of the German Research Foundation, DFG, turned 50 this year. The two speakers, Prof. Isabell Wartenburger… more ›

Our next CoderDojo will take place on Sunday the 12th of January from 11am to 3pm. Come and join us to learn more about the robots Dash and Dot or… more ›

Interested in what we do in the SFB 1294 and what concepts are behind the research in the different projects? Our RingVL will start this week, with… more ›

From the 19th until 21st of September the PhD students and PostDocs of the SFB1294 assembled at Kiez Bollmannsruh in Brandenburg for their first… more ›

We are pleased to announce that the 1st Kalman Lecture will take place on the 24th of August, 2018. The Kalman Lecture will be established as an… more ›

The SFB constructed a programming challenge with robots in the framework of the 'Zukunftstag' at the University of Potsdam, which was organized by the… more ›

The first Spring School of the SFB 1294 took place in Göhren-Lebbin on the edge of the Fleesensee from the 18th to the 23rd of March. Altogether 55… more ›

The second SFB1294 Roboter Coder Dojo took place on Sunday, the 04.03., and even more kids attended with their parents than last time. The mentors of… more ›

The first Roboter Coder Dojo took place last Sunday and was a lot of fun for everybody involved. Around 15 kids from age 5 to 14, accompanied by their… more ›

The SFB 1294 was one of the co-organizers for the Geo.X Career Day 2017. The theme of this year’s career day is a highly relevant one for many – but… more ›

The members of the SFB 1294 and several interested and associated scientists came together to kick off the collaborative research centre in a two-day… more ›

We went on the first SFB focus retreat in the beautiful Elbsandsteingebirge at the beginning of September to foster collaborations between projects… more ›

The University of Potsdam and its partner institutes, the GeoForschungsZentrum, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin,… more ›