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ENUMATH: International Conference Brings Together 600 Numerical Mathematicians in Heidelberg
From September 1 to 5, 2025, Heidelberg University welcomed the international numerical mathematics community to the Neuenheimer Feld campus for 2025's European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH). The event, supported by the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence, brought together more than 750 participants from over 30 countries and six continents, including leading experts as well as early-career researchers. Over the course of five days, mathematicians and computational scientists from all backgrounds shared their latest results, exchanged ideas, and explored new directions for applying numerical mathematics in science and industry.
Alongside invited plenary lectures by leading international experts, the scientific program consisted of over 600 talks in mini-symposia and contributed sessions, as well as a large poster session. Vibrant discussions spanned from advances in discretization schemes and multi-scale modelling to questions on uncertainty quantification, optimisation, and scientific machine learning – reflecting the broad scope and growing role of numerical mathematics in solving complex scientific and industrial challenges.
This year's conference was chaired by STRUCTURES member Robert Scheichl. The local organization committee included Peter Bastian, Roland Herzog, Vincent Heuveline, Guido Kanschat, Ekaterina Kostina, and Jakob Zech – members of STRUCTURES, IWR and IMa. The Programme Committee consisted of nine international experts from various countries across Europe. Their efforts, supported by numerous colleagues, institutions, and partners, made the conference a big success.
Since its launch in 1995, ENUMATH has established itself as a central forum for the exchange of ideas in numerical mathematics. The Heidelberg meeting continued this tradition by fostering international collaboration and providing a platform for early-career researchers to present their work alongside established experts. Proceedings of the conference will appear with Springer, extending the impact of the lively discussions in Heidelberg to the wider mathematical community.
For STRUCTURES, supporting ENUMATH was a way of underlining the importance of numerical mathematics for our mission to connect disciplines and methods across the natural sciences. It was a great pleasure to welcome the international numerical mathematics community to Heidelberg, a vibrant hub for mathematics and computational science in Europe.
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