Status Seminar

Monday, 21 July to Wednesday, 23 July

Monday, 21 July

Time Program Room
12:15 pm Check-in Bus  
12:30 pm Bus departure from the University (Bus stop in front of former Campus Guest)  
1:30 pm Arrival at Seminaris Hotel  
Michael-Hörauf-Weg 2,
73087 Bad Boll
 
2:30 pm Opening Session
"Welcome, Reflections, Milestones"


Wolfgang Nowak
 Plenum
3:00 pm Knowledge Graphs for Scientific Discovery:
Managing Heterogeneous Knowledge in the CRC 1625

Maribel Acosta
(TUM, School of Computation, Information and Technology)

In large-scale materials science projects, managing and utilizing heterogeneous forms of knowledge – conceptual, factual, procedural, contextual – poses significant challenges. This presentation introduces ongoing work within the Collaborative Research Centre 1625 (CRC 1625), focused on developing a domain-specific knowledge graph (KG) to support scientific discovery and collaboration.

Our KG acts as a semantic layer over the relational database at the core of the Research Data Management System. This KG serves multiple purposes, including providing an integrated view of samples, experimental observations, and associated metadata. This semantic representation supports advanced data access for machine learning pipelines, enables expressive query capabilities for users, and fosters interoperability across the three research areas in the CRC. In addition, the KG models and validates the conceptual and procedural dimensions of research by capturing hypotheses and workflows of material samples. This modeling enables provenance tracking, supports reproducibility, and enriches the contextual understanding of experimental data for the project scientists.

Additionally, the talk explores the integration of large language models (LLMs) to support various stages of the knowledge graph lifecycle. These AI-driven enhancements aim to reduce manual effort, improve scalability, and accelerate the incorporation of new knowledge into the system.

Lüneburg/Hermannsburg
3:00 pm Session "Graduate Academy"

(Post)Doctoral Election + Open Discussio (Your wishes for a future GS + How to stay connected beyond the Cluster)
Plenum
4:00 pm Coffee Break

Foyer

4:30 pm

Parallel Sessions

For PIs/PRs/PhD:
What's your next bold idea?

  • Meta-Learned Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials for Ab initio Engineering of Chemical and Microstructural Complexity 
  • Generative KI für SimTech und SimTech für Generative KI 
  • AI Engineer and AI Scientist 
  • Inference for stochastic models  
  • NFDI am SC 
  • Robotics in Health - more than one open challenge 
  • tba

Plenum




 

 

For (Post)Doctoral Researchers:

  • ehlers Cluster - Community Treff 
  • Pride in STEM at SimTech
  • JoDaKISS

Foyer
Postdam
Foyer or Hermannsburg

6:00 pm

SimTech over the years

Wolfgang Ehlers & Thomas Ertl

Plenum
7/7:30 pm

Dinner 

 

Tuesday, 22 July

Time Program Room
7:00 am

Morning Hike with Miriam (optional)

 
8:00 am Breakfast  
9:00 am Methodological challenges on the path to digital twins of fusion power plants

Frank Jenko 
(Head of Tokamak Theory Division, Max-Plack-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching)
Plenum
10:00 am Coffee Break & Poster Session 1: Poster_2025 Foyer & Lüneburg/Hermannsburg
11:30 pm Lunch

Restaurant

1:30 pm Challenges in forecasting the sustainable use of a geothermal reservoir due to increasing utilization

Kai Zosseder
(TU Munich, Chair of Hydrogeology, Head of Geothermal Energy Group)

Plenum
2:30 pm Poster Session 2: Poster_2025 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg
4:00 pm Coffee Break

 

4:30 pm -
6:00 pm

Parallel Session

For PIs/PRs: What's your next bold idea?

 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg

4:30 pm - 
7:30 pm

For (Post)Doctoral Researchers: Career Paths Academia and Beyond

Dr. Michaela Hergersberg

Whether you are currently pursuing your PhD, planning your next steps as a postdoc, or preparing for a senior scientist position – this seminar will show you how to clearly define your goals, strategically position yourself within the scientific community, and make the most of your career opportunities. Considering a career beyond research? Discover exciting alternatives! Science management, science communication, alumni relations, technology transfer, and much more – after completing your PhD, many doors are open to you. This seminar also provides an overview of the options available, the qualifications required, and how to plan your next career move.

Plenum

6:00 pm

General Assembly

 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg

7:30 pm Dinner

 Restaurant

Wednesday, 23 July

Time Program Room
8:00 am Breakfast  
9:00 am Poster session 3: Poster_2025 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg
10:30 am Coffee Break  
11:00 am

Poster session 4: Poster_2025

Lüneburg/Hermannsburg
12:30 am

Closing 

  • Reflections
  • Report of current spokespersons
  • Introduction of new spokespersons
  • Best Paper Award
Plenum
1:00 pm

Lunch

 
1:30 pm

Bus departure 

 
1:30 pm

Board of Directors

 
2:30 pm

Arrival at University (Bus stop in front of former Campus Guest)

 
3:30 pm End Board of Directors  
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