International Relations and Partners of IWR
- Location of the co-authors of IWR staff publications in 2009.
IWR and its affiliated organizations and programs are strongly encouraged to build and maintain close scientific relations in the international scientific community. The successful fundamental research work documented in multiple awards has encouraged various regional, national and international joint projects and is the basis of IWR's enormous scientific reputation. IWR is eager to strengthen its cooperations with industry as well as other universities and scientific institutions. While the latter creates strong synergy effects between the scientists of the various institutions, collaborations with industry bring challenging applications from practical queries into IWR's research program and improve thereby the development of new mathematical and computational methods. Here are some examples of our international activities.
Conferences, workshops and scientific exchange
- IWR regularily hosts international guests and friends.
- International workshops and conferences are organized, like the renowned IWR Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam
- summer schools in Heidelberg and abroad foster direct contacts,
- the EMMA - Mobility with Asia - exchange program for scientists on all levels of their careers
- the distinguished ROMBERG guest professorship invites leading scientists for a longer research stay at the graduate school and IWR.
The international relations of IWR support notably the large graduate and post-graduate programs, which run under the umbrella of the center. We have established, for example, a joint PhD program (Cotutelle) with the Charles University Prague. Since 1992 every year "Heidelberg-Prague-Workshops" are being organized within the framework of this program. Please visit the websites of these international Graduate Colleges for more information.
>>> Download this example of the success story on a international scientific cooperation between IWR and the University of Warsaw: The International Graduate College 710: Complex Processes - Modeling, Simulation and OptimizationComplex processes: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization.
Summer schools
Summer schools in Heidelberg and abroad are organized to foster the exchange of scientists during different steps of their career by offering the possiblity for direct contacts, and for the recruitment of highly talented candidates for the graduate school HGS MathComp. Furthermore, the summer schools are an important part of the cooperation with universities and research institutions in countries in south-east Asia:
- Spring School on Multiscale Methods & Modeling in Biophysics and Systems Biology, Tongji University, Shanghai
- Summer School on Flow and Transport in Terrestrial Systems, Heidelberg
- Summer School on Probabilistic Graphical Models: From Biological Networks to Image Analysis, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
- Summer School on Modeling and Simulation in the Life Sciences, Heidelberg (upcoming next)
