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NEW Call for proposals (KIT internal): DAAD Graduate School Scholarships at KCDS

Second round: We are again calling researcher tandems (MATH and SEE) at KIT to submit interdisciplinary project ideas!

Deadline extended: September 29, 2025

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Upcoming and Recent Events

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KCDS Hackathon 2025

Hack the Turbulence: Enhancing Flow Resolution with AI

 

The Hackathon is postponed! Check back for a new date soon.

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Topological Data Analysis and Manifold Learning using Ultrametrics

3-day block course offered jointly with GRACE

 

Date
October 8-10, 2025

 

Venue
Campus South, Building 20.30, Room 2.058

More info and registration
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KCDS Retreat 2025

Scientific exchange and networking in the Black Forest

Date
November 10-12, 2025

Venue
Naturfreundehaus Kniebis, Black Forest

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🚗 Autonomous Driving: From Perception to Action - Excursion to the Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT)

Friday, 24 October 2025, 14:00
KIT Campus South, building 40.33, Machine hall (room 0.64.4) - access via building 40.32, ground floor, turn left and go down the hall
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The Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT) invites you for a tour of their autonomous driving vehicles!

 

Dominik Strutz, doctoral researcher at MRT, will give you an overview:

🔹 Core Topics

  • Perception – How the car understands its environment
  • Prediction – Anticipating what happens next
  • Planning & Decision Making – Turning insights into safe driving actions
     

🔹 Deep Dives

  • Live demo footage from our autonomous driving project
  • Handling uncertainty in parameterized AD modules
     

Special Highlights

  • Our research car will be on display!
  • Enter the lottery for a ride in the autonomous car 🚙🎉

 

Maximum 20 participants. Please register in advance via the event calendar (link below).

Costs/ Payment
Free of charge
Speaker
Dominik Strutz M.Sc.

KIT
MRT
Organizer
Angela Hühnerfuß
KIT-Zentrum MathSEE
Englerstraße 2
76131 Karlsruhe
Tel: 072160847748
Mail: angela huehnerfuss does-not-exist.kit edu
https://www.mathsee.kit.edu/
Targetgroup
Students, Young Scientists
Number of participants
20
Online registration
Please register for this event here.
Online Registration

Highlights

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KCDS Summer School 2025

Short courses and an interactive tutorial on Neural Operators and Gaussian Processes, along with a poster session and lots of opportunities for networking with other researchers - that was the KCDS Summer School 2025! It took place from August 27-29, 2025 at KIT Campus South.

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Report: Reproducibility Workshop with Prof. Victoria Stodden

KIT International Excellence Fellow Prof. Victoria Stodden invited the KIT community, especially early career researchers, to create ideas and proposals for facilitating research that is data-, compute-, or AI-enabled - taking reproducibility to action! The workshop took place on January 21, 2025 at Triangel Studio.

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Report: Career Talk with KIT Alumni 2024

From Computational and Data Science to Industry and Academia - four KIT Alumni gave insights into their jobs during a lively panel discussion on October 11, 2024 at Triangel Space.

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Report: RainQuest Hackathon 2024

The hackathon on precipitation estimation with weather radar and rain gauge data took place from October 8-11, 2024 at Triangel Studio.

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Report: KCDS Workshop on Data Processing and Data Assimilation 2024

The workshop with Dr. Annika Oertel (IMKTRO) and Dr. Vandana Jha (SCC) took place from September 11-12, 2024 at the Mathematics building.

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Report: KCDS Retreat 2023

The second annual KCDS Retreat took place from November 13-15, 2023 at Naturfreundehaus Kniebis in the Black Forest.

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Report: Deep Learning Workshop 2023

The workshop with a focus on "Recent Advances in Kernel Methods for Neural Networks" took place in October 5-6, 2023 at the Triangel.

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Report: KCDS Summer School 2023

The first KCDS Summer School centered on the topic of Stochastic and Hybrid Modelling and took place at KIT Campus South, September 18-20, 2023.

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About KCDS

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KIT Graduate School Computational and Data Science (KCDS) is a graduate school at KIT Center MathSEE that offers an interdisciplinary training program for doctoral researchers in the field of model-driven and data-driven computational science.
In this unique program, doctoral researchers will be able to conduct an interdisciplinary research project that revolves around computational methods such as mathematical models, simulation methods and data science techniques, all the while building bridges between mathematical sciences and an applied SEE discipline (science, economics and engineering).
Addressing global challenges, the school provides a wide variety of topics, from meteorological ensemble forecasting to machine learning in elementary particle physics.
At KCDS, doctoral researchers have one supervisor from the mathematical sciences and one from the applied discipline. They are part of a dynamic community and participate in the school’s interdisciplinary training program, including hands-on training in small groups, summer schools, networking events and hackathons/datathons.
Thinking simulations and data together, we are ready to conquer the data-driven challenges of tomorrow!

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