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Chemnitz FEM Symposia

The first FEM Symposia (Symposia on the application and computer realization of the finite element method) took place in Chemnitz

Then the tradition of these comparably large meetings (95 participants in 1978, about 200 participants in 1990) was discontinued.

Instead, smaller workshops with a limited scope were organised annually between 1991 and 1995.

February 28 - March 2, 1991	FEM und BEM: Moderne Probleme der Theorie und Anwendung
June 7 - 9, 1993	Pre- und Postprocessing in der FEM
May 27 - 28, 1994	Parallele Lösung großer Gleichungssysteme
September 27 - 30, 1995	Paralleles wissenschaftliches Rechnen in FEM und BEM

In 1997 we decided to call these annual meetings FEM Symposia once more, but to announce them with a limited scope. We decided lately to count the workshops also as FEM symposia. Between 1995 and 2005 these symposia were organized by the Chemnitz SFB 393, supported by the DFG.

The scientific topics were:

10th FEM Symposium 1997 Parallel algorithms in solid mechanics Parallel solvers for finite element equations Models in structural mechanics Mortar elements in domain decomposition Anisotropic discretizations
	11th FEM Symposium 1998 Parallel adaptive methods Error estimation Mesh refinement Load balancing Applications in fluid mechanics
12th FEM Symposium 1999 Solvers of finite element equations Applications in structural mechanics p- and hp-versions of the f.e.m. Implementation on parallel computers
While the previous symposia were announced as German meetings, English is the official language since 2000.
	13th FEM Symposium 2000 Finite elements in general Adaptivity Anisotropic meshes Solving the finite element systems Implementation on parallel computers Applications to coupled flow problems Boundary eigenvalue problems
14th FEM Symposium 2001 Finite elements in general Fast solvers Error estimators High order methods Parallel implementation Modern aspects of mixed formulations (in particular Stokes problem and Mindlin-Reissner plates) Discontinuous Galerkin methods
	15th FEM Symposium 2002 Finite elements in general Fast solvers Adaptive methods Parallel implementation High order methods solution of elastic contact problems anisotropic mesh generation and error estimation wavelets discretizations PDEs in finance
16th FEM Symposium 2003 fast solvers, e.g. domain decomposition methods, multi-level methods, for hp-methods, using H-matrices, simulation of materials with nonlinear properties, e.g. deformation, damage, crack propagation, mixed formulations, problems with anisotropic solution.
	17th FEM Symposium 2004 adaptive methods, parallel implementation, high order methods, error estimation, fem with stochastic data, singular complement methods, sparse approximation, H-matrices.
18th FEM Symposium 2005 variational inequalities - contact and free boundary value problems partial differential equations in optimization and optimal control special treatment of singularities and singularly perturbed problems parabolic and time-dependent problems
	19th FEM Symposium 2006 finite element methods for Maxwell equations finite elements for advanced problems in solid mechanics [non-symmetric] saddle point problems inverse problems for PDEs
20th FEM Symposium 2007 Computational Fluid Dynamics Contact problems and large deformations Mortar methods / Discontinuous Galerkin methods Solvers and preconditioners
	21st FEM Symposium 2008 Finite Elements in Biomechanics and Biomedicine Shells and Plates PDEs on surfaces
22nd FEM Symposium 2009 Solver and Domain Decomposition Sensitivity Analysis and Algorithmic Differentiation for FEM FEM for Maxwell Equations Flow Problems, Adaptive Methods, Optimal Control Non-standard Discretisations, Modelling, FEM_BEM
	23rd FEM Symposium 2010 Adaptive Methods Eigenvalue Approximation for Differential Operators Singularly Perturbed Problems Identification and Optimization, Optimal Control A Priori Error Estimates, Solver
24th FEM Symposium 2011 hp-FEM and Applications Variational Inequalities Saddle Point Problems Optimal Control Convection Diffusion Parallel Algorithms Adaptivity Mechanics	Participants of the 24th Chemnitz FEM Symposium in Holzhau, 2011

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