History of Chemnitz FEM Symposia

The first FEM Symposia (Symposia on the application and computer realization of the finite element method) took place in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt).
They were supported by the Mathematical Society of the G.D.R. (MGDDR) from 1978 to 1990.

November 15 - 16, 1978 Methode der Finiten Elemente und ihre Anwendungen in der Mechanik, im Bauwesen und in anderen Gebieten der Volkswirtschaft		1st FEM Symposium 1978 “Symposium über Anwendungen und rechentechnische Realisierung der FEM”
2nd FEM Symposium 1981 “2. Symposium über Anwendung und rechentechnische Realisierung der FEM”	November 17 - 18, 1981 Methode der Finiten Elemente (FEM) für lineare und nichtlineare Probleme der Kontinuumsmechanik FEM und dynamische Probleme Implementierung effektiver Varianten der FEM Neue Ergebnisse zur mathematischen Theorie der FEM
October 9 - 10, 1984 Methode der Finiten Elemente (FEM) für lineare und nichtlineare Probleme der Kontinuumsmechanik Schnelle Auflösung großdimensionierter linearer und nichtlinearer FEM-Schemata Neuere Ergebnisse zur mathematischen Theorie der FEM Vergleich der FEM mit anderen Diskretisierungsverfahren Einsatz der FEM zur Lösung instationärer Probleme Implementierung effektiver Varianten der FEM Praktische Erfahrungen bei der Anwendung von FEM-Programmen zur Lösung technischer Probleme		3rd FEM Symposium 1984 “3. Symposium über Anwendung und rechentechnische Realisierung der FEM”
4th FEM Symposium 1987 “4. Symposium über Anwendung und rechentechnische Realisierung der FEM”	December 1 - 3, 1987 Methode der Finiten Elemente (FEM) für komplizierte lineare und nichtlineare Randwertprobleme der Mathematischen Physik Einsatz der FEM zur Lösung instationärer Probleme Anwendung der FEM auf dynamische Probleme sowie Eigenwertaufgaben Schnelle Auflösung großdimensionierter FEM-Schemata Neue Ergebnisse zur mathematischen Theorie der FEM Vergleich der FEM mit anderen Diskretisierungsverfahren (FDM, BEM) Implementierung effektiver Varianten der FEM und praktische Erfahrungen bei der Anwendung von FEM-Programmen Flexible FEM-Prozessoren zur Lösung von Feldproblemen als ein Grundbaustein anspruchsvoller CAD-Systeme FEM-spezifisches Pre- und Postprocessing Anpassung von FEM-Software an neue Hardware-Möglichkeiten
September 18 - 20, 1990 FEM für lineare und nichtlineare Probleme der Kontinuumsmechanik Schnelle Auflösung großdimensionierter linearer und nichtlinearer FEM-Schemata Vergleich der FEM mit anderen Diskretisierungsverfahren Implementierung effektiver Varianten der FEM Praktische Erfahrungen bei der Anwendung von FEM-Programmen zur Lösung technischer Probleme Softwaremesse, Postersession, Firmenpräsentationen		5th FEM Symposium 1990 “5. Symposium über Anwendung und rechentechnische Realisierung der FEM”

Then the tradition of these comparably large meetings (90 participants in 1978, about 200 participants in 1990) was discontinued.
Instead, smaller workshops with a limited scope were organised annually between 1991 and 1995.

Workshop, February 28 - March 2, 1991 FEM und BEM: Moderne Probleme der Theorie und Anwendung		6th FEM Symposium 1991
Workshop, November 11 - 13, 1992 Aspekte des parallelen wissenschaftlichen Rechnens
Workshop, June 7 - 9, 1993 Paralleles Pre- und Postprocessing in der FEM		7th FEM Symposium 1993
Workshop, May 27 - 28, 1994 Parallele Lösung großer Gleichungssysteme		8th FEM Symposium 1994
Workshop, September 27 - 30, 1995 Paralleles wissenschaftliches Rechnen in FEM und BEM		9th FEM Symposium 1995

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.

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.

Starting in 2005 (the last term of the SFB 393) the Symposia were organised by the Department of Mathematics, chairs of Numerical Mathematics.
The organisation of the symposia is funded now by an adequate conference fee.

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's 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's 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 25th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in Chemnitz, 2012 (more Photos)	25th FEM Symposium 2012 Adaptive Methods Plates and Shells Domain Decomposition Optimal Control Error Analysis, Solver Jubilee, Retrospect
26th FEM Symposium 2013 Multiscale Methods Fluid Dynamics Contact Problems Time-Dependent Problems Singularly Perturbed Problems Variational Inequalities Anisotropic Problems Software	Participants of the 26th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in Annaberg-Buchholz, 2013 (more Photos)
Participants of the 27th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in Chemnitz, 2014 (more Photos) - (this one in full size)	27th FEM Symposium 2014 Eigenvalue Problems Computational Mechanics Finite Element Theory PDE with Random Coefficients Convection Dominated and Time Dependent Problems Finite Element Simulation and Software
28th FEM Symposium 2015 Adaptivity and Error Estimation Mixed and Least Squares FE Multiscale Methods Applications and Algorithms Non-standard FEM	Participants of the 28th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in Burgstädt, 2015 (more Photos)
Participants of the 29th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in Chemnitz, 2016 (more Photos) - (this one in full size)	29th FEM Symposium 2016 DG and Space-Time Methods Convection Dominated Problems High-Dimensional Problems Computational Mechanics Singularities Optimal Control
30th FEM Symposium 2017 - On Tour High Order FEM & Isogeometrical Analysis PDEs with Fractional Derivatives Computational Fluid Dynamics Adaptive FEM FEM on Surfaces Space-Time Methods Solvers, Solid Mechanics, BEM	Participants of the 30th Chemnitz FEM-Symposium in St. Wolfgang/Strobl, 2017 (more Photos) - (this one in full size)

Starting in 2018 the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium takes place in sequence with two other traditional Chemnitz events, the Chemnitz Symposium on Inverse Problems and the Summer School of Applied Analysis under the common organisational structure of the Chemnitz September of Applied Mathematics.
In rotation the Chemnitz FE Symposium will be On Tour every 2nd year and organized by one of the other members of the scientific committee.

Participants of the 31st Chemnitz FE-Symposium in Chemnitz, 2018 (more Photos) - (this one in full size)	31st FE Symposium 2018 Uncertainty Quantification HJB, CFD, FSI, Space-Time FEM Advanced Discretization Techniques Preconditioning, Error Estimates Optimal Control, Machine Learning
32nd FE Symposium 2019 - On Tour Scientific Computing Space-Time Methods Preconditioning, Numerical Analysis A posteriori Error Estimates Fractional and Nonlinear PDE's Optimal Control Computational Mechanics Least-Squares Finite Element Method	Participants of the 32nd Chemnitz FE-Symposium in Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2019 (more Photos) - (this photo in full size)
33rd Chemnitz FE-Symposium 2020	33rd FE Symposium 2020 In 2020 the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium was integrated into the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society (DMV-Jahrestagung), where it was situated within the Section "Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing". Isogeometric Analysis Anisotropic Finite Elements Computational Fluid Dynamics
34th FE Symposium 2021 Inverse Problems Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Nonlinear PDE's Adaptivity	34th Chemnitz FE-Symposium 2021
Participants of the 35rd Chemnitz FE-Symposium 2022	35th FE Symposium 2022 - On Tour In 2022 the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium was dedicated to the 60th birthday of Thomas Apel and took place in Herrsching am Ammersee close to Munich. Discretization of problems with low regularity Discretization of optimal control problems Neural networks with applications to PDEs
36th FE Symposium 2023 - On Tour In 2023 the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium was dedicated to the 60th birthday of Gundolf Haase and took place at Castle Seggau close to Graz. Scientific Computing Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Solvers	36th Chemnitz FE-Symposium 2023
Participants of the 37rd Chemnitz FE-Symposium 2024	37th FE Symposium 2024 Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Shape Optimization Pressure robustness and mass conservation in incompressible fluids