The chair belongs to the Department of Mathematics. It is held by Professor Dahmen since 1992.

The research areas are:

• adaptive multiscale and preconditioning concepts for partial differential and integral equations, inverse problems and optimal control
• applications in fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction and process system engineering
• mesh generation for complex geometriesand geometric data processing (CAGD)
• robust and stable discretizations for multiphase fluid flow
• nonlinear approximation, image compression and machine learning

The chair is involved in the following funded projects:

• DFG SFB 401 Modulation of Flow and Fluid-Structure Interaction at Airplane Wings TP A4, B2, B3
• DFG GRK 775 Hierarchy and Symmetry in Mathematical Models
• EU-IHP-Network: Nonlinear Approximation and Adaptivity: Breaking Complexity in Numerical Modeling and Data Representation
• PROCOPE-Exchange Program (France)