2019 CHALLENGE WORKSHOP
Digital Twins: Industrial an Mathematical Challenges
The 13th Challenge Workshop focused on creating new reserach collaborations inspired by real world problems from a wide set of industrial application. It took place at the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities on May 7-8, 2019.

Challenges
Complexity is exploding. Novel production technologies like additive manufacturing allow producing products of a complexity not seen before. Miniatuarization of electronics allows computing capability on the edge and in the cloud not seen before. Our knowledge in medicine is exponentially growing. Open innovation and collaboration lead to more and more complex business networks and relationships – to name only a few trends.
Our current paradigms in how to manage this complexity are not able to cope with it efficiently any more. Digitalization changes everything everywhere. With the rise of new technology trends, such as AI Foundations, Intelligent Things, Cloud to Edge, or Immersive Experiences, many of today’s paradigms can be expected to be disrupted. Not only in the consumer market, as we can clearly observe today, but also in the industrial and medical sector we see disruptions as proven by first early adopters.
Input Speaker
- Peter Maass (University of Bremen)
- Wil Schilders (EU-MATHS-IN)
- Dirk Hartmann (Siemens AG)
- Carsten Dietze-Selent (SAP SE)
- Christof Büskens (University of Bremen)
- Hanno Schülldorf (Deutsche Bahn AG)
- Hergen Schultze (BASF SE)
- Thomas Schuster (Saarland University)
- Hans Georg Bock (Heidelberg University)