GAMM Annual Meeting – Lecce 2015 Overview of the Sections

Volume 15 (2015) of PAMM “Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics” assembles the contributions to the 86th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, held 23 – 27 March 2015 at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. The contributions are grouped according to the minisymposia and sessions of the conference. Overview of the Sections Minisymposia M 1 Multi‐Scale Modeling of Ferroic Functional Materials M 2 Applications of the Virtual Element Method M 3 Topological Defects in Solids M 4 Optimal Control and Hybrid Systems M 5 Mechanics in an Interdisciplinary, Multiphysics Environment, Transforming Materials Sciences and Biology Sections 1–24 1 Multi‐body dynamics 2 Biomechanics 3 Damage and fracture mechanics 4 Structural mechanics 5 Nonlinear oscillations 6 Material modelling in solid mechanics 7 Coupled problems 8 Multiscales and homogenization 9 Flows and transition 10 Turbulence and reactive flows 11 Interfacial flows 12 Waves and acoustics 13 Flow control 14 Applied analysis 15 Applied stochastics 16 Optimization 17 Applied and numerical linear algebra 18 Numerical methods for differential equations 19 Optimization of differential equations 20 Dynamics and control 21 Mathematical image processing 22 Scientific computing 23 Applied operator theory 24 History of mechanics Young Researchers' Minisymposia YR 1 Analysis, Applications and Approximation of Constrained PDEs YR 2 Phase Field Modeling in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics YR 3 Discretization Aspects in PDE Constrained Optimization YR 4 Co‐/Sparsity, Inverse Problems and Compressive Imaging YR 5 Topics in Low‐rank Tensor Approximation