2024_08_01_Young Reseachers_Symposium

Talks and poster pitches by doctoral students of Kaiserslautern and Landau / August 01, 2024, 08:30-19:00 h

6th Young Researchers Symposium 2024

PhD students: Present your research to a wide audience in a compelling manner!

Every two years, the TU-Nachwuchsring and the High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation organize a competition for young researchers (doctoral students*) with all kinds of scientific backgrounds. The most exciting presentations, the best posters and the best abstract will be awarded prizes with a total value of 6.000 Euros!

The goal is not only to present scientific findings from young researchers in a way that is understandable to non-experts, but also to make the presentations as entertaining, interesting and exciting as possible.

Additionally, the coffee breaks and the get-together provide an opportunities to network and gain scientific insights from other fields.

We cordially invite all interested parties to attend the symposium and vote for the best contributions.

Event details

Registration

Register now as audiance member by July 18^th and decide on the best contributions at the 6^th Young Researchers Symposium (YRS) on August 1^st, 2024 (Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern) and vote for the most exciting talks and best posters!

Location

Fraunhofer Center, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, Kaiserslautern

Date

August 01, 2024, 08:30-19:00 h

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Language

English

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Conference Agenda

8:30 | Registration

August 1st, 2024 at Fraunhofer Center Kaiserslautern Fraunhofer Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern

8:45 | Welcome Speech and Introduction

Welcome speech: Werner Thiel, Konrad Steiner

Introduction: Max Wolkersdorfer

9:00 | Talks – Session 1 (Chair: Anna Probst, Department of Biology, RPTU)

For each talk 15 min. will be scheduled (12 min. presentation and 3 min. discussion).

Slot	Title	Presenter
T1	An Imbalance of Nucleotide Homeostasis Negatively Affects Plant Development	Eva Dörfer (RPTU)
T2	Exploring Uncharted Terrain: Progress in Autonomous Offroad Exploration	Jannis Egelhof (RPTU)
T3	It’s Getting Tight - How Colmation Influences Hyporheos and Renaturation of Rivers	Teresa Luftensteiner (RPTU)
T4	Optimizing Wood Fiber Insulation Mats Using Digital Twins	Aiswarya Nair Maninkantan Geetha, Alex Keilmann (RPTU)
T5	Untargeted Metabolomics for in Vitro Toxicological Testing	Yannik Schermer (RPTU)

10:15 | Coffee Beak

Coffee, tea, cold drinks, snacks & networking.

10:30 | Poster Pitch 1 (Chair: Natascha Jeziorski, Department of Mathematics, RPTU and Fraunhofer ITWM)

The presenters will have 3 minutes to present their research (»pitch«) and encourage the audience to visit their poster during the poster session and the breaks:

Slot	Title	Presenter
P1	A Question of Dissipation: Micromixing in the Reaction Mixing Pump	Arvid Kraus (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P2	Big Brain Problems – Endocytosis and Its Role in Brain Disorders	Jasmeet Shergill (RPTU)
P3	Building a Test Battery to Identify Non-genotoxic Carcinogens	Lea Thibol (RPTU)
P4	Developing Second Generation Sensors for Zinc Detection in Live Cells	Florian Altes (RPTU)
P5	Dynamics of an infectious disease model with stochastic appearance of mutations	Marvin Schulte (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P6	eDNA-Metabarcoding Provides a Tool That Allows an Unbiased Insight Into the Community Composition of Aquifer Ecosystems	Hannah Rau (RPTU)
P7	Embedding Layout in Text for Document Understanding Using Large Language Models	Mohammad Minouei (DFKI)
P8	Flood-Mediated Aquatic-Terrestrial Pollutant Transfer in Riparian Zones	Franziska Fiolka (RPTU)
P9	Handling of Uncertainties at Runtime Based on Runtime Verification and Field Monitoring	Nishanth Laxman (Fraunhofer IESE)
P10	Heme Iron in the Context of Nutrition and Colorectal Cancer	Ann-Cathrin Wolf (RPTU)
P11	High Current Solderless Interfacing: Enabling High Power Electrification and Miniaturization Trend	Akshata Sangle (RPTU)
P12	Investigation of the Manufacturing Process and the Properties of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Organic Sheets	Valentine Domengie (IVW)
P13	MiNaMag - Micro- and Nanostructured Hard Magnetic Materials and Components for Micro Technical Applications	Felix Wetzler (HS Kaiserslautern)
P14	Missing Sensors in Multi-Sensor ML Models for Earth Observation	Francisco Mena (RPTU)
P15	Multifunctionality in Urban Neighborhoods	Corinna Schittenhelm (RPTU)

11:15 | Coffee Beak

Coffee, tea, cold drinks, snacks & networking.

The presenters will have 3 minutes to present their research (»pitch«) and encourage the audience to visit their poster during the poster session and the breaks:

Slot	Title	Presenter
P16	Nonlinear 3D Micro-Printed Optical Waveguides	Alaa Bazayeed (RPTU)
P17	Nucleotide Excision Repair Protects Against Dna Adducts Formed by Hepatotoxin Methyleugenol	Caroline Quarz (RPTU)
P18	Optimal Investment and Sustainable Taxation	Ajla Nurkanovic (RPTU)
P19	Orientation Dependent Nuclear Inelastic Scattering on Nitrogenase Singe Crystals	Marco Tummeley (RPTU)
P20	Pushing Towards Inclusive Systems Engineering	Sandor Dalecke (RPTU)
P21	Pushing Towards Inclusive Systems Engineeringselective Distillation Algorithm to Evaluate Deep Material Networks	Pavan Bhat Keelanje Srinivias (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P22	The »Teufelstisch« – Did the Devil Use Topology Optimization for the Design?	Maximilian Eckrich (IVW)
P23	The Interplay of Influenza and COVID-19 in Germany, January 2020 - December 2022: A Study of Competitive Disease Dynamics With Quarantine Measures and Partial Cross-Immunity	Anna Fome (RPTU)
P24	Towards Sustainable Resource Management:an AI Solution for Future 6G Mobile Communication Networks	Maryam Arabshahi (DFKI)
P25	Why Museums Can’t Be Sustainable: Case Studies on Museums and Their Work on Deia in Germany	Cristina Beard (RPTU)

12:00 | Lunch

As a participant of the Young Researchers Symposium you will have free lunch. The lunch will be offered in the »Großer Seminarraum«.

On the menu:

Tomato soup & salad
Focaccia, Sandwiches

13:00 | Poster Session

The posters will be exhibited during the entire course of the conference. The poster session (and coffee breaks) offers time for more in-depth-discussion at the poster.

Slot	Title	Presenter
P1	A Question of Dissipation: Micromixing in the Reaction Mixing Pump	Arvid Kraus (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P2	Big Brain Problems - Endocytosis and Its Role in Brain Disorders	Jasmeet Shergill (RPTU)
P3	Building a Test Battery to Identify Non-genotoxic Carcinogens	Lea Thibol (RPTU)
P4	Developing Second Generation Sensors for Zinc Detection in Live Cells	Florian Altes (RPTU)
P5	Dynamics of an Infectious Disease Model With Stochastic Appearance of Mutations	Marvin Schulte (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P6	eDNA-Edna-Metabarcoding Provides a Tool That Allows an Unbiased Insight Into the Community Composition of Aquifer Ecosystems	Hannah Rau (RPTU)
P7	Embedding Layout in Text for Document Understanding Using Large Language Models	Mohammad Minouei (DFKI)
P8	Flood-Mediated Aquatic-Terrestrial Pollutant Transfer in Riparian Zones	Franziska Fiolka (RPTU)
P9	Handling of Uncertainties at Runtime Based on Runtime Verification and Field Monitoring	Nishanth Laxman (Fraunhofer IESE)
P10	Heme Iron in the Context of Nutrition and Colorectal Cancer	Ann-Cathrin Wolf (RPTU)
P11	High Current Solderless Interfacing: Enabling High Power Electrification and Miniaturization Trend	Akshata Sangle (RPTU)
P12	Investigation of the Manufacturing Process and the Properties of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Organic Sheets	Valentine Domengie (IVW)
P13	MiNaMag - Micro- and Nanostructured Hard Magnetic Materials and Components for Micro Technical Applications	Felix Wetzler (HS Kaiserslautern
P14	Missing Sensors in Multi-Sensor ML Models for Earth Observation	Francisco Mena (RPTU)
P15	Multifunctionality in Urban Neighborhoods	Corinna Schittenhelm (RPTU)
P16	Nonlinear 3D Micro-Printed Optical Waveguides	Alaa Bazayeed (RPTU)
P17	Nucleotide Excision Repair Protects Against Dna Adducts Formed by Hepatotoxin Methyleugenol	Caroline Quarz (RPTU)
P18	Optimal Investment and Sustainable Taxation	Ajla Nurkanovic (RPTU)
P19	Orientation Dependent Nuclear Inelastic Scattering on Nitrogenase Singe Crystals	Marco Tummeley (RPTU)
P20	Pushing Towards Inclusive Systems Engineering	Sandor Dalecke (RPTU)
P21	Selective Distillation Algorithm to Evaluate Deep Material Networks	Pavan Bhat Keelanje Srinivias (Fraunhofer ITWM)
P22	The »Teufelstisch« – Did the Devil Use Topology Optimization for the Design?	Maximilian Eckrich (IVW)
P23	The Interplay of Influenza and COVID-19 in Germany, January 2020 - December 2022: A Study of Competitive Disease Dynamics with Quarantine Measures and Partial Cross-Immunity	Anna Fome (RPTU)
P24	Towards Sustainable Resource Management:An AI Solution for Future 6G Mobile Communication Networks	Maryam Arabshahi (DFKI)
P25	Why Museums Can’t Be Sustainable: Case Studies on Museums and Their Work on Deia in Germany	Cristina Beard (RPTU)

14:00 | Talks – Session 2 (Chair: Dr. Jessica Mariño Salguero, Department of Embedded Software Engineering, Fraunhofer IESE)

For each talk 15 min. will be scheduled (12 min. presentation and 3 min. discussion).

Slot	Title	Presenter
T6	Learning From Nature: Complex Copper Catalysis	Nesrin Dilmen (RPTU)
T7	Understanding Nature Step-By-Step: Towards Off-Road Environment Perception for Autonomous Driving	Pankaj Deoli (RPTU)
T8	They Like to Move It Move It – How Do Cells Stay in Shape?	Marlen Duchmann (RPTU)
T9	The Solution to Plastic Pollution: Bidegradable Polymers From Waste Streams	Cora Laumeyer (RPTU)
T10	Safe and Easy Breathing	Christian Mercier (Fraunhofer ITWM)

15:15 | Coffee Beak

Coffee, tea, cold drinks, snacks & networking.

15:00 | Talks – Session 3 (Chair: Annika M. Pick, Department of Chemistry, RPTU)

For each talk 15 min. will be scheduled (12 min. presentation and 3 min. discussion).

Slot	Title	Presenter
T11	Simulations of supersonic flows to develop a rocket-borne particle collector and to investigate the impaction efficiency	Birte Klug (RPTU)
T12	Adventure Await in the Shadow Realm of Mathematics	Firoozeh Aga née Dastur (Fraunhofer ITWM)
T13	Activation of CO2: Insights From Controlled Collisions	Marcel Meta (RPTU)
T14	Federated Learning Strategies for Enhanced Quality Inspection processes in Manufacturing Industry	Vinit Hegiste (RPTU)
T15	Intestinal Inflammation as an Initial Event in the Pathogenesis of Prakinson’s Disease	Stephanie Rommel (HS Kaiserslautern)

17:00 | Voting & Chill out

Voting and Chill out with music and fingerfood.

18:30 | Awards Ceremony for Best Talks, posters & Abstracts

19:00 | End of the Conference

Symposium

Talks

The official conference language is English. There are 15 minutes scheduled for each talk, which includes the discussion (12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion).

You may use videos in your presentations, but please make sure in time that they are also playable on our presentation computer.
You can also spice up your presentation with small live experiments and visual objects. Please consult the organizers for security aspects and additional equipment needed if you plan to do so.

Content, structure, organization and performance of the talk (e.g. a clear and comprehensible language, free speech etc.) are judged as well as the following discussion.

Poster Presentations

Pitch

You have 3 minutes in which you can present your research (your ‘pitch’) to encourage people to visit your poster to find out more about it.

Pitches involve:

a 3 minute oral presentation
one slide only (this slide should summarize the most important points/the core message of your poster)
no questions or discussion

Exhibition

The posters (A0, portrait) will be exhibited during the entire course of the conference for discussion during breaks. During the poster session you will have the opportunity to answer questions about your poster and discuss it with the jury members and other conference participants.

Both the performance at the poster pitch and the exhibition as well as the poster itself are included in the evaluation by the Scientific Committee.

Call for abstracts

Who is Eligible?

Doctoral students of the RPTU, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI – location Kaiserslautern), the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (ifos), the Institute for Technology and Work (ITA) e.V., the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW), the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems (MPI - location Kaiserslautern) and the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

Start call for abstracts: April 8^th, 2024

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 13^th, 2024

Authors will be notified of the reviewers’ feedback as from June 17^th, 2024.

On our YRS 2024 conference website you can submit your abstract and register as a participant:

YRS 2024 Conference Management System

Please note: Register as participant before submitting your abstract. Co-authors must also create a user account if they wish to participate in YRS 2024 on August 1^st, 2024.

All accepted abstracts will be optionally published in the conference proceedings. Here you can take a look at the abstract book of the YRS 2022.

Requirements for the Abstracts/ Formal Criteria

Teamwork is accepted.

The abstract must be written in English.

It must not be longer than one page including optional figures and references, etc.!
It has to be prepared using the following IEEE templates (do not change the given style, format, etc.!):
- Microsoft Word
  A4 (DOC, 30 KB)
- LaTeX Template Instructions (PDF, 63 KB) [Be sure to use the template's conference mode.]
  LateX Template (ZIP, 700 KB)
  LaTeX Bibliography Files (ZIP, 309 KB)
- Overleaf
Upload your abstract as one pdf file.

Main Review Criteria

Does the abstract meet the formal criteria (language, citations, length)
Does the abstract illustrate the value of your research for scientists outside of your field?
Are the analyses/methods appropriate and comprehensible?
Is the overall abstract written in an easily comprehensible way?

Please note: only abstracts that meet the formal criteria will go into the review process!

Please keep in mind that the reviewers are representatives of all scientific disciplines, so it cannot be guaranteed that they are familiar with your special research field. For that reason, please make sure that your abstract is comprehensible and written in a more popular scientific way for persons outside your discipline and not for a review committee of a scientific conference in your field.

Assessment

For the assessment and selection of the YRS 2024 prizes for the best contributions, the review of the submitted abstracts, the vote of the audience and that of the scientific committee will be taken into consideration.

YRS prizes

The interdisciplinary jury/scientific committee and the audience decide together on the best talks and posters. We are awarding prizes with a total value of up to 6.000 € for the most exciting presentations and best posters, and for the first time, also for the best abstract!

Audience

If you would like to register for the conference without submitting an abstract (audience), please create a user account on the Conference Management Website. Registration as a member of the audience is possible from April 8^th to July 18^th, 2024.

Patrons of YRS 2024

Prof. Dr. Werner R. Thiel, Vice President for Research in Kaiserslautern, RPTU
Dr. Konrad Steiner, Managing Director, High Performance Center Simulation and Software Based Innovation

Scientific committee

Both the reviewers for the abstracts and the jury for evaluating the talks and poster presentations are composed of representatives from almost all disciplines of Kaiserslautern and Landau:

Reviewers

Max Aehle
(Department of Computer Science, RPTU)
Lennart Bruß
(Department of Spatial and Environmental Planning, RPTU)
Dr. Miro Duhovic
(Competence Field Process Simulation, Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH)
Prof. Dr. Georg von Freymann
(Department of Physics, RPTU and Department of Materials Characterization and Testing, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Dr. Sonja Föhst
(Department of Mathematics, RPTU)
Dr. Florian Fuchs
(Department of Business Studies and Economics, RPTU)
Anna-Lena Gérard
(Department of Cultural and Social Sciences, RPTU)
Myriam Goll
(Department of Cultural and Social Sciences, RPTU)
Larissa Zoe Herrmann
(Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, RPTU)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Amru Hussein
(Department of Mathematics, RPTU)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christina Jörg
(Department of Physics, RPTU)
Dr. Jonathan Jupke
(Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, RPTU)
Fabian Kaufmann
(Department of Civil Engineering, RPTU)
Dr. Markus Kronenberger
(Department of Image Processing, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Sophie Lacher
(Department of Social Sciences, RPTU)
Christoph Lipps
(Research Department of Intelligent Networks, DFKI Kaiserslautern)
Zai Müller-Zhang
(Department of Embedded Software Engineering, Fraunhofer IESE)
apl. Prof. Dr. Marcus J. Naumer
(Office for Research, RPTU)
Nina Röder
(Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences)
Dr. Stefanie Schwaar
(Department of Financial Mathematics, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Johann-N. Seibert
(Department of Chemistry, RPTU)
Dr.-Ing. Nicole K. Stephan
(Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, RPTU)
Dr. Anna Thomas
(Department of Social Sciences, RPTU)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Werth
(Department of Applied Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern)

Jury (Talks)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lars Hopstock
(Department of Architecture, RPTU)
Malte Koster
(Department of Physics, RPTU)
Dr. Jessica Mariño Salguero
(Department of Embedded Software Engineering, Fraunhofer IESE)
Dr. Caroline Marker
(Center for Graduate Support and Academic Staff Development, RPTU)
Dr. Allan Philippe
(Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, RPTU)
Dr.-Ing. Jason R. Rambach
(Research Department of Augmented Vision, DFKI Kaiserslautern)
Dr. Fabio Schneider-Jung
(Division of Mathematics for Vehicle Engineering, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Steidel
(Department of Applied Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, and Division of Mathematics for Vehicle Engineering, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Anja Tusch
(Department of Civil Engineering, RPTU)
Maximilian Wolkersdorfer
(Department of Social Sciences, RPTU)

Jury (Poster)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Filker
(Department of Biology, RPTU)
Dr.-Ing. Sarah Di Nonno
(Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, RPTU)
Katharina Ebel
(Department of Biology, RPTU)
Vera Eymann
(Department of Social Sciences, RPTU)
Dr. Alexander Geng
(Department of Image Processing, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Julia Gieser
(Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, RPTU)
Dr.-Ing. Lena Josch
(Office for Research, RPTU)
Christian Jung
(Department of Mathematics, RPTU)
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Klingler
(Department of DFG Walter Benjamin-Programm, Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH)
Anika Sedlmeier
(Public Relations Team, Fraunhofer ITWM)

Organizing team

Melike Aksu (PhD student, Department of Biology)
Natascha Jeziorski (PhD student, Department of Mathematics (RPTU) and Fraunhofer ITWM)
Sylvia Gerwalin (Central Projects, Fraunhofer ITWM)
Fabian Kaufmann (PhD student, Department of Civil Engineering)
Meike Merz (PhD student, Department of Chemistry)
Dr. Inga Nissen (Office for Academic Career Development and Professorial Appointments, Manager of the TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)
Raphael Petrikat (Office for Academic Career Development and Professorial Appointments, TU-Nachwuchsring, RPTU)

RPTU / Interview / 15.04.2024

»Have the courage to try things out«

In this interview, Christine Pauli, second place winner in the »Best Talk« category of the YRS 2022, talks about her presentation, the competition and encourages all doctoral students to apply!

to the Interview {Only available in German]

Talks and poster pitches by doctoral students of Kaiserslautern and Landau / August 01, 2024, 08:30-19:00 h

6th Young Researchers Symposium 2024

Event details

Registration

Location

Language

Curious About YRS? More Info Here

8:30 | Registration

8:45 | Welcome Speech and Introduction

9:00 | Talks – Session 1 (Chair: Anna Probst, Department of Biology, RPTU)

10:15 | Coffee Beak

10:30 | Poster Pitch 1 (Chair: Natascha Jeziorski, Department of Mathematics, RPTU and Fraunhofer ITWM)

11:15 | Coffee Beak

11:30 | Poster Pitch 2 (Chair: Maximilian Wolkersdorfer, Department of Social Sciences, RPTU)

12:00 | Lunch

13:00 | Poster Session

14:00 | Talks – Session 2 (Chair: Dr. Jessica Mariño Salguero, Department of Embedded Software Engineering, Fraunhofer IESE)

15:15 | Coffee Beak

15:00 | Talks – Session 3 (Chair: Annika M. Pick, Department of Chemistry, RPTU)

17:00 | Voting & Chill out

18:30 | Awards Ceremony for Best Talks, posters & Abstracts

19:00 | End of the Conference

Talks

Poster Presentations

Pitch

Exhibition

Who is Eligible?

Requirements for the Abstracts/ Formal Criteria

Main Review Criteria

Reviewers

Jury (Talks)

Jury (Poster)

»Have the courage to try things out«