Chemnitz FEM Symposia

FEM Symposia previously took place in Chemnitz in 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990, after which the tradition of these comparably large meetings (about 200 participants in 1990) was discontinued.

Instead, smaller workshops with a limited scope were organised annually between 1992 and 1995.

In 1997 we decided to call these annual meetings FEM Symposia once more, but to announce them with a limited scope.

The scientific topics were:

	1997 Parallel algorithms in solid mechanics Parallel solvers for finite element equations Models in structural mechanics Mortar elements in domain decomposition Anisotropic discretizations
	1998 Parallel adaptive methods Error estimation Mesh refinement Load balancing Applications in fluid mechanics
	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 1992-1999 symposia were announced as German meetings, from 2000 we will hold international meetings with English as the official language.
	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
	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
	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