More than 170 international experts came this week to Bochum to visit the 4th International Symposium on Phase‑Field Modelling in Materials Science (PF 19).

The one-week conference is jointly organized by Ingo Steinbach from ICAMS and Yunzhi Wang from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Ohio State University.

The meeting covers a broad field of theoretical modelling, numerical methods and applications related to phase-transitions, moving boundary problems, pattern formation and microstructure evolution in general. Also model integration into a multi-scale, multi-physics framework are of high interest.