OpenSD2026 Germany Summer School

The OpenSD2026 Germany Summer School aims to promote and showcase open-source solutions for structural dynamics. During the Summer School, attendees learned how to properly use common Python packages for structural dynamics. The target audience is PhD and last year M.Sc. students, as well as people from industry interested in open-source solutions for structural dynamics.

The Summer School took place on August 3rd - 6th, 2026 (Monday through Thursday), with an optional Munich City Tour on Sunday, August 2nd, 2026.

Organized by Oliver Maximilian Zobel, M.Sc. at the TUM Chair of Applied Mechanics under Prof. Dr. Daniel Rixen, the summer school was hosted in Garching near Munich. OpenSD2026 Germany is part of OpenSD (opensd-conference.com), initiated by Janko Slavič, and followed the OpenSD 2025 Conference and Summer School held in Ljubljana (Slovenia).