PhD students will report on the current state of their research in posters and presentations. Further talks will be given by invited speakers Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich), Janko Gospocic (University of Freiburg) and Meret Huber (University of Münster) as well as internal speakers Claudia Keller Valsecchi (IMB), Ann Kathrin Huylmans (JGU) and René Ketting (IMB).