Berlin Mathematics Research Center

MATH+, the Berlin Mathematics Research Center, is a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence. It sets out to explore and further develop new approaches in application-oriented mathematics. Emphasis is placed on mathematical principles for using ever larger amounts of data in life and material sciences, in energy and network research, and in the humanities and social sciences.

MATH+ is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy (EXC-2046/2, project ID 390685689). After the first period from 2019-2025, its second funding period started in January 2026 and will end by December 2032. It is a joint project of the three major universities in Berlin – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin – as well as the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) and the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). MATH+ continues the success stories of the renowned Research Center Matheon and the Excellence-Graduate School Berlin Mathematical School (BMS).

News

Administrative Officer (f/m/d) for the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) @ HU Berlin

09.04.2026

We invite applications for the position of Administrative Officer at HU Berlin, supporting the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) of MATH+. Join an international, friendly team in an academic environment with attractive working conditions.

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MATH+ and École Polytechnique Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Scientific Collaboration

08.04.2026

MATH+ and École Polytechnique (l’X, Paris) are reinforcing their ties and expanding their scientific collaboration. The partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 24 March 2026, during a visit by a delegation from the Chair of MATH+ to l’X.

Mathematicians—Including MATH+ Member Alexander I. Bobenko (TU Berlin)—Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem

07.04.2026

Researchers have overturned a 150-year-old rule in classical geometry, originally proposed by Pierre Ossian Bonnet, which claimed a surface is uniquely determined by its metric and mean curvature. They constructed two distinct donut-shaped surfaces sharing both properties, creating the first compact ‘Bonnet pair’ and disproving the long-accepted principle.

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Events

8 May – Susan Hermiller: A tale of three unknotting conjectures

30.04.2026

In this talk, Hermiller will discuss three conjectures, each aimed at simplifying the task of computing unknotting numbers. She will describe how her resolution of one of these conjectures several years ago, in joint work with Mark Brittenham, led them recently to resolve another – the (non)additivity of unknotting number under connected sum.

7-11 September – Conference at HU Berlin: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Crelle’s Journal and the Birth of Riemann

16.04.2026

The Crelle journal, founded in 1826, has been closely linked to the University of Berlin and the Berlin Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The conference will focus on recent development of prominent moduli spaces in mathematics, starting from moduli space of curves, introduced by Bernhard Riemann in 1857 in his paper "Theorie der Abelschen Functionen," published in Crelle's journal.

17 April – Alexandra Carpentier: Statistical and computational challenges in unsupervised learning: focus on ranking

13.04.2026

In this talk, we focus on understanding the problem of ranking from both an informational perspective – characterising the fundamental statistical thresholds for optimal estimation – and a computational one – characterising the fundamental limits of computationally efficient estimation. A core question for these problems is whether statistical optimality is compatible with computational efficiency...

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