In October 2006, the DFG announced that the BMS would receive funding as a graduate school within the “Excellence Initiative.” 20 years later, we are happy and proud to celebrate not only the 20th anniversary of the BMS, but also to mark this milestone by
Quasicrystals were discovered in the 1980s and have led to a paradigm change in crystallography. Their existence shows that order can exist without regular repetition. They scatter X-rays into patterns with sharp peaks, much like ordinary crystals. Yet the mathematics behind this picture holds a
OpenAI’s announcement of an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes problem has intensified speculation that mathematics might soon be “solved,” as many have said that chess and Go have been “solved.” In this talk, I challenge this narrative by questioning two assumptions on which it rests:
As in previous years, the Berlin Clusters of Excellence will once again team up to host the “Science Slam” as part of Berlin Science Week 2026 on 6 November. The Science Slam showcases exciting research from across participating Clusters of Excellence. Don't miss the chance
In der Vortragsreihe MATHINSIDE geben Wissenschaftler*innen des Exzellenzclusters MATH+ spannende Einblicke in ihre Forschungsarbeit und in die Anwendungsgebiete der Mathematik. Das Vortragsprogramm eignet sich hervorragend als Ausflugsziel für Schulklassen und -kurse ab Klassenstufe 10.
Am 9. Oktober heißt es wieder: Einschalten zur „Mathenacht aus Berlin, Bonn und Münster“! Wissenschaftler*innen der Exzellenzcluster MATH+ (Berlin), Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (Bonn) und Mathematik Münster zeigen online in Workshops für Kinder und Jugendliche, einer Talkrunde zu "KI und die Zukunft der Mathematik" sowie
We will introduce some fundamental concepts from probability theory, including central limit fluctuations, large deviation principles, and Brownian motion, beginning with the flip of a coin. We will then introduce interacting particle systems like the symmetric simple exclusion and zero range particle processes. Our goal
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
The classical isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean space Rⁿ states that among all sets of prescribed volume, the Euclidean ball (uniquely) minimizes surface area, explaining why a single soap bubble is always a round sphere. One may similarly consider isoperimetric problems in more general spaces, such
The Hungarian discrete mathematician László Lovász, renowned for his groundbreaking work in graph theory, combinatorics, and computer science, is a former president of the International Mathematical Union and a recipient of both the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize. In his talk, he will explain