According to a well-known dictum of Niels Henrik Abel, divergent series are the devil’s invention. In spite of that (or because of that), they appear in many different situations in physics and mathematics. This talk will first review some important examples of divergent series and
Motivated by the social distancing rules, this talk considers the task of fairly sharing a divisible good among several agents in a setting where every two agents' shares must be separated. This talk is based on joint work with Erel Segal-Halevi and Warut Suksompong. Edith Elkind
The Mendelssohn Society invites to an evening of lectures "About the Mendelssohn's, the Cholera and Higher Mathematics" on the occasion of Fanny Mendelssohn's, later Fanny Hensel (1805-1847), birthday. MATH+ member Stefanie Winkelmann from Zuse Institute Berlin will talk about pandemics and probability theory.
Our world is becoming increasingly complex, digitization is advancing, and ever-greater volumes of data are being produced every day. How can we use data to tackle major challenges facing our society or contribute to progress? MATH+ scientists will introduce aspects of the research spectrum with
During the Berlin Science Week (01-10 November 2021), MATH+ member Sarah Wolf offers a "Decision Theatre" to discuss sustainable mobility in small groups of participants. The results and potential impacts will be visualized on large screens based on mathematical modeling.
In this talk, Rosenbaum will present an overview of recent results related to the rough volatility paradigm. Mathieu Rosenbaum is a full professor at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. His areas of research are statistical finance, stochastic modelling and quantitative financial regulation.
The Kick-off Workshop of the TES in Winter Semester 2021/22 on "Mathematics of Imaging in Real-World Challenges" will take place in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Institute Berlin (PTB) on 06-08 October 2021. This event will bring together practitioners, biomedical engineers, computer vision and machine learning experts
An exceptionally gifted mathematician and an extremely complex person, Floer exhibited, as one friend put it, a "radical individuality." Indeed, his revolutionary mathematical ideas, contradicting conventional wisdom, could only be inspired by such impetus, and can only be understood in this context. Helmut Hofer is
Over the past decade, research at the interface of topology and neuroscience has grown remarkably fast. In this talk, after a very brief introduction to the necessary elements of neuroscience, Hess will survey the results obtained by her and her collaborators when applying topological tools
There are many situations in geometry and group theory where it is natural, convenient or necessary to explore infinite groups via their actions on finite objects. But how much understanding can one really gain about an infinite group by examining its finite images? Sometimes little,