We are delighted to introduce Samantha Glory Guiate Simo and Wilson Tsuata as our first MATH+ YAM Fellows for the academic year 2023/24. They will stay in Berlin from 01 October 2023 until 30 June 2024. Congratulations, and welcome to the MATH+ community!
MATH+ and BMS invite applications for the Dirichlet Postdoc Fellowship. The fellowship starts in Fall 2024 and runs for two years. The call is open to promising young mathematicians who will have received their PhD by 30 September 2024. Application deadline: 01 December 2023
Dr. Ina Czyborra (SPD), the Berlin Senator for Science, Health and Care, will visit and get to know all seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence in the coming months. On 11 August 2023, her first visit took her to the Cluster of Excellence MATH+.
We are delighted to announce that the MATH+ Dissertation Awards 2022 have been presented to Dr. Luzie Helfmann, Dr. Patrick Morris, and Dr. Yizheng Yuan on 07 July 2023 for their excellent theses. These awards are conferred to up to three BMS graduates. Congratulations!
BMS Alumnus Martin Skrodzki received the 2023 SIAG/GD Early Career Prize at the 2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design (GD23) on 05 July 2023 in Genoa (Italy), which is part of the International Geometry Summit 2023. Congratulations from the BMS and MATH+!
MATH+ Distinguished Fellow Gavril Farkas of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was elected as a "Member of the Academia Europaea" (the Academy of Europe) in the mathematics section. Formed in 1988, the Academy of Europe has over 50 Nobel Prize winners among its members. Congratulations from MATH+!
The 7 Berlin Excellence Clusters are hosting an "Excellent Pub Quiz" at the Long Night of Sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Berlin) on June 17, 2023 at the Technische Universität Berlin campus (outdoor). Come by and enjoy a nice summer evening in a relaxed atmosphere
MATH+ welcomes Alex Blumenthal from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) to join our community as a MATH+ Visiting Scholar hosted by Junior Research Group Leader Maximilian Engel at Freie Universität Berlin. Blumenthal is a world-leading expert on ergodic theory and random dynamical systems. He
Renowned mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Pokutta has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize along with his co-authors and colleagues for their influential work in combinatorial optimization. Their paper, "Exponential Lower Bounds for Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization," published in the Journal of the ACM in 2015,
The Berlin "Tagesspiegel" published an article on the interdisciplinary MATH+ research project, "Evolution Models for Historical Networks," by Max Klimm et al. MATH+ interviewed him on a few more projects and released his film on "Game Theory," produced by the Berlin University Alliance.