18–19 November 2026 | BMS/MATH+ Anniversary Conference

This event is part of the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of BMS and the launch of the 2nd funding period of MATH+.

Outstanding mathematicians with a Berlin connection in their keynote lectures and our BMS alumni will provide an idea of the breadth of the research done in the BMS and MATH+.

Registration and Venue

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Programme

Day 1 – Wednesday, 18 November

09:15Welcome
09:30Keynote Speech:
Maria J. Esteban (CNRS and University Paris-Dauphine)
10:15Coffee Break
10:55Anastasija Pešić (CMU Pittsburgh/BMS Alumna 2025)
Why Do Patterns Form? The Mathematics of Energy Minimization
11:25Carla Cederbaum (U Tübingen/BMS Alumna 2011)
A New Strategy for Proving Geometric Inequalities
12:00Lunch
14:15Keynote Speech: N.N.
15:00Kaie Kubjas (Aalto U/BMS Alumna 2013)
Geometry of Low Nonnegative Rank Matrix Completion
15:30Coffee Break
16:10Christoph Hertrich (TU Nürnberg/BMS Alumnus 2022)
Using Polyhedral Geometry to Understand Neural Networks
16:40Ayush Kumar Tewari (RICAM/BMS Alumnus 2020)
Understanding Rigidity of Graphs via Tropical Geometry
17:10Jean-Philippe Labbé (ETS Montréal/BMS Alumnus 2013)
Lineup Polytopes: The Geometry of Quantum Exclusion
18:00Reception

Day 2 – Thursday, 19 November

09:15Welcome
09:30Keynote Speech: Francis Brown (Oxford)
A History of Irrationality Proofs from the Ancient Greeks to OpenAI
10:15Coffee Break
10:55Ana Maria Botero (U Bielefeld/BMS Alumna 2017)
Moduli Spaces, Modular Forms, and What Happens at Infinity
11:25Emre Sertöz (U Leiden/BMS Alumnus 2017)
12:00Lunch
14:15Keynote Speech: Alexandra Carpentier (U Potsdam)
15:00Coffee Break
15:30Paul Hager (U Wien/BMS Alumnus 2021)
Stochastic Control with Memory: A Signature Approach
16:00BMS Alumni
17:00End of Conference