Carlos Améndola (TU Berlin), along with collaborators Anna Seigal (Harvard University), Kathlén Kohn (KTH Stockholm), and Philipp Reichenbach (TU Berlin), has been awarded the highly regarded SIAM Review SIGEST Award by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for their publication on „Invariant Theory and Scaling Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Estimation.“

Max von Kleist, Professor für „Mathematics for Data Scienes“ an der Freien Universität Berlin, Forscher am Robert-Koch-Institut und MATH+ Professor, äußerte sich in Medienbeiträgen zu zwei hochaktuellen Themen: dem neuen HIV-Wirkstoff Lenacapavir und dem Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) zur Pandemiebekämpfung. (English version in the links)

We are delighted that the German Mathematical Society (DMV) has appointed MATH+ member and former BMS Chair Jürg Kramer as its President for a second term, effective 1 January 2025. Jürg Kramer, who previously served as DMV Treasurer (2003–2012) and as President (2013–2014), will succeed Joachim Escher of Leibniz Universität Hannover. Congratulations!

The Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB) has presented the “Marthe Vogt Award” to BMS alumna Alexandra Quitmann. This award recognizes her outstanding thesis, "Phase Transitions in Random Loop Models," which falls within a research field covered by the FVB." Congratulations!

At the annual MATH+ Day on 18 October 2024, the General Assembly elected new Chairs Andrea Walther (HU Berlin), Claudia Schillings (FU Berlin), and Sebastian Pokutta (TU Berlin) and bid farewell to former Chairs Michael Hintermüller, Christof Schütte, and Martin Skutella, thanking them for their contributions since 2019.

We are delighted to introduce Sintia Laura Nyaffi Achikwoue, Gil Wilfried Laken Kouatche, and Sergio Germain Tinaharimanjaka as the second cohort of MATH+ YAM Fellows in the Young African Mathematicians (YAM) Fellowship Program for the academic year 2024/25. Welcome to the MATH+ community!