Starting with Schrödinger's critique of the difficulty of visualising Heisenberg's matrix quantum physics, Hausel will discuss the notion of non-commutative matrices and its use in particle physics via Gell-Mann's eightfold way describing heavy particles in terms of quarks. Tamás Hausel has been full professor of mathematics at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) since 2016

Steidl introduces a novel general framework for constructing generative models using one-dimensional denoising processes beyond diffusion. Gabriele Steidl is professor for Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics at the TU Berlin.

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.

As in previous years, the Berlin Clusters of Excellence are once again teaming up to organize a SCIENCE SLAM at the Berlin Science Week 2025 on November 6. The Science Slam has, as always, attracted a lot of interest in the research coming out of the participating Clusters of Excellence. Don’t miss the chance to see Berlin’s brightest young scientists take the stage!

Florian Frick will discuss geometric, quantitative versions of these ideas: if two spaces are not the same, to what extent do they differ? If a space cannot sit inside another, how much discontinuity is forced on any injective function? Florian Frick is an alumnus of the Berlin Mathematical School and a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University.

In the last talk of the summer semester, Andrea Walther will introduce already established optimality conditions based on generalized derivative concepts for unconstrained nonsmooth problems and then move on to new optimality conditions for a large class of piecewise smooth functions using so-called kink qualifications. Andrea Walther is professor of Mathematical Optimization at HU Berlin and Cha...