Event Overview
Discover the wide selection of events taking place at MPI MiS. From conferences, colloquia, workshops, and seasonal schools to regular events such as seminars, talks, and reading groups, we host all kinds of events for you to enjoy. Join us to expand your knowledge and network with leading researchers.
Selected Events
colloquium
11.06.25
Felix Klein Colloquium Felix Klein Colloquium
Universität Leipzig
Felix-Klein-Hörsaal
conference
29.09.25
30.09.25
DMV Topic Days Felix Klein DMV Topic Days Felix Klein
Multiple Locations
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Events in 2016
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Nature’s optics and our understanding of light
- Michael Berry (H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol)
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13:30
Homogenization of stochastic processes in degenerate random environments via Moser’s iteration
- Alberto Chiarini (Aix-Marseille Université)
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11:00
Singular limits for randomly forced Boussinesq system
- Juraj Foeldes (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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16:00
Towards In-Vivo Histology using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Nikolaus Weiskopf (New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
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15:15
Weak-Strong Uniqueness in Fluid Dynamics
- Emil Wiedemann (Universität Bonn)
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Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes within Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings
- Bill Clyne (University of Cambridge)
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09:30
Large-scale regularity of random elliptic operators on the half-plane
- Claudia Raithel (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
The (Variable Coefficient) Thin Obstacle Problem: A Carleman Approach
- Angkana Rüland (University of Oxford)
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15:15
Properties and applications of DC functions
- Ludek Zajicek (Karls-Universität Prag)
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Sonderkolloquium anlässlich der Ehrenpromotion von Mikhail Eremets
Universität Leipzig (Leipzig) -
Musculo-Skeletal Models of Human Movement: Tools to Quantify Embodiment
- Daniel Häufle (Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
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15:15
Regularity for optimal design problems in a class of differential operators of gradient form
- Adolfo Rabasa (Universität Bonn)
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16:15
Conformal techniques in Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry
- Olaf Müller (Universität Regensburg)
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15:15
Regularization by noise for linear SPDEs
- Mario Maurelli (WIAS Berlin + TU Berlin)
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Atomistic Simulation of Single Molecule Experiments: Molecular Machines and a Dynasome Perspective
- Helmut Grubmüller (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen)
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Dynamics of Discrete Time System with Stop Operator
- Nikita Begun (Freie Universität Berlin)
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15:15
Conformal actions of semi-simple Lie groups on compact Lorentz manifolds
- Vincent Pecastaing (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
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11:00
A pointwise finite dimensional reduction method
- Bruno Premoselli (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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A top (quark) story
- Martin Beneke (TU München)
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10:00
Invariants of conformal embeddings
- Florin Belgun (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
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16:15
Causal variational principles and conservation laws
- Felix Finster (Universität Regensburg)
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11:00
Minimal sets in Riemannian manifolds
- Vincent Feuvrier (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse)
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14:00
The coevolution of selfish memes and human psychology
- Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
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15:15
Lipschitz functions with prescribed blowups at many points
- Andrea Marchese (Universität Zürich)
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15:15
Malliavin Calculus for the nonlinear Parabolic Anderson Model
- Paul Gassiat (Université Paris Dauphine)
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16:30
Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served before the next seminar
- Meet the speaker (of the next seminar)
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17:00
A Guided Tour through the Cosmos of Ranking Theory
- Wolfgang Spohn (Fachbereich Philosophie, Universität Konstanz, Germany)
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Complex mixed-mode oscillations in a prototypical three-time-scale model.
- Ekaterina Kutafina (Dept. of Medical Informatics, RWTH Aachen University, and AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
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11:00
A direct approach to Plateau's problem
- Antonio De Rosa (Universität Zürich)
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15:15
Optimal fine-scale structures in composite materials
- Benedikt Wirth (Universität Münster)
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Musculo-Skeletal Models of Human Movement: Tools to Quantify Embodiment
- Daniel Häufle (Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
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16:45
Interaction energy of domain walls in a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau type model from micromagnetics
- Radu Ignat (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
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14:00
A kinetic characterization of vortices
- Pierre Bochard (Université Paris-Sud)
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15:15
n-polyconvexity: a new generalized semiconvexity which contains both poly- and rank-one convexity
- Sandra Kabisch (University of Surrey)
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A geometric analysis of fast-slow models for stochastic gene expression
- Nicola Popovic (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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15:15
The complexity of a minimal subvariety and the index conjecture
- Alessandro Carlotto (ETH Zürich)
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Nonlinear waves in open and closed systems: dispersion vs. weak turbulence
- Piotr Bizon (MPI for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam-Golm Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakau)
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The effect of noise on mixed-mode oscillations
- Barbara Gentz (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
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10:00
A Boltzmann Equation with Stochastic Kinetic Transport
- Scott Smith (University of Maryland)
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11:00
Multiscale PDE problems for active biosystems
- Leonid Berlyand (Pennsylvania State University)
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15:15
Phase field model of cell motility: sharp interface limit and traveling waves
- Leonid Berlyand (The Pennsylvania State University)
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Modeling somatic evolution in hierarchical tissue structures
- Arne Traulsen (MPI für Evolutionsbiologie)
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Minimum-Information Planning in Partially-Observable Decision Problems
- Roy Fox (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University, Israel)
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15:15
A constructive approach to regularity of Lagrangian trajectories for incompressible Euler flow in a bounded domain
- Nicolas Besse (Université Côte d'Azur)
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Modeling Protein Aggregation
- Ulrich H.E. Hansmann (University of Oklahoma)
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Regularity issues in problems with hysteresis
- Darya Apushkinskaya (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
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11:00
Regularity of optimal sets for spectral functionals
- Bozhidar Velichkov (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann)
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15:30
On the collaboration of Felix Klein and Sophus Lie in the early 1870's, seen in the light of Klein's letters to Lie
- Eldar Straume
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Rigorous connecting orbits from numerics
- Kenneth J. Palmer (National Taiwan University, currently visiting Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria)
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Kernfusion - die Energiequelle der Sterne auf die Erde holen
- Hartmut Zohm (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
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Transport at the Nanoscale: from Biological Complexes to Hard Condensed Matter
- Dirk K. Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Zur automatisierten Erkennung von Schichtgrenzen in Retina-Tomogrammen
- Marcus Wagner (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Minimal surfaces of high codimension: isotropicity, holomorphicity and stability
- Mario Micallef (University of Warwick)
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Stimuli Sensitive Polymer Coatings with different film architectures triggered by light
- Regine von Klitzing (TU Berlin)
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15:15
Weyl's law for widths of Riemannian manifolds
- Yevgeny Liokumovich (Imperial College London)
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16:45
New solutions to a generalized Plateau problem
- Sławomir Kolasiński (MPI für Gravitationsphysik)
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09:45
Bayesian reconstruction of piecewise constant signals
- Iryna Sivak (University of Warwick)
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11:00
Evolution by curvature of networks in the plane
- Alessandra Pluda (Università di Pisa)
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09:45
Stochastic conservation law involving a Q-Brownian motion
- Yueyuan Gao (Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay)
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11:00
Convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation to multi-phase mean-curvature flow
- Tim Laux (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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On Information and the Drivers of Cognition
- Daniel Polani (University of Hertfortshire, United Kingdom)
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10:30
Universality and entropy growth in evolutionary dynamics
- Matteo Smerlak (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
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15:15
Blowup for model equations of fluid mechanics
- Vu Hoang (Rice University, Texas)
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Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity
- Thomas Thiemann (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute for Quantum Gravity)
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15:15
Nonlocal obstacle problems: regularity of the solutions and the free boundaries
- Joaquim Serra (WIAS Berlin)
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15:15
Maximal flows of non-smooth vector fifields and the Vlasov-Poisson system
- Maria Colombo (University of Zurich)
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11:00
On a nonlinear Schrödinger equation for nucleons
- Simona Rota-Nodari (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Coupling distances between Lévy measures and applications to noise sensitivity of SDE
- Michael Högele (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)
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15:15
Analysis of microstructures in martensite-austenite phase transitions using sharp variational bounds
- Oleksandr Misiats (Perdue University)
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Efficient encoding of structured stimuli in the primary visual cortex
- Andreea Lazar (Ernst Struengmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany)
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11:00
Weak solutions and convergence analysis of sectional methods for coagulation and multi-fragmentation equation
- Ankik Kumar Giri (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
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11:00
The pressure of active particles
- Stefano Steffenoni (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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14:00
Bakry-Emery curvature on graphs and diameter-bounds
- Florentin Münch (Universität Potsdam)
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11:00
Mean-field limits for some Riesz interaction gradient flows
- Mitia Duerinckx (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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10:00
ISOMETRIC IMMERSION OF COMPLETE SURFACES WITH SLOWLY DECAYING NEGATIVE GAUSS CURVATURE
- Wentao Cao (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Togliatti systems
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Cameras and their Distortions
- Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)
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Why care about the standard conjectures?
- Karim Adiprasito (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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The geometry of rank-one tensor completion
- Thomas Kahle (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
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Tropical geometry and mechanism design
- Ngoc Tran (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn)
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16:30
Collective dynamics: emergence of consensus and social hydrodynamics
- Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland and ETH-Institute for Theoretical Studies)
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15:15
Fluids, elasticity, geometry, and wild solutions
- Marshall Slemrod (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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16:45
Optimal transport methods in computational mechanics
- Michael Ortiz (California Institute of Technology Pasadena)
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What are abelian varieties of dimension six?
- Gavril Farkas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
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Topological methods to solve equations over groups
- Andreas Thom (Technische Universität Dresden)
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16:30
An Obstacle Problem for Mean Curvature Flow
- Philippe Logaritsch (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Fragmentation of fractal random structures
- Martin Weigel (Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University)
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Linear Systems on Metric Graphs, Gonality Sequence and Lifting Problems
- Marta Panizzut (KU Leuven)
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14:00
Amplitude equations for stochastic Swift-Hohenberg equatio
- Luigi Amedeo Bianchi (TU Berlin)
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Cut polytopes in commutative algebra
- Tim Römer (Universität Osnabrück)
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16:30
Spektraltheorie von zufälligen Feldern mit stationären Zuwächsen
- Zoltán Sasvári (TU Dresden)
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11:00
On the optimal weak transfer plan
- Yan Shu (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
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(AC)³: A Transregional Collaborative Research Center to study Arctic Amplification
- Manfred Wendisch (Leipzig Institute for Meteorology (LIM), Universität Leipzig)
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On the curvature of discrete spaces
- Jürgen Jost (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Towards a probabilistic Schubert calculus
- Peter Bürgisser (Technische Universität Berlin)
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14:00
Heat kernel upper bounds for interacting particle systems
- Arianna Giunti (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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16:45
Computing with spherical geometries: from implicit solvation models to stochastic homogenisation
- Benjamin Stamm (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen)
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The degree of the Prym map for cyclic coverings
- Angela Ortega (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
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Dimension of Marginals of Kronecker Product Models
- Guido Montúfar (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:00
A heuristic model of other regarding preferences.
- Wasilios Hariskos (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Germany)
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11:00
1D and multi-d Burgers Turbulence as a model case for the Kolmogorov Theory
- Alexandre Boritchev (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
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From Boltzmann to black holes - many-particle systems in non-equilibrium
- Stefan Kehrein (Universität Göttingen)
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Model reduction and model analysis of chemical reaction networks by methods of tropical geometry
- Andreas Weber (Universität Bonn)
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The real rank of monomials
- Mario Denis Kummer (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:15
Rough differential equations with unbounded drift
- Sebastian Riedel (TU Berlin)
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15:15
Avoiding the Eikonal Equation in the Pedestrian Flow Problem
- Jiri Felcman (Karls-Universität Prag)
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Algebraic systems biology
- Heather Harrington (University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute)
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Non-archimedean and tropical geometry
- Annette Werner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
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Was ist die fünfte Dimension? - Mathematik zwischen Abstraktion und Anschauung
- Annette Werner (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Mathematik, Germany)
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11:15
A discrete coarea-type formula for the Mumford-Shah functional in dimension one
- Marcello Carioni (Universität Leipzig)
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15:30
Polyquantoids and quantoids: quantum counteparts of polymatroids and matroids
- František Matúš (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
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Mechanotransduction in Collective Cell Migration
- Joachim P. Spatz (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research)
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Real Rank Two Geometry
- Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley + MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Coble surfaces and Desargues configurations of lines and points
- Igor Dolgachev (University of Michigan)
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11:00
Vortex filament clustering in 3D Ginzburg-Landau theory
- Andres Contreras (New Mexiko State University)
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Is air pollution “clouding” the oceans?
- Tom Goren (Universität Leipzig)
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From the discrete logarithm problem for curves to the computation of special linear systems
- Claus Diem (Universität Leipzig)
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14:00
Transfer entropy in continuous time, with applications to jump and neural spiking processes
- Joseph Lizier (University of Sydney, Australia)
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Torelli theorems for singular symplectic varieties
- Christian Lehn (Technische Universität Chemnitz)
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Random dynamical systems and spde's driven by a fractional Brownian motion.
- Björn Schmalfuß (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)
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11:00
Diffuse Interfaces and Topology: A Phase-Field Model for Willmore's Energy
- Stephan Wojtowytsch (Durham University)
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Supercooled Liquids and the Glassy State of Matter
- Alois Loidl (University of Augsburg)
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16:30
Tensors and their Eigenvectors
- Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley + MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Zur Dynamik physikalischer Begriffe
- Friedrich Steinle (TU Berlin)
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