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
05.08.25
Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics and Geosciences Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics and Geosciences
Universität Leipzig
Hörsaal für Theoretische Physik
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 2017
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The network of chemical reactions: graph grammars, curvature, order and categories
- Guillermo Restrepo (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Bioinformatik, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
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11:00
Rough path transport equation with discontinuous drift
- Torstein Kastberg Nilssen (University of Oslo)
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14:00
On the Homogenization of the Oscillating Dirichlet Problem
- Claudia Raithel (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:30
Invariants and Topological Quantum Field Theories of Four-Manifolds
- Manuel Bärenz (Universität Bamberg, Germany)
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Nano-optomechanics with a levitated nanoparticle in vacuum
- Romain Quidant (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona)
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16:30
A world from a sheet of paper
- Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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11:00
L∞-estimates for Stochastic PDEs of parabolic type and applications
- Konstantinos Dareiotis (Uppsala University)
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Uhren im Gravitationsfeld
- Claus Lämmerzahl (Universität Bremen)
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14:00
Knowledge relatedness and diversification in complex socioeconomic systems
- Dominik Hartmann (Fraunhofer Center for International Management and the Knowledge Economy and University of Leipzig, Germany)
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11:00
On a pseudomonotone evolution equation with multiplicative noise
- Aleksandra Zimmermann (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
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From quantum complex matter to quantum biology: The emergence of a novel Quantum Many Body Physics in the XXI century
- Antonio Bianconi (Rome International Center for Materials Science Superstripes)
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Stochastic lattice models driven by a fractional Brownian motion
- María José Garrido Atienza (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
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14:00
Extractable shared information and left monotonicity
- Johannes Rauh (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Algebraic renormalisation of regularity structures
- Yvain Bruned (University of Warwick)
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Noetherianity up to symmetry
- Emanuele Ventura (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Large N limits of the 2 dimensional Yang-Mills measure
- Antoine Dahlqvist (University of Cambridge)
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Unimodular triangulations of dilated empty simplices
- Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University)
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SPECTRA: solving linear matrix inequalities in exact arithmetic
- Simone Naldi (Technische Universität Dortmund)
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Positive Polynomials and Varieties of Minimal Degree
- Daniel Plaumann (Technische Universität Dortmund)
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Bounded-rank tensors are defined in bounded degree
- Mario Kummer (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Finiteness results for Abelian tree models
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Finiteness results for Abelian tree models (Part 2)
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig + Technische Universität Berlin)
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Plücker Varieties and Higher Secants of Sato's Grassmannian
- Kathlén Kohn (Technische Universität Berlin)
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14:00
Introduction to Mean Curvature Flow of Hypersurfaces
- Konstantinos Zemas (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Optimal shape and regularity of magnetic needle domains
- Florian Nolte (Universität Heidelberg)
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- Emre Sertöz (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
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14:00
The mathematics of elastic materials
- Heiner Olbermann (Mathematisches Institut, Universität Leipzig)
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15:15
A Ginzburg-Landau model with topologically induced free discontinuities
- Michael Goldman (Universite Paris Diderot, Paris 7)
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11:00
Modelling of self-contact in nonlinear elasticity
- Anne Sur (Tu Berlin)
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Adaptivity, trimming, patch gluing: the agenda for spline-based methods
- Annalisa Buffa (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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11:00
Admissible weak solutions for the Muskat problem
- Clemens Förster (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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12:00
Homogenization of pathwise Hamilton-Jacobi equations
- Ben Seeger (University of Chicago)
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Scalable and plug-and-play control design for cyberphysical systems
- Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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16:00
Near-critical random graphs, a probabilistic approach
- Vlada Limic (Université Paris-Sud)
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Multi-terminal Josephson junctions as topological matter
- Julia S. Meyer (CEA Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes)
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Noetherianity of polynomial functors
- Jan Draisma (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
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Learning Bayesian networks using graph associahedra
- Caroline Uhler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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15:15
A non-local Fokker-Planck equation related to the Becker-Döring model
- André Schlichting (Universität Bonn)
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14:00
Local Information Dynamics at the Retinogeniculate Synapse of the Cat
- Patricia Wollstadt (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
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14:00
Universality of Entanglement Sudden Death
- Cristhiano Duarte (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
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Computing tropical varieties using Newton's method
- Yue Ren (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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On a discretization of confocal quadrics: Geometric parametrizations, integrable systems and incircular nets
- Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)
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15:15
The role of clouds in global climate change
- Johannes Quaas (Universität Leipzig)
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16:45
Quantization of measures: a gradient flow approach
- Mikaela Iacobelli (University of Cambridge)
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Plücker Varieties and Higher Secants of Sato's Grassmannian
- Kathlén Kohn (TU Berlin, Germany)
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16:30
A uniqueness result for the decomposition of vector fields in Rd
- Stefano Bianchini (SISSA, Trieste)
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11:00
Introduction to variational models for dislocations
- Adriana Garroni (Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza')
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14:00
Extortion and cooperation in repeated games
- Christian Hilbe (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
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Transfer-Matrix Methods meet Ehrhart Theory
- Florian Kohl (Freie Universität Berlin)
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An optimization view on the quadrature problem
- Cordian Riener (Universität Konstanz)
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15:15
Asymptotic properties of step bunching in epitaxial growth with elasticity effects
- Aaron Nung Kwan Yip (Purdue University)
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14:15
Weyl law and number theory
- Jasmin Matz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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15:45
T < 4E
- Karim Adiprasito (Mathematisches Institut, Universität Leipzig)
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14:00
The Gauss map of a complete non-flat minimal surface cannot omit 7 points of the sphere
- Renan Assimos (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Implicitization of surfaces via syzygies
- Eliana Duarte Gelvez (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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On the Topology of Steel
- Frank Lutz (Technische Universität Berlin)
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Hamilton-Jacobi approach to Potential Functions in Information Geometry
- Domenico Felice (University of Camerino, Italy)
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14:00
Mathematical Bases of Game Theory I: Measurable Utility
- Sharwin Rezagholi (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Subdivision and biomembrane modelling
- Sara Grundel (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer Systeme, Magdeburg)
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Phylogenetic complexity of group-based models
- Emanuele Ventura (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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16:30
Dynamical systems of number-theoretic origin in the theory of aperiodic order
- Michael Baake (Universität Bielefeld)
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11:00
Existence and Regularity Theory for Functionals of Linear Growth
- Franz Gmeineder (University of Oxford)
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Some methods to use the nonlinearities for controlling systems
- Jean-Michel Coron (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France)
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16:30
The problem of regularity in the Calculus of Variations
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
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14:00
Mathematical Bases of Game Theory II: MinMax Theorem and Zero-sum Games
- Sharwin Rezagholi (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Deformation of theta characteristics
- Emre Sertöz (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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On 4-Polytopes and 3-Spheres
- Günter Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin)
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Polyhedral computations in social choice
- Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück)
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15:15
A Benamou Brenier approach to martingale optimal transport
- Martin Huesmann (Universität Bonn)
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Emergent hydrodynamics in integrable systems out of equilibrium
- Benjamin Doyon (King‘s College London)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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The binding polynomial and decoupled proteins
- Jacinta Torres (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
A pathwise approach to a stochastic porous medium equation with nonlinear, conservative noise
- Benjamin Fehrman (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Discovery of statistical equivalence classes using computer algebra
- Christiane Görgen (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Reflexive polytopes and perfect graphs
- Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University)
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Rubber maps and double ramification cycles
- Steffen Marcus (The College of New Jersey)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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Noetherianity for infinite-dimensional toric varieties II
- Marta Panizzut (Technische Universität Berlin)
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Shitov's counterexample to Comon's conjecture
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Two-by-two upper triangular matrices and Morrey's conjecture
- Terence Harris
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11:00
The analytic theory of renormalization in regularity structures
- Ajay Chandra Chandra (University of Warwick)
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Resolutions of letterplace and co-letterplace ideals
- Alessio D'Ali (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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A Higher-Dimensional Homologically Persistent Skeleton
- Sara Kališnik Verovšek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Computational history of chemical reactions
- Guillermo Restrepo (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Bioinformatik, Universität Leipzig)
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16:45
On stability of physically reasonable solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations
- Yasunori Maekawa (Kyoto University)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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15:15
Stability and instability of the Couette flow in the Navier-Stokes equations
- Jacob Bedrosian (University of Maryland)
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Chern classes of the multiview variety
- Corey Harris (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Algebraic subfamily optimization
- Emil Horobet (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Târgu-Mureş)
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15:15
Stochastic regularization effects of semi-martingales on random functions
- Anthony Réveillac (INSA de Toulouse)
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16:45
Statistical solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws
- Ulrik Fjordholm (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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Shitov's counterexample to Comon's conjecture Part 2
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Shitov's counterexample to Comon's conjecture Part 2
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Aspects of regularity theory in the Calculus of Variations: Integral Estimates and Uniqueness
- Jan Kristensen (Oxford University)
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11:00
Michell trusses as a limit of optimal design problems in linear elasticity
- Heiner Olbermann (Universität Leipzig)
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Cycles of Elliptic Curves: Applications to Cryptography
- Lynn Chua (MPI MiS, Leipzig + University of California at Berkeley)
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Algebraic cameras in Computer Vision
- Matthew Trager (MPI MiS, Leipzig + Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris)
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15:15
On mixing for circular flows
- Christian Zillinger (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
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11:00
Stochastic Heat Equations with Values in a Riemannian Manifold
- Rongchan Zhu (Universität Bielefeld)
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Infinities and Flows, Renormalization and the Renormalization Group
- Christoph Kopper (Ecole Polytechnique Paris)
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12:00
Statistical laws of Darwinian evolution
- Matteo Smerlak (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
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15:15
Approximate spectral theory and long-time homogenization of the wave equation
- Antoine Gloria (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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10:00
Statistical solutions of evolution equations and selection of measurable semiflows
- Jorge Cardona (University of Miami)
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A tropical version of the Lefschetz (1, 1) theorem
- Kristin Shaw (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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14:00
Evolutionary Game Theory
- Flavio Pinheiro (Collective Learning Group, MIT Media Lab, USA)
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Matroids From Hypersimplex Splits
- Michael Joswig (Technische Universität Berlin)
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Hilbert function of local cohomology and Presburger arithmetic
- Hai Long Dao (University of Kansas)
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11:00
Tissue surface tension and rigidity in simple models of dense biological tissues
- Daniel Sussman (Syracuse University)
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Separating Morphisms from Real Algebraic Curves
- Mario Kummer (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Positive Semidefinite Matrix Completion and Sums of Squares
- Rainer Sinn (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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10:00
Realizability of tropical abelian differentials
- Martin Ulirsch (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Phylogenetic questions inspired by the theorems of Arrow and Dilworth
- Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
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14:00
The nonnegative rank of a matrix: Hard problems, easy solutions
- Yaroslav Shitov (National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
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Interactive Visualization of blow-ups of points in the plane
- Peter Schenzel (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
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On the toric ideals of matroids of fixed rank
- Michal Lason (Universität Bern)
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11:00
Long time homogenization of classical waves
- Antoine Benoit (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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16:00
Stochastic population dynamics of finite networks of spiking neurons
- Tilo Schwalger (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Coisotropic Varities
- Kathlén Kohn (Technische Universität Berlin)
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Submanifold jets and envelopes
- James Mathews (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
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Black holes, shadows, and moonshine
- Don Zagier (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany)
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A brief history of plasma: from astonishing observations to enabling high tech devices
- André Anders (Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V. und Universität Leipzig)
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14:00
Kelly gambling, information rate, and bet hedging in evolutionary models: a reconsideration
- Omri Tal (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Orthogonal tensors and their extremal spectral properties
- André Uschmajew (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Riemannian optimization for the canonical tensor rank approximation problem
- Paul Breiding (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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From Natural Gradient to Riemannian Hessian: Second-order Optimization over Statistical Manifolds
- Luigi Malagò (Romanian Institute of Science and Technology - RIST, Romania)
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The geometry of gaussoids
- Bernd Sturmfels (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Tropical Sufficient Statistics for Persistent Homology
- Sara Kališnik Verovšek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Capillary Drops on Rough Surfaces
- Inwon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Ultrafast nanoscopy: imaging structure, function, and dynamics of matter on its natural length and times scales
- Markus B. Raschke Raschke (University of Colorado, Boulder)
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Monic symmetric/Hermitian Determinantal Representations of Multivariate polynomials
- Papri Dey (Indian Institute of Technology)
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11:00
Using iterated-integral signatures as memory in recurrent neural networks
- Jeremy Reizenstein (University of Warwick)
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Excluded minors for the class of split matroids
- Amanda Cameron (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Rigidty of quasicrystal rod-and-pinion frameworks in 2D and 3D
- Eliana Duarte Gelvez (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
The 1-harmonic flow
- Lorenzo Giacomelli (Università di Roma 'La Sapienza')
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16:45
Optimal regularity of entropy solutions to the eikonal equation
- Xavier Lamy (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
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Innovative Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction, Drug Discovery, and Therapeutic Design
- Jens Meiler (Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tenessee)
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13:30
Hierarchy of PDE Models of Cell Motility
- Leonid Berlyand (Pennsylvania State University)
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How to detect binomial ideals and toric varieties?
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Geometric and analytic pathologies of non-Riemannian geometries
- Martin Kell (Universität Tübingen)
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10:00
A Liouville property for the random conductance model
- Tuan Anh Nguyen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
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Crystal operators on tropical points of cluster varieties
- Volker Genz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
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Algorithmic aspects of discrete Morse theory
- Giovanni Paolini (Scuola Normale Superiore)
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Geometric Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence
- Gleb Koshevoy (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow)
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15:15
Optimal configurations for generalized charge distributions on lattices
- Hans Knüpfer (Universität Heidelberg)
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16:45
Singular solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation
- Connor Mooney (ETH Zürich)
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Harnessing the quantum vacuum
- Stefan Buhmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
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Algebraic methods for the study of biochemical reaction networks
- Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
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Trace Tests in Numerical Algebraic Geometry
- Jose Israel Rodriguez (University of Chicago)
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15:15
External boundary control of the motion of a rigid body immersed in a perfect two-dimensional fluid
- Jozsef Kolumban (Université Paris-Dauphine)
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11:00
Werkstoffmodellierung in der Umformtechnik
- Katja Silbermann (Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik)
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Statistical Manifold and Entropy-Based Inference
- Jun Zhang (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA)
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Generalized non-crossing partitions and buildings
- Julia Heller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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15:15
Optimal Hardy inequalities on graphs
- Felix H. Pogorzelski (Universität Leipzig)
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16:45
Algebraic aspects of phylogenetic tree models
- Mateusz Michałek (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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The idea of ILP learning decomposable models: chordal graph polytope
- Milan Studený (Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Sensitivity analysis for monomial models
- Eva Riccomagno (Università Degli Studi Di Genova)
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15:00
Random attractors for stochastic systems: recent results and applications
- Hoang Duc Luu (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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14:00
A nice application of Algebraic Topology to Neuroscience
- Raffaella Mulas (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Not really linear algebra
- Emanuele Delucchi (Université de Fribourg)
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Physics of sensing and shaping membranes in living cells
- Gerhard Hummer (Goethe University Frankfurt)
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15:15
Global entropy solutions for compressible, isentropic Euler equations with geometric effects
- Matthew Schrecker (University of Oxford)
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Modeling of Networked Embodied Cognitive Processes
- Fabio Bonsignorio (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy)
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Random Spectrahedra
- Paul Breiding (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Single ion microscopy and single ion implantation for novel quantum technologies
- Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
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15:00
Weak-noise-induced transitions with inhibition and modulation of neural oscillations
- Marius Yamakou (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Hardy space theory of compensated compactness quantities and an application to 2D magnetohydrodynamics
- Sauli Lindberg (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
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11:00
Continuum limits of tree-valued Markov chains and algebraic measure trees
- Wolfgang Löhr (TU Chemnitz)
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15:00
Deep Learning, an introduction
- Carlos Pagani Zanini (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Discriminants of complete intersection space curves
- Ibrahim Nonkane (Université Ouaga II)
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Algorithms and Software for Computing Tropical Prevarieties
- Jeff Sommars (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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15:15
Gradient flows and particle systems: Estimating Entropy and Metric
- Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)
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Tensor solvers for high-dimensional eigenvalue problems
- Maxim Rakhuba (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)
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Topological and Geometric Data Analytic Approaches to Computational Biology
- Anthea Monod (Columbia University, New York)
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Designs as tropical varieties
- Kristin Shaw (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Weak uniqueness and the Serrin criterion for the Navier-Stokes equations
- Guillaume Lévy (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Paris)
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11:00
Korn-Poincar\'e-type inequalities and energy density for a subspace of
- Johannes Diermeier (Universität Bonn)
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15:00
Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices
- Connor Finn (University of Sydney, Australia)
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Monte Carlo integration: variance reduction by function approximation
- Yuji Nakatsukasa (University of Oxford)
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Characterization problem on Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polytopes
- Akihiro Higashitani (Kyoto Sangyo University)
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Optimal Approximation with Sparsely Connected Deep Neural Networks
- Gitta Kutyniok (TU Berlin)
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15:15
Mean-field kinetic equations for stochastic particle systems
- Stefan Grosskinsky (University of Warwick)
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On the Importance of Pawns in Chess
- Thomas Voigtmann (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Köln)
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