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
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Events in 2015
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Regularity for the Navier-Slip Thin-Film Equation in the perfect wetting regime
- Manuel Gnann (University of Toronto, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science, Canada)
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11:00
Thresholding Algorithms for Curvature Driven Flows
- Drew Swartz (Purdue University, USA)
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13:00
Coarse-grained Simulations of Dune Field Evolution
- Meike Will (Universität Leipzig, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany)
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11:00
Theory of regularity structures and dynamical Sine-Gordon model
- Hao Shen (University of Warwick)
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15:15
Paracontrolled distributions and the KPZ equation
- Nicolas Perkowski (Université Paris Dauphine, CEREMADE, France)
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Directed hypergraphs
- Philipp-Jens Ostermeier (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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10:30
Algebraic Problems Related to Entropy Regions
- František Matúš (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Information Theory and Automation)
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Geometry of unweighted k-nearest neighbor graphs
- Ulrike von Luxburg (Universität Hamburg)
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10:00
On level-set percolation for the Gaussian free field in high dimensions
- Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (ETH Zurich, Department of Mathematics)
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11:00
Nematic liquid crystals and biaxiality
- Xavier Lamy (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, Institut Camille Jordan, France)
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Towards an Alchemy of Intelligence
- Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin, Robotics and Biology Laboratory)
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Topology in Physics: From Standard Model of particle physics to room-temperature superconductivity
- Grigorii Volovik (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia)
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16:45
The generalized KPZ equation via regularity structures
- Lorenzo Zambotti (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, France)
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16:00
Weak topologies in metric spaces
- Martin Kell (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France)
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11:00
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- Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Departement Mathematik, Switzerland)
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Black holes in the limit of very many dimensions
- Roberto Emparan (Department of Fundamental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona)
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15:15
Spectral asymptotics on random Sierpinski gaskets
- Uta Freiberg (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Stochastik und Anwendungen, Germany)
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14:00
Quantum information geometry as a foundation for quantum theory beyond quantum mechanics
- Ryszard Kostecki (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
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11:00
Maximal flows of non-smooth vector fields and applications to PDEs
- Maria Colombo (SNS Pisa)
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11:00
Discrete Laplace equation: convergence results
- Mikhail Skopenkov (Higher School of Economics, IITP RAS)
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Intelligent motility control of biological swimmers
- Benjamin Friedrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden)
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14:00
Information-Theoretic Cheeger Inequalities
- Peter Gmeiner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
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15:15
Preserving the divergence constraint in time domain simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations
- Eric Sonnendrücker (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
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11:00
Homogenization and quenched large deviations
- Chiranjib Mukherjee (TU München)
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Lecture Advertisement Session
- Lecturers of Summer Term 2015 (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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14:00
Fuzzy cycle-flow-based module detection in directed recurrence networks
- Nataša Conrad (Zuse Institute Berlin, Biocomputing Group, Institut für Mathematik)
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15:15
Solving linear half-space kinetic equations
- Jianfeng Lu (Duke University)
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14:00
On asymptotic optimality of ML-type detectors in quantum hypothesis testing
- Sajad Saeedinaeeni (Universität Leipzig)
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16:00
On the peeling process of random planar maps
- Nicolas Curien (Université Paris-Sud Orsay, France)
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15:15
Parametric Model Order Reduction of Dynamical Systems: Survey and Recent Advances
- Peter Benner (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg)
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Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching)
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16:45
Calderon-Zygmund (CZ) theory and Homogenization of Random Elliptic and Parabolic PDE
- Joseph Conlon (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
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Abgeschnittenes Momentenproblem und maximale Massen
- Konrad Schmüdgen (Universität Leipzig)
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11:00
Stochastic homogenization and first-passage percolation
- Arjun Krishnan (University of Utah)
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15:15
Stochastic scalar conservation laws
- Benjamin Gess (University of Chicago)
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Nonequilibrium aspects of statistical forces
- Christian Maes (Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, KU Leuven)
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10:00
On the vortex filament conjecture for Euler flows
- Christian Seis (Universität Bonn)
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11:00
Front Propagation in Stochastic Neural Fields
- Jennifer Krüger (TU Berlin)
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The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems
- Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
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15:15
Wall to wall optimal transport
- Charles Doering (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
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15:00
Prediction in Projection
- Joshua Garland (University of Boulder, Colorado, USA)
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15:15
Random walk on dynamical percolation
- Alexandre Stauffer (University of Bath)
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The vacuum is not empty: fluctuations, virtual particles, Casimir forces and dark energy
- Klaus Fredenhagen (Universität Hamburg)
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15:00
Maximal vorticity amplification and enstrophy production in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations
- Charles Doering (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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14:15
Geometry and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
- Lizhen Ji (University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics, USA)
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Towards In-Vivo Histology using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Nicolaus Weiskopf (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, London and MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
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14:15
Neuromechanistic Perspectives On Cognition
- Friedemann Pulvermüller (Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
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16:30
Convection, Stability and Turbulence
- Charles Doering (University of Michigan)
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Transformation Properties of Optimal Control Problems with Infnite Horizon - a Hilbert Space Approach
- S. Pickenhain (TU Cottbus)
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15:15
A mean-field limit for the Vlasov-Poisson system
- Peter Pickl (LMU München)
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14:00
Global well-posedness of the dynamic $\Phi^4$ model in the plane
- Hendrik Weber (University of Warwick)
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11:00
On the prescribed Jacobian equation detr' = f: old and new
- Oliver Kneuss (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
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13:30
A theory and challenges for coarsening in microstructure
- David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Designer DNA Architectures for Programmable Self-assembly
- Hao Yan (Arizona State University Tempe)
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HgTe as a Topological Insulator
- Laurens W. Molenkamp (Wuerzburg University)
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10:00
Growth exponent for loop-erased random walk in three dimensions
- Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto University + ETH Zurich)
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11:00
Modified Arratia flow and Wasserstein diffusion
- Vitali Konarovskyi (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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Tradeoffs Between Robustness and Controllabiliy for Leader Selection in Multi-Agent Networks.
- Katherine Fitch (Princeton University, USA)
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15:15
Symbiotic Technology - How to Breed Machines and Animals
- Benjamin Inden (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom)
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15:15
Geometric interfacial motions: coupling surface diffusion and mean curvature motion
- Amy Novick-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
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Correlated Atomic Dynamics in Metallic Glass Forming Systems - Messages from Computer Simulations
- Helmar Teichler (Georg-August-University, Goettingen)
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14:00
Biased random walk among random conductances
- Nina Gantert (TU München)
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Some integral curvature estimates for four dimensional Ricci flows and some consequences thereof
- Miles Simon (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
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16:15
Index theory over groupoids, inertia spaces and the cyclic homology theory of convolution algebras
- Markus Pflaum (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
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10:30
Interacting particle systems and homogenization
- Jean-Christophe Mourrat (EPFL)
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15:15
Penner Matrix Models Inspired by Interacting RNA
- Nivedita Deo (University of Delhi)
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13:15
Loss of regularity for linear transport equations
- Gianluca Crippa
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10:45
Predictive coding and information theoretic analyses of neural goal functions
- Michael Wibral (Universität Frankfurt)
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Magnetic States of (Frustrated) Matter Explored to 100 tesla
- Marcelo Jaime (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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10:00
Diffusion approximation type theorem for a system with weakly ergodic Markov perturbations
- Alex Kulik (National Academy of Sciences, Kiev)
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10:00
Ornstein's non-inequalities and Riesz products
- Michal Wojciechowski (Polish Academy of Science, Warswaw)
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14:00
A quantitative CLT for the effective conductance on the discrete torus
- Antoine Gloria (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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11:00
The tangential touch problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators
- Emanuel Indrei (MPI MiS, Leipzig + Carnegie Mellon University)
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15:15
Phase segregation for binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Michael Goldman (Universite Paris Diderot, Paris 7)
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Topological Anderson insulators
- Alexander Altland (Universität Köln)
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11:00
On the asymptotic behavior of isoperimetric planar partitions
- Marco Caroccia (Università di Pisa)
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14:00
A short introduction to JIDT: An information-theoretic toolkit for studying the dynamics of complex systems
- Joseph T. Lizier (The University of Sydney, Australia)
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11:00
Emergent Parabolic Scaling of Nano-Faceting Crystal Growth
- Stephen Watson (University of Glasgow)
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11:00
Hörmander Type Theorem and Maximum Principle for Stochastic PDEs
- Jinniao Qui (HU Berlin)
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11:00
Regularization by noise for transport and kinetic equations
- Ennio Fedrizzi (Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard)
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Tensor methods in stochastic PDEs and in inverse problems
- Alexander Litvinenko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
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15:00
Inferring Volatility in the Heston Model and its Relatives — an Information Theoretic Approach
- Oliver Pfante (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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11:00
Perturbed Differential Equation and Regularization by noise
- Remi Catellier (University of Rennes 1)
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11:00
Compressed Sensing and its Applications to PDEs
- Björn Bringmann (TU München)
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On finite time theory for nonautonomous dynamical systems and some open problems
- Duc Hoang Luu (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
The strong Arnold conjecture on symplectic fixed points
- Hông Vân Lê (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
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11:00
Reciprocal classes of continuous time Markov chains
- Giovanni Conforti (University of Pisa)
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15:15
Spatial birth-and-death Markov processes
- Viktor Bezborodov (Universität Bielefeld)
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15:15
The life history of foraging in 15 human societies: High-dimension Bayesian statistics with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Richard McElreath (New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
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11:00
A Nonlinear Schrödinger Problem in Variational Formulation
- Diana Keller (Universität Halle)
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Lecture Advertisement Session
- Lecturers of Winter Term 2015/2016 (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:00
Selective strolls: stochastic slowdown in population genetics.
- Fabrizio Mafessoni (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
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15:15
About the Maxwell-Boltzmann relation in Plasmas
- Claude Bardos (Paris)
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Nanomagnets – created and tailored by ions
- Jürgen Fassbender (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.)
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11:00
Controlled-norm extensions with singularities and non-rectifiable Sobolev spaces
- Mircea Petrache (MPI MiS, Leipzig)
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15:15
Design principles of biological networks: Role of biochemical and functional constraints
- Areejit Samal (IMSc, Chennai, India)
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15:15
Robustness of spatial preferential attachment networks
- Peter Mörters (University of Bath)
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15:15
Integrability of the Brouwer degree for irregular arguments
- Heiner Olbermann (Universität Bonn)
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Taming the non-equilibrium
- Jens Eisert (FU Berlin)
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15:15
A PDE-Based Approach to Non-Dominated Sorting
- Selim Esedoglu (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
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Mechanics of Single Protein Molecules
- Matthias Rief (TU München)
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16:45
Relative energy functionals in fluid dynamics
- Eduard Feireisl (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
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Neuromechanistic Perspectives on Cognition and Language
- Friedemann Pulvermüller (Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
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Toward a Quantum Theory of Cognition: History, Development and Perspectives
- Tomas Veloz (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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15:15
A coarsening model with local interactions
- Barbara Niethammer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
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14:00
Derivation of Mean-Field Dynamics for Fermions
- Sören Petrat (IST Austria, Austria)
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11:00
Random walk, random interlacements and disconnection
- Xinyi Li (ETH Zürich)
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15:15
Sparse and low-rank approximations of parametric and stochastic partial differential equations
- Markus Bachmayr (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6)
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15:15
Modeling pedestrian flow via shallow water equations
- Jiri Felcman (Charles University Prague)
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16:15
Non-compactness of the space of min-max minimal hyper-surfaces.
- Nicolau Sarquis (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
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15:15
Scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux
- Guido De Philippis (ENS Lyon)
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Noisy business: How biological nanomachines make use of thermal fluctuations
- Ralf Seidel (Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Universität Leipzig)
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The central limit theorem, from independent to strongly coupled systems
- Alice Guionnet (École normale supérieure de Lyon, France)
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14:00
On Cheeger and Sobolev differentials in metric measure spaces
- Martin Kell (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
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15:15
Local minima and energy barriers in the d-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard energy landscape
- Maria Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen)
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16:45
Finite element-discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow
- Miloslav Feistauer (Charles University Prague)
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Uncertainty in climate change: How do aerosols influence cloud development?
- Edward Gryspeerdt (Universität Leipzig)
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11:00
Invariance Principle for Random Conductance Model
- Tuan Anh Nguyen (MPI MiS, Leipzig + TU Berlin)
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14:00
Simulating word learning, language-attention interactions, and spontaneous emergence of intentions to speak in a neuroanatomically grounded model of the left perisylvian cortex.
- Massimiliano Garagnani (Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
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15:15
Singular Poisson equations on Finsler-Hadamard manifolds
- Csaba Farkas (Cluj/Catania)
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Oszillationen und Massen der Neutrinos
- Harald Fritzsch (LMU München)
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16:45
Approximations of displacement interpolations by entropic interpolations
- Christian Léonard (Paris Ouest University)
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13:30
ASYMPTOTIC ISSUES IN THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS
- Michel Chipot (Universität Zürich)
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11:00
On an interaction estimate for systems of conservation laws
- Stefano Modena (University of Leipzig)
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15:15
On the mean curvature flow of grain boundaries
- Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Black holes and extra dimensions
- Harvey Reall (University of Cambridge)
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16:45
Quenched invariance principle for the Random Conductance Model in a degenerate dynamic environment
- Sebastian Andres (Universität Bonn)
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