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26.09.24 27.09.24

Discrete Mathematics and Biology: the legacy of Andreas Dress

This two-day workshop celebrates the scientific work of Andreas Dress who passed away in February 2024.

Andreas Dress made fundamental contributions to algebra, geometry and their applications in the life sciences. A long time Professor at the University of Bielefeld, he also served as the founding director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Following his early work in group theory and tilings, Dress became a leader at the interface of mathematics and evolutionary biology. He made groundbreaking contributions to the combinatorics of phylogenetic trees. This work also led to his discovery of valuated matroids, which are parametrized by a polyhedral space now known as the Dressian. A generation of scholars in matroid theory and tropical geometry was inspired by his research.

An attractive mix of speakers will showcase Dress' accomplishments, present exciting current research, and share their vision for the future in discrete mathematics and its interface with biology.

Schedule

09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:45 Martin Vingron
Association Plots and joint clustering and embedding of genes and cells
10:45 - 11:30 Robert Simon
Paradoxical Decompositions and Colouring Rules
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:30 Daniel Huson
A galaxy of periodic tilings
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:15 Marta Panizzut
The Dressian, the tropical Grassmannian and their positive parts
14:15 - 15:00 Mario Kummer
Spaces of Lorentzian polynomials
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:15 Ruriko Yoshida
Tropical Geometry Tools for Machine Learning and Phylogenomics
16:15 - 17:00 Kristina Wicke
From clusters and splits to biodiversity conservation
18:00 -
09:00 - 09:45 Henning Krause
Fom representations of finite groups to biology - the early work of Andreas Dress
09:45 - 10:30 Parvaneh Joharinad
Hyperconvexity as a generalization of Negative curvature
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:45 Kay Nieselt
From Statistical Geometry to the SuperGenome and beyond - 30 years of innovative visual analytics concepts for bioinformatics
Attention: this event is cancelled.
11:00 - 11:45 Marc Hellmuth
Symbolic Ultrametrics and Beyond
11:45 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:15 Benjamin Schröter
Matroids and splits
14:15 - 15:00 Matt Baker
Matroids with coefficients and Lorentzian polynomials

Participants

Natasha Bailie

Springer

Matt Baker

Georgia Tech

George Balla

Technical University Berlin

Barbara Betti

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek

Roskilde University

Viktoriia Borovik

Osnabrück University

Alessio Borzi

MPI MiS Leipzig

Veronica Calvo Cortes

MPI MiS

Yueqi Cao

Imperial College London

Laura Casabella

MPI MiS Leipzig

Türkü Özlüm Çelik

MPI CBG

Shelby Cox

MPI MIS

Mareike Dressler

UNSW Sydney

Hannaneh fahimi

MPI MIS / ScaDS.AI

Vincenzo Galgano

MPI-CBG Dresden

Alheydis Geiger

MPI MiS

Heather Harrington

MPI-CBG

Anna-Margarete Hauff

Berlin-Steglitz

Joachim Heinze

Springer Verlag

Marc Hellmuth

Stockholm University

Bobo Hua

Fudan University

Daniel Huson

Universität Tübingen

Parvaneh Joharinad

MPI MiS, Leipzig

Jürgen Jost

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Michael Joswig

Technical University Berlin

Nidhi Kaihnsa

University of Copenhagen

Nat Kendal-Freedman

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Annachiara Korchmaros

Universität Leipzig

Henning Krause

Universität Bielefeld

Mario Kummer

TU Dresden

Marcos Laffitte

Leipzig University

Jan-Paul Lerch

Bielefeld University

Paul Lezeau

Imperial College

Ruowei Li

MPI MIS

Alitzel López Sánchez

Université de Sherbrooke

Dimitri Loutchko

The University of Tokyo

Carina Malinowska

Aida Maraj

MPI CBG

Francesco Maria Mascarin

University of Trieste

Elia Mazzucchelli

MPI MPP for Physics, Munich

Marta Panizzut

University of Tromsø

Irem Portakal

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Jose Antonio Ramirez-Rafael

Leipzig University, Max Planck Institute

Bernhard Reinke

MPI MiS

Federico Romaniello

Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Skye Rothstein

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

John Sabol

Naval Postgraduate School

Flavio Salizzoni

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Bruno Schmidt

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Georgy Scholten

MPI-CBG

Guillaume Scholz

Leipzig University

Benjamin Schröter

KTH Stockholm

Heike Siebert

CAU Kiel

Robert Simon

London School of Economics and Political Science

Peter Stadler

Leipzig University

Jens Stoye

Universität Bielefeld

Bernd Sturmfels

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Roan Talbut

Imperial College London

Máté László Telek

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Angelica Torres

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Martin Ulirsch

Goethe University Frankfurt

Martin Vingron

MPI-MG Berlin

Tao Wang

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Kristina Wicke

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Nicolas Wieseke

Leipzig University

Arne Wolf

Imperial College London

Berk Yildiz

Technische Universität Berlin

Ruriko Yoshida

Naval Postgraduate School

Zhenbing Zeng

Shanghai University

Giulio Zucal

MPI MiS

Scientific Organizers

Jürgen Jost

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

Michael Joswig

Technical University Berlin

Peter Stadler

Leipzig University

Bernd Sturmfels

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Administrative Contact

Saskia Gutzschebauch

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail

Mirke Olschewski

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail