Browse news related to the Geometry and Complex Systems group. Find press releases, essential research updates, accolades, and key announcements, as well as insightful interviews, partnerships, and outreach efforts.
We congratulate Marie Teich on successfully completing her PhD in Digital Humanities. Marie has recently started teaching at the American University in Kyiv. She is also actively involved in a research group initiative that helps shape social and cultural transformations. We wish Marie all the very best!
Fabio Di Nocera successfully defended his dissertation, in which he explores a formalism for creating a unified framework that allows the description of both, classical and quantum information geometry, together. Congratulations and our best wishes for the future.
Raffaella Mulas, former group leader at MPI MiS, interviewed Director Jürgen Jost. Explore Jost's journey in mathematics and beyond, and learn about the mysterious Erdős-Bacon number in their lighthearted conversation.
Our latest Research Brief from the group of Jürgen Jost explores links between algebra and geometry. They discuss connections between Jordan algebras and Lie groups and investigate symmetries in algebraic structures.
Synchronicity is all around us, but it is poorly understood. Jürgen Jost, Joseph Lizier, and colleagues have now developed new tools to understand how human and natural networks fall in and out of sync.
Congratulations also go to Shuhan Jiang for his successful dissertation defense. He is a researcher in the group of Jürgen Jost, who was his advisor for his great work on "Mathematical Structures of Cohomological Field Theories". All the best for your future!
Meet the latest addition to our Math Planck People roster: Renata Possobon. She is currently a PhD student in Jürgen Jost's Dynamical Systems Group and shares a closer glimpse into her academic pursuits in our portrait.
Guillermo Restrepo and his colleagues describe the six steps the periodic table took to converge on its final structure. Their findings have just been published in the Nature journal Communications Chemistry.
Social media is an increasingly important element of public discourse and has gained enormous influence in recent years. A research project coordinated by MiS explores the communication mechanisms in social media and their impact on political discourse and liberal democracy.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to science and education in Vietnam, our director Jürgen Jost has been named an honorary doctor of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Sincere congratulations!
Congratulations to Wilmer Leal! His exploration of the chemical space has earned him the highest honor that can be achieved for a Ph.D. thesis - summa cum laude. We all are incredibly proud!
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and the University of Leipzig provides computational approaches that explain the development of the first periodic systems.
Wilmer Leal was nominated by the Max Planck Society to join this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – a great honor and a perfect opportunity for scientific exchange with both distinguished Nobel laureates as well as young scientists from all over the world.
A heartfelt thanks to all speakers, participants, organizers, and supporters who made our conference “Mathematical Concepts in the Sciences and Humanities” in honor of our director Jürgen Jost an exceptional experience.
We are happy to announce the launch of a new Max Planck Partner Group in Brazil with focus on geometry and probability in dynamical systems. Led by Christian S. Rodrigues, the group will work in close cooperation with our director Jürgen Jost and his group members.
Our IMPRS student Stanislav Kazmin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in theoretical physics on the correlated disorder in statistical models at the University of Leipzig. Congrats, Dr. Kazmin, and our best wishes for the future!
In the latest issue of “Spektrum der Wissenschaft”, Guillermo Restrepo gives an excellent overview on the evolution of the periodic system, its mathematics and different representations.
We dedicate an entire conference week on Mathematical Concepts in the Sciences and Humanities to our founding director Jürgen Jost to celebrate his outstanding scientific achievements and 65th birthday.
Congratulations to Marzieh Eidi on the successful defense of her PhD thesis “Topological and Geometric Methods with a View Towards Data Analysis”. Best wishes for your future career Marzieh!
In his latest paper our director Jürgen Jost approaches the very different aspects of consciousness from the conceptual framework of information theory.
The ODYCCEUS research project will recapitulate years of research in its final conference next week. The conference will conclude with a public discussion panel on Social Media — Democratization or radicalization engine?
The ODYCCEUS project researches how opinions are formed in social networks. In a podcast, researchers provide insights into how their work contributes to a better understanding of social issues - from climate change to political crises.
We are very pleased that Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jost shares some memories, thoughts and inspirations with us in this interview as part of our 25 years of MiS column.
Eckehard Olbrich and Sven Banisch were interviewed as part of an MPG focus issue on online hate speech. The two scientists are investigating how opinions are formed in social media and to what extent this leads to increased polarization.
Congratulations to Sven Banisch and Eckehard Olbrich. They have been awarded this year's Anatol Rapoport Prize by the German Society for Sociology for their research on the influence of social feedback on opinion polarization.
With a grant from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) our director Jürgen Jost and Emil Saucan from the Braude College Israel will continue their successful scientific collaboration for the next three years.
Congratulations to the head of our Max Planck India Partner Group Areejit Samal on the successful outcome of the mid-term review and extension of the group until March 2022. We wish Areejit and all group members much success and all the best for the next two years.
The German Chemical Society honors Prof. Dr. Guillermo Restrepo with the Gmelin-Beilstein memorial medal. The scientist is recognized for his scientific expertise in the fields of mathematics, history and philosophy of chemistry.
MPI researchers describe a formal mathematical structure that could provide many different periodic systems – not only for chemistry, but also for many other fields of knowledge.
A new data-driven approach to a more sophisticated and detailed investigation of the history of chemistry is presented by a research team from MPI MiS and the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Leipzig.
MPI MiS postdoc Ivan Yamshchikov recently appeared on the ARD show Campus Talks, where he gave a presentation on the challenges of bringing creativity into artificial intelligence.
Communication mechanisms in social networks are at the centre of the international conference currently taking place at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.
Mathematicians from the MPI MiS, in cooperation with the Santa Fé Institute, USA and scientists from India, China, and Israel, have provided concrete proof of the effectiveness of geometrical tools in describing the variety of relationships in complex networks.
Research at MPI MiS is as diverse and multifaceted as the people who pursue it. Our Math Planck People portrait series gives a face to our research and introduces the personalities that make up our institute - our scientists & staff. Meet our brilliant minds!
In a paper recently published in "Inventiones mathematicae", our director Anna Wienhard and Olivier Guichard from the University of Strasbourg introduce a new mathematical framework that generalizes the influential theory of total positivity in split real semisimple Lie groups, expanding its applicability to a broader class of Lie groups.
Research at MPI MiS is as diverse and multifaceted as the people who pursue it. Our Math Planck People portrait series gives a face to our research and introduces the personalities that make up our institute - our scientists & staff. Meet our brilliant minds!
In recognition of her outstanding contribution to science and its promotion in the developing world, our director Anna Wienhard has been elected to TWAS, an international academy that promotes sustainable prosperity through research, education, policy, and diplomacy in developing countries. Congratulations!
The Louis-Édouard Rivot medal is awarded to students from Ecole Polytechnique in France
for exceptional research internship work. This year’s medal in the field of mathematics and economics was presented to Matthieu Bouyer recognizing his research results at our MPI under supervision of Irem Portakal.
Our research group leader, Samantha Fairchild, has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. We wish her all the best for this significant career step!
Research at MPI MiS is as diverse and multifaceted as the people who pursue it. Our Math Planck People portrait series gives a face to our research and introduces the personalities that make up our institute - our scientists & staff. Meet our brilliant minds!