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.
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.
Barbara Betti and Laura Casabella have been awarded the Gustavo Mezzetti Prize in Italy for the best master's theses in the field of algebra. The two doctoral candidates and friends share an outstanding first place. Congratulations!
We proudly announce that our director Anna Wienhard will be a plenary speaker at the 9th European Congress of Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society taking place in Sevilla from July 15th to 19th, 2024.
A recent paper by Felix Otto, Markus Tempelmayr, Pablo Linares, and Pavlos Tsatsoulis
presents a new approach to solve a class of stochastic partial differential equations. The results are published in "Inventiones mathematicae".
Congratulations to Johannes Christoph Müller. He completed his dissertation on the geometric properties of specific optimization problems in reinforcement learning models. He now continues his scientific career as a member of the Information Processing group at RWTH Aachen.
Our director Felix Otto will be honored with the 2024 Cantor Medal by the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the DMV's most prestigious scientific award. Congratulations!
The internationally renowned mathematician Daniel Kráľ has been nominated for the highest endowed German research prize and will enhance Leipzig's expertise in the field of discrete mathematics as a Humboldt Professor.