Press Releases
29.04.25
Mathematics meets AI: Anna Wienhard becomes Principal Investigator at ScaDS.AI Mathematics meets AI: Anna Wienhard becomes Principal Investigator at ScaDS.AI
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig welcomes our director Anna Wienhard as a new member (principal investigator) from March 2025 onward at Leipzig University. At our institute, she supports basic mathematical research and applications of geometric and topological methods in the natural sciences, especially in data analysis and machine learning.
PhD Life
22.04.25
Building Bridges Between Mathematics and the Life Sciences Building Bridges Between Mathematics and the Life Sciences
We congratulate Giulio Zucal on successfully defending his PhD thesis, in which he presents cutting-edge tools to explore the structure and underlying geometry of networks. Now a postdoctoral fellow in the ELBE program, he continues to investigate the connection between mathematics and the life sciences.
PhD Life
29.10.24
Exploring Metaphors and Shaping Social Transformation Exploring Metaphors and Shaping Social Transformation
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!
PhD Life
16.05.24
Congratulations to Fabio Di Nocera Congratulations to Fabio Di Nocera
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.
In Conversation
15.12.23
Raffaella Mulas in Conversation With Jürgen Jost Raffaella Mulas in Conversation With Jürgen Jost
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.
Research Briefs
28.09.23
What Lie Algebras Can Tell Us About Jordan Algebras What Lie Algebras Can Tell Us About Jordan Algebras
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.
Press Releases
08.09.23
What Do Neurons, Fireflies and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common? What Do Neurons, Fireflies and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common?
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.
Miscellaneous
02.08.23
Cohomological Field Theories Secure Successful Dissertation Cohomological Field Theories Secure Successful Dissertation
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!
Math Planck People
10.07.23
Renata Possobon Renata Possobon
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.
Research
03.05.23
Journey to the Final Structure: New Paper Reveals Six Stages of Periodic Table Development Journey to the Final Structure: New Paper Reveals Six Stages of Periodic Table…
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.
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Institute News
Math Planck People
10.07.26
Angelo El Saliby Angelo El Saliby
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!
Events
05.07.26
Algomanet Summer School 2026 Algomanet Summer School 2026
The Algomanet Summer School 2026 brought together early-career researchers from across Europe in Leipzig. A diverse program of lectures, exercises, and discussion sessions provided in-depth insights into recent developments in extremal combinatorics and fostered scientific exchange within the network.
Accolades
02.07.26
Máté L. Telek to receive SIAM Student Paper Prize Máté L. Telek to receive SIAM Student Paper Prize
Heartfelt congratulations to our former postdoc Máté L. Telek! He will be awarded the 2026 SIAM Student Paper Prize for his outstanding paper „Geometry of the Signed Support of a Multivariate Polynomial and Descartes’ Rule of Signs”, published in SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.
PhD Life
29.06.26
Your Voice in the PhD Community Your Voice in the PhD Community
Following the recent election, Angelo El Saliby, Leon Sebastian Duensing, and Sanjay Puneet Verma will serve as the new PhD representatives of our institute. We congratulate them and wish them every success in their new role.
Accolades
18.06.26
Giulio Zucal Honored with Otto Hahn Medal Giulio Zucal Honored with Otto Hahn Medal
Heartfelt congratulations to Giulio Zucal. He has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society in recognition of his fundamental and innovative contributions to the study of graphs and hypergraphs during his doctoral research.
Math Planck People
11.06.26
Rhys Steele Rhys Steele
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!
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