
Areas of Work - Research groups
Areas of work
Complex systems and their mathematical analysis, in particular in neurobiology and cognition, biology, and economic and social systems
Geometric methods, nonlinear analysis, Riemannian and Kähler geometry, calculus of variations, theoretical physics
Information theory, dynamical systems, network analysis
Philosophy and history of science
Director: Jürgen Jost
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 550
Pattern formation, energy landscapes, and scaling laws
Director: Felix Otto
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 950
Algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and their applications to optimization, statistics and the life sciences
Director: Bernd Sturmfels
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 750
Applied Analysis
Director: László Székelyhidi
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 850
Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics
Director: Anna Wienhard
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 50
Former Directors
Mathematical foundations of materials science, microstructures, micromagnetism, continuum mechanics, singular perturbations, non-linear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations
Director: Stefan Müller
Now at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
Numerical solution of partial differential equations and integral equations, multi-grid methods, and boundary element methods
Director: Wolfgang Hackbusch
Non-linear partial differential equations, non-linear functional analysis, classical and modern mathematical physics, selected questions of mathematical chemistry and mathematical biology
Director: Eberhard Zeidler †
Max Planck Research Groups
Statistical Data Analysis in the Algebraic Geometry Age
Group manager: Eliana Duarte
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 780
Stochastic partial differential equations
Group manager: Benjamin Gess
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 954
Mathematical Machine Learning
Group manager: Guido Montúfar
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 880
Tropical Geometry and Computer Algebra
Group manager: Marta Panizzut
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 680
Probability and variational methods in PDEs
Group manager: Tobias Ried
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 959
Mathematical Structures in Physics
Group manager: Daniel Roggenkamp
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 50
Stochastic Topology and its applications
Group manager: Erika Roldán
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 856
Numerical Nonlinear Algebra
Group manager: Simon Telen
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 824
Max Planck Fellow Groups
Mathematical Software
Group manager: Michael Joswig
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 828
Learning and Inference
Group manager: Sayan Mukherjee
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 854