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

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

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

Minerva Groups

Spectral Hypergraph Theory
Group manager: Raffaella Mulas
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 547