
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
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
Algebraic Geometry
Group manager: Daniele Agostini
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 680
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
Tensors and Optimization
Group manager: André Uschmajew
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 824
Sofja Kovalevskaja Group
Structure of Evolution
Group manager: Matteo Smerlak
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 546
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
Emmy Noether Research Group
Numerical and Probabilistic Nonlinear Algebra
Group manager: Paul Breiding
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 770
Minerva Groups
Frobenius structures, Operads, Deformation Theory & Applications
Group manager: Noémie Combe
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 775
Spectral Hypergraph Theory
Group manager: Raffaella Mulas
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 547
Max Planck Sabbatical Award Group
Convexity, Optimization and Data Science
Group manager: Venkat Chandrasekaran
Telephone: +49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 50