Cantor Day on November 27 in Halle (Saale)

The Cantor Medal is the most important scientific award of the DMV. This silver medal, awarded in honor of the DMV’s first chairman, Georg Cantor (1845–1918), is presented every two to four years by the DMV presidium based on the recommendation of an external selection committee. The award includes €4,000 in prize money, along with an engraved pure silver medal and a certificate.

The 2024 Cantor Medal is awarded to our director, Prof. Dr. Felix Otto. His research interests include, among other things, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations, which have numerous applications. For example, differential equations can be used to describe the growth of a population, such as a virus. In physics, they help to mathematically describe the movements of fluids and clouds. Pattern formation processes in nature can also be described with differential equations. For these purposes, Otto develops new mathematical methods and tools.

You can find further information in this press release from the German Mathematical Society (in German):

https://www.mathematik.de/presse/5076-cantor-medaille-2024-f%C3%BCr-mathematiker-felix-otto

Program for the Ceremony of the Cantor Medal Presentation

Please note that the ceremony will be held in German language!

• Welcome addresses
• Keynote lecture on Georg Cantor: Oliver Deiser: “Cantor 1.0 - Freiheit, Paradies und Mengenlehre”
• Laudatation: Angela Stevens, University of Munster, Institute for Analysis and Numerics
• Reception