Press Releases
Read MPI MiS press releases for timely coverage of pioneering research in leading journals, compelling events and announcements, and notable accolades.
Press Releases
26.02.24
Teubner Science Award Goes to Viviane Baladi
This year’s Teubner Science Prize for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences goes to Viviane Baladi. The public award ceremony takes place on March 1 at 11:00 am at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, followed by an Institute Colloquium at 3:30 pm. We cordially invite to both festive events.
Press Releases
18.12.23
A New Mathematical Language for Biological Networks
Michael Joswig and his team, in collaboration with ETH Zurich and Carnegie Science, introduce a new approach for modeling genetic interactions in PNAS. They identify master regulators in entire genetic networks, offering a novel theoretical framework.
Press Releases
26.10.23
Positive Geometry – Millions in Funding for UNIVERSE+ Project
The European Research Council (ERC) has granted a €10 million Synergy Grant to the UNIVERSE+ project. The project aims to develop a new mathematical language to describe physical phenomena at all scales, from particles to the universe's structure.
Press Releases
19.09.23
Cellular Cartography – Charting the Sizes and Abundance of Our Body's Cells Reveals Mathematical Order Underlying Life
International scientists unveil the first human cell index, mapping cell size and abundance throughout the body. In a landmark PNAS study, they uncover surprising mathematical patterns that challenge our basic understanding of cellular organization.
Press Releases
08.09.23
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.
Press Releases
25.04.23
Social Media for More Democracy – Million-Euro Funding for Project to Study the Impact of Social Media on Society and Politics
Social media is an increasingly important element of public discourse and has gained enormous influence in recent years. A research project coordinated by MiS explores the communication mechanisms in social media and their impact on political discourse and liberal democracy.
Press Releases
02.11.22
Fascinated by Symmetries – Anna Wienhard Appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Anna Wienhard as our new Max Planck director! Her newly established research group focuses on fundamental research in the areas of geometry, group theory, and dynamics.
Press Releases
30.09.22
Understanding Social Dilemmas Through Games – The Development of Moral Norms Encourages Selfless Behavior
Mohammad Salahshour has addressed the question of how individual strategic choices, social norms, and morality influence the decision-making process. His game-theory-based approach elucidates how the complexity of real-world strategic settings can lead to the evolution of moral norms.
Press Releases
01.08.22
Space Determines the Arrangement—Researchers Study Historical Developments of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and the University of Leipzig provides computational approaches that explain the development of the first periodic systems.
Press Releases
14.07.22
László Székelyhidi Is Appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
The Leipzig mathematician and university professor László Székelyhidi was appointed director at the MPI MiS. Prof. Székelyhidi's research focuses on partial differential equations and the calculus of variations and their application.
Press Releases
30.06.22
Teubner Foundation Science Award Goes to Michael Struwe
The Teubner Foundation honors Prof. Michael Struwe with the 2022 Prize for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences. The public award ceremony with laudation by Jürgen Jost and a keynote lecture will take place on July 8 at 4:30 p.m. at the University of Leipzig.
Press Releases
11.11.21
Human Activity Has Altered an Ocean-Wide Law of Nature
In a worldwide collaboration, environmental scientists assessed the even distribution of aquatic biomass among size classes, from bacteria to whales, for the first time on a global scale.
Press Releases
01.09.21
Perfectly Linked — Minerva Fast Track Fellowship for the Study of Networks
Dr. Raffaella Mulas was awarded a Minerva Fast Track position by the Max Planck Society to establish her first own research group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.
Press Releases
29.03.21
Precise and Fast – How Mathematical Methods From Nonlinear Algebra Ensure an Effective Handling of Huge Amounts of Data
The constant creation of information and its corresponding data are one of the hallmarks of the 21st century. A newly founded Emmy Noether Research Group at the MPI MiS focuses on the interpretation, effective handling and usage of these huge amounts of data.
Press Releases
16.03.21
Its Curvature Foreshadows the Next Financial Bubble
An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has identified mathematical metrics to characterize the fragility of financial markets.
Press Releases
01.03.21
With Number 9 to the SIGEST Award
Michael Joswig was awarded the prestigious SIGEST award by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for the paper “Log-barrier interior point methods are not strongly polynomial”.
Press Releases
25.02.21
Belowground Biodiversity in Motion
Global change is expected to increase the diversity of bacteria at the local level, while their composition will become more uniform at the global level. This is the finding of a team of researchers.
Press Releases
27.11.20
Wolfgang Hackbusch Receives Most Highly Endowed Prize for Mathematics in Germany
The Carl Friedrich von Siemens foundation awards director emeritus Wolfgang Hackbusch of the MPI MiS the Heinz Gumin prize for mathematics.
Press Releases
14.04.20
Dr. Noémie Combe on the Fast Track to Structural Unification
Dr. Noémie Combe was awarded a Minerva Fast Track position by the Max Planck Society. The young scientist is honored for her promising research at the intersection of algebraic geometry and topology.
Press Releases
27.02.20
Gmelin-Beilstein Medal Will Be Awarded to Guillermo Restrepo
The German Chemical Society honors Prof. Dr. Guillermo Restrepo with the Gmelin-Beilstein memorial medal. The scientist is recognized for his scientific expertise in the fields of mathematics, history and philosophy of chemistry.
Press Releases
31.01.20
Growth Dynamics – What Unites Growth Processes of Cells and Entire Ecosystems?
The Humboldt Foundation has awarded Dr. Ian A. Hatton a Humboldt Research Fellowship. In a two-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Hatton plans to expand his studies of biological scaling and growth dynamics.
Press Releases
08.01.20
Blurred Lines – Mathematical Software Unites Theory and Practice
Classically there is a clear distinction between theoretical and applied mathematics in the classification of different fields in the mathematical sciences. Bernd Sturmfels along with Paul Breiding and Sascha Timme present a novel approach that illustrates how this line can be blurred.
Press Releases
02.12.19
An Exceptional Enrichment for Mathematical Research in Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig, Einstein-Professor of discrete mathematics and geometry at the Technical University of Berlin, was appointed Max Planck Fellow by the Max Planck Society.
Press Releases
27.02.19
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize Goes to Nicolas Perkowski
Nicolas Perkowski, research group leader at our institute and Junior-Professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, receives this year's Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of DFG. This prize is considered the most important award for young scientists in Germany.
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