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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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.