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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.
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.
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.