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Press Releases
05.09.17
2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Winner Conducting Research at MPI 2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Winner Conducting Research at MPI
The 2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winner Dr. Matteo Smerlak will be conducting research on the topic of “Structure of Evolution” at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences starting in December 2017.
Press Releases
23.06.17
For a Chimpanzee, One Good Turn Deserves Another For a Chimpanzee, One Good Turn Deserves Another
For us humans, it goes without saying that we reward others as an indication of the gratitude we feel towards them. Scientists from the MPI EVA and MPI MiS have now demonstrated that similar social behaviours exist among chimpanzees.
Press Releases
11.05.17
Bernd Sturmfels Appointed New Director Bernd Sturmfels Appointed New Director
Bernd Sturmfels has joined the board of directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. He will head a new working group on “Nonlinear Algebra” at the institute.
Press Releases
22.02.17
With Social Networks to Crisis Detection – EU Project ODYCCEUS Has Started With Social Networks to Crisis Detection – EU Project ODYCCEUS Has Started
ODYCCEUS Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space, a new interdisciplinary EU-funded project, is focused on social networks with their different mechanisms of communication.
Press Releases
12.09.16
Sound of Words Is No Coincidence Sound of Words Is No Coincidence
Up to now, linguists assumed that the association between how words sound and what they mean is arbitrary in most cases. An international research team, including scientists from the MPI MiS and the MPI for Science of Human History, have carried out a comprehensive analysis which disproves this assumption.
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