Browse news related to the Nonlinear Algebra group. Find press releases, essential research updates, accolades, and key announcements, as well as insightful interviews, partnerships, and outreach efforts.
Barbara Betti and Laura Casabella have been awarded the Gustavo Mezzetti Prize in Italy for the best master's theses in the field of algebra. The two doctoral candidates and friends share an outstanding first place. Congratulations!
Claudia Fevola has been honored by the Max Planck Society as one of its top junior scientists. In recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements during her doctoral studies she has been awarded the 2024 Otto Hahn Medal. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Kemal Samuel Rose on the successful defense of his thesis on “Sparse polynomial system(s) in optimization” as well as on his new position at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Well done!
In the April Feature Column of the American Mathematical Society İrem Portakal and Bernd Sturmfels speak about game theory and the fascinating geometric structure of equilibria.
Explore the shape of decision-making in the context of a simple cooperative game: what to do for date night.
Irina Bobrova, Anna-Laura Sattelberger and Simon Telen represent young researchers in the Young Academy of the European Mathematical Society (EMYA). Discover how they would like to contribute to strengthen the role of and prospects of young mathematicians in Europe.
Leonie Kayser, Barbara Betti and Anton Ullrich are the new PhD representatives of our institute. Leonie also represents us in the Max Planck Society’s PhD network. Congratulations & much success!
A collaboration between the mathematicians Claudia Fevola, Simon Telen and the physicist Sebastian Mizera paves the way to more accurate predictions in the Standard Model of particle physics. Their results have just been published in Physical Review Letters.
In a video interview, the project leaders of UNIVERSE+ share insights into the project’s objectives and their personal motivation to create a new mathematical language to describe physical phenomena on all scales. Discover the very positive about positive geometry!
In recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions in the field of algebraic geometry, our director Bernd Sturmfels has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago. Warmest congratulations!
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.
Our director, Bernd Sturmfels, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bern during its Dies Academicus festivities. The recognition comes in light of his remarkable contributions to mathematical research and the promotion of gender diversity.
Hanna Tseran successfully defended her PhD thesis on activation functions in neural networks. She continues to work on deep learning theory in the Matsuo Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Well done Hanna, and our best wishes!
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.
The most recent addition to our Math Planck People is postdoc Lisa Seccia. Lisa is researching Combinatorial, Computational, and Pure Commutative Algebra in the Nonlinear Algebra Group.
Alessio Borzì is a recent postdoc in the Nonlinear Algebra group and the latest individual to reveal their academic journey and interests in our Math Planck People series.
MathRepo offers mathematicians a central infrastructure to store and publicly share supplementary material for their paper publications. Claudia Fevola and Christiane Görgen published an article on the recent developments of the repository and its role within the research data initiative MaRDI.
For the first time in his life, on September 24th, 2021, the famous Manneken Pis was dressed as a mathematician. Inspired by the “father of geometry” Pythagoras, a team of researchers with participation of our postdoc Mima Stanojkovski has created this special suit for Brussel's best-known icon.
Episode 7 of our 25 years of MiS column features our acting director Bernd Sturmfels and gives a brief glimpse into his academic career followed by a more fully featured video interview.
I will explain how to construct, analyze, and distinguish p-groups using tools coming from (algebraic and arithmetic) geometry, number theory, and algebra.
Lukas Kühne, who works in the Sturmfels group on hyperplane arrangements, matroids and tropical geometry has just published a new research brief. This brief deals with a problem from computational mathematics, the problem of scanning (finite but) large sets of certain objects.
José Alejandro Samper and Alexander Heaton provide a brief glimpse into their work on algebraic combinatorics. Their research brief discusses the switch to a language of matroids to capitalize on combinatorial and geometrical structures.
Frank Röttger just published a new research brief on the geometry of optimal design. He details how information gain can be maximized in the experimental planning phase on the example of ranking players in a chess tournament.
Barbara Betti and Laura Casabella have been awarded the Gustavo Mezzetti Prize in Italy for the best master's theses in the field of algebra. The two doctoral candidates and friends share an outstanding first place. Congratulations!
We proudly announce that our director Anna Wienhard will be a plenary speaker at the 9th European Congress of Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society taking place in Sevilla from July 15th to 19th, 2024.
A recent paper by Felix Otto, Markus Tempelmayr, Pablo Linares, and Pavlos Tsatsoulis
presents a new approach to solve a class of stochastic partial differential equations. The results are published in "Inventiones mathematicae".
Congratulations to Johannes Christoph Müller. He completed his dissertation on the geometric properties of specific optimization problems in reinforcement learning models. He now continues his scientific career as a member of the Information Processing group at RWTH Aachen.
Our director Felix Otto will be honored with the 2024 Cantor Medal by the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the DMV's most prestigious scientific award. Congratulations!
The internationally renowned mathematician Daniel Kráľ has been nominated for the highest endowed German research prize and will enhance Leipzig's expertise in the field of discrete mathematics as a Humboldt Professor.