Mathematics Münster

Get an insight into the research of the Ada Lovelace Fellows 2025 Anna Cascioli & Raquel Murat García. In short scientific presentations they will introduce their research. After the talks, there will be the opportunity to exchange ideas while enjoying tea, coffee and cake in the Common Room.

Prof. Dr. Mikaela Iacobelli (ETH Zürich) will give a talk entitled "Challenges and Breakthroughs in the Mathematics of Plasmas" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 11 December 2025. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Cluster Common Room.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Thom (TU Dresden) will give the talk at this year's Hirzebruch Colloquium on 18 December 2025. He will explain how topological methods can be applied to solve equations over groups and also mention some recent advances in the study of identities for finite and infinite groups. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4.

Due to a large number of common mathematical interests in very diverse fields of mathematics, we decided to introduce a themed meeting bringing together researchers from the two institutions in related areas. The main objective is to get an idea about research interests and projects in each others' department (specifically at the PhD and postdoc level) and to provide a forum for future collaborations.

The new holders of the full grant scholarships for excellent international master’s students have arrived: Zauri Bokelavadze, Adéla Heroudková, and Srijan Saha started their studies at the University of Münster in October 2025.

We welcome Dr Karol Bołbotowski as a new Young Research Fellow at our cluster. He has recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics and works in the field of calculus of variations, focusing on the optimal design of mechanical structures. During his stay until mid-December he will collaborate with Benedikt Wirth and his group.

Our investigator Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen is listed in the current citation ranking of the US-based company Clarivate Analytics. He is thereby one of the most cited researchers worldwide and one of 65 in the field of mathematics.

We are happy to welcome Dr. Thu-Hà Triệu, tenure track Lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. She has been awarded a scholarship by the DAAD for her stay in Münster. Her research focuses on arithmetic and algebraic geometry. During her stay until end January 2026, she will be working with Christopher Deninger.