Scientific events

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.

Prof. Dr. Michael Dumbser (University of Trento) will give a talk entitled "A simple and general framework for the construction of exactly div-curl-grad compatible discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes on unstructured simplex meshes" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 8 January 2026. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Cluster Common Room.

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 goal of this workshop is to bring together young European-based researchers under the broad umbrella of geometric structures. We aim to provide a place for interaction and sharing of research ideas across a range of disciplines: these include Spin geometry, special holonomy, almost Hermitian geometry, hypercomplex geometry, or Kähler and complex algebraic geometry and related topics.