Mathematics Münster

The interaction between probability, dynamics and group theory is an active and growing area of research with exciting recent developments. The goals of this autumn school are to expose young researchers to the diverse set of available tools in these areas, to facilitate collaborations and to stimulate new interactions.

This workshop focuses on recent advances around the (co-)homology of general linear and related groups. These basic topological invariants are, for example, related to questions in algebraic K-theory and conjectures in number theory. Their study can be approached from many different mathematical perspectives, each using their own set of techniques.

Get an insight into the research of six new postdoctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster. In short scientific presentations Kevin Chun-Kai, Georg Lehner, Fridolin Melong, Maxim Ramzi, Eduardo Silva, Tomás Casal Otero will introduce their topics. The talks take place within the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 16 October 2025 at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4.

We asked two current and two former MATHRIX Assistant Professors about the highlights and opportunities that the programme has offered them. Kristin Gabe, Anna Gusakova, Franziska Jahnke and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska share their experiences.

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Weber, investigator at Mathematics Münster, is currently spending a research stay at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Berkeley, USA, funded by a Clay Senior Scholar Award. As part of the introductory workshop “Kinetic Theory & Stochastic Partial Differential Equations”, he gave a mini-course on “Stochastic PDEs and Scaling Limits”. The video recordings are now available.

Prof. Dr. Shirly Geffen, investigator of Mathematics Münster, works in the field of operator algebras, and more specifically, C*-algebras. Since 2024, she has held a permanent professorship at the University of Münster. In this interview, she shares how she discovered her research field, how her academic path led her from Israel to a MATHRIX assistant professorship in Münster, and what she finds particularly beautiful about mathematics.