2022

Ursula Ludwig has been Professor of Theoretical Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Münster and  investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster since April 2022. In this interview she talks about her research, her career so far, and what the best thing is about being a mathematician.

Yesterday, Prof. Dr. Dustin Clausen (University of Copenhagen) gave an inspiring talk entitled "Algebraic geometry from the solid perspective" at this year's Friedrich Hirzebruch Colloquium at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster supports its doctoral researchers to go abroad for short intensive research stays. Julia Schleuß, who is about to finish her doctorate at the Institute for Analysis and Numerics, took the opportunity to spend time in the USA this spring. In her report, she shares her experiences.

Prof. Dr. Dustin Clausen (University of Copenhagen) will give a talk entitled "Algebraic geometry from the solid perspective" at this year's Friedrich Hirzebruch Colloquium. The talk takes place on 15 December 2022 at 4 pm in lecture hall M2. After the talk there will be a reception in the SRZ Lounge.

The workshop is a joint activity of the Arithmetic Geometry research groups in Bonn, Essen and Münster. The aim of the workshop is to understand the work of Roman Bezrukavnikov about an equivalence between certain constructible sheaves on an affine flag variety and certain coherent sheaves on a variety related to the Springer resolution of the nilpotent cone.

Prof. Dr. Roland Bauerschmidt (University of Cambridge) will give a talk entitled "What is Quantum Field Theory?" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 8 December 2022. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M2. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Common Room.

The new holders of the scholarships for excellent international master’s students have arrived: Yassaman Jafarabadi, Vindula Kumaranayake and Devansh Sehta started their studies at the University of Münster in October. They are supported by full grant scholarships awarded by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. In interviews, they tell us why they chose Münster, which mathematical topics they will focus on and what they hope to achieve during their time here.

The University of Münster's Rectorate has honoured the best doctoral theses of 2022. 105 young scientists received the best rating "summa cum laude" for their dissertation - including Mathematics Münster members Dr. Jan Nienhaus and Dr. Tim Keil. Dr. Thomas Godland was also awarded a dissertation prize endowed with 3,500 euros. Congratulations!

This year, three professors, three junior professors, 12 postdocs and 20 doctoral students from 15 nations started at Mathematics Münster. At a Welcome Event they got some helpful information and the opportunity to get together.

Vom 5. bis 10. 12.2022 verwandelt sich das leere Ladenlokal am Prinzipalmarkt 41 in Münster in einen "Urban Science Store" mit Mitmachaktionen, Ausstellungen und Vorträgen. Am Dienstag, 6.12., wird dort Dr. Mario Schulz, Postdoc an unserem Exzellenzcluster, von 18 bis 18:30 Uhr einen Vortrag halten: "Geometrie in Christbaumkugeln: Erforschung neuer Minimalflächen". Kommen Sie vorbei!

Scientists from our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, the "Hausdorff Center for Mathematics" (Bonn) and "MATH+" (Berlin) will show in digital workshops, lectures, a magic show and a round table on diversity of educational paths the fascination of mathematics - from 3 pm to midnight.

The journal "Inventiones mathematicae" is considered a top journal in the mathematical community. This year, the journal published a paper by postdoc Dr. Konstantinos Zemas and his PhD supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephan Luckhaus (University of Leipzig). In this interview, Konstantinos talks about the content of the paper, and how the topic and his research have developed since the publication.

Sie gilt als Pionierin der Informatik: Die Mathematikerin Ada Lovelace schreibt im 19. Jahrhundert das erste Programm für eine geplante Rechenmaschine - lange bevor es Computer gibt. Anlässlich ihres Todestages am 27. November 1852 hat der WDR eine Folge der Reihe "Zeitzeichen" über ihr Leben veröffentlicht. In dem Beitrag kommt Prof. Dr. Anna Siffert, Professorin an unserem Exzellenzcluster, zu Wort und berichtet über unser Ada Lovelace-Programm zur Förderung exzellenter Mathematik-Doktorandinnen.

This meeting will focus on the measurable and topological dynamics of group actions, with emphasis on the cross-pollination of themes and techniques that have been driving these subjects in novel directions over the last few years, ranging in flavour from probability, symbolic dynamics, and combinatorics to Lie groups, representation theory, and operator algebras, and including new types of interactions at the boundary of measure and topology themselves.

We are delighted that the European Research Council has awarded Prof. Dr. Giles Gardam, investigator of Mathematics Münster, an "ERC Starting Grant". With the help of this EU funding of 1.2 million euros over the next five years, the scientist plans to carry out his research project "Satisfiability and group rings" (SATURN). The research grant is among the most prestigious awards of its kind in Europe.

On 10 November around 13,000 prospective students took the opportunity to gather information at the "Hochschultag Münster". The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science offered a wide range of input. In short lectures - also by our Cluster members - the visitors got first insights into the study programmes. [de]

Five new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the MM Postdoc Colloquium, part 2, on 27 October 2022. In short lectures they gave an insight into their fields of research.

The Cluster welcomes Dr. Daniel Max Hoffmann as a Young Research Fellow. During his stay in Münster starting in October 2022, he will be joining the research group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent. Daniel Hoffmann is a Samuel Eilenberg Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. His research interests are model theory, Galois theory, difference and differential algebra and group theory.

Over the last one and a half decades, Prof. Dr. Grigor Sargsyan (Mathematics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) has been one of the leading researchers in the area of analyzing HOD of determinacy models, hod mice, and the core model induction. During his stay at our Cluster from 1 to 31 November 2022 and 15 February to 15 March 2023 he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler, Prof. Dr. Farmer Schlutzenberg and other scientists from Mathematics Münster.

Get an insight into the research of five new postdoctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster. In short scientific presentations they will introduce their topics on 27 October 2022. The talks take place at 2:15 pm in room M2 and via Zoom. After the talks, there will be the opportunity to exchange ideas while enjoying tea, coffee and cake in the Common Room.

With this first MaRDI Workshop on Scientific Computing, we want to bring together researchers from the Scientific Computing community and related disciplines who are interested in the FAIRness of their research data. Apart from presentations on the current MaRDI projects and selected keynote talks, birds-of-a-feather sessions will leave room for discussions and hands-on tutorials.

Five new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the MM Postdoc Colloquium, part 1, on 20 October 2022. In short lectures they gave an insight into their fields of research.

All investigators of Mathematics Münster are invited to the talk "Implicit Biases in Academia" by Dr. Lisa Horvath on Friday, 21 October 2022. In this talk, not only various examples of implicit biases, as they can happen in the university context, are presented, but also strategies and how these biases can be reduced are offered and discussed.

Get an insight into the research of five new postdoctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster. In short scientific presentations they will introduce their topics on 20 October 2022. The talks take place at 2:15 pm in room M2 and via Zoom. After the talks, there will be the opportunity to exchange ideas while enjoying tea, coffee and cake in the Common Room.

Eva Viehmann has been Professor of Theoretical Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at Münster University and investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster since February 2022. In this interview she talks about her research work, her career so far, her new start in Münster – and what she especially likes about her job.

Apply until 1st November 2022 for a doctoral or postdoctoral position at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and the Mathematical Institutes! Postdoc applicants are invited to collaborate as a Young Research Group.

Moderne Forschung lebt von Kommunikation und Austausch. Das hat auch Auswirkungen auf die Architektur von Forschungsbauten. Zum Beispiel beim Center of Mathematics Münster, das der Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB) für die WWU realisiert. Auf seinen Webseiten stellt der BLB das außergewöhnliche Bauprojekt vor - inklusive Interview mit Clustersprecher Prof. Dr. Mario Ohlberger.

Am vergangenen Freitag war es wieder soweit: Münsteraner Mathetag! Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik hielten Vorträge und Workshops für mehr als 150 Schülerinnen und Schüler der Klassen 10 bis 13 aus der Region. So konnten diese Mathematik einmal außerhalb des Schulalltags erleben.

The international conference on Stochastic Analysis is the follow-up event in tradition of similar meetings in 2005 (Bielefeld/Bonn), 2006 (Kyoto), 2007 (Berlin), 2008 (Fukuoka), 2012 (Okayama), 2013 (Leipzig), 2015 (Sendai), 2017 (Kaiserslautern) and 2019 (Fukuoka). It is part of the Cluster's  Focus Programme "Effective and dynamic behaviour of random structures".

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing around 1.2 million euros of funding for mathematician Dr. Leonard Kreutz under the Emmy Noether Programme. Leonard Kreutz – who has been working as a postdoc at Mathematics Münster in the last years – will use the money to set up his own research group at the Technical University (TU) Munich to work on "Variational Methods in Materials Sciences".

The scope of the Summerschool is to offer an overview of modern themes in Applied Mathematics, ranging from modeling issues in physics and materials science to their mathematical analysis by means of advanced techniques in the theory of PDEs and the Calculus of Variations.

Congratulations! The 5th Hausdorff Medal was awarded to Prof. David Asperó (University of East Anglia) and Prof. Ralf Schindler (Mathematics Münster) at the European Set Theory Conference in Turin. The prize is awarded every two years for the most influential work in set theory published in the five years preceding the medal.

Im Podcast der WWU kommen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zu Wort. In der aktuellen Folge interviewt Pressesprecher Norbert Robers Prof. Dr. Matthias Löwe, Mitglied von Mathematics Münster. Es geht um die Faszination Mathematik, die Schönheit von Beweisen, um Philosophie - aber auch um die große Rolle, die Mathematik in vielen Bereichen der Gesellschaft spielt.

Um besonders begabten Schülerinnen und Schülern Einblicke in Studium und Forschung zu geben, ist die WWU nun fester Kooperationspartner der NRW-Schülerakademie Mathematik und Informatik (SMIMS). Vertreter der Bezirksregierung Münster, die die Akademie veranstaltet, und des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik sowie des Exzellenzclusters Mathematik Münster haben heute eine Vereinbarung unterzeichnet, die vielfältige Unterstützung umfasst.

Dr. Anna Duwenig, Prof. Dr. Astrid an Huef, Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia Viola, Dr. Magdalena Georgescu, and Prof. Dr. Kristin Courtney have met last week in Münster to work on regularity conditions on a groupoid which can guarantee finite noncommutative covering dimension on its corresponding C*-algebra.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Masanori Morishita (Kyushu University, Japan) as a Münster Research Fellow. During his stay at our Cluster from 29 July to 23 August 2022, he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Christopher Deninger and other scientists from Mathematics Münster. Masanori Morishita is the leading authority in the field of Arithmetic Topology founded by Yuri Manin and Barry Mazur, which explores analogies between number theory and 3-dimensional topology.

Dr. Mario Schulz works in the field of Geometric Analysis. One of his passions is visualising his research topics with 3D models and gif animations to make them more vivid for other mathematicians and for the general public. In the interview, he talks about his career, the aesthetics of his models and his "dream theorem".

We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Kyungkeun Kang (Yonsei University) joined us as a Münster Research Fellow. His main research areas are Navier-Stokes equations, cross-diffusion systems and geometric maps. During his stay at our Cluster from 16 to 30 July 2022, he collaborated with Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens and other scientists from Mathematics Münster.

In the field of mathematics, the University of Münster is among the 75 best universities in the world according to the current "Shanghai Ranking". In a national comparison, Mathematics Münster is ranked among the top four, behind University of Bonn and Humboldt University Berlin.

All graduates who completed their doctoral theses in the past two "Corona years" were invited to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science's doctoral graduation ceremony in the "Schloss" yesterday. Congratulations to all doctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster, especially those who graduated in summer semester 2022. All the best for your future: Anna Verena Edenfeld, Thomas Godland, Tim Keil and Sara Terveer!

The Young Mathematicians in Model Order Reduction conference (YMMOR) aims at bringing together early career researchers that are working in the broad field of Model Order Reduction and related topics. Therefore, the focus of the conference is to foster scientific exchange and networking among PhD students, master students, and early postdocs.

Prof. Dr. Kilian Raschel (CNRS, Université d'Angers) joins our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow for the second time. He works on the connections between combinatorics and probability, a principal topic being random walks in cones seen from a combinatorial and a probabilistic point of view. During his stay in Münster from 1 to 31 July 2022 he will further conduct joint research with Prof. Dr. Gerold Alsmeyer and Prof. Dr. Zakhar Kabluchko on probabilistic and combinatorial aspects of certain persistence problems for autoregressive processes.

The ICM 2022 was reorganised as an online event, and this event hosted some of the talks real life. The focus of the event in Copenhagen, supported by Mathematics Münster, was the Geometry and Topology sections. Similar events were organized at other locations from 6–14 July 2022. Video recordings of all talks are now availabe at the YouTube channel of the International Mathematical Union.

The ICM 2022 was recently reorganised as an online event, and this event will host some of the talks real life, and attempt to salvage, on a smaller scale, some of the usual spirit of an ICM. The focus of the event in Copenhagen will be the Geometry and Topology sections, though it will not be restricted to those.

The CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity invites you to the CRC Colloquium on Thursday, 14 July 2022, at 4:15 pm. Dr. Bianca Santoro will speak about "Geodesics on the space of Kähler Metrics". Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hein will give a talk entitled "Ricci Curvature, Scalar Curvature and Regularity Theory". These two lectures will take place in the context of the Wilhelm Killing Colloquium in lecture hall M2. Get-togehter afterwards in front of the SRZ building.

Every year, the "Universitätsgesellschaft Münster" honors young scientists at the WWU for their excellent research achievements with the "Förderpreis". This year, the award goes to the mathematician Dr. Giles Gardam and the physician Dr. Maximilian Kückelhaus. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

We are honoured to welcome Prof. Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University) as a new Münster Research Fellow. He is one of the most prominent set theorists. During his stay at our Cluster until 1 July 2022, he is collaborating with Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler and other scientists from Mathematics Münster and is contributing to the 5th Münster conference on inner model theory.

Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2022, ging es beim Wissenschaftsfestival Schlauraum um Mathematik: Prof. Dr. Christian Seis sprach im Open-Air-Hörsaal im Herzen von Münster vor vielen interessierten Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern über eins der sieben Millennium-Probleme: die Navier-Stokes-Gleichung.

Mathematikbegeisterte Schülerinnen und Schüler der Jahrgangsstufen 10 und 11 aus Münster und dem Umland verbrachten vom 19. bis 23. Juni 2022 schöne und erlebnisreiche Tage bei der Mathematik-Sommerakademie auf Sylt. Prof. Dr. Matthias Löwe, Prof. Dr. Michael Joachim und Doktorandin Sara Terveer hatten verschiedene mathematische Themen als Workshops aufbereitet.

In this year's U-Multirank university ranking, Mathematics Münster reached top scores in the area of research. Mathematics at Münster University also scored well in the area of international orientation.

Münsters Wissenschaftsfestival "Schlauraum" macht Wissenschaft für Groß und Klein erlebbar. Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2022, um 17 Uhr geht es um Mathematik: Prof. Dr. Christian Seis spricht im Open-Air-Hörsaal in der Stubengasse unter dem Titel "Die Mathematik turbulenter Strömungen und die Suche nach einer Million" über das Millennium-Problem der Navier-Stokes-Gleichung. Alle Interessierten sind eingeladen!

Dr. Giles Gardam, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, convinced the German Research Foundation (DFG) with his project: The DFG is providing funding from the Emmy Noether Programme of just over one million euros for the mathematician. This means that he can build up his own research group at the Mathematical Institute in the coming six years. The aim of the Emmy Noether Programme is to offer outstanding junior researchers scientific independence and qualify them for a university professorship.

Gut besuchte und interessante Veranstaltungen rund um die Millennium-Probleme liegen hinter uns. In Münster stand die Vermutung von Birch und Swinnerton-Dyer im Mittelpunkt. Sehen Sie hier Fotos und Videos von den Vorträgen und dem Schüler-Workshop, die Teil der bundesweiten Reihe "Die 7 größten Abenteuer der Mathematik" waren.

The conference will focus on a broad range of topics which lie at the crossroads of mathematical physics and probability theory, where Herbert Spohn has made many fundamental contributions for several decades and has influenced entire generations of researchers.

Rund 100 Interessierte kamen am 15. Juni 2022 zum feierlichen Auftakt der bundesweiten Reihe "Die 7 größten Abenteuer der Mathematik" ins Schloss. Prof. Dr. Sarah Zerbes (ETH Zürich) stellte ein Millennium-Problem vor, an dem sie selbst forscht: die Vermutung von Birch und Swinnerton-Dyer.

Continuing a tradition, this conference will again draw together researchers and advanced students with an interest in inner model theory, in order to communicate and further explore recent work. There will be courses and single talks with additional ample time for problem sessions, informal seminars, and other interactions.

Five new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the Wilhelm Killing Colloquium on 15 June 2022. In short lectures they gave an insight into their field of research.

In honor of Angela Stevens' Π_k=1,2,3(k+2)th birthday this conference covers various mathematical topics she has been working on: Mathematical modeling, analysis of PDEs, dynamical systems and stochastic many particle systems. A leitmotif will be the emergence and evolution of patterns. Speakers are scientists Angela Stevens has been working and sharing paths of her mathematical journey with.

Zum Auftakt der Reihe "Die 7 größten Abenteuer der Mathematik" am 15. Juni um 18:30 Uhr im Schloss wird Prof. Dr. Sarah Zerbes (ETH Zürich) ein Millennium-Problem vorstellen, an dem sie selbst forscht: die Vermutung von Birch und Swinnerton-Dyer. Im Interview vorab erzählt sie, warum sie Mathematik als Abenteuer erlebt, was sie an der BSD-Vermutung fasziniert und was für sie als passionierte Bergsteigerin ein größeres Glücksgefühl ist: ein neuer mathematischer Beweis oder das Erreichen eins Gipfelkreuzes.

A year ago, Prof. Ralf Schindler and Prof. David Asperó published a proof uniting two hitherto competing assumptions in set theory. The result is considered a milestone in research in the field of infinities, one of the theoretical foundations of mathematics. A portrait of Ralf Schindler has now been published in Münster University's newspaper.

The "Joint Seminar on Complex Algebraic Geometry and Complex Analysis" is a research seminar, organised by the algebraic and complex geometry research groups in Bochum, Essen, Cologne, Münster, and Wuppertal. The next meeting will take place next Friday, 27 May 2022, for the first time at Münster University. There will be talks by Markus Banagl (Heidelberg), Francesco Bei (Sapienza) and Nicolina Istrati (Marburg).

Prof. Dr. Guido Kings (Regensburg) will give a talk entitled "Introduction to the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 2 June 2022. The talk takes place at 4:30 pm in room M2 and via Zoom. The talk is part of a nationwide event series on the seven Millennium Problems.

Gemeinsam mit anderen Mathematik-Standorten in Deutschland lädt der Exzellenzcluster Mathematik Münster alle Interessierten ein, die sieben Millennium-Probleme zu entdecken. Am 2. Juni 2022 gab Prof. Dr. Guido Kings (Regensburg) eine Einführung in die Vermutung von Birch und Swinnerton-Dyer für das mathematische Fachpublikum. Am 14. Juni 2022 gab es einen Workshop für Schüler:innen und am 15. Juni 2022 einen Vortrag für alle Interessierten von Prof. Dr. Sarah Zerbes (ETH Zürich) im Schloss. Aufzeichnungen der beiden Vorträge sind auf YouTube zu sehen.

On Friday, 13 March 2022, all members of Mathematics Münster were invited to this year's Ada Lovelace Seminar. The new Ada Lovelace Fellows - Azul Fatalini, Judith Lutz and Luisa Meinke - each presented a "flavour" of their research topics.

The "International Women in Maths Day" on 12 May is a great opportunity to celebrate women in mathematics! One of our this year's activities is the Ada Lovelace Seminar on Friday, 13 May 2022 at 2 pm in room SRZ 216/217. The new Ada Lovelace Fellows, excellent young doctoral researchers, Azul Fatalini, Judith Lutz and Luisa Meinke will speak about their research. All members of Mathematics Münster are invited to join.

We raises our glasses to Women in Maths! On a special webpage you will find insights into the work of some of our scientists and links to films, events and articles about women in maths.

On 12 May 2022, 7 pm, Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel, researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, and other award winners will receive the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Berlin. The awards will be presented by the Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Hans-Christian Pape, President of the Humboldt Foundation. Everybody who is interested can join the event digitally via livestream. [de]

On 28 April 2022, the participants of the "Girls' Day" gained many insights into the world of mathematicians and everyday life of students at Münster University. The faculty and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster had prepared a varied programme with a rally, a short lecture and puzzles. [de]

On 22 April 2022, the Staudt Prize will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilking for his outstanding work in the field of theoretical mathematics. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg invites everyone to attend the ceremony on site or via livestream. The laudatory speech will be given by Prof. Dr. Ursula Hamenstädt (Bonn). Afterwards at the Staudt Colloquium there will be talks by Prof. Dr. Christian Bär (Potsdam) and Prof. Dr. Katrin Wendland (Dublin).

The Cluster welcomes Dr. Víctor Sanmartín López as a Young Research Fellow. During his stay in Münster until May 2022, he will be joining Prof Anna Siffert’s research group. He has a tenure-track position at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and is conducting research on the theory of isometric actions and submanifold theory in the context of Riemannian geometry, with special focus on the study of submanifolds in symmetric spaces.

From 19 to 23 June 2022, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster are offering workshops on the island of Sylt. Highschool students who are enthusiastic about mathematics, are in the 10th or 11th grade and come from Münster and the surrounding area can now register for the summer academy. [de]

We welcome Prof. Dr. Rustum Choksi (McGill University) as a new Münster Research Fellow. He is a leading figure in the applied calculus of variations with contributions from mathematical materials science all the way to mathematical image processing. During his stay at our Cluster from 4 April to 21 May 2022, he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth and other scientists from Mathematics Münster.

Congratulations to Prof Arnulf Jentzen! He is the winner of the 2022 Joseph F. Traub Prize. This annual prize is given by the Journal of Complexity for outstanding contributions to information-based complexity.

Endlich wieder in Präsenz: Rund 80 Interessierte haben am Dienstag, 5. April 2022, einen Vortrag aus unserer öffentlichen Reihe "Brücken in der Mathematik" besucht. Dieses Mal wurde eine Brücke von der Mathematik zur Informatik geschlagen. Prof. Dr. Martin Grohe von der RWTH Aachen erläuterte, welch große Rolle das mathematische Konzept der Symmetrie in der Informatik spielt.

We were pleased to welcome the scientists of our Advisory Board and all members of Mathematics Münster to our second Advisory Board Meeting last week - in person and digitally. It was an intense and fruitful exchange about past and future activities of the Cluster, with many helpful hints from the advisors.

Until May 1st you can apply for a doctoral position or an Ada Lovelace Fellowship at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and the Mathematical Institutes.

Muster auf Schmetterlingsflügeln, Schneekristalle, Blütenblätter - symmetrische Strukturen sind in der Natur allgegenwärtig, ebenso in der Kunst. Aber auch in der Informatik spielt das mathematische Konzept der Symmetrie eine große Rolle. Informatik-Professor Martin Grohe gibt am 5. April 2022 um 18:30 Uhr einen anschaulichen Einblick in die Welt der Isomorphie-Algorithmen: von grundlegenden offenen Fragen wie zum Beispiel dem sogenannten Graphisomorphieproblem bis hin zu konkreten Anwendungen im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich zu dem Vortrag im Hörsaal M1 und zum anschließenden Austausch bei einem kleinen Snack eingeladen!

The Mathematics Münster Master Day is an online event aimed at students at the undergraduate level to broadcast the International Master's Programme at the University of Münster. The meeting features an invited lecture by Prof Ursula Ludwig, an information session about our programme (including scholarship opportunities) and an informal gathering with selected members of our faculty.

The German Mathematical Society (DMV) aims to support mathematicians from Ukraine at all stages in their career who might consider a visiting position, scholarship or other forms of scientific long-term stays in Germany. In cooperation with Mathematics Münster, applications from mathematicians from Ukraine and offers from German mathematical institutions will be coordinated via the website go.wwu.de/math-for-ukraine.

The first short-term scholarship for international master's students in mathematics has been awarded to José Rafael Santiago. The Venezuelan has recently arrived in Münster and will spend six months at the University of Münster, funded by the new scholarship programme of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster.

This year’s theme "Mathematics unites" fits perfectly with the aim of our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. We have united scientists from 30 nations, who are conducting research in various mathematical fields. In a new video that will be published on 14 March, you will meet six Cluster members who will give insight into the diversity of mathematicians – united by their passion for mathematics!

Congratulations to all doctoral reseachers of Mathematics Münster who completed their dissertation in the past months. All the best for your future: Stefano Ariotta, Emanuele Bodon, Martin Brückerhoff, Maike Frantzen, Shirly Geffen, Shanxiao Huang, Sebastian Kassing, Meike Kinzel and Robin Loose!

ECIMT is a week-long conference happening in Münster, aiming to bring together young researchers interested in Model Theory, and to explore interactions between Model Theory and other mathematical fields, most notably Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory.

What does diversity actually mean in connection with equality, family and equal opportunities? Dr. Anne Schindler, Managing Director of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, and Prof. Dr. Urs Hartl, Diversity Representative at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, work intensively - also together and with others - for equality and diversity. What is going well at Münster University? Where do we need to catch up? An interview in the current newsletter "wissen.leben.familie".[de]

We are very happy to announce that our Cluster member Burkhard Wilking has been awarded the Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize 2022 for his outstanding work in the field of theoretical mathematics. The Scientific Commission of the Society of Mathematical Research emphasised not only his contribution to the construction of metrics of non-negative sectional curvature, as well as to rigidity theorems for manifolds of positive curvature, but also his creative use of the Ricci flow.

The Cluster welcomes Leonhard Kehrberger as one of its new Young Research Fellows. During his stay in Münster from 1 December 2021 to 1 April 2022, he will be joining Prof Gustav Holzegel’s research group. Leonhard is a 4th year PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof Mihalis Dafermos. His research is concerned with the study of partial differential equations in general relativity.

The world celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science today! In this video, four young female scientists from Mathematics Münster give insights. Antje Dabeler, Azul Fatalini, Martina Fruttidoro und Julia Schleuß are doctoral researchers and talk about their most important maths moment - so far.

The Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science invite female high school students to gain insights into university and the work of mathematicians. [de]

The CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity invites you to the CRC Colloquium on Thursday, 3 February 2022, at 4:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Winter will speak about "Approximation properties and rigidity questions for C*-algebras". Prof. Dr. David Kerr will give a talk entitled "The dynamics of comparsion". These two lectures will take place in the context of the Wilhelm Killing Colloquium for max. 24 persons in presence in room SRZ 216/217 (registration via e-mail), for all others via Zoom.

Last year, Prof Ralf Schindler from Mathematics Münster and Prof David Asperó (University of East Anglia) published a proof about the sizes of infinities uniting two rival axioms of set theory. The result has not only made waves among scientists – popular science media has also taken up the topic. An overview.

++ Update 26.02.2022: The Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has decided that the ICM 2022 will take place as a fully virtual event, hosted outside Russia. ++

Prof Gustav Holzegel and Prof Thomas Nikolaus, both members of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, have been invited to talk about their research at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The ICM takes place every four years and is the oldest, largest and – scientifically speaking – most important event in the field of mathematics.

The Young Mathematicians in Model Order Reduction conference aims at bringing together early career researchers that are working in the broad field of Model Order Reduction and related topics. Therefore, the focus of the conference is to foster scientific exchange and networking among PhD students, master students, and early postdocs.