2023

We welcome Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Iksanov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is one of the most prolific and distinguished probabilists in Ukraine. During his stay at our Cluster from 18 March to 8 April 2023 he will continue his existing collaboration with Prof. Dr. Gerold Alsmeyer and Prof. Dr. Zakhar Kabluchko and will contribute to the Cluster’s Focus Programme "Effective and dynamic behaviour of random structures".

The purpose of the meeting is to study relationships between local and global invariants in Riemannian Geometry. Our intention is to bring together experts in the field as well as young mathematicians. We plan to schedule talks from the morning of Monday, 31 July, through the afternoon of Friday, 4 August. The program of the Workshop is structured so that beyond the lectures there will be many opportunities for intensive discussions.

Since Elliotts classification of approximately finite C*-algebras it is well known that there are strong ties between classification theory and approximation theory for C*-algebras. The full depth of this relation became clear only after the groundbreaking work of Eberhard Kirchberg on tensor products and approximation properties of C*-algebras with astounding applications to (on first sight unrelated) important problems: the Connes embedding problem and the classification of (purely infinite) C*-algebras. The meeting will focus on breathtaking recent advances in these topics due to several young rising stars.

Dr. Dieter Wemmer joined us at our series "MM Connect" for early career researchers to present a special talk. He briefly outlined his own career path and, based on his decades of experience as a CFO and CEO of several big companies, offered advice on how to approach making decisions about career paths and which important factors need to be considered.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts of the various lines of research to foster interaction and mutual understanding which structures and methods are needed for a successful step from perturbative to non-perturbative QFT.
This workshop is planned in close coordination with the related workshop  "Stochastic Analysis meets QFT - critical theory", 12-14 June 2023.

The aim of this short workshop is to bring together some leading experts from both the stochastic analysis community and the QFT community to explore the exciting developments further.
This workshop is planned in close coordination with the related workshop "From perturbative to non-perturbative QFT", 14-16 June 2023.

Set theory is a broad area of mathematics, with many interconnecting themes, and our knowledge is developing rapidly. This international workshop will bring together young mathematicians, providing in depth introductions to various topics in set theory, leading to questions at the forefront of research. Tutorials and talks will be given by both experienced researchers and postdocs, and will be primarily aimed at advanced PhD students and early career researchers.

Get an insight into the research of five new postdoctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster. In short scientific presentations they will introduce their topics on 13 April 2023. The talks take place at 2:15 pm in lecutre hall M4. After the talks, there will be the opportunity to exchange ideas while enjoying tea, coffee and cake in the Common Room.

Schüler:innen der Klassen 5-7 sind eingeladen, Mathe aus einer neuen Perspektive zu entdecken. Beim Workshop "Mathe mal anders!" am 18. April 2023 können sie sich bei einer kreativen Schnitzeljagd und anderen spannenden Aktionen überzeugen, dass Mathe viel mehr ist als nur ein Schulfach. 22 Kinder hatten am 14. März 2023, dem Internationalen Tag der Mathematik, an der "Premiere" des Workshops teilgenommen.

This year's motto is "Mathematics for everyone". That's why the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster has invited pupils in grades 5-7 who are not (yet) the biggest maths fans to a inspiring workshop. Everybody is invited to join the global live celebration online. Take part in many interesting talks via livestream and check out the blog!

In a new series of videos, the Communication and Public Relations department of the University of Münster presents six academics from a variety of disciplines who are either junior professors or who head a group of junior researchers. A video portrait of out investigator Dr. Theresa Simon was recently published. As a junior professor at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, she studies patterns in magnets.

Today's International Women's Day is a good opportunity to draw attention to some interesting and inspiring links:

The workshop focuses on the availability, derivation and discovery of variational principles for non-equilibrium systems, in particular, those which connect model structures on different lengths and time scales via microscopic derivations, such as hydrodynamic limits. We bring together physicists and mathematicians to discuss recent progress for specific systems as well as regarding general principles.

The workshop centers around two topics: "Random graphs and stochastic geometry" and "Branching and mathematical biology". The aim is to provide an opportunity of exchange between the different groups and to attract young researchers to the field. All members of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science are invited to join the "Bridge Plenary Talk" by Remco van der Hofstad (TU Eindhoven) on Thursday, 23 March 2023, 4:30 pm in lecture hall M2, title: "Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs". The conference is part of the Focus Programme "Effective and dynamic behaviour of random structures".

On Monday, all doctoral researchers who completed their theses in the past semester were invited to the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. We congratulate all gratuates of Mathematics Münster and wish them all the best for their future: Blaise Boissonneau, Johannes Branahl, Maria Lünnemann, Jonas McCandless, Jan Nienhaus, Kevin Poljsak, Jonas Potthoff and Marie-Christin Zumbülte!

We welcome Prof. Dr. Alcides Buss (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is an excellent researcher in the field of Operator Algebras. During his stay at our Cluster from February to December 2023 he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Echterhoff and other scientists from Mathematics Münster.

Schüler:innen der Klassen 5-7, die (noch) nicht die größten Mathe-Fans sind, sind eingeladen, am 14. März 2023, dem Internationalen Tag der Mathematik, Mathe aus einer neuen Perspektive zu entdecken! Bei einem Workshop am Exzellenzcluster Mathematik Münster können sie sich bei einer kreativen Schnitzeljagd und anderen spannenden Aktionen überzeugen, dass Mathe viel mehr ist als nur ein Schulfach. Workshop ist bereits ausgebucht - Warteliste vorhanden.

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 Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster has established special professorships for mathematicians who bring together a variety of fields in their research – such as Prof. Hendrik Weber. Recently, Hendrik Weber, an expert on stochastic analysis, moved from the University of Bath to Münster. He brought with him an ERC Consolidator Grant, approved in 2022.

Bielefeld-Münster Seminar on Groups, Geometry and Topology with talks by Daniel Keppeler (Münster), Amandine Escalier (Münster), Jonas Flechsig (Bielefeld) and Bianca Marchionna (Bielefeld). All lectures take place in room SRZ 216, Orléans-Ring 12.

The eleventh edition of the Young Geometric Group Theory (YGGT) workshop focuses on four mini-courses which present a panoramic overview over some important developments in the research fields. Besides the four main lecture series a number of plenary presentations are organised to broaden the scope of the workshop, and to encourage the participants to explore the boundaries of the subject.

The CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity invites you to the CRC Colloquium on Thursday, 26 January 2023, at 4:15 pm. Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent will speak about "Simplicity of automorphism groups of homogeneous structures". Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kwiatkowska will give a talk entitled "Compact connected one-dimensional spaces". These two lectures will take place in the context of the Wilhelm Killing Colloquium in lecture hall M2. Get-togehter afterwards in the SRZ building, 2nd floor.

Congratulations to Mathematics Münster's postdoc Dr. Lucas Mann! He was awarded the Hausdorff Memorial Award for the best dissertation 2021/2022 in mathematics at the University of Bonn. In his PhD thesis, he proves a Poicaré duality in the case of p-adic geometry. His supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze was highly impressed by the technical level and the importance beyond the statement to be proved: "This PhD thesis is an extraordinary contribution to p-adic geometry, and it will take some years to digest the statements from this thesis."

Check out the overview of our conferences and workshops! We are looking forward to welcoming you to Mathematics Münster.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley) will give a talk entitled "Likely Intersections" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 19 January 2023. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M2. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Common Room.

The conference will report on various aspects of the rapid developments in Number Theory and Arithmetic in the past years. This concerns in particular smooth representation theory, Iwasawa theory, p-adic geometry and p-adic Hodge theory. All members of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science are invited to join the "Bridging Talk" by Prof. Dr. Otmar Venjakob (Heidelberg) on Thursday, 16 February 2023, 4:20 pm in lecture hall M2, title: "Explicit Reciprocity Laws in Number Theory".

Im Stadtmuseum Münster ist derzeit die Fotoausstellung "Faszination Wissenschaft" von Herlinde Koelbl zu sehen. Am 28. Januar um 16 Uhr gibt Dr. Theresa Simon, Juniorprofessorin an unserem Exzellenzcluster, im Rahmenprogramm der Ausstellung unter dem Motto "Meet a scientist" persönliche Einblicke in ihr Leben als Wissenschaftlerin. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen!