About members and guests

We are delighted to once again welcome Dr. Thomas Leblé (Université de Paris Cité) to our Cluster. As a promising mathematician in probability theory and mathematical physics, he will continue his collaborations with Martin Huesmann during his stay in March 2025. Previously, he visited the Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow from mid February to the end of March 2024.

We welcome Dr. Peter Morfe as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig and an expert in the theory of homogenisation of elliptic and parabolic differential operators, including operators with random coefficients. During his stay until the end of February, he will collaborate with Guilherme De Lima Feltes and Hendrik Weber.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Alcides Buss (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a distinguished researcher in the field of Operator Algebras. During his stay at our Cluster in February 2025, he will intensify his collaboration with the Operator Algebra group and many other researchers from Mathematics Münster.

As a Henriette Herz Scout, Prof. Dr. Franziska Jahnke can recommend postdocs from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Now the investigator of Mathematics Münster has taken this opportunity to bring Dr. Mariana Vicaria and Dr. Floris Vermeulen to Münster. In this interview, they talk about their reasons to come to Münster, their research projects, and their start.

We welcome Dr. Radhika Gupta as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. She is a Reader at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Her work is mostly in geometric group theory, where she made important contributions on the geometry of CAT(0) groups and free-by-cyclic groups. During her stay until mid February, she will work on this topic with Benjamin Brück and Katrin Tent, but she is always open for mathematical exchange on various topics.

For his contribution to the research programme "Recent Trends in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations", Prof. Dr. Hendrik Weber, investigator at Mathematics Münster, has been awarded a Clay Senior Scholar Award by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI).

The University of Münster's Rectorate has honoured the best doctoral theses of 2024. 121 young scientists received the best rating "summa cum laude" for their dissertation - including Dr. Alessandro Codenotti, Dr. David Tobias Meyer, Dr. Philip Möller, Dr. Petr Naryshkin and Dr. Adrian Riekert, who have finished their doctorates at Mathematics Münster. Adrian Riekert was also awarded a dissertation prize endowed with 3,500 euros. Congratulations!

This year’s von Kaven Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) is awarded to Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus. The prize honours mathematicians for outstanding research achievements. Thomas Nikolaus, spokesperson of our Cluster, conducts research in the fields of homotopy theory and K-theory, at the intersection of topology and algebra.

Dr. Ksenia Fedosova, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, has, along with Prof. Dr. Kim Klinger-Logan and Dr. Danylo Radchenko, proven a conjecture related to so-called 4-graviton scattering, which physicists proposed for certain equations. The results have been published in the renowned journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS).

We are delighted to welcome the new fellows of the Young African Mathematicians (YAM) Fellowship Programme to Münster. Ester Kitengu, Herimamy T. Rafenomanantsoa, and Joseline Doriane Simo Tekeu will be working on their projects within different research groups over the next months. Read their introductions on our website.

Dr. Adrian Riekert, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning Best Thesis Award". The prize is presented annually by the DFG-funded Priority Program 2298. Congratulations, Adrian!

Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen, investigator at Mathematics Münster, was awarded the "Top Cited Paper Award North America 2024". This means that the paper "Algorithms for solving high dimensional PDEs: from nonlinear Monte Carlo to machine learning" (joint work with Weinan E and Jiequn Han) is among the top 10 most cited papers in the mathematics category from North America, published with IOP Publishing.

Sylvy Anscombe, Maîtresse de Conférences at the Université Paris Cité, is a Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. She works at the interface of mathematical logic and algebra. During her stay until the end of the year, she will continue her collaboration with Franziska Jahnke.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Mirna Džamonja (Associate Researcher at IHPST (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) and IRIF (Université Paris Cité)) as a Münster Research Fellow. Mirna Džamonja is a logician who mostly works in set theory, specialising in combinatorial set theory. During her stay at our Cluster in October 2024, she collaborates with Ralf Schindler on questions that connect inner model theory and combinatorial properties of ultrafilters and forcing.

We are delighted that Ralf Schindler, investigator of Mathematics Münster, and David Asperó (University of East Anglia) were awarded the Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations 2024. The jury of the international research prize rewards their work in the foundations of set theory, and in particular their work connecting determinacy principles and so-called strong forcing axioms, both impinging on the nature of the continuum hypothesis.

In the latest episode of our podcast On A Tangent, we meet Marjory Mwanza, a Fellow of the Young African Mathematicians programme. She shares her journey into group theory and how she uncovers fascinating, deeper structures in seemingly simple objects.

We are happy about the stay of Prof. Dr. John R. Steel (UC Berkeley) as a Münster Research Fellow at the Cluster. He is one of the best set theorists worldwide. He keeps producing seminal results in descriptive set theory as well as in inner model theory. He has been a coorganiser of the "Münster meetings in inner model theory" for many years, putting a lot of energy into the promotion of young students. During his stay at our Cluster in September he continued his collaborations with Ralf Schindler.

Franziska Jahnke has been a professor at the Mathematical Institute and the Institute for Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research since 1 September 2024. She conducts research in the field of model theory of fields. Her work combines mathematical logic with applications in algebra. In this interview, she provides insights into what she enjoys about mathematics and which moments in her career have been particularly important.

We welcome Dr. Amandine Escalier as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. She works in geometric group theory and measured dynamics at Université Lyon 1. She plans to work with Linus Kramer on graph products and right-angled Artin groups, and with David Kerr on orbit equivalence of measurable actions.

In the latest episode of "On a Tangent", find out why a person full of inventiveness is drawn to maths and how bridges are built between fundamental mathematical questions in different fields.

Shortly before Rob Sullivan left Mathematics Münster, he answered some questions on our podcast. In the latest episode of "On a Tangent", find out how to entertain children at boring weddings and why ultrahomogeneous structures are difficult to understand.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Dr Arnulf Jentzen from Mathematik Münster, together with together with Jiequn Han and Weinan E, has received the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award for the outstanding publication at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing on 14 July 2024.

We welcome Dr. Simone Cecchini as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. He is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and works at the interface of global analysis and topology. During his visit to Münster, he will continue his longstanding collaboration with Rudolf Zeidler on scalar curvature rigidity questions and exchange ideas with other scientists at Mathematics Münster.

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Alexander Marynych (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) to Mathematics Münster as a Münster Research Fellow starting July 15. Previously, he spent several months at the Cluster as a Humboldt Fellow. Alexander Marynych is a Ukrainian probabilist who continues the traditions of the world-famous Kyiv school in the theory of stochastic processes. During his research stay in Münster, Alexander Marynych plans to continue his collaboration with several members of the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics.

We are delighted that Dr. Philipp Reiser joins our Cluster as a new Young Research Fellow. He is motivated by the long-standing question of how the topology and geometry of Riemannian manifolds interact. During his stay at Mathematics Münster from 1st to 26th July 2024, he is especially collaborating with Masoumeh Zarei.

Ursula Ludwig and Ralf Schindler are invited as sectional speakers to the upcoming European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) of the European Mathematical Society, which will be held in Seville in 2024. The ECM is a major international event held every four years that brings together mathematicians from across Europe and around the world.

In this episode of our podcast "On A Tangent", Simone is joined by Azul Fatalini, a doctoral researcher in Set Theory. Learn about how the Axiom of Choice transforms the universes it holds in, how logic is the mathematics of mathematics, and what’s the quickest path to ice cream.

Many dynamic processes can be described by stochastic partial differential equations. Together with other researchers, Dr. Markus Tempelmayr, Postdoc at Mathematics Münster, has found a new method which helps to solve a certain class of such equations.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Dima Sinapova from Rutgers University as a Münster Research Fellow. She is one of the leading experts worldwide on the study of aspects of the failure of the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis (SCH). During her stay at our Cluster in June 2024 she will continue her collaborations with Ralf Schindler.

In the second episode of our Mathematics Münster podcast "On A Tangent", host Simone Ramello meets Mert Bastug, a doctoral researcher in PDEs and Calculus of Variations. They talk about Mert’s first meeting with mathematics, how it is possible to understand materials with the help of PDEs, and where they might take us next.

We welcome Dr. Volker Schlue as a Visiting Scholar (on leave from the University of Melbourne). His stay is funded by the Humboldt Foundation. Volker is a promising mathematician in general relativity and nonlinear wave equations. He joined our Cluster in April 2024. During his extended stay at our Cluster until February 2025, he will contribute actively to all activities in the research group of Prof. Gustav Holzegel.

The "Young African Mathematicians Fellowship Programme" enables talented and highly motivated master's graduates from Africa to further their academic development in a stimulating, international environment and lay down a solid foundation for their own careers. Since October, for the first time, three YAM fellows have been conducting research at Mathematics Münster.

In the first episode of our new Mathematics Münster podcast "On A Tangent", host Simone Ramello is joined by Alex Tullini, a doctoral researcher in General Relativity. We discuss Alex’s journey towards mathematics, going through oranges, eclipses, and the odd similarities between a career in mathematics and surgery.
 

Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann, investigator at Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the Leibniz Prize 2024 for her influential work on arithmetic algebraic geometry as part of the Langlands Programme. Prof. Dr. Urs Hartl, Dr. Stefania Trentin and Dr. João Lourenço, mathematicians from Eva Viehmann's research environment, provide insights into this complex field of research. Their contributions for mathematical laypersons, maths students and the mathematical community allow an approach in several stages.

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) has awarded Dr. Andreas Lietz the Sacks Prize for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic in 2023. He is currently a postdoc at TU Wien. He received his PhD in 2023 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler at Mathematics Münster. Congratulations, Andreas!

Prof. Thomas Nikolaus was elected as a new spokesperson for our Cluster of Excellence last week. He succeeds Prof. Christopher Deninger, who held the position jointly with Prof. Mario Ohlberger since the Cluster began its work in 2019. Mario Ohlberger continues in the position. "I’m delighted to be able to contribute to the successful development of Mathematics Münster from now on as spokesperson," said Thomas Nikolaus after being voted into office, a procedure which took place at the General Assembly of all Cluster members.

On Monday, all doctoral researchers who completed their theses in the past semester were invited to the graduation ceremony of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. We congratulate all graduates of Mathematics Münster and wish them all the best for their future: Lara Beßmann, Chiara D'Onofrio, Martina Fruttidoro, Agnese Mantione, Víctor Navarro Fernández, Adrian Riekert, Stefania Trentin and Qi Yao.

The colloquium in honor of Prof. Dr. Michael Weiss starts on 2 February 2024 at 2 pm in lecture hall M2. Talks will be given by Prof. Dr. Søren Galatius (Kopenhagen) on "Homeomorphisms of contractible manifolds" and Prof. Dr. Manuel Krannich (KIT Karlsruhe) on "Surreal Pontryagin classes".

Explore how mathematics enhances information transmission. Journey through Quantum Information Theory’s role, touching on quantum graphs, operator algebras, and their impact on secure communication channels. The text was written by Dr. Priyanga Ganesan, who spent several months as a Young Research Fellow and WiRe Fellow last year at Mathematics Münster.

Congratulations! Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann, investigator at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the most highly endowed German research prize. "The prize is a great honour for me," she says. She has found an "ideal research environment" at the University of Münster, in mathematics in general and in her research group for arithmetic geometry. "The prize makes these good conditions even more perfect."

We welcome Prof. Dr. Martin J. Gander (University of Geneva) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a renowned mathematician in numerical analysis and scientific computing. During his stay at our Cluster in October and 04 - 08 December 2023 he will continue his collaborations with Prof. Dr. Mario Ohlberger and with Dr. Stephan Rave on localized model order reduction and domain decomposition methods and will plan new projects with further members of Mathematics Münster.

The University of Münster's Rectorate has honoured the best doctoral theses of 2023. 125 young scientists received the best rating "summa cum laude" for their dissertation - including Dr. Andreas Lietz and Dr. Jeroen Winkel who have finished their doctorates at Mathematics Münster. Dr. Julian Kranz was also awarded a dissertation prize endowed with 3,500 euros. Congratulations!

This year, 15 postdocs and 20 doctoral students from 10 nations started at Mathematics Münster. At a Welcome Event they got some helpful information and the opportunity to get together.

He discovered his love of mathematics in Tokyo when he was about twelve years old. He later studied mathematics and earned his doctorate at the age of only 23. On the occasion of his 65th birthday this year, the university newspaper "wissen|leben" presents a portrait of our Cluster spokesperson Prof. Dr. Christopher Deninger. It's about mathematics - but also about metal concerts.

The annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) 2023 will take place from 25 - 28 September 2023 in Ilmenau. Prof. Dr. Mario Ohlberger, speaker of our Cluster, will give one of the plenary talks on 28. September at 10:30 am, entitled: "Model Order Reduction and Learning for PDE Constrained Optimization and Inverse Problems".

Our member Dr. Rudolf Zeidler has been awarded an "ERC Starting Grant". The grant of 1.4 million euros will enable him to set up his own research group in the field of scalar curvature. He has also been accepted by the DFG to the Heisenberg Programme. Congratulations, Rudi!

Two of our future long-term guests will be sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Prof. George Willis will be awarded the Humboldt Research Award and Dr. Colin Reid the Bessel Research Award. The renowned mathematicians from the University of Newcastle, Australia, are co-organisers of our Focus Programme this fall and will spend several months at Mathematics Münster to collaborate with various MM members.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Duong H. Phong (Columbia University) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is known for his research on complex analysis, partial differential equations, string theory and complex geometry. During his stay at our Cluster from 30 July to 30 August 2023 he is collaborating with Dr. Bianca Santoro, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hein and other members of the complex geometry group in Mathematics Münster.

Dr. Priyanga Ganesan, current Young Research Fellow at our Cluster and WiRE Fellow at Münster University, answered 33 questions on her research, challenges and funny moments in science, and her experiences at Mathematics Münster.

Our investigator Arnulf Jentzen has been accepted into the "Lamarr Fellow Network", funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science North Rhine-Westphalia. The programme aims to foster research on artificial intelligence.

We are delighted that Francesco Pediconi joins our Cluster as a new Young Research Fellow. He is a Junior Assistant Professor ("RTD-a" in the Italian system) at the Università di Firenze, working in real and complex differential geometry. During his stay at Mathematics Münster from 16 July to 13 August 2023 he is collaborating with Dr. Anusha Krishnan and other scientists of Mathematics Münster.

In einer neuen Folge des Podcasts "Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle" geben Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann und Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel von unserem Exzellenzcluster Einblicke in die Welt der Mathematik-Forschung. Sie sprechen über Glücksgefühle und Frust beim Forschen und warum es in der Mathematik so wichtig ist, über den Tellerrand des eigenen Gebiets zu schauen.

We welcome Izar Alonso Lorenzo as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. She is a fourth year DPhil student at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in differential geometry. During her stay at Mathematics Münster from 17 July to 11 August 2023 she is collaborating with Prof. Dr. Christoph Böhm and other scientists of Mathematics Münster.

Congratulations to our Mathematics Münster researchers Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus and Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler: Together with co-authors, they received Frontiers of Science Awards for their outstanding papers at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing on 16 July 2023.

"Awareness and recognition for FAIR data culture must be increased." says Mario Ohlberger, Mathematics Münster's spokesperson, in the "Making MaRDI" interview, a series of the Mathematical Research Data Initiative. To learn about his role in establishing a FAIR culture for mathematical research data, read this interesting interview.

We welcome Dr. Christian Bönicke (University of Newcastle) as a Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. He is an expert on K-theory and Homology theory for (C*-algebras) of groupoids and their applications. During his stay at Mathematics Münster from 5 June to 21 July 2023 he is collaborating with several members of the C*-algebra group.

Prof Arnulf Jentzen has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician who carries out research at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster is working on the mathematical fundamentals of deep learning. For his ERC project, starting in July, he will be receiving around 1.4 million euros for the next five years.

Dr. Stephan Rave, member of Mathematics Münster, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Weinhart (University of Twente) have been awarded with the so-called "Collaboration Grant" - an intern funding instrument of the universities of Münster and Twente in order to finance existing research collaborations between Münster and Twente. The project named "Model Order Reduction for Discrete Particle Systems" which should simulate the behavior of granular materials, gains 80,000 euros.

 

We are delighted that the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has accepted Franziska Jahnke, MATHRIX professor at Mathematics Münster, as a new Henriette Herz Scout. She has now the opportunity to recommend three postdocs from abroad for a renowned Humboldt Research Fellowship which can be granted directly.

In seinem Vortrag beschreibt Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel, Forscher an unserem Cluster, warum sich Mathematiker für schwarze Löcher interessieren, welche geometrischen und analytischen Fragen dabei auftreten und welche Methoden entwickelt worden sind, um diese zu beantworten. Der Vortrag findet am 24. Juni 2023 um 16 Uhr in Hörsaal M4 statt und richtet sich an alle mathematisch interessierten Alumni.

Combining mathematical depth with biological impact: A research team from Münster, led by Cluster investigator Benedikt Wirth, has just been awarded the IMA Mathematical Medicine & Biology Best Paper Prize 2021. A belated but no less beautiful honor!

We welcome Prof. Dr. Ilijas Farah (York University, Toronto) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is a world leading expert working on the interface of set theory, model theory, and operator algebras. During his stay at our Cluster from 1 June to 22 July 2023 he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler and Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Winter and will contribute to the conference "C*-Algebras: Tensor Products, Approximation & Classification".

We welcome Dr. Priyanga Ganesan as a new Young Research Fellow at our Cluster. She holds a prestigious President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Diego. Her research interest revolves around operator algebras and their connections with quantum information theory. During her stay at Mathematics Münster during the 2023 summer semester, she will collaborate with JProf. Dr. Kristin Courtney.
 

Collaboration across the boundaries between mathematical fields can lead to new approaches and insights. In this interview, the Cluster investigators Prof. Dr. Hendrik Weber and Prof. Dr. Raimar Wulkenhaar explain why even collaborations within one dicipline are challenging - and which opportunities it provides for their research.

The Cluster welcomes Dr. Agatha Atkarskaya as a Young Research Fellow. She is a postdoc at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and specialises in group and ring theory. She is one of the driving forces in the construction of infinite Burnside groups via small cancellation theory. During her stay at Münster from 1 April to 30 June 2023 she will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent.
 

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".

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.

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.

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.

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!

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."

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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 Universität Münster 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.

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 is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of Geometric Analysis. One of his passions is visualising his research topics to make them more vivid for other mathematicians and for the general public. In this interview, he talks about his motives.

We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Kyungkeun Kang (Yonsei University) joins us as a Münster Research Fellow. His main research areas are Navier-Stokes equations, cross-diffusion systems and geometric maps. He regularly visits Münster to collaborate with Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens and other scientists from Mathematics Münster. Currently he stays at Münster until 12 July 2024. 

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We raise 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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Congratulations, Franziska Jahnke! The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts has accepted her as a new member of the "Junges Kolleg" for young uprising scientists. She is a junior professor at the Mathematical Institute and the Institute for Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research and a member of our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. [de]

After some organisational obstacles, Anupam Datta, Zhuang Kang and Shervin Sorouri have arrived in Münster and started their studies at Münster University. They are the first international students to receive the new full grant master’s scholarships. In this way, the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster aims to support outstanding young mathematicians and attract them to Münster.

We welcome Anna Gusakova to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. She commenced her appointment as a MATHRIX Junior Professor on 1 September 2021. Her major research area is Stochastic Geometry.

Between July and November this year, two junior professors, 20 postdocs and 17 doctoral students from more than 15 nations started at Mathematics Münster. At a digital Welcome Event they got some helpful information - and some real coffee afterwards.

Since January 2021, Prof. David Kerr has been member of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and has been teaching and carrying out research at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. His research focuses on ergodic theory and operator algebras. In this new portrait you will learn more about his field of research, career and intellectual passion - beyond mathematics.

We welcome Dr Claude Warnick (University of Cambridge) as a Münster Research Fellow. He is mainly known for his papers on asymptotically anti-de Sitter space times and developing a rigorous theory of quasinormal modes for a large class of black hole spacetimes. During his stay in Münster from 1 October to 31 December 2021, he will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel and other researchers of the Cluster.

The joint Annual Conference of the German Mathematical Society DMV and the Austrian Mathematical Society ÖMG will take place from 27 September to 1 October 2021 in a virtual format. One of the keynote lectures will be given by Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens from Mathematics Münster on Wednesday, 29 September, 9 am. She will talk about the important tools that mathematics has developed since more than 100 years for the understanding of epidemics. Phenomena like epidemic waves will be discussed as well as actual data.

Congratulations to all doctoral students of Mathematics Münster who completed their dissertation in the past months. All the best for your future: Yannic Bröker, Tobias Leibner, Ramona Sasse, Hauke Hendrik Seidel, Divya Sharma, Markus Zeggel (né Schmetkamp)!

We welcome Prof. Nadia Larsen (University of Oslo) as a Münster Research Fellow. She is a highly renowned expert in operator algebras, in particular in semigroup C*-algebras and their equilibrium states. During her stay in Münster from 2 September to 24 November 2021, she will collaborate with several researchers at Mathematics Münster.

Bridging the gaps between mathematical disciplines is a main goal of our Cluster. Prof. Dr. Peter Schneider, investigator at Mathematics Münster, is contributing to this strategic aim. At the conference "Branching from number theory: p-adics in the sciences" (30 August - 03 September 2021) of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, he will give a mini-course on "Local p-adic analysis".

Recently, the new journal "Model Theory" was launched and is now welcoming submissions. It is published by the nonprofit Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP). The editors-in-chief are Prof. Dr. Martin Hils from Mathematics Münster and Prof. Rahim Moosa (University of Waterloo).

In February, a film crew visited Mathematics Münster to shoot a short video about Gustav Holzegel, the new Humboldt Professor at the University of Münster. The video - including insights into his research and pictures of our deeply snow-covered department - has now been published on YouTube by the Humboldt Foundation. [de]
 

In May David Asperó and Ralf Schindler published their proof on a question from the 1990s about the relationship of two prominent axioms of set theory which both decide how many real numbers there are. Now Natalie Wolchover reports for the Quanta Magazine on the proof, its relevance and history.

Eduard Vilalta joins our Cluster as a Young Research Fellow from 11 to 25 July 2021. He is a doctoral student at the UAB Barcelona and is working on establishing connections between structural properties of C*-algebras and their categories of Hilbert modules (Cuntz semigroups). During his visit in Münster, he is collaborating with Dr. Eusebio Gardella and Dr. Hannes Thiel (TU Dresden).

Dr. Kilian Raschel (CNRS, Université de Tours and Université d'Orléans) joins our Cluster as a Münster Research Fellow from 7 to 31 July 2021. 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.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Martin Holler (University of Graz) will join our Cluster as Young Research Fellow from 9 July to 9 August 2021. His field of research is the mathematics of inverse problems and data science. "I am looking forward to the excellent research environment in Münster and to a productive time", says Martin Holler.

Dr. Tristan Ozuch (MIT) visits our Cluster as Young Research Fellow from 1 July to 8 August 2021. His research is focused on geometric analysis and particularly on Einstein manifolds and Ricci flows. "I look forward to interacting with the local world experts in my field and to visit Germany and Münster for the first time," says Tristan Ozuch.

On 1 July 2021, Prof. Dr. Bernold Fiedler (FU Berlin) will give a talk entitled "On meanders" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing. The talk is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens on her birthday. It takes place at 4:30 pm via Zoom. The virtual tea time starts this time at 4:00 pm.

Ambrus Pál (Imperial College London) joins Mathematics Münster as a Münster Research Fellow. He is an international leading expert in the theory of p-adic cohomologies and function field arithmetic. During his research visit from 1 June until 15 July 2021, he will work with Prof. Dr. Urs Hartl on the projects "Crystalline Chebotarëv Density Theorems" and "Arithmetic Fundamental Lemmas over Function Fields".

Last year, the Felix Klein Prize was awarded to Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen. The prize lectures have been postponed and will now take place during the virtual 8th European Congress of Mathematics. On Friday, 25 June, 2:50 pm, Arnulf Jentzen will give his talk "Overcoming the curse of dimensionality: from nonlinear Monte Carlo to deep learning". Everybody who is interested can attend the talk via Zoom.

Despite the Corona pandemic, the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster is attracting a high number of scientists from all over the world. Dr. Bakul Sathaye from India, Dr. Tingxiang Zou from China and Dr. Christopher Kauffman from the USA are three of 29 international postdocs currently undertaking their research at Mathematics Münster. In guest articles and interviews, the three postdocs share their passion for mathematics and provide insight into their careers and and feelings throughout the pandemic in Münster.

Eva Viehmann is awarded a great honour: the National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, has recently appointed her as a new member. In doing so, the Academy acknowledges her outstanding scientific achievements.

Antje Dabeler, Azul Fatalini, Martina Fruttidoro und Julia Schleuß are PhD researchers at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. For today's “International Women in Maths Day”, we asked the four mathematicians in the video: "What has been the most important maths moment for you so far?".

Congratulations to all PhD students of Mathematics Münster who completed their dissertation in the past months. All the best for your future: Julia Brunken, Nils Arne Dreier, Ina Humpert, Matthias Kemper, Marcel Dominique Koch, Timo Siebenand and Michael Wenske!

Postdoc Dr. Giles Gardam, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, has recently disproved an 80 year old algebra conjecture. Now Erica Klarreich, a renowned science journalist, has reported on his counterexample and its great significance for the research area.

The video series “What’s Next? Junior Researchers at Münster University” takes a closer look at nine PhD students and postdocs at the University of Münster. One of them is Marco Mauritz, PhD student at Mathematics Münster. He presents his research topic and explains why mathematics is important for medical imaging and the development of cancer treatments. [de]

We welcome Prof. Hans-Joachim Hein to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. In October he moved from Fordham University, New York, to the University of Münster in order to take up a professorship in Theoretical Mathematics. He carries out research in the field of differential geometry and partial differential equations.

The Kaplansky conjectures are three long-standing open problems on the group rings of torsion-free groups. Last week, Dr. Giles Gardam, postdoc in Mathematics Münster's topology group, announced that he succeeded to disprove the strongest of these three conjectures, namely the unit conjecture. In this interview, he tells us what fascinates him about the conjecture, how he came to his findings, and how the research community reacted. 

To be world chess champion – that was the plan when he was just eight years old. Although Gustav Holzegel did not achieve his aim, he can still be satisfied. The mathematician is a recognised expert in the field of General Relativity and has undertaken research at leading international institutes. Since November he has been a professor at the University of Münster supported by a recently awarded a Humboldt professorship, the most valuable research award in Germany.

Do you already know the project “PhD to PhD” and “Postdoc to PhD”? In this interview series initiated by the Mathematics Münster Graduate School (MMGS), young researchers share their experiences and talk about their topics and academic background. The most recent contributions are from Kevin Poljsak (PhD) and Dr. Sahana H. Balasubramanya (postdoc).

We welcome Prof. Dr. André Schlichting to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and to the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. He took up a professorship in Applied Mathematics in November. His research topics include partial differential equations and numerical as well as stochastic analysis. The research questions he works on touch on thermodynamics, diffusion processes, chemical reactions, machine learning and variational methods.

Congratulations, Eugen Hellmann! He has been awarded the WWU Research Prize 2020 for his outstanding achievements. The mathematician, investigator at Mathematics Münter, is one of the world’s leading specialists in the field of arithmetic geometry. The eulogy and can be seen in the recording of the digital New Year's reception [de] on YouTube, as can find a video [de] with insights into Eugen Hellmann's research.
 

Prof. Dr. Erez Raz, a cell biologist, and Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens, a mathematician, aim to further strengthen and deepen the exchange between experimental biology and mathematics in their new project "Cell Dynamics and Mathematical Modelling". It is one of eleven "Topical Programs" that have recently been funded by the University of Münster.

Since it was not possible to meet each other in our "Common Room", especially in autumn and winter, some of the postdocs and PhD students who started in October and November are now introducing themselves on a digital "blackboard" by posting a short insight into their research.

Dr. Gabriele Benomio joins Mathematics Münster as a Young Research Fellow. He is a Research Scholar (postdoc) at the Princeton Gravity Initiative. In Münster, he is part of Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel’s group for four months until 15 February 2021. Welcome!

Prof. Gustav Holzegel, one of the world’s leading experts on the General Theory of Relativity, is appointed to a prestigious Humboldt professorship. The renowned research prize includes funding of 3.5 million euros for five years. At the beginning of November the scientist moved from Imperial College London to our Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

We welcome Aleksandra Kwiatkowska to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. She commenced her appointment as a MATHRIX Juniorprofessorin on 1st of October 2020. She works on the structure and dynamics of separable completely metrizable topological groups.

Assistant professor Dr. Mira Schedensack held the MATHRIX Professorship until 2019 and, looking back, she says, “The MATHRIX Professorship enabled me, for the first time, to carry out research really independently.”

We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Stephan Luckhaus will enrich our Cluster for another year as a Münster Research Fellow. The well-known mathematician, whose research combines various mathematical fields, will contribute to the 2021 focus program "Geometry and PDEs: from theory to applications".

Congratulations to all PhD students of Mathematics Münster who completed their dissertation this semester. All the best for your future: Federico Calderón, Tim Clausen, Christopher Eick, Fjedor Gaede, Philipp Godland, Alexander Hock, Nils Leder, Martin Maiwald, Romain Zakaria Pascalie, Raphael Reinauer, Alexander Volker Schroer and Pierre Touchard!

During the PhD and postdoctoral period, the professors are responsible for the scientific content. Dr. Imke Franzmeier takes care of many other aspects that are important for the early career researchers. In the current issue of the university newspaper wissenIleben, she talks about the early career support at our Cluster of Excellence. [de]

In the recently published Yearbook of the University of Münster, our spokespersons, Prof. Christopher Deninger and Prof. Mario Ohlberger, and Prof. Nils Jansen, spokesperson for the Cluster "Religion and Politics" since the beginning of 2019, talk
about the plans and perspectives which the two Clusters have.

Meet Mathematics Münster's female professors! In short texts and interviews, you will learn more about their research, their careers and which aspects of being a mathematician they find particularly beautiful.

Every four years, the European Mathematical Society (EMS) awards ten EMS Prizes, the Felix Klein Prize and the Otto Neugebauer Prize. The Felix Klein Prize 2020 is awarded to Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen. Congratulations!
 

We welcome Prof Anna Siffert to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. She was appointed a professor of theoretical mathematics and commenced on 1 April 2020. Prof Siffert’s primary research interests lie in the field of global differential geometry and its interactions with topology, analysis and complex geometry.

Tom Bachmann (MIT) joins Mathematics Münster as a Young Research Fellow and will spend the next two weeks doing research in Münster. He is a young, uprising researcher in motivic homotopy theory and K-theory. Welcome!

The WWU University Management honoured the best doctors of the year 2019. The mathematician Annika Bach not only received the title "summa-cum-laude", but also a thesis prize which is endowed with 3,500 euros.

MM-scientist Prof. Dr. Matthias Löwe is not only an enthusiastic stochastic, but also a writer. He writes poetry, short stories and crime thrillers with local colour. A portrait can be found in the current issue of the university newspaper "wissen I leben". [de]

The new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the Wilhelm Killing Colloquium on 17 October 2019. In short lectures they gave an insight into their field of research.

Arnd Scheel (University of Minnesota) joins the cluster as a Münster Research Fellow. He is internationally renowned for his discoveries of mathematical principles of self-organization, in particular the dynamics of patterns and waves in complex systems.

Great honour for Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilking: The Academia Europaea has admitted the mathematician as a new member. The Academia Europaea recognises individuals who have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence" through their membership.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Luckhaus (Leipzig) joins the cluster as a Münster Research Fellow. Luckhaus works on partial differential equations that model physical or bio-medical processes. His main interests are free boundary problems (in general), phase changes and many particle systems as well as geometric theory of nonlinear elasticity and plasticity and applied geometric measure theory.

A great distinction for a mathematician from the University of Münster: the European Research Council (ERC) awards an Advanced Grant to Prof. Wilhelm Winter. The grant is one of the most important in Europe awarded for research purposes.

As different as the term “dynamic” is used and understood in science, so diverse are the research areas of the University of Münster, in which dynamic even plays a central role in the title. Prof. Christopher Deninger and Prof. Mario Ohlberger from the Cluster of Excellence „Mathematics Münster“, the lawyer Prof. Nils Jansen from the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics“ and the biochemist Prof. Lydia Sorokin from Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence explain what they understand by the term in their research.

For seven months Prof. Dr. Matthias Aschenbrenner (UCLA) joins the group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent as a Münster Research Fellow. Aschenbrenners work centers in and around model theory, but has branched into other fields of mathematics, often using results and methods originating in mathematical logic. His most spectacular achievements arising from a long-term collaboration with L. van den Dries and J. van der Hoeven, has culminated in the book Asymptotic Differential Algebra and Model Theory of Transseries.

Prof Gustav Holzegel, at the time at Imperial College in London, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician who carries out research at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster is working on the "Black hole stability problem and the analysis of asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes". For his ERC project, starting in November, he will be receiving around 2 million euros for the next five years.

The PhD thesis of Dr. Barbara Verfürth from the Institute of Analysis and Numerics demonstrates pioneering mathematical work by making her the first person to calculate the connection between materials and their refraction. This fundamental work in the field of mathematics can help later in developing high-resolution microscopes – or in improving sound-absorbing walls, which are important for good acoustics in concert halls or recording studios.

Hours of contemplation, approaching a solution in small steps, and a healthy scepticism towards computer-generated results. In these guest articles, two mathematicians at the University of Münster, Dr. Franziska Jahnke und Dr. Mira Schedensack, explain what mathematical research means to them and what the aim of this research is. Both undertake research and teaching at the University of Münster within the framework of the MATHRIX junior professorships, which were established in 2017 to promote gender equality in mathematics.

After ten years, Prof. Raimar Wulkenhaar from the University of Münster’s Mathematical Institute and his colleague Dr. Erik Panzer from the University of Oxford have solved a mathematical equation which was considered to be unsolvable. The equation is to be used to find answers to questions posed by elementary particle physics. In this interview with Christina Heimken, Wulkenhaar looks back on the challenges encountered in looking for the formula for a solution and he explains why the work is not yet finished.

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts has admitted mathematician Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilking as a member. Academy President Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Löwer presented the membership certificates at the annual celebration on 16 May in the presence of North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister-President Armin Laschet and the NRW Minister for Culture and Science, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen.

Professor Eva Viehmann, at the time Technical University of Munich, receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician, who conducts research at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, is focusing on "Newton Strata - Geometry and Representations." For her ERC project, which starts in June, she will receive approximately 1.2 million euros over the next five years.