Focus Programmes

Current Focus Programme

Effective and dynamic behaviour of random structures

July 2022 - March 2023

This Focus Programme addresses probability theory and its interplay with analysis and mathematical physics. Topics include Gaussian multiplicative chaos and Liouville quantum gravity, renormalization theory, stochastic partial differential equations, stochastic approximation for neural networks, optimal transport, branching random walks, random polytopes, random graphs.

Conferences and Workshops:

20 - 24 June 2022: Quantum many body systems and interacting particles
23 - 29 September 2022: Stochastic analysis and applications
20 - 24 March 2023: Random discrete structures

Organisers:

Gerold Alsmeyer, Steffen Dereich, Anna Gusakova, Martin Huesmann, Arnulf Jentzen, Zakhar Kabluchko, Matthias Löwe, Chiranjib Mukherjee, André Schlichting, Christian Seis, Angela Stevens, Raimar Wulkenhaar, Caterina Zeppieri

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Quantum many body systems and interacting particles, June 2022
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Open Japanese-German conference on stochastic analysis and applications, September 2022
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Open Japanese-German conference on stochastic analysis and applications, September 2022
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Upcoming Focus Programme 2023

Actions of totally disconnected, locally compact groups on discrete strutures

September - October 2023

This Focus Programme will bring together leading experts on t.d.l.c. groups, profinite groups and geometric group theory to improve our understanding of t.d.l.c. groups through their actions on discrete structures, and to facilitate the cross-fertilisation of ideas.

Conferences and Workshops:

4 - 8 September 2023: Part I, Summerschool
11 - 19 September 2023: Part II, Workshop
9 - 13 October 2023: Part III, Workshop

Previous Focus Programmes

Geometry and PDEs: from theory to applications

September - November 2021

This Focus Programme aims to connect the fields of differential geometry, metric geometry, PDEs, calculus of variations, data science and numerics. We will study geometric flows, geometric viewpoints on PDEs and data, as well as measure-based generalizations of geometric notions.

Conferences and Workshops:

1-7 August 2021: Workshop on Curvature and Global Shape
20-24 September 2021: Analysis on singular spaces
1-5 November 2021: New Trends in Geometric PDEs

Organisers:

Christoph Böhm, Manuel Friedrich, Hans-Joachim Hein, Gustav Holzegel, Martin Huesmann, Joachim Lohkamp, Stephan Luckhaus, Christian Seis, Anna Siffert, Burkhard Wilking, Benedikt Wirth, Caterina Zeppieri

Coordinators:

Christoph Böhm
Benedikt Wirth

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Workshop on Curvature and Global Shape, August 2021
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Operator algebras and topological dynamics: amenability and beyond

© Focus Programme Operator algebras and topological dynamics

Summer 2021

This is a Focus Programme on operator algebras and their interplay with group actions. In this context we will be interested in amenable structures and their many incarnations, and in rigidity phenomena which typically arise as soon as one leaves the amenable setup.

Conferences and Workshops:

7-10 June 2021: Interactions between expanders, groups and operator algebras
28 June - 9 July 2021: Groups meet C*-algebras, in honour of Siegfried Echterhoff’s 60th birthday
12-16 July 2021: Cuntz semigroups Workshop
2-13 August 2021: Young Mathematicians in C*-Algebra

Organisers:

Kristin Courtney, Tim de Laat, Siegfried Echterhoff, Eusebio Gardella, Wilhelm Winter

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Interactions between expanders, groups and operator algebras, June 2021
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