Events

On 17 October, Prof. Dr. Lisa Sauermann (University of Bonn) gave the "John von Neumann Lecture" at Mathematics Münster. Many researchers joint her inspiring talk "On three-term progression-free sets and related questions in additive combinatorics" and the reception in the Common Room of the Cluster of Excellence afterwards.

We cordially invite you to the 17th John von Neumann Lecture. On 17 October 2024 at 4:15 pm, the renowned mathematician Lisa Sauermann (University of Bonn) will give a stimulating talk "On Three-Term Progression-Free Sets and Related Questions in Additive Combinatorics".

Due to a large number of common mathematical interests in very diverse fields of mathematics, we decided to introduce a themed meeting bringing together researchers from the two institutions in related areas. The main objective is to get an idea about research interests and projects in each others' department (specifically at the PhD and postdoc level) and to provide a forum for future collaborations. The first theme is in "PDE", with an emphasis on the equations of fluid dynamics and kinetic theory.

Get an insight into the research of four new postdoctoral researchers of Mathematics Münster. In short scientific presentations Björn Gebhard, Julian Kranz, Devarshi Mukherjee and Pavlos Zoubouloglou will introduce their topics. The talks take place within the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 10 October 2024 at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4.

The Buildings conference is an annual meeting and in 2024 we will celebrate its 30th edition. The conference will be held in honor of Linus Kramer's 60th birthday. Some of the main topics of the conference are: generalized polygons and related geometries.

This is the ninth edition of a series of biennial meetings. The 6th Hausdorff medalist(s) will be awarded at this meeting. As part of the ceremony, the medalist(s) is/are going to give their Hausdorff lecture.

The last several years have witnessed a significant intensification of the connections between probability (e.g., random walks and percolation) and ergodic theory, especially in treating questions that relate dynamical behaviour with analytic and geometric properties of groups such as amenability, property (T), and the Haagerup property. The meeting will serve to further strengthen these connections by promoting interaction between different communities of researchers.

Analytic torsion in its many facets is an important secondary spectral invariant studied in global analysis. The aim of this conference is to present a panorama of recent developments and interactions with other fields, that the study of analytic torsion has seen in the last years.

pyMOR School is an annual event for future and current pyMOR users and developers. The School will offer interactive introductory lectures on some of the most important MOR methods and how to use these methods with pyMOR.

The Young Topologists Meeting (YTM) is an annual international conference aimed at early-career researchers in topology - both pure and applied - covering the whole breadth of the subject. It serves as a platform for graduates, PhD researchers and early postdocs to present their research, exchange ideas and build international connections.

There will be two talks at the CRC Colloquium on 11 July 2024: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Zeidler: Codimension one obstructions to positive scalar curvature and Prof. Dr. Johannes Ebert: Positive scalar curvature, cobordisms and diffeomorphism groups. The talks take place at 2:00 pm in lecture hall M4.

We are celebrating gender diversity in mathematics with several events throughout the week from 13-17 May 2024 in the context of the May12 initiative. Join in!

Prof. Dr. Claudia Alfes-Neumann (University of Bielefeld) will give a talk on "Modular forms and their generalizations in number theory and geometry" on 16 May 2024. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4.

In short scientific presentations, the Ada Lovelace Fellows 2023 will give insights into their research: Zahra Mohammadi Khangheshlaghi "Model Theory and The Free Factor Complex", Hanna Stange "Hyperuniformity and Rigidity of Perturbed Lattices" and Alex Tullini "From elliptic to hyperbolic PDEs: the things I did for the love of black holes". After the talks, there will be the opportunity to exchange ideas and meet the Fellows in the Common Room.

Bringing together a small group of leading young experts in their respective research areas, the goal of the workshop is to stimulate collaboration and exchange between participants. The event will provide specialists' points of view on recent developments in stochastic analysis, with a particular focus on singular stochastic PDEs.

Around 200 mathematicians from all over the world will be coming together at the Schloss at the University of Münster from 25 to 27 March to discuss current developments in mathematical research. The Cluster of Excellence "Mathematics Münster: Dynamics – Geometry – Structure" will be hosting the conference. The Cluster’s spokesperson, Prof. Thomas Nikolaus, explains the special character of the conference.

The conference is a broad mathematical conference across all areas aimed at the highest standards. We would like to draw a picture of current developments in mathematics and get an overview of important results.

This is a regular seminar of research groups from Bielefeld and Muenster about topics related to geometric group theory. In this way, it is very much related to research topics studied in the Cluster of Excellence in Muenster and the TRR 358 in Bielefeld-Paderborn.

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".

Dr. Rita Teixeira da Costa (University of Cambridge) will give a talk entitled "On the stability of rotating black holes" at the Friedrich Hirzebruch Colloquium on 14 December 2023. The talk takes place at 4:15 pm in lecture hall M5. 

Prof. Dr. Christopher Deninger (University of Münster) will give a talk entitled "Special values of Hasse-Weil and Ruelle zeta functions" at the CRC Colloquium on 7 December 2023. The talk takes place at 2:00 pm in lecture hall M5. 

This workshop is part of the Topical Program "Cell Dynamics and Mathematical Modeling" which aims at an intensive interaction of biology and mathematics. Biomechanical properties and dynamic shape changes of cells are closely related to their respective state and cellular function. This can be observed, among other things, in the migration of primordial germ cells. Such processes can be well described mathematically, and the influence of important parameters can thus also be analyzed theoretically.

Four new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the MM Postdoc Colloquium on 9 November 2023. Benjamin Brück, Dmitry Kabanov, Catherine Ray and Markus Tempelmayr gave an insight into their fields of research.

This meeting is part of the Priority Programme "Random Geometric Systems" (SPP 2265: "Zufällige geometrische Systeme") which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and is devoted to the mathematical analysis of effects and phenomena that emerge from an interplay between randomness and geometry.

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 seminar meets roughly twice per semester for a full day at one of the participating departments. There are three talks per meeting, both by invited guests and by speakers from the organising universities.

A conference on the occasion of Michael Rapoport's 75th birthday

The geometry of moduli spaces related to the Langlands programme is a rapidly evolving field. We bring together both experts and young researchers to foster these developments.

Part of the Focus Programme: Actions of totally disconnected, locally compact groups on discrete structures

This workshop studies the relationship between local, or small-scale, and global, or large-scale, properties of t.d.l.c. groups, which is more subtle than for Lie groups. Small-scale structure, which manifests both in the topological group structure and the objects on which the groups act, interacts with large-scale properties such as simplicity, amenability and quasi-isometry type.

A conference on the occasion of Katrin Tent's 60th birthday

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers working in model theory and group theory, with a particular view towards geometric group theory.

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".

Part of the Focus Programme: Actions of totally disconnected locally compact groups on discrete structures

Many discrete geometric structures admit symmetries that are not determined by a finite substructure. This phenomenon is reflected in the non-discreteness of their automorphism group. Conversely, sufficiently non-discrete t.d.l.c. groups admit geometric actions on such structures. This workshop focuses on the above approaches and their interplay.

This summer school provides an introduction to various aspects of t.d.l.c. groups aimed at graduate students and postgraduate fellows. Topics include Cayley-Abels graphs, homological methods, p-adic Lie groups and self-similarity.

Part of the Focus Programme: Actions of totally disconnected locally compact groups on discrete structures

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss suitable abstractions of mathematical concepts used in numerical methods for PDEs and how to derive adequate interfaces for Numerical Software. Experts and young researchers collaborating on the development of the research software framework DUNE met in Münster to discuss challenges and possible solutions in particular for interfaces for high-regularity Finite-Element discretizations, like H² conforming elements.

Mixing phenomena and the evolution and stability of coherent vortex structures and interfaces play an essential role in the dynamics of fluids. Their study has a direct impact on the understanding of turbulent flows with real-world applications in oceanography, atmospheric dynamics, industrial processes and beyond. The Workshop will explore stability and mixing phenomena from a broad intradisciplinary perspective, including PDE techniques, stochastic differential equations, harmonic analysis, optimal transport,  numerical analysis and modeling aspects.

In the past two years, we have seen spectacular developments in elliptic PDE methods applied to complex geometry. Highlights include the L-infinity estimates for solutions to complex Monge-Ampere equations due to Guo-Phong-Tong and Li's proof of the SYZ conjecture for Fermat hypersurfaces. This conference aims to provide an exciting opportunity for the field to come together (for the first time in Germany!) and discuss and disseminate these recent advances.

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. The programme 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.

Prof. Dr. Catharina Stroppel (University of Bonn) will give a talk entitled "From Platonic solids to Springer theory and beyond" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 13 July 2023. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4 and via Zoom. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Cluster Common Room.

Last week, two mathematical communities met in Münster. Video recordings of many talks from both workshops are now up on our Youtube channel Mathematics Münster. Check it out! And many thanks to all speakers for their inspiring contributions.

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.

Prof. Dr. Vincent Vargas (University of Geneva) will give a talk entitled "Modular bootstrap, Segal's axioms and resolution of Liouville conformal field theory" at the Colloquium Wilhelm Killing on 25 May 2023. The talk takes place at 2:15 pm in lecture hall M4 and via Zoom. Tea time starts at 3:15 pm in the Cluster Common Room.

Five new postdocs of Mathematics Münster introduced themselves at the MM Postdoc Colloquium in April. Athanasios Chatzikaleas, Lukas Niebel, João Nuno Pereira Lourenço, Andrea Vaccaro and Zhixiang Wu gave an insight into their fields of research.

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".

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".

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

This school is targeted at anyone interested to apply model order reduction in their work using pyMOR. The school will consist of both introductory lectures to model order reduction and pyMOR as well as programming sessions. Participants are encouraged to bring their own problems to work on. Basic knowledge of Python and packages from the SciPy stack (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib) is assumed.

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.

In recent years, motivic techniques have been applied in several branches of representation theory, for example in geometric and modular representation theory. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in these areas in order to foster new synergies in topics such as foundational aspects of the theory of motives, Tate motives on varieties of representation-theoretic origin, motivic aspects of the Langlands program, and motives of classifying spaces.

The scope of this workshop is to offer an overview of modern themes in Analysis on singular spaces, such as deep structured learning, numerical analysis, analysis on metric measure spaces and calculus of variations and partial differential equations.

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".

This workshop intends to be a first meeting point for specialists and young researchers active in noncommutative geometry, free probability, and topological recursion. We plan to run the workshop in hybrid form with a considerable number of participants present in Münster and video transmission to the outside world.

YMC*A is an annual conference organised for and by master/PhD students and postdocs in operator algebras and related areas, with the goal of fostering scientific and social interaction between young researchers. YMC*A 2021 has taken place in Münster in a hybrid format with online participation over Zoom and a limited number of participants present in Münster.

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. The programme of the Workshop is structured so that beyond the lectures there will be many opportunities for intensive discussions.

The Cuntz semigroup is a geometric refinement of K-theory that was introduced by Cuntz in the 1970s in his pioneering work on the structure of simple C*-algebras. This powerful invariant has seen many applications in the structure and classification theory of C*-algebras. Recently, it has also become clear that Cuntz semigroups are interesting objects of study in their own right. This workshop will bring together researchers that are interested in the different aspects of Cuntz semigroups in areas such as C*-algebras, dynamical systems, and model theory.

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.

The conference will be organised as a hybrid event: Several talks will be given on site, the other talks will be delivered virtually. All the talks will be broadcast on Zoom.

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.

On 28 June 2021, 14:00-18:00, an online workshop "PDE and Numerical Mathematics" is organised by the Mathematics Departments of the Universities of Münster and Twente. Please contact Mario Ohlberger via mario.ohlberger@uni-muenster.de if you are interested to join.

The "International Women in Maths Day" on 12 May is a great opportunity to celebrate women in mathematics and make their achievements more visible. At Mathematics Münster, we are celebrating digitally with several virtual events throughout the month of May: scientific talks, social events, workshops and more. Everybody who is interested is invited to a free streaming of the inspiring documentary "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem".
 

Prof. Dr. Annalisa Massaccesi (Università Degli Studi Di Padova) will give a talk entitled "Multi-material transport problems" on 6 May 2021, via Zoom. The talk takes place at 4:30 pm. The virtual tea time starts at 4:15 pm.

This seminar will further intensify the exchange between the research fields of Pure and Applied Analysis. It will take place on Wednesdays, 11:00 am, via Zoom. Professors, postdocs, PhD students andmaster's students are welcome. The next talk will be held on 3 February 2021. Please contact the organizer Dr. Sebastian Throm if you are interested to join and give a talk.

The CRC opening colloquium will take place on Thursday, 5 November 2020, at 4:15 pm via Zoom. There will be two talks: "The Langlands Program" by Prof. Dr. Urs Hartl and "Deformation spaces of Galois representations - and their interplay with representation theory" by Prof. Dr. Eugen Hellmann.
 

Prof. Dr. Urs Hartl and Prof. Dr. Martin Hils organize the "Bridging the Gap" seminar "O-Minimality and the André-Oort Conjecture" which connects Model Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry. It will be held on Tuesdays, 2-4 pm. PhD students and master's students may enroll. The seminar will start in the first week of November. HIS-LSF

31 new PhD students and postdocs from more than 15 countries are currently starting at Mathematics Münster. Welcome! To ensure a good start despite the current pandemic situation, there will be various offers: On Wednesday, 7 October, 1:15 pm, the "Welcome Centre" of the University of Münster will present its services and answer questions at a hybrid event. Further information events will follow. Another new offer is the Buddy Programme.

The first retreat of our graduate school MMGS recently took place in Duisburg. The event contributes to networking among MMGS members - especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. The retreat focused on the participants' personal future planning.
 

In the "Research" section of our website we provide a lot of information about the mathematical research areas of our cluster. You will also find links to recent videos of talks given by our investigators. This new offer should give you a vivid insight into the researchers’ work.

Prof. Dr. Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan) will give a talk entitled "Hindman's theorem and uncountable Abelian groups" on 30 January 2020 in lecture hall M5. The talk starts at 4:30 pm. Tea will be served at 4 pm in the Common Room.

Dr. Dawid Kielak (Bielefeld) will give a talk entitled "Three-manifolds, Thurston's insights and a little algebra" on 23 January 2020 in lecture hall M5. The talk starts at 4:30 pm. Tea will be served at 4 pm in the Common Room.

Prof. Dr. Roberto Longo (Rom) will give a talk entitled "The information in a wave" on 16 January 2020 in lecture hall M5. The talk starts at 4:30 pm. Tea will be served at 4 pm in the Common Room.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken will give a talk entitled "Deforming hypersurfaces with geometric heat equations and surgery" on 8 January 2020 in lecture hall M5. Please note: The talk takes place exceptionally on Wednesdays, 4 pm. Tea will be served at 3:30 pm in the Common Room.

Prof. Dr. Christian Bär (Potsdam) will give a talk entitled "Counterintuitive approximations" on 19 December 2019 at 4 pm in lecture hall M5.

Dr. José Luis Romero (Wien) will give a talk entitled "Sampling and time-frequency analysis" on 12 December 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Michael Röckner (Bielefeld) will give a talk entitled "Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations and distribution dependent SDE" on 28 November 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Gérard Besson (Université de Grenoble) will give a talk entitled "Compactness results for non positively curved metric measured spaces" on 21 November 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Wendelin Werner (ETH Zürich) will hold the John von Neumann Lecture on 14 November 2019, 4:30 pm. The title of his public talk: "From Brownian loops to fields". He has been awarded many prizes for his groundbreaking research. The highlight was the Fileds Medal which he received in 2006.

The next Cluster Conference takes place from 11 to 13 November. Special note: On Monday, 11 November, 4:15 pm, Laura Grigori (INRIA) will hold the talk "Robust linear solvers based on enlarged Krylov methods and multilevel preconditioners" which is open to all members of Mathematics Münster.
 

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Martin Schneider will give a talk entitled "Concentration of measure and its applications in topological dynamics" on 7 November 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Bachir Bekka (Université de Rennes) will give a talk entitled "Dual spaces of algebraic groups" on 31 October 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Marc Levine (University of Duisburg-Essen), member of our Scientific Advisory Board, will give a lecture entitled "GWGW theory" on 24 October 2019 at 4:30 pm in lecture hall M5. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm.

Prof. Dr. Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) will give a talk entitled "On short closed geodesics, shadows of symplectic balls and polar bodies" on 10 October 2019 in lecture hall M5. The talk starts at 4:30 pm. Tea will be served at 4 pm in the Common Room.

Last week the new Cluster of Excellence “Mathematics Münster: Dynamics – Geometry – Structure” staged its opening event at the University of Münster with a three-day colloquium. From 20 to 22 June, fifteen distinguished international scholars from nine countries held specialist lectures, providing insights into their current research.

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.