Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

We are looking to appoint up to three W2-Professorships („Bonn Junior Fellows“) These are temporary appointments for a period of five years. Some positions may be endowed with tenure-track, and, in exceptional cases, a position may be tenured immediately. The deadline for applications 28th September 2024. The deadline also applies to letters of recommendation. The expected starting date is not later than 1 October 2025. https://lnkd.in/evD_VKRX

Jessica Fintzen Awarded EMS Prize University of Bonn mathematician to receive the Fields Medal’s “little sister” Jessica Fintzen has won yet another highly prestigious accolade, this time the European Mathematical Society’s (EMS) Prize. The professor in the University of Bonn’s Mathematical Institute and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) was handed the award today during the ninth European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) in the Spanish city of Seville. Congratulations, dear Jessica! 😎 👏 Jessica Fintzen is being honored for “her groundbreaking work on the representation theory of p-adic groups.” She is regarded as one of the world’s leading mathematician in this field, which connects number theory and representation theory, and has already won numerous awards including the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra at the start of this year and the London Mathematical Society’s Whitehead Prize back in 2022. She was recently awarded a medal for giving the Cours Peccot lectures at the Collège de France. “These prizes are a huge motivation for me,” Jessica Fintzen says. “I’m always looking ahead; there’s still a lot to do. This particular prize is very special for me, because it can be awarded for any discipline in mathematics.” The €5,000 prize money is of secondary importance as far as she is concerned. More here: https://lnkd.in/e5YcXgre

Last weekend, a joint workshop of "Women in Formal Mathematics" and "Women in EuroProofNet" took place at our Hausdorff Research Institute. Only women (including transgender women) were invited as speakers. The workshop aimed to spotlight the contributions made by women in the realm of proofs and automated deduction. The event was organized by Sandra Alves & Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute). The mission was to elevate the research conducted by women, fostering increased visibility and representation in the community. In addition, new connections and collaborations were built. The atmosphere war great, thank you so much to the organizers! Women in Mathematics Women In Maths European Women in Mathematics

🌈 Tonight we celebrated Pride with Emily Riehl, professor from John Hopkins University, who is currently being a visitor at our Hausdorff Research Institute during the Trimester Program „Prospects of formal mathematics“. 🏳️🌈 In her public talk “Queer in math and queering math: in celebration of Pride“ Emily shared her journey as a queer mathematician and discussed with the audience if an identity as a queer mathematician has an influence on the way one does math, and reported about Spectra, an association for LGBTQ mathematicians. In the mathematical part of her talk Emily Riehl described a recent "queering" of the concept of "identity" in mathematics, which enables a more expansive notion of mathematical equality than appears in traditional mathematical foundations. A wonderful evening, thank you so much, Emily! ❤️🧡💛💚💜

We conducted an interview with two of our current YAM Fellows: Blen Belete from Ethiopia and Leolin Nkuete from Cameroon, both from African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). Blen does research in the field of discrete mathematics and works in Vera Taub's group, Leolin works in the field of algebraic geometry and the Langlands program and is a member in Jessica Fintzen's group. In the interview, both praise the extremely good support from the International Office of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the excellent organization of the program by the Hausdorff Center and the math educational system in Germany. Interesting: According to Leolin, there is not a single math professor in the whole of Cameroon who deals with algebraic geometry. The fact that he was nevertheless able to keep up in the Master's courses in Bonn at the beginning and achieved very good research results shows what an incredible talent he must have. Wow! One day, Leolin wants to return to Cameroon and set up the first research group in algebraic geometry there. Blen learned a lot from the program and seems to like Bonn very much, in particular the architecture. She was a little more socially active than Leolin and also visited Munich, Berlin and Paris. Both emphasize that the people in Bonn are rather quiet and reserved. What would they say in northern Germany? 🙃 They have advice for future YAM Fellows as well as for us on how we can further improve our program from an academic perspective. Thank you for your valuable input! We are incredibly happy and proud that we are able to offer to such incredibly intelligent and nice young scientists a springboard for a further scientific career and wish them all the best for their future. Tip: There are also postdoc positions in Bonn - and our HIM is always open to mathematicians from all over the world! Here is the whole interview (audio): https://lnkd.in/eMhrJdfc See here for more information on the YAM (Young African Mathematician) program: https://lnkd.in/eFgwma4p

Join our team! Workshops, seminars, scientific conferences, public events... There's always something happening here at Bonn Mathematics and the HCM! If you enjoy organizing events and working with international top scientists and early-career researchers, then we warmly invite you to apply! https://lnkd.in/eyR-BeQr

BIGS Poster session. Our PhD students are presenting their research projects. A broad range from very pure to very applied mathematics! 💛

Footage for a new video about our math graduate program. We interviewed PhD students e.g. from Italy, Armenia, and India. 🇮🇹 🇦🇲 🇮🇳 And Germany. 😉 🇩🇪

Great Lean project at HCM: Carleson's classical result and a generalization Our IRU group leader Florian van Doorn and Hausdorfff Chair Christoph Thiele together with some of his postdocs and PhD students launched a new Lean formalization project. They prove a new generalization of a theorem of Carleson, namely bounds for a generalized Carleson operator on doubling metric measure spaces. Additionally, they explicitly reduce Carleson’s classical result on pointwise convergence of Fourier series to this new theorem. Both proofs are presented in great detail, suitable as a blueprint for computer verification using the current capabilities of the software package Lean. Even Carleson’s classical result has not yet been computer-verified. Terence Tao had a post on Mathstodon about this project, and this aroused impressive resonance. The main web page for the project is https://lnkd.in/ebAf33SQ , and the Zulip channel to coordinate the project is at https://lnkd.in/eu5xM7ix.

Felix Otto - our first ever HCM spokesperson - has been awarded the Cantor Medal of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (German Mathematical Society). We would like to congratulate him sincerely! The Cantor Medal is the most important scientific award of the DMV. It is usually awarded every two years. The prize money amounts to 4,000 euros. Felix Otto, born in 1966, studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where he also received his doctorate. He was a professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara (1998), professor at the University of Bonn (1999), speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 611 "Singular Phenomena and Scaling in Mathematical Models" at the University of Bonn (2002-2006) and speaker of the Bonn Cluster of Excellence Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (2006-2009). He is Director and Scientific Member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften (since 2010), Honorary Professor at the University of Leipzig (since 2010), full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2014), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2008) and was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006, the most important research prize awarded by the German Research Foundation. More (origin press release in German): https://lnkd.in/gPyGXjBy Photo: Sven Döring / MPI MIS