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In the HEGL community seminar on Monday, May 8, 2:15 pm, Martin Traizet from Université de Tours will talk about the Area of Lawson surfaces in the 3-sphere. The seminar will take place at Mathematikon, Seminarraum C.
Abstract: Lawson has constructed highly symmetric minimal surfaces of arbitrary genus $g$ in the 3-sphere ${\mathbb S}^3$. I will explain how to construct these surfaces by an integrable system method — the DPW method. As a byproduct of the construction, we obtain accurate estimations of their area. In particular, the expansion of the area in term of $1/g$ involves $\zeta(3)$, where $\zeta$ is Riemann zeta function. I will explain the path from minimal surfaces in ${\mathbb S}^3$ to values of $\zeta$ and multi-zetas. Joint work with L. Heller, S. Heller and S. Charlton.
More information can be found on the HEGL community seminar webpage.
On May 11, 2023, starting at 11 am, Heidelberg University's first IMPACT DAY will take place in the Chemistry Lecture Hall Center (INF 252). The focus will be on knowledge and technology transfer. The event is organized by the transfer agency hei_INNOVATION. The IMPACT DAY offers all members of the university, as well as the interested public, a space for the exchange of innovative ideas and aims to encourage new contacts.
More information can be found in the Heidelberg University press release.
In the latest podcast episode of “#exzellenterklaert - Spitzenforschung für alle”, Prof. Dorothee Viemann from the Cluster of Excellence RESIST (Resolving Infection Susceptibility) talks about the subject of "Premature babies - How can we protect them from dangerous infections?". RESIST pursues research for people whose immune system is not strong enough for the defence against pathogens. These are, for example, newborns, seniors, people with a congenital immune deficiency and people whose immune system is attenuated for therapeutic reasons or who have been transplanted with an organ or stem cells.
The German science podcast “Exzellent Erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle” reflects the research diversity of the Germany’s leading research institutions and Clusters of Excellence: from Africa Studies to Quantum Physics. In each episode, listeners can expect insights into the interdisciplinary work of one research network. The researchers of the clusters of excellence, funded by DFG talk to podcaster Larissa Vassilian about how they want to find scientifically sound answers to relevant topics of our time – for the society of tomorrow. Listen in and follow us!
STRUCTURES member Friedrich Röpke, head of the Physics of Stellar Objects group at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), has received an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2.5 million for his project ExCEED (“Explaining Common-Envelope Evolution and Dynamics in binary stellar systems“), which explores the enigmatic common-envelope phase in binary stellar evolution.
Moreover, STRUCTURES member Nicolò Defenu, currently member of the mathematical physics group at the Institute for Theoretical Studies, ETH Zurich, has received an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of €1.5 million for his project QLR-Net (“Quantum long-range networks”), which explores the prismatic physics of long-range interacting quantum systems in the many-body regime.
We congratulate the two to these highly prestigious awards!
Image credit: Marc Beckmann / kompetenzz.netOn Girls' Day, April 27, 2023, the Department of Physics and Astronomy is offering 16 exciting hands-on workshops. You will get to know the faculty and our participating institutes on a tour, you can look over the shoulders of our physicists at work, ask all your burning questions, learn a lot about physics and have a lot of fun.
More details on this year's workshop offerings can be found at:
https://www.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/girlsday/programm.
Source: Department of Physics and Astronomy
We are happy to announce the weekly seminar Topological Data Analysis (TDA) organized by the STRUCTURES Exploratory Project (EP) Mathematics and Data. The goal of the seminar is to bring together people from various backgrounds who are interested in TDA. The prospective topics will, amongst others, include synergies with Machine Learning (ML). Scientists with a background in computer science or ML are particularly encouraged to participate.
Time & Place: Thursdays 11.15 am to 12.45 am at room 0.200, Mathematikon. The first meeting of the semester will take place on April 27th, exceptionally in the SR Statistik 02.104 of the Mathematikon.
The EP Mathematics and Data provides a platform across the fields of the natural sciences and mathematics to discuss applications and foundations of the topological analysis of data (TDA) and beyond. TDA provides versatile tools to uncover potentially hidden topological structures in data. Researches who use TDA in statistical contexts are regularly surprised by its vast sensitivity to non-local correlations.
Please find the Seminar Announcement here.
Click on the image to open the Newsletter as PDF.We are happy to present the eleventh volume of the STRUCTURES Newsletter with the following topics:
- New STRUCTURES Members: Caroline Heneka and Jakob Zech
- Akademische Mittagspause 2023: „Strukturen in der Welt“
- From EP 3.4: What can observations of galaxies tell us about their history?
- We Are STRUCTURES
- STRUCTURES Asks: Georgia Koppe
The STRUCTURES Project Management Office is happy to answer questions and to receive feedback.