News Overview

Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty awards nine men and women in different categories for their extraordinary commitment in transforming lectures into digital teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Kilian Schultes und Ruby Ellis, Dr. Nicole Aeschbach, Katharina Anders, Steve Bahn, Prof. Dr. Ullrich Köthe, Dr. Denis Vogel, Dr. Stefan Karcher and Christopher Nunn. The full article can be found here.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft extends joint Re­search Trainig Group 2229 “Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces” at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Read the full article here.

This workshop has been organized by the members of the STRUC­TURES Exploratory Project "Mathematics & Data".

In the workshop the participant will be introduced to the main techniques utilized in topological data analysis and their implementation provided by the python package scikit-tda. Introductions to the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology will be complemented by respective hands-on tutorial sessions. The workshop will conclude with an exploratory project of these methods on ‘real data’, which may be provided by the participants.

Registration Deadline: October 11th, 2020 online at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2V50PhVQTQcXQgL_MtiNeEco8f5Uf7f-9fskO0qckZJnO7g/viewform
Detailed information about the workshop can be found at the website https://micbl.github.io/TDAworkshop/.

The Seminar series will start with Ashia Wilson who will present A Dynamical Perspective on Accelerated Methods. Ashia is in transition from Microsoft Re­search to her soon to start assistant professorship at MIT, and currently based in Hei­del­berg.
Title: A Dynamical Perspective on Accelerated Methods.
Time: Thursday, 15th of October, 16:15
Place: Online via the Link: https://audimax.heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/sch-7ge-ntc
Abstract is available here.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Razvan G. Gurau has accepted the new STRUC­TURES Pro­fes­sorship on Mathematical Physics. Pro­fes­sor Gurau, presently directeur de recherche at CNRS and the Center for Theo­re­ti­cal Physics (CPHT) at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, is a world leading expert in the theory of random tensors and its connections to quan­tum field theory, gravity and topology. He will join the STRUC­TURES community this December.

Three scientists at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty are receiving generous support from the Eu­ro­pean Re­search Council (ERC), which has awarded each of them an ERC Starting Grant for excellent young researchers. It will fund the re­search projects of Dr. Philipp Preiss in quan­tum physics, Dr. Lutz Greb in chemistry and PD Dr. Lucas Schirmer in medicine. ERC resources totalling approximately 4.5 million euros are available for this purpose. The funding period for all three projects is five years.

Further details can be found on the press report site of Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty.

The Institute for Theo­re­ti­cal Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy together with the Cluster of Excellence STRUC­TURES at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty announces an opening for a
FULL PROFESSORSHIP (W3) IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS.

We are looking for an internationally recognized theorist working on quan­tum physics in the context of quan­tum simulation, physical aspects of information theory, and the foundations of new methods of information processing and computation. The new professor should establish contact to the Hei­del­berg re­search groups in experimental and theo­re­ti­cal physics, and in particular provide theo­re­ti­cal perspectives for future experiments. This professorship is a key component in the Hei­del­berg cluster of excellence STRUC­TURES and in the newly established focus area physics of information/novel methods of computation at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Please have a look at the full job ad for further details: Job advertisement

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their application in English including a CV, a list of publications, a list with teaching experience and a re­search plan in electronic form (pdf) until October 21, 2020 to the Dean, Prof. Dr. T. Plehn, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, D-69120 Hei­del­berg (dekanat@physik.uni-heidelberg.de).