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 Konstantin Poelke won “Honorable Mention” in the illustrations category of the world’s leading visualization competition for science and engineering: the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. As no-one was selected for the first place, “Honorable Mention” is this year’s highest award in this category. The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge is held each year by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science.
For the competition entry, he visualized a complex function using the technique of domain coloring. He assigned each complex number in its equation to a spot on a color wheel. The result packs two dimensions of information (hue and brightness) into each point in the image. Source: Poelke/Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin
Scientists, graphic designers, and artists may submit entries to the visualization competition. The award-winning contributions are those that most successfully mediate between research and society at large. The various categories include schematic illustrations, photographs, videos, and interactive computer games. This year 212 entries were submitted in five categories.
More Information and Image Requests:
Konstantin Poelke, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin
E-mail:
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Internet:
http://geom.mi.fu-berlin.de/news/Domain_coloring.html
www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2011.jsp
www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/528.full |
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 Michael Högele receives the Adlershof Dissertation Award 2011.
"Convince us, show us what you have done over the last three years!" This challenge was directed to three junior scientists nominated for the Adlershof Dissertation Award 2011. Their task was to present the topic of their dissertation in a 15 min talk understandable to a general audience. After the presentations of the nominees it was a very hard choice for the jury which consisted of a mathematician, a psychologist and a physicist. Finally they decided to award BMS alumnus Dr. Michael Högele with the award.
Michael wrote his dissertation at the Institute of Mathematics at the Humboldt-Universität about stastical probabilistic interpretations of climate time series. It describes how the last ice age, 90,000 to 20,000 years ago, had not been relatively equally cold but also had abrupt changes of temperature, with differences of 8 degrees celsius within 60 to 80 years. Michael analyzed the patterns of such temperature
changes with mathematic models.
The Adlershof Dissertation Award comes with a cash award of 3,000 Euros. It is awarded annually by the Humboldt-Universität, the Initiativgemeinschaft Außeruniversitärer Forschungseinrichtungen in Adlershof e.V. (IGAFA) and the WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH. The jury consists of leading personalities of the three awarding institutions.
Graduates with a doctoral degree from research institutions located in Adlershof who received at least a "magna cum laude" for their doctorate can apply for the prize.
For more information in German please read the press release from IGAFA:
http://www.igafa.de/2012/01/02/verleihung-der-dissertationspreises-adlershof-2011/
http://www.igafa.de/veranstaltungen/dissertationspreis-adlershof/
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 BMS Days 2012 -- Berlin People, Projects, Opportunities
February 20/21, 2012
BMS Loft, Urania
Sunday, February 19
19:00 Pizza Dinner (organized by BMS students)
Monday, February 20
09:45 Welcome
 10:00 BMS Program and Student Life
11:11 Invited Lecture, Ulrich Reif (TU Darmstadt):
"A Brief History of Subdivision"
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Research in Berlin
15:00 BMS Math Slam
16:00 Group Meetings I
17:00 Group Meetings II
19:00 Awarding of Excellence Certificates at FU (Goethesaal, Harnackhaus)
 Tuesday, February 21
10:00 "What is...?" Seminar
11:00 BMS Lecture, Holger Reich (FU Berlin):
"The Borel Conjecture"
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Individual Interviews I
14:50 Individual Interviews II
15:40 Individual Interviews III
20:00 Beer Night (organized by BMS students)
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Research Training Group 1845: Stochastic analysis with applications in biology, finance and physics, Berlin/Potsdam
Call for Applications - PhD scholarships
The RTG Stochastic analysis with applications in biology, finance and physics is offering several scholarships for graduate students in Berlin starting October 1, 2012 or later (subject to final approval of funding by DFG). Candidates should have obtained (or be about to obtain) a Diploma or M.Sc. degree in mathematics or closely related fields with results significantly above average, and intend to pursue graduate studies in mathematics within the research areas of the RTG. The RTG offers, besides the opportunity to do supervised research, a rich graduate programme consisting of graduate courses, seminars, guest lectures, and research stays abroad. Fellows are required to actively participate in this programme. The RTG is a certified unit of the Berlin wide graduate school of mathematics, BMS, funded in the framework of the German excellence program.
Scholarships are tax-free and carry a monthly stipend of up to 1468,00 Euros (subject to final approval of funding by DFG) plus family allowance. They are initially awarded for two years, subject to renewal to up to 3 years. All graduate students will be expected to work for a Ph.D. degree at one of the participating universities in Berlin and Potsdam.
Applications should provide the usual documents:
- letter of application
- curriculum vitae
- copies of certi ficates
- Diplom/masters' thesis and relevant publications if available
- statement of purpose sketching the applicants research interests
- two letters of recommendation (to be sent directly to us)
The RTG particularly encourages the application of female candidates. Disabled persons will be given preferential treatment in cases of otherwise equal qualification.
Applications and inquiries should be addressed to:
Prof. Dr. Peter Imkeller, Coordinator, GRK 1845
Institut für Mathematik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany
preferably via e-mail to
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DEADLINES: Applications are requested before January 31, 2012
Pdf-file: http://wws.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~imkeller/jobs/aushangstip.pdf
Call for Applications - Postdoctoral scholarships
The RTG Stochastic analysis with applications in biology,finance and physics is offering two scholarships for postdoctoral researchers starting October 2012 or later (subject to final approval of funding by DFG). Candidates should have received a Ph.D. with a focus in one of the main areas of stochastics or stochastic finance not more than 3 years ago. They should have a keen interest in pursuing independent research in the areas covered by the RTG and be willing to strongly interact with graduate students. The RTG is a certified unit of BMS, the Berlin wide graduate school of mathematics funded through the German excellence program.
Post-doctoral fellows will receive funding in the framework of a TV-L E13 position.
Applications should provide the usual documents:
- letter of application
- curriculum vitae
- copies of certificates
- copies of theses and relevant publications
- statement of purpose sketching the applicants research interests
- two letters of recommendation (to be sent directly to us)
The RTG particularly encourages the application of female candidates. Disabled persons will be given preferential treatment in cases of otherwise equal qualification.
Applications and inquiries should be addressed to:
Prof. Dr. Peter Imkeller, Coordinator, GRK 1845
Institut für Mathematik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany
preferably via e-mail to
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DEADLINES: Applications are requested before January 31, 2012
Pdf-file: http://wws.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~imkeller/jobs/aushangpostdoc1.pdf |
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BMS alumni Alexander Drewitz and Thorsten Rohwedder were honored for their scientific performance by the standing conference of Berlin's university presidents. Alexander Drewitz received the first prize in the category "dissertations", Thorsten Rohwedder the third prize. The award includes prize money of 1,500 euros for the third and 4,000 euros for the first prize.
Alexander Drewitz received a "summa cum laude" for his dissertation "Topics in Random Media“ in 2010. His supervisor at TU Berlin was Professor Jürgen Gärtner. In his thesis, he dealt with transport processes in inhomogeneous media which he analyzed with methods of the probalistic theory. After completing his doctorate in 2010 Alexander is now an "ETH Fellow" at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich).
The title of Thorsten Rohwedder’s dissertation was "An Analysis for some Methods and Algorithms of Quantum Chemistry" which he wrote under the supervision of Professor Reinhold Schneider at TU Berlin. The dissertation also received a "summa cum laude". He studied applications of quantum mechanics in chemistry and was able to prove mathematically rigorous descriptions for some important methods to calculate electron structures. Thorsten finished his dissertation in 2010. Since then he is a research assistant at the math department of TU Berlin.
The standing conference of Berlin's university presidents (Landeskonferenz der Rektoren und Präsidenten der Berliner Hochschulen (LKRP)) awards three Tiburtius Prizes annually plus three prizes of recognition to doctoral students of Berlin universities for excellent dissertations. The awarding ceremony took place on 16 December 2011. |
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Extremal Combinatorics in Random Discrete Structures
February 27 - March 23, 2012
Lectures: Mon-Fri, 9:00-12:00
Exercises: Tue-Fri, 16:00-18:00
Freie Universität Berlin
1. Extremal Combinatorics and the Probabilistic Method -- an Introduction (Tibor Szabo, FU Berlin)
February 27-March 2, 2012
2. Multiple Round Exposure in Random Structures (Mathias Schacht, University of Hamburg)
March 5-9 and March 12-16, 2012
3. Transference Principles (David Conlon, University of Oxford)
March 15-16 and March 19-23, 2012
Abstract:
Several classical theorems of combinatorics, such as Turán's theorem, Ramsey's theorem and Szemerédi's theorem, are known to have analogues within sparse random structures. While numerous special cases have been proved over the last twenty years, most notably by Łuczak, Kohayakawa, Rödl and Ruciński, a general treatment giving tight thresholds in all such cases was only obtained very recently. Surprisingly, there are now two very different-looking approaches to doing this, one obtained by Mathias Schacht, the other independently by David Conlon and Tim Gowers. The goal of the course is to see these two approaches next to each other and to compare them, concentrating on their analogies and differences. The plan is to understand the fundamentals and basic ideas of both approaches and fully grasp the proof of at least one special case each, together with a believable notion of how to extend them to their full generality. The course is intended for PhD-students and postdocs interested in the field of Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics and related areas. The course will start with a swift introduction to the classical theorems and basic probabilistic techniques. This will lead on to a discussion of techniques that have been used in the past to address problems of this variety, indicating why they cannot be used in the general case. The course will conclude with a thorough discussion of the modern developments given by the authors themselves. Students may choose to join the course at any stage, depending on their individual strengths and interests.
More information: http://www3.math.tu-berlin.de/MDS/blockcourse12.html |
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Prof. Dr. Jürg Kramer has been elected to the Academia Europaea in the mathematics section.
 The Academia Europaea was founded in Cambridge in 1988. Its objective is to promote education and research in Europe and to strengthen inter- and multidisciplinary scientific discourse and international exchange in science. The more than 2000 members of Academia Europaea, among them roughly 80 in mathematics, are leading experts from all areas in science and come from 35 European and eight non-European countries.
Jürg Kramer is one of the Deputy Chairs of the Berlin Mathematical School and member of the Executive Board of Matheon. Since 1994 he is a full professor for mathematics at the Institute for Mathematics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests lie in arithmetic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms as well as the professional education and training of teachers. He is also the director of the German Center for Mathematics Teacher Education, which was initiated in 2011.
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 The Berlin Mathematical School offers a fast-track doctoral program in the rapidly developing scientific landscape of Berlin presenting an exciting variety of possibilities both for mathematical research and graduate education. As a BMS student, you will join a diverse community of fellow graduate students coming from over 30 countries around the world of which 30% are women.
We offer:
- Broad range of courses
- Pure and applied mathematics
- Course program in English
- Scholarships
- Funding for conferences and summer schools
- Mentoring program and soft skills training
- Funding for students with children
We are now accepting applications for admission and financial support from talented students completing their Bachelor's degree or above.
Deadline for scholarships: 31 December 2011
For detailed information, please go to:
http://www.math-berlin.de/Application-Information.html |
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