Upcoming conferences & activities

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Conference on "The Mathematics of Post-Quantum Cryptography"

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Organiser(s): 
Eleni Agathocleous (MPIM), Stephan Ehlen (BSI), Joanna Meinel (BSI), Pieter Moree (MPIM)
Date: 
Wed, 04/12/2024 - 09:00 - Thu, 05/12/2024 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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Program and Abstracts of Conference on "The Mathematics of Post-Quantum Cryptography"

Conference on "The Mathematics of Post-Quantum Cryptography", December 4 - 5, 2024

Post-Quantum cryptography is a branch of public-key cryptography aiming to design
cryptographic schemes building on mathematical problems that are conjectured to be hard
to solve on both, classical and quantum computers. Such cryptographic schemes are needed
since Shor's quantum algorithms break classical public-key cryptography based on the
discrete logarithm problem (in finite fields or elliptic curves) as well as integer factoring in polynomial

MPIM mourns death of Tobias Kreutz

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The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics mourns the death of its postdoctoral fellow

Tobias Kreutz ( * 04.08.1996 - † 08.08.2024).

He completed his PhD in 2022 at the Humboldt University Berlin under the guidance of Bruno Klingler and Laurent Fargues. Since then he has been a visitor at the institute. Tobias has been working at the interface of complex and $p$-adic Hodge theory, with particular focus on the transcendental periods arising in both settings. In his last paper, he has proposed obstructions to complex Hodge structures being of geometric origin. He was a cherished member of our community and will be greatly missed by his friends and colleagues.

Breakthrough in the Geometric Langlands program

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Proposed by Robert Langlands in the 1960s, the eponymous program is one of the largest projects in modern mathematic and it consists of different branches. Over the years, the MPIM has gained a reputation as one of the hubs for the Langlands program. We are proud that MPIM Director Dennis Gaitsgory led a nine-person team of mathematicians that settles the geometric Langlands conjecture. The proof is the culmination of a research program that spanned three decades. You can read the full story in a recent article in Quantamagazine.

Workshop on "Unstable Homotopy Theory"

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Organiser(s): 
Tobias Barthel, Yuqing Shi
Date: 
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 09:00 - Fri, 15/11/2024 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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Program and Abstracts of Workshop on "Unstable Homotopy Theory"

Workshop on "Unstable Homotopy Theory", November 11 - 15, 2024

Unstable homotopy theory is about understanding the detailed structure and properties of topological spaces and morphisms between them. Central to this study is the concept of homotopy types (also known as ∞-groupoids, animas, or spaces), which classify topological spaces up to weak homotopy equivalence.

Workshop on "Combinatorics, Resurgence and Algebraic Geometry in Quantum Field Theory"

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Organiser(s): 
Christian Blohmann, Michael Borinsky, Ralph Kaufmann, Dirk Kreimer, David Prinz, Karen Yeats
Date: 
Mon, 19/08/2024 - 09:00 - Fri, 23/08/2024 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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Program and Abstracts of Workshop on "Combinatorics, Resurgence and Algebraic Geometry in Quantum Field Theory"

Workshop on "Combinatorics, Resurgence and Algebraic Geometry in Quantum Field Theory", August 19 - 23, 2024

The study of perturbative quantum field theory has shown a surprising need for the latest advances in algebraic geometry and combinatorics. The field also incorporates the very actively developed theory of resurgence, which has promising potential for applications to both topology and quantum field theory.

This workshop aims to advance this field by bringing together top experts. The goal is to foster discussions on recent results, encourage collaboration, generate new ideas, explore the connections in perturbative quantum field theory, and offer a platform for junior researchers.

This workshop consists of a fixed list of participants. It is not possible to register.

Don Zagier erhält den Heinz Gumin Preis

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Höchstdotierter Mathematikpreis in Deutschland geht an Don Zagier

München, 25. März 2024. Die Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung verleiht den Gumin Preis für Mathematik an Don Zagier, bis 2019 Direktor am Bonner Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik. Die Stiftung würdigt hiermit die bahnbrechende Forschungsarbeit des Preisträgers zur Zahlentheorie und zur Theorie der Modulformen.

Thomas O. Höllmann, Vorsitzender des Stiftungsvorstands: „Mit Don Zagier geht der Gumin Preis 2024 wieder an einen auf seinen Spezialgebieten seit Jahrzehnten herausragenden Mathematiker. Neben der Zahlentheorie und der Theorie der Modulformen forscht der Preisträger auch im Bereich der Topologie. Letzteres schafft sogar eine kleine Gemeinsamkeit mit der frühen Arbeit Heinz Gumins, dem Namensgeber des Preises. Unser Dank gilt unserer Fachjury, deren sorgfältige Recherche diese Preisverleihung erst möglich macht.“

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