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Gerd Faltings in den Orden pour le mérite aufgenommen

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Gerd Faltings, Emeritus Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Mathematik in Bonn, wurde zum Mitglied des Orden pour le mérite gewählt, wie am 11.9.2024 durch das Bundespresseamt bekannt gegeben wurde. Dem Orden gehören somit 34 deutsche und 37 ausländische Mitglieder, darunter 17 Nobelpreisträgerinnen und -träger, an. Zu Mitgliedern des Ordens zählten mit Friedrich Hirzebruch und Yuri Manin bereits zwei weitere Direktoren des Max-Planck-Instituts für Mathematik.

Die Zuwahl in den Orden Pour le mérite zählt zu den höchsten Ehrungen, die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern, Künstlerinnen und Künstlern in Deutschland zuteilwerden kann. Die Künstler- und Gelehrtenvereinigung wurde 1842 von Preußenkönig Friedrich Wilhelm IV. gegründet und 1952 von Bundespräsident Theodor Heuss wiederbelebt. Erster Kanzler des Ordens war der Naturforscher Alexander von Humboldt.

Der Orden Pour le mérite steht unter dem Protektorat des Bundespräsidenten. Finanziert und organisatorisch betreut wird er von der Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien.

Geordie Williamson receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2024

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Artificial intelligence and computer science are driving developments in many areas of society – including in scientific research. This has prompted the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to honour outstanding achievements in the use of algorithms in mathematics, microscopy and climate research in 2024: The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with 1.5 million euros, goes to Geordie Williamson, who was Advanced Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics from 2011-2016, and is now Professor at the University of Sydney. Williamson uses artificial intelligence (AI) for his fundamental work in mathematics.

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.

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