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Conferences, seminars, talks and other events at the MPI for Mathematics

Upcoming conferences & activities

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Twinned workshop on "Quantum Field Theory and Topological Phases via Homotopy Theory and Operator Algebras"

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Organiser(s): 
Daniel Freed (Harvard University), Dennis Gaitsgory (MPIM Bonn), Owen Gwilliam (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Anton Kapustin (Caltech), Catherine Meusburger (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Date: 
Mon, 30/06/2025 - 09:00 - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Twinned workshop on "Quantum Field Theory and Topological Phases via Homotopy Theory and Operator Algebras", June 30 - July 11, 2025

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Quantum Statistical Mechanics are central to high energy physics and condensed matter physics; they also raise deep questions in mathematics.  The application ofoperator algebras to these areas of physics is well-known.

Conference on "Progress and Emergent Theories in Zeta and L-Functions" (PRETZL)

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Organiser(s): 
Pranendu Darbar, Winston Heap, Oana Padurariu, Prahlad Sharma
Date: 
Mon, 21/07/2025 - 09:00 - Fri, 25/07/2025 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Conference on "Progress and Emergent Theories in Zeta and L-Functions" (PRETZL), July 21-25, 2025

There has been an enormous amount of progress in the analytic theory of zeta and L-functions over the past decade. Our understanding in the classical theory of the value distribution of the Riemann zeta function has achieved new heights with spectacular breakthroughs on moments and extreme values (both local and global) leading to a better understanding of families of L-functions more generally.

Conference in Memory of Yuri Manin

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Organiser(s): 
Dennis Gaitsgory, Mikhail Kapranov, Ivan Penkov, Maxim Smirnov
Date: 
Mon, 11/08/2025 - 09:00 - Fri, 15/08/2025 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Conference in Memory of Yuri Manin, August 11 - 15, 2025

Yuri I. Manin (February 16, 1937 - January 7, 2023) was an extraordinary figure in mathematics. Renowned for his creativity, Professor Manin's profound insights -- in diverse subjects ranging from algebraic geometry to mathematical physics and quantum computing -- helped shape modern mathematics. Professor Manin was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In this week-long conference, the institute will honor his results and ideas and will attempt to trace some of their developments.

Upcoming Talks

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Abstracts of upcoming talks at the MPIM. For an overview see also the calendar.

Oberseminar Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory

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Organiser(s): 
Prof. Dr. J. Fintzen, Prof. Dr. T. Kaletha, Prof. Dr. P. Scholze
Date: 
Fri, 11/10/2024 - 14:05 - Fri, 19/12/2025 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/scholze/veranstaltungen.html

Global formality for embeddings of varieties

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Speaker: 
Alexander Vitanov
Affiliation: 
IHES
Date: 
Wed, 25/06/2025 - 10:30 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

I will discuss a joint work in progress with Damien Calaque aimed at globalizing a local formality result by Calaque-Felder-Ferrario-Rossi.

The affine Chabauty method

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Speaker: 
Marius Leonhardt
Affiliation: 
Universität Heidelberg
Date: 
Wed, 25/06/2025 - 14:30 - 15:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar

Given a hyperbolic curve $Y$ defined over the integers and a finite set of primes $S$, the set of $S$-integral points $Y(\mathbb{Z}_S)$ is finite by theorems of Siegel, Mahler, and Faltings. Determining this set in practice is a difficult problem for which no general method is known. In this talk I report on joint work in progress with Martin Lüdtke in which we develop a Chabauty--Coleman method for finding $S$-integral points on affine curves.

Hilbert’s Tenth Problem for finitely generated rings and ranks of elliptic curves, I

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Speaker: 
Carlo Pagano
Affiliation: 
Concordia University/MPIM
Date: 
Thu, 26/06/2025 - 10:30 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Seminar Room

Lecture hall MPIM: Thursday 5 June, 16:30-18:00
Seminar room MPIM:  Thursday 26 June, 10:30-12:00 and 13:00-14:30

A simple intrinsic proof of the Tate conjecture for K3's of finite height

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Speaker: 
Ziquan Yang
Organiser(s): 
CUHK/MPIM
Date: 
Thu, 26/06/2025 - 10:30 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In the past decade, a major triumph for the Tate conjecture (over finite fields) is its resolution for K3 surfaces. However, all known proofs rely crucially on the Kuga-Satake construction—effectively outsourcing certain difficulties to the theory of abelian varieties. There is an alternative approach which seeks to prove the conjecture by linking it to finiteness statements in arithmetic geometry, and using only the geometry of K3 surfaces.

Hilbert’s Tenth Problem for finitely generated rings and ranks of elliptic curves, II

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Speaker: 
Carlo Pagano
Affiliation: 
Concordia University/MPIM
Date: 
Thu, 26/06/2025 - 13:00 - 14:00
Location: 
MPIM Seminar Room

Lecture hall MPIM: Thursday 5 June, 16:30-18:00
Seminar room MPIM:  Thursday 26 June, 10:30-12:00 and 13:00-14:30

Free group actions on symmetric spaces-hyperbolic geometry and Atiyah-Singer index theory

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Speaker: 
Inkang Kim
Affiliation: 
KIAS/MPIM
Date: 
Thu, 26/06/2025 - 15:00 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
MPI-Oberseminar

We present two important actions of free groups on hyperbolic 3-space and Hermitian symmetric space via Kleinian group theory

and surface group representations into Hermitian Lie groups. The first one is related to the Thurston's conjecture of generalization of the double limit 

theorem to 3-manifolds with compressible boundary, and the second one is related to the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theory on flat bundles over surfaces with boundary.

 

Examples of knot invariants using Skein relations

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Speaker: 
Johannes Lin
Affiliation: 
MPIM/Universität Bonn
Date: 
Fri, 27/06/2025 - 10:15 - 11:45
Location: 
MPIM Seminar Room

WIQI topology seminar

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Date: 
Fri, 27/06/2025 - 12:45 - 14:30
Location: 
MPIM Seminar Room
Parent event: 
WIQI topology seminar

Seminar webpage:  https://guests.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/bianchi/wiqi.html

The Cousin maps and relation with the Sen operator

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Speaker: 
Tim Kuppel
Affiliation: 
Universität Bonn
Date: 
Mon, 30/06/2025 - 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: Endenicher Allee 60, Room 1.007, Math. Center, University of Bonn

Mathematical events in Bonn

Bonn Mathematics Calendar

All mathematical events in Bonn are listed in the Bonn Mathematics Calendar. For directions see the map.

University Calendar

All lectures and courses at Bonn University can be found in the university calendar.

 

Recurring seminars, series and courses

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Detailed list of recurring seminars, series of talks, and courses or lectures comprising multiple talks. For an overview see also the calendar.

Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecture

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Location: 
University Club Bonn

The annual Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecture is a series of lectures started in 2007 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Friedrich Hirzebruch. The lectures address a general audience and aim at illustrating the relation between mathematics and art, society and other fields.

MPI-Oberseminar

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Organiser(s): 
C. Kaiser
Date: 
Thu, 31/01/2013 - 15:00 - Thu, 31/12/2026 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The Oberseminar is a very long running seminar at MPI (‘Ober‘ standing for 'upper'). Its idea is that the guests of the MPI speak in this seminar (hopefully early in their stay) and get the chance to explain their work to the other guests.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arithmetische Geometrie

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Organiser(s): 
Peter Scholze

Promotionskolloquium

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IMPRS Minicourse

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Organiser(s): 
C. Kaiser

Extra talk

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This is a collection of extra talks that don't fit into the other series.

Oberseminar Differentialgeometrie

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Organiser(s): 
Ursula Hamenstädt (U Bonn), Jonas Beyrer (U Bonn) and Stephan Stadler (MPIM)
Date: 
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 11:58 - Thu, 18/12/2025 - 11:58

Contact: Stephan Stadler (stadler$@$mpim-bonn$.$mpg$.$de)

Seminar Algebraic Geometry (SAG)

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Organiser(s): 
D. Huybrechts
Date: 
Thu, 06/01/2011 - 10:30 - Thu, 31/12/2026 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Higher Differential Geometry Seminar

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Organiser(s): 
Christian Blohmann
Date: 
Wed, 18/04/2012 - 10:30 - Thu, 31/12/2026 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Number theory lunch seminar

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Organiser(s): 
P. Moree
Date: 
Tue, 01/01/2013 (All day) - Fri, 30/06/2028 (All day)
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The number theory lunch seminar takes place every Wednesday after a joint lunch of MPIM's number theorists...

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MPI-Oberseminar

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Organiser(s): 
C. Kaiser
Date: 
Thu, 31/01/2013 - 15:00 - Thu, 31/12/2026 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The Oberseminar is a very long running seminar at MPI (‘Ober‘ standing for 'upper'). Its idea is that the guests of the MPI speak in this seminar (hopefully early in their stay) and get the chance to explain their work to the other guests.

Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecture

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Location: 
University Club Bonn

The annual Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecture is a series of lectures started in 2007 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Friedrich Hirzebruch. The lectures address a general audience and aim at illustrating the relation between mathematics and art, society and other fields.

Break

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Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 16:00 - 16:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

tba

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Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 14:40 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Lunch

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Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 13:00 - 14:40

tba

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Speaker: 
Alexander Beilinson
Affiliation: 
University of Chicago
Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 11:55 - 13:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Equivariant birational geometry

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Speaker: 
Yuri Tschinkel
Affiliation: 
New York University
Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 10:40 - 11:45
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

I will discuss new results and constructions in equivariant birational geometry.

Tea break

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Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 10:05 - 10:40
Location: 
MPIM Tea Room

The odd integrable system

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Speaker: 
Nigel Hitchin
Affiliation: 
University of Oxford
Date: 
Fri, 15/08/2025 - 09:00 - 10:05
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In a volume dedicated to Yuri Manin on his 50th birthday the speaker introduced an integrable system defined on the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of stable $G$-bundles

Dinner

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Date: 
Thu, 14/08/2025 - 19:00 - 21:00
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