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Mathematics/Physics/Jazz afternoon at MPIM

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Date: 
Fri, 30/06/2023 - 14:00 - 18:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

An diesem speziellen Nachmittag wollen wir einen Einblick in die Welt der Mathematik geben, mit einer allgemeinverständlichen Vorlesung und ausführlicher Kommunikation mit Mathematikern danach.

To see the detailed program for the afternoon, please click above, and then continue to click on the various events.

Memorial Event for Yu. I. Manin

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Fri, 13/01/2023 - 16:00 - 17:30

The Max Planck Institute will hold a memorial event for Yuri Ivanovich Manin this Friday, January 13, from 16:00 - 17:30h in the lecture hall. The mathematical community and friends are welcome to attend in person or online:

Tag der offenen Tür - Max-Planck-Tag am 14. September 2018

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Fri, 14/09/2018 - 11:00 - 19:00

Was Sie eine Mathematikerin/einen Mathematiker schon immer fragen wollten - tun Sie es am Tag der offenen Tür am Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik! Lernen Sie unser Institut kennen und erfahren Sie, aus welchen Ländern die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unseres Gästeprogramms kommen. Tauchen Sie bei einem virtuellen Rundgang in M. C. Eschers Bilder ein und versuchen Sie Ihr Glück bei einem Mathequiz. Lernen Sie, wie man Sudokus und den Zauberwürfel in null Komma nichts löst, und sehen Sie, was ein 3D-Drucker alles kann. Lassen Sie sich von einem Mathe-Magier verzaubern und finden Sie heraus, woran unsere preisgekrönten Mathe-Genies gerade arbeiten.

MPIM at play: Public piano recital by Joseph Najnudel on June 13th

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Date: 
Wed, 13/06/2018 - 17:30 - 19:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Joseph Najnudel, mathematician and accomplished pianist, will give a public piano recital on June 13th, beginning at 17:30h in the MPIM lecture hall. Everybody and their families are cordially invited. The concert is free of charge.

"Descartes, Euler, Gauss: From surfaces to integers". Hirzebruch lecture by Werner Ballmann on Monday, November 13, University Club Bonn

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Speaker: 
Werner Ballmann
Affiliation: 
MPIM
Date: 
Mon, 13/11/2017 - 18:30 - 19:30
Location: 
University Club Bonn

Geometric quantities of a surface, like distance, angle, or area, change when the surface is deformed. Euler discovered a quantity, the Euler characteristic, which remains unchanged. The formula of Gauss-Bonnet, a landmark result of mathematics, relates Euler characteristic with geometry. In the talk, I will present ideas of Descartes, Euler, and Gauss related to this formula.

"Coarse Geometry". Hirzebruch colloquium talk by Walter Neumann

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Speaker: 
Walter Neumann
Affiliation: 
Columbia University
Date: 
Mon, 13/11/2017 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Coarse geometry can lead to useful classifications. For example, the word metric on a finitely presented group recognises (up to finite groups) if that group is the fundamental group of a 3-manifold and it carries a lot of information about the manifold. I will mainly talk about coarse geometry for complex surfaces, showing that bilipschitz geometry, which is purely topological and ignores any analytic structure, can recover the local analytic structure up to Zariski equisingularity. (Joint work with Anne Pichon).

Jazz & Math: Public jazz performance with Rob Schneiderman & Friends

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Speaker: 
Rob Schneiderman (piano), John Goldsby (bass), and Hans Dekker (drums)
Date: 
Thu, 13/07/2017 - 18:30 - 22:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

"Mathematics is not only a solo gig. When two or three mathematicians get together to share their ideas on how to attack a problem, sessions can easily stretch out for hours and even days. The dynamic is not unlike jazz musicians improvising with each spurring the other to go farther than they would go alone." Rob Schneiderman, New York based mathematician, regular guest at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, and professional Jazz pianist together with John Goldsby (bass) and Hans Dekker (drums) will explore the relations between Jazz & Math in a public concert, which will be followed by a get-together for an open discussion. (Free admission)

Escher and the Droste effect. Public talk by Hendrik Lenstra, Wednesday, 14 December

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Speaker: 
Hendrik Willem Lenstra
Affiliation: 
Universiteit Leiden / MPIM
Date: 
Wed, 14/12/2016 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In 1956, the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title `Print Gallery‘. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in. A lot is known about the way in which Escher made his lithograph. It is not nearly as well known that it contains a hidden `Droste effect‘, or infinite repetition; but this is brought to light by a mathematical analysis of the studies used by Escher. On the basis of this discovery, a team of mathematicians at Leiden produced a series of hallucinating computer animations. These show, among others, what happens inside the mysterious spot in the middle of the lithograph that Escher left blank.

"Cannons at Sparrows". Hirzebruch lecture by Günter M. Ziegler on Wednesday, November 2

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Speaker: 
Günter M. Ziegler
Affiliation: 
Freie Universität Berlin
Date: 
Wed, 02/11/2016 - 18:30 - 19:30
Location: 
University Club Bonn

The story told in this lecture starts with an innocuous little geometry problem, posed in a September 2006 blog entry by R. Nandakumar, an engineer from Calcutta, India: "Can you cut every polygon into a prescribed number of convex pieces that have equal area and equal perimeter?" This little problem is a "sparrow", tantalizing, not as easy as one could perhaps expect, and Recreational Mathematics: of no practical use.

Hausdorff Cinema at MPIM: The Discrete Charm of Geometry

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Date: 
Tue, 23/02/2016 - 19:00 - 20:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. Scientists united by the idea of discretization, which, in short, means: constructing continuous objects from basic building blocks. Akin to the scientists’ search for the right discretization of continuum, this film itself is composed of fragments – individual characters of different ages, temperaments and scientific approaches – which form a single continuous melody.

MPIM at play: Informal concert on Thursday, January 21

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Date: 
Thu, 21/01/2016 - 19:00 - 21:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

This Thursday, January 21st at 19:00h, members of the larger MPIM community will give us the honor of an informal musical concert. First, Carmen Rovi (Piano), Matthias Kreck (Cello), and Yael Fregier (Baritone) will play and sing classical pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner. This is followed by a short break and some traditional folk music performed by the MPIM folk group with Tim Ballance (fiddle)Kristian Hodén (button accordeon), Pavel Mnev (flutes), Davide Spriano (electric bass), and Alessandro Valentino (acoustic guitar). Everybody from the math community in Bonn and their families are welcome.

A Voyage of the Intellects: A Global History of Mathematics in the 17th century

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Speaker: 
Tomoko L. Kitagawa
Date: 
Wed, 23/09/2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
What is the history of mathematics? And who is it written for? This talk introduces the world history of mathematics in the 17th century to a general audience; unlike the conventional approach of viewing the history of mathematics in order to make a comparison between different parts of the world, this talk traces the pathway of mathematical ideas across nations, and observes the 17th century world on a global scale. We will start our journey in Kyoto, and will investigate the intellectual cultures of Europe and China. The presentation uses various techniques of digital humanities.

Geometry, Analysis, and Gravitation. Hirzebruch Lecture 2014 by Gerhard Huisken

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Speaker: 
Gerhard Huisken
Affiliation: 
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach / Universität Tübingen
Date: 
Wed, 29/10/2014 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location: 
University Club Bonn

Since ancient times geometric concepts have been used to model astronomical phenomena such as the motion of the planets. In modern times geometry has merged with analysis to provide accurate models of gravitational phenomena involving stars and their planets, black holes and gravitational waves in the context of General Relativity - with the new mathematical insights leading also to progress in the understanding of many other phenomena surrounding us. The lecture describes in a non-technical way how ancient geometric concepts such as the isoperimetric inequality as well as classical concepts from Newtonian physics reappear in the curved space-times of General Relativity.

Do musical improvisation and mathematics research have anything in common? A public jazz performance and mathematics discussion with Rob Schneiderman

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Speaker: 
Rob Schneiderman (piano), John Goldsby (bass), and Hans Dekker (drums)
Date: 
Tue, 21/10/2014 - 20:00 - 21:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

"Mathematics is not only a solo gig. When two or three mathematicians get together to share their ideas on how to attack a problem, sessions can easily stretch out for hours and even days. The dynamic is not unlike jazz musicians improvising with each spurring the other to go farther than they would go alone." Rob Schneiderman, New York based mathematician, regular guest at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, and professional Jazz pianist together with John Goldsby (bass) and Hans Dekker (drums) will explore the relations between Jazz & Math in a public concert and an open discussion. (Free admission)

„The extra-scientific in scientific creativity: Galileo's mechanics and Bohr's quantum atom“. Hirzebruch lecture by John Heilbron

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Speaker: 
John Heilbron
Affiliation: 
University of California, Berkeley
Date: 
Mon, 21/10/2013 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location: 
University Club Bonn

John L. Heilbron is Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford. His talk is drawn from material in and reflections on his recent books, Galileo (2010) and (with Finn Aaserud) Love, literature, and the quantum atom. Niels Bohr's 1913 trilogy revisited (2013), both from Oxford University Press.

Public Lecture: Mathematical Perspectives on Music-theoretical Knowledge

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Speaker: 
Thomas Noll
Organiser(s): 
Christian Blohmann
Affiliation: 
Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Date: 
Tue, 23/07/2013 - 18:30 - 19:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The music theorist Thomas Noll, currently a guest at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, will give a public lecture about his research on the relation between music and mathematics.

German Movie Premiere: The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

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Speaker: 
Anantharam Raghuram
Affiliation: 
MPIM
Date: 
Tue, 07/05/2013 - 16:30 - 18:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

This documentary is a celebration of the story of Ramanujan while walking in his footsteps trying to fathom his genius. I will begin with a very short (less than 5 minutes) introduction to the making of the documentary. Then we will watch the documentary; it is about one hour long. Finally, I can (try to) answer any questions the audience might have.

The Secret Mathematicians. Hirzebruch lecture by Marcus du Sautoy

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Speaker: 
Marcus du Sautoy
Affiliation: 
University of Oxford
Date: 
Mon, 22/10/2012 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location: 
University Club Bonn

From composers to painters, writers to choreographers, the mathematician’s palette of shapes, patterns and numbers has proved a powerful inspiration. Often subconsciously artists are drawn to the same structures that fascinate mathematicians as they constantly hunt for interesting new structures to frame their creative process. Through the work of artists like Borges and Dali, Messiaen and Laban, Professor du Sautoy will explore the hidden mathematical ideas that underpin their creative output and reveal that the work of the mathematician is also driven by strong aesthetic values.

"Late Style". Bonn premiere of film documentary about Yuri Manin

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Speaker: 
Anges Handwerk, Harrie Willems
Date: 
Thu, 08/12/2011 - 17:00 - 18:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Anges Handwerk and Harrie Willems have made a remarkable documentary about the life and work of Yuri Manin, Emeritus Director at the Max Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, who began his career as a student at Moscow State University in the year of Stalin's death 1953 and whose subsequent professional life reflects the history of mathematics and mathematicians trying to overcome the political constraints of that time. The film will be shown for the first time in Bonn, prior to its publication by Springer in 2012. The directors will be present and available for questions and discussion after the screening.

What is a random geometry? Hirzebruch-Vorlesung von Fieldsmedaillist Wendelin Werner

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Speaker: 
Wendelin Werner
Affiliation: 
Université Paris-Sud und École Normale Superieure
Date: 
Mon, 24/10/2011 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location: 
University Club Bonn

Die Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Vorlesung ist eine jährlich stattfindende Reihe von öffentlichen Vorträgen, die 2007 anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Prof. Friedrich Hirzebruch ins Leben gerufen wurde. Die Vorlesungen richten sich an ein breites Publikum und sollen die vielfältigen Verbindungen zwischen Mathematik, Kunst, Gesellschaft, und anderen Gebieten beleuchten. Die bisherigen Sprecher waren Sir Michael Atiyah, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Don Zagier, Yuri Manin und Hendrik Lenstra.

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