News – SPP 2026

Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis Mathematik 2023

Der Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis Mathematik ist dieses Jahr an Prof. Dr. Claudia Kirch verliehen worden. Der Preis wird für herausragende, innovative und beispielgebende Leistungen in Lehre, Beratung und Betreuung vergeben.

Abel Prize 2023

The Able Prize 2023 is awarded to Luis A. Caffarelli for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation.

New book about Freedman’s proof

Today I learnt from an article in the QuantaMagazine (link to article) that there is finally a new book trying to explain Freedman’s proof of the 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture (link to book). The article is fun to read since it contains statements of the involved people about how the whole ‘situation’ about the non-understandable write-up … Continue reading

Computer assisted verification of contemporary mathematics

Half a year ago Steffen Kionke wrote a blog post on condensed mathematics wherein he mentioned that Peter Scholze put up a challenge to formally verify a key fundamental result of a joint paper with Clausen: a result Scholze terms his most important theorem to date. Today I want to inform you that the mentioned … Continue reading

Ergebnisse der Wissenschaftsbefragung

Gestern sind die Ergebnisse der DZHW-Wissenschaftsbefragung veröffentlicht worden. Die Wissenschaftsbefragung ist eine bundesweite repräsentative Trendstudie. [… Sie] versteht sich als langfristiges Barometer der Wissenschaft. Sie ist ein wichtiges Werkzeug zur Untersuchung der Arbeits- und Forschungsbedingungen an deutschen Universitäten und soll ein umfassendes Meinungsbild zur Lage und Entwicklung des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems liefern. Hier ist die Pressemeldung, … Continue reading

Nobel Prize for Sir Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. I have to admit that I connected him up to now only with aperiodic tilings of the plane (Wikipedia link). If you want to know more about him you … Continue reading

Girls and boys performing in STEM fields

This is actually already old news (it is from September 2018), but since then it was on my list of things to blog about and only now I found the time to actually do it. There was a meta-study published in Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0) about the performance of girls and boys in STEM fields. I … Continue reading

Reports on Impact of Mathematics

A week ago the EMS posted links to reports on the impact of mathematical research on society and economy. You can access these reports here: link. Though probably for many too long to read in detail, reading just the introductions is already interesting.