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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.

Ten Years of Polymath

Ten years ago the first Polymath project was launched (link to the original proposal of Timothy Gowers). Polymath can be described as massively collaborative mathematics, i.e., a large groups of mathematicians works on a predefined problem and each member posts his or her (partial) ideas, so that the collective makes progress from each small step … Continue reading

Vier Exzellenzcluster in der Mathematik

Vor drei Tagen ( Pressemitteilung der DFG ) wurde die Entscheidung über die zukünftigen Exzellenzcluster veröffentlicht. Vier davon wird es in der Mathematik geben: in Bonn, in Münster, in Berlin sowie in Heidelberg. Die Förderung in den neuen Exzellenzclustern beginnt am 1. Januar 2019 und läuft sieben Jahre. Nach erfolgreicher Wiederbewerbung kann dies um weitere … Continue reading

News around the ICM 2018

The ICM 2018 is currently taking place in Rio de Janeiro. Here are the prize winners of the IMU prizes and of the K-theory foundation, and the new IMU Executive Committee. The Fields medallists 2018 are Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze, and Akshay Venkatesh. There are also many more prizes and medals that are … Continue reading

Peter Scholze a new director at MPI Bonn

Peter Scholze is a new director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. You can read a bit more about this news here: link.