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Happy Birthday MIP.labor
Ideas laboratory on science communication with the support of the Klaus Tschira Foundation started in 2021 on 31 March and has now been running for a year
Apr 05, 2022
BMS Summer School on "Geometry and Topology in a Discrete Setting"
Prof. Pavle Blagojevic and Prof. Florian Frick are organizing a BMS Summer School "Geometry and Topology in a Discrete Setting" from May 23 to June 3, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Open position Juniorprofessor
Our research group has an open position for a W1 Juniorprofessor . Application deadline is July 1st.
Jun 14, 2021
Jean-Philippe Labbé moves to the École de Technologie Supérieure Montréal
Jean-Philippe Labbé accepted a tenure-track Maître d'Enseignement position at the École de Technologie Supérieure in Montréal starting in Fall 2021.
Jun 14, 2021
Amy Wiebe will move to Simon Fraser University
Amy Wiebe will move to Simon Fraser University, where her postdoc position for the academic year 2021/22 is funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada. Starting in 2022/23, she will be a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Jun 14, 2021
Rainer Sinn accepts Professorship in Leipzig
Sep 16, 2020
Polytopia: Over half of the polyhedra have been adopted
In case you haven't adopted your own polyhedron yet, hurry up! We are happy to announce that more than half of the polyhedra on polytopia.eu are already gone. On the website, you can find every polyhedron with up to nine vertices and we invite you to choose your favorite, give it a name, and realize it in one way or another.
Nov 15, 2019
Giulia Codenotti accepts Postdoc in Frankfurt
Giulia Codenotti, who will defend her PhD thesis under the direction of Paco Santos in January, accepted a postdoc position at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in the Discrete Mathematics group headed by Thorsten Theobald.
Oct 30, 2019
Jorge Alberto Olarte is Postdoc at RWTH Aachen
Jorge Alberto Olarte, who will defend his PhD thesis under the direction of Paco Santos in December, is now a postdoc at RWTH Aachen (Lehrstuhl B für Mathematik, Algebra).
Oct 30, 2019
Einstein Workshop Geometric and Topological Combinatorics took place
From October 29th to October 31th 2018 we had an Einstein Workshop for Geometric and Topological Combinatorics. See here for the workshop page.
Nov 05, 2018
Girls Day – Discrete Geometry
Apr 30, 2018
Geometrical Christmas in Dahlem
The participants of the Mathematische Schülergesellschaft Leonhard Euler crafted geometrical christmas tree decorations. Together with the mathematicians from the Dircrete Geometry group the seventh graders cut out polyhedral nets and glued them into threedimensional bodies. Each of the polyhedra with nine vertices has a unique combinatorial type.
Dec 15, 2017
Mathe im Advent
Dec 01, 2017
Tibertius Price to Moritz Firsching
Nov 30, 2017
Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler to Receive 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
The 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition will be awarded to Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler of the Freie Universität Berlin, for Proofs from THE BOO K.
Nov 15, 2017
Prof. Günter M. Ziegler reelected for DFG Senate
Jul 05, 2017