List of Talks
This list was updated for the last time in the Summer Semester of 2019. The “What is…?” Seminar still continues, you can find the up-to-date list of talks at the new webpage whatisseminar.xyz.
- Summer Semester 2019
- Winter Semester 2018/19
- Summer Semester 2018
- Winter Semester 2017/18
- Summer Semester 2017
- Winter Semester 2016/17
- Summer Semester 2016
- Winter Semester 2015/16
- Summer Semester 2015
- Winter Semester 2014/2015
- Summer Semester 2014
- Winter Semester 2013/2014
- Summer Semester 2013
- Winter Semester 2012/2013
- Summer Semester 2012
- Winter Semester 2011/2012
- Summer Semester 2011
- Winter Semester 2010/2011
- Summer Semester 2010
- Winter Semester 2009/2010
- Summer semester 2009
- Winter semester 2008 / 2009
- Summer semester 2008
Summer Semester 2019
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 12 | TU MA 212 | 13:15 | What are… support vector machines? | Katerina Papagiannouli (HU) |
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No what-is (Good Friday/Karfreitag) | |||
| April 26 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… Steinitz' theorem? | Sophia Elia (FU) |
| May 3 | FU SR 019 (Arnimallee 3) | 13:15 | What is… a g_d^r? | Carlos Maestro Pérez (HU) |
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Potsdam | |
No what-is (Euler Lecture) | |
| May 17 | FU/HU/TU (TBA) | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 24 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | TBA | TBA |
| May 31 | FU/HU/TU (TBA) | TBA | TBA | Riccardo Morandin (TU) |
| June 7 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | TBA | TBA |
| June 14 | FU/HU/TU (TBA) | TBA | TBA | Tom Klose (TU) |
| June 21 | BMS Loft | 13:30 (Kovalevskaya lunch) | TBA | TBA |
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No what-is (BMS-BGSMath Junior Meeting, please register!) | |||
| July 5 | HU? | TBA | TBA (BMS Friday followed by the von Mises Lecture) | TBA |
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No what-is (last day of classes) |
Winter Semester 2018/19
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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No what-is (Geo.X Career Day) | |||
| October 26 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is…. the secret of the zeta function? | Barbara Jung (HU) |
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No what-is (BMS soft-skills seminar) | |||
| November 9 | Urania | 13:00 | What is… the Euler characteristic of a polytope? | Hannah Sjöberg (FU) |
| November 16 | TU MA212 | TBA | What is… a topological surface? | Georg Lehner (FU) |
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No what-is (BMS soft-skills seminar) | |||
| November 30 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… the Alexander polynomial of a knot? | Max Krause (TU) |
| December 7 | FU SR140 | 14:00 | What is… the best voting system? | Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU) |
| December 14 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is… tensor networks, topological order and entanglement renormalization? | Alex Nietner (FU) |
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No what-is (last day of classes) | |||
| January 11 | FU SR140 | 14:15 | What are… interval graphs, interval orders, and their friends? | Simona Boyadzhiyska (FU) |
| January 18 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a competing species model? | Florian Nie (TU) |
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No what-is | |||
| February 1 | TU MA212 | 13:15 | What is… a hydrodynamic limit? | Tommaso Cornelis Rosati (HU) |
| February 8 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… it like to lower the mixed volume? | Dimitrios Bogiokas (FU) |
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No what-is (last day of classes) | |||
| February 19 | BMS Loft | 10:00 (sharp!) | What is… the Wright-Fisher diffusion? | Eugenio Buzzoni (TU) |
Summer Semester 2018
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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No what-is (BMS soft-skills seminar) | |||
| April 27 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a matroid? | Jorge Alberto Olarte (FU) |
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Potsdam | |
No what-is (Euler Lecture) | |
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No what-is (after holiday) | |||
| May 18 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is… Kronecker Coefficients? | Levent Doğan (TU) |
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No what-is | |||
| June 1 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… control theory? | Alejandro López (FU) |
| June 8 | TU MA 415 | 14:00-18:00 | "What is?" seminar 10th anniversary What is… an ultrafilter? |
Peter Krautzberger |
| June 15 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a Scheme? | Marco D'Addezio (FU) |
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No what-is (von Mises lecture) | |||
| June 29 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… semialgebraic sets in context? | Josué Tonelli-Cueto (TU) |
| July 6 | FU SR032 | 14:00 | What is… a Positional Game? | Alp Müyesser (Carnegie Mellon) |
| July 13 | FU Harnack-Haus | 13:00 | What is… a ranking algorithm? | Benjamin Gardiner (TU) |
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No what-is | |||
Winter Semester 2017/18
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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No what-is (Geo.X Career Day) | |||
| October 27 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a random graph? | Jannes Münchmeyer (HU) |
| November 3 | TU MA316 | 14:00 | What is… algebraic statistics? | Carlos Améndola (TU) |
| November 10 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a finite element method? | Monika Eisenmann (TU) |
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No what-is (BMS soft-skills seminar) | |||
| November 24 | Urania | 13:00 | What is… a spectrahedron? | Mario Kummer (MPI Leipzig) |
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No what-is (BMS soft-skills seminar) | |||
| December 8 | TU MA316 | 14:00 | What is… monomial tropical cones for multicriteria optimization? | Georg Loho (TU) |
| December 15 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Teichmüller space of a surface? | Lara Skuppin (TU) |
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No what-is (Last day of classes) | |||
| January 12 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What are… large deviations? | András Tóbiás (TU) |
| January 19 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What are… Maxwell's equations? | Marek Gluza (FU) |
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No what-is | |||
| February 2 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a homotopy invariant? | Alexander Müller (FU) |
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No what-is (Week before exams) | |||
| February 16 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… an inverse problem? | Héctor Andrade Loarca (TU) |
| February 20 | BMS Loft | 10:00 | What is… molecular dynamics? (BMS Days) | Mohsen Sadeghi (FU) |
Summer Semester 2017
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 21 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… Hamiltonian dynamics? | Alexander Fauck (HU) |
| April 28 | TU MA212 | 14:00 | What is… triangulated spheres and Pachner moves? | Giulia Codenotti (FU) |
| May 5 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… variational inference? | Patrick Jähnichen (HU) |
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No what-is (I, Scientist) | |||
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Potsdam | |
No what-is (Euler Lecture) | |
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No what-is (After holiday) | |||
| June 2 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… Iwasawa Theory? | Marcin Lara (FU) |
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No what-is (BMS soft-kills seminar) | |||
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HU | |
No what-is (von Mises Lecture) | |
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No what-is (BMS soft-kills seminar) | |||
| June 30 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… BPP, RP and the other probabilistic complexity classes? | Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU) |
| July 7 | TU MA212 | 13:00 | What is… a condition number? | Paul Breiding (TU) |
| July 14 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… Onsager's conjecture? | Robert Lasarzik (TU) |
| July 21 | FU | 16.00 | What is… Gröbner Basis doing in Sudoku? | Irem Portakal (FU) |
Winter Semester 2016/17
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 21 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … mixed integer linear programming? | Stanley Schade (FU/ZIB) |
| November 4 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a modular form? | Antareep Mandal (HU) |
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No what-is | BMS 10th Anniversary | ||
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No what-is | |||
| December 16 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … formal mathematics? | Martin Skrodzki (FU) |
| January 13 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Randomness Good For? | Shagnik Das (FU) |
| January 27 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the length of a potato? | Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU) |
| February 10 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a (Discontinuous) Galerkin Finite Element Method? | Lasse Hinrichsen (FU) |
| February 21 | BMS Loft | 10:00 | What is … Linear Programming? | Georg Loho (FU) |
Summer Semester 2016
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 29 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is … symplectic geometry? | Mara Ungureanu (HU) |
| May 13 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a Chow Ring? | Fei Ren (FU) |
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Potsdam | |
No what-is (Euler Lecture) | |
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HU | |
No what-is (von Mises Lecture) | |
| June 17 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … an Eigenvector of a Tensor? | Kathlén Kohn (TU) |
| July 8 | Harnack-Haus | 13:00 | What is … a Sphere Packing? | Albert Haase (FU) |
Winter Semester 2015/16
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 16 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … representation theory? | Patrick Da Silva (HU) |
| October 30 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a period? | Filippo Nuccio (Université St. Étienne) |
| November 13 | TU Berlin | 13:00 | What is … reciprocity? | Jan Hofmann (FU) |
| November 27 | |
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No What-is talk | |
| December 11 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Discrete Fourier Analysis? | Christoph Spiegel (FU) |
| January 15 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a p-adic number? | Claudius Heyer (HU) |
| January 29 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a stochastic process? | Stefan Rüdrich (FU) |
| February 5 | FU Berlin, SR031 | 16:00 | What is … an Origami Constructible Number? | Josué Tonelli Cueto (HU) |
| February 12 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Disjoint Paths Problem? | Miriam Schlöter (TU) |
| February 16 | BMS Loft | 10:00 | What is … a Rational Function? | Irem Portakal (FU) |
Summer Semester 2015
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 24 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the complexity of matrix multiplication? | Pierre Lairez (TU) |
| May 08 | TU (MA 212) | 13:00 | What is … a supercritical percolation cluster? | Nguyen Tuan Anh (TU) |
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No what-is | |||
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Potsdam | 14:00 | No what-is (Euler Lecture) | |
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No what-is (Workshop on Nonlinear Algebra) | |||
| June 05 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a transfer operator? | Adam Nielsen (ZIB) |
| June 12 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is … group homology? | Peter Patzt (FU) |
| June 19 | HU | 16:00 | What is … the heat kernel? | Asilya Suleymanova (HU) |
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HU 0101 | 14:00 | No what-is (von Mises Lecture) | |
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FU/TU/HU | 16:00 | ||
| July 10 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Ramsey Theory? | Manh Tuan Tran (FU) |
Winter Semester 2014/2015
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a syzygy? | Daniele Agostini (HU) |
| Oct 31 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … an Ehrhart Polynomial? | Hannes Pollehn (TU) |
| Nov 14 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is … a CAT(0) space? | Sebastian Meinert (FU) |
| Nov 28 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a (complex) hyperplane arrangement? | Arnau Padrol Sureda (FU) |
| Dec 5 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … the ham sandwich theorem? | Florian Frick (TU) |
| Dec 12 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a Hamiltonian system? | Jonathan Youett (FU) |
| Jan 9 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … sparse and redundant representation modeling for image processing? | Wang-Q Lim (TU) |
| Jan 16 | TU MA313 | 16:00 | What is … a van Kampen Obstruction Cocycle? | Isaac Mabillard (IST Austria) |
| Jan 23 | FU SR025/026 | 13:00 | What is … the probabilistic method? | Shagnik Das (FU) |
| Feb 6 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … (algebraic) complexity theory? | Jesko Hüttenhain (TU) |
Summer Semester 2014
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Navier-Stokes equation? | Ariane Papke (FU) |
| May 9 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a random graph? | Adam Streck (FU) |
| May 16 | Potsdam | 14:00 | Euler Lecture | |
| May 23 | HU 0311 | 13:15 | What is … a partial zeta function? | Miguel Grados (HU) |
| Jun 6 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … an isohedral tiling? | Michael Joos (TU) |
| Jun 13 | HU 0101 | 14:00 | von Mises Lecture | |
| Jun 20 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the moduli spaces of curves? | Giulia Battiston (FU) |
| Jun 27 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem? | Lucas Braune (IMPA Rio de Janeiro) |
| Jul 4 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a Riemannian manifold? | Lara Skuppin (TU) |
| Jul 11 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … Time-of-Death Modeling? | Jonas Krone and Zoi Tokoutsi (FU) |
| Jul 18 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is … a gyroid? | Ulrich Reitebuch (FU) |
Winter Semester 2013/2014
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … combinatorial rigidity? | Louis Theran (FU) |
| Oct 25 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a hyperreal number? | Ugur Dogan (HU) |
| Nov 1 | BMS Loft | 13:30 | What is … a graph limit? | Codrut Grosu (FU) |
| Nov 8 | TU MA742 | 16:00 | What is … the relation between Laplace transform and Z-transform? | Deniz Genlik (TU) |
| Nov 15 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the conformal geometry of surfaces? | Wayne Lam (TU) |
| Nov 22 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … mean curvature flow and their self-shrinkers? | Keita Kunikawa (Tohoku Univ) |
| Nov 29 | TU MA544 | 13:00 | What is … a Wasserstein distance? | Matthias Liero (WIAS) |
| Dec 6 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is …. a Grassmannian? | Eva Martinez (HU) |
| Dec 13 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Burger's equation and heat equation? | Juan Camilo Orduz (HU) |
| Jan 10 | ZIB | 13:00 | What is … the representation theory of finite groups? | Peter Patzt (FU) |
| Jan 17 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a 4D object? | Faniry Razafindrazaka (FU) |
| Jan 24 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … the spacetime constraints paradigm? | Christoph von Tycowicz (FU) |
| Jan 31 | BMS Loft | 13:15 | What is … a Carleson operator? | Yizhi Sun (TU) |
Summer Semester 2013
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a higher order tensor decomposition? | Max Pfeffer (TU) |
| Apr 26 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … an L-function? | Miguel Grados (HU) |
| May 3 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Nash embedding theorem? | Ariane Beier (Potsdam) |
| May 31 | Potsdam | Euler Lecture | ||
| Jun 7 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a subgradient? | Elias Pipping (FU) |
| Jun 14 | HU 0119 | von Mises Lecture | ||
| Jun 21 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What are … abstract functions and weak convergence? | Christian Kreusler (TU) |
| Jun 28 | TU MA313 | 16:00 | What is … matrix completion? | Franz Király (TU) |
| Jul 5 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a self-avoiding random walk? | Giovanni Conforti (HU) |
| Jul 12 | BMS Loft | 13:15 | What is … a variational inequality? | Carsten Gräser (FU) |
Winter Semester 2012/2013
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a Smoke Ring? | Felix Jakob Knöppel (TU) |
| Oct 26 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … persistent homology? | Mijail Guillemard (TU) |
| Nov 2 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a quaternion algebra? | Christian Wald (HU) |
| Nov 9 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a Bruhat-Tits tree? | Inder (HU) |
| Nov 16 | RTG Stochastic Analysis Colloquium | |||
| Nov 23 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a regular map? | Faniry Razafindrazaka (FU) |
| Nov 30 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a spacetime singularity? | Phillipo Lappicy (FU) |
| Dec 7 | HU 1.023 | 17:30 | What is … a Hodge locus? | Ananyo Dan (HU) |
| Dec 14 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … SU(2) and why does it double-cover SO(3)? | Florian Frick (TU) |
| Jan 11 | IRTG Moduli and Automorphic Forms Colloquium | |||
| Jan 18 | TU MA313 | 16:00 | What is … a quasiconformal mapping? | Isabella Thiesen (TU) |
| Jan 25 | BMS Loft | 13:15 | What is … a j-invariant? | Emre Sertoz (HU) |
| Feb 1 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a monotonicity formula? | Ahmad Afuni (FU) |
| Feb 8 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a rational tangle? | Silvia de Toffoli (TU) |
| Feb 15 | TU MA313 | 16:00 | What is … a Palindromic Eigenvalue Problem? | Christian Schröder (TU) |
| Feb 19 | BMS Loft | 10:00 | What is… a positional game? | Dennis Clemens (FU) |
Summer Semester 2012
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 13 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … a spectral method? | Maciek Korzec (TU) | |
| April 20 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is… a dissipative weak solution? | Romain Nguyen (FU) | |
| April 27 | HU 1.023 | 14:00 | What is … a path-following method? | Jennifer Rasch (HU) | |
| May 4 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … software development? | Kristian Rother | |
| May 11 | Potsdam | Euler Lecture | |||
| May 18 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … a differential inclusion? | Shahrad Jamshidi (FU) | |
| May 25 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a configuration space? | Dror Atariah (FU) | |
| June 1 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a problem in mathematical finance? | Julio Backhoff (HU) | |
| June 8 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a group action? | Mikola Lysenko (UW Madison) | |
| June 15 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … a Dirac operator? | Juan Orduz (HU) | |
| June 22 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … the Fabricius-Bjerre theorem? | Felix Günther (TU) | play |
| June 29 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a group representation? | Giovanni de Gaetano (HU) | |
| July 6 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Brownian motion? | Adrian Gonzalez Casanova (TU) | |
| July 13 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … Ext and its applications? | Hannah Enders (HU) |
Winter Semester 2011/2012
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 21 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … diffusion? | Maciek Korzec (TU) |
| October 28 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Tropical Geometry? | Cesar Ceballos (FU) |
| November 4 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is …a zeta function? | David Ouwehand (HU) |
| November 11 | Kovalevskaya Lecture | |||
| November 18 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a Gröbner basis in a polynomial ring? | Andre Mialebama (FU) |
| November 25 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … the Lagrangian relaxation of an integer program? | Jonad Pulaj (ZIB) |
| December 2 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a lattice in a Lie group good for? | Barbara Jung (HU) |
| December 9 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … propagating interfaces and level set methods? | Antoine Laurain (HU) |
| January 6 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a shearlet? | Wang-Q Lim (TU) |
| January 20 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … an independent transversal? | Lothar Narins (FU) |
| January 27 | TU MA004 | 16:00 | What is … the connection between the Kantian Intuition of Mathematical Objects and Diagrams? | Özge Ekin (FU) |
| February 3 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … Risk? | Samuel Drapeau (HU) |
| February 10 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a Feynman integral? | Christian Bogner (HU) |
| February 22 | BMS Loft | BMS Days: What is … the fundamental group and covering spaces? | Fabian Lenhardt (FU) |
Summer Semester 2011
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 15 | BMS Loft | 11:45 | What is … a Modular form? | Anil Aryasomayajula (HU) | play |
| April 22 | Easter Holiday | ||||
| April 29 | BMS Loft | 12:00 | What is … the Kuhn-Tucker theorem? | Thomas Lehmann (ZIB) | play |
| May 6 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … an infinitesimal? | Thomas El Khatib (TU) | play |
| May 13 | BMS Loft | 12:00 | What is … a graph? | Daniel Heldt (TU) | |
| May 20 | Potsdam | Euler Lecture | |||
| May 27 | BMS Loft | 12:00 | What is … the direct method in the calculus of variations? | Beatrice Bugert (WIAS) | |
| June 3 | Holiday | ||||
| June 10 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a moduli space? | Fabian Müller (HU) | play |
| June 17 | FU A6 007/8 | 16:00 | What is … a sheaf? | Nikolai Beck (FU) | |
| June 24 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … linear programming? | Ambros Gleixner (ZIB) | |
| July 1 | Adlershof | Richard von Mises Lecture | |||
| July 8 | BMS Loft | 13:00 | What is … a Green's function? | Marcel Ortgiese (TU) | |
| July 15 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a matroid? | Markus Hihn (HU) |
Winter Semester 2010/2011
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 22 | BMS Loft | 14:00 | What is … a Catalan Number? | Jean-Philippe Labbé (TU) | |
| October 29 | TU MA212 | 16:00 | What is … Hilbert's 17th Problem? | Moritz Schmitt (TU) | |
| November 5 | BMS Loft | 15:30 | What is … a stable marriage? | Ágnes Cseh (TU) | play |
| November 12 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … a selflocator? | Heinrich Mellmann (HU) | |
| November 19 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … a multifunction? | Klebert Kentia (HU) | play |
| November 26 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … the origin of elliptic functions? | Barbara Jung (HU) | play |
| December 3 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … the probabilistic method? | Anita Liebenau (FU) | play |
| December 10 | BMS Loft | 12:45 | What is … cognitive neuroscience? | Roland Friedrich (HU) | |
| January 7 | FU SR031 | 16:30 | What is … a derived category? | Andreas Hochenegger (FU) | |
| January 14 | BMS Loft | 12:45 | What is … a Diophantine equation? | Stefan Keil (HU) | play |
| January 21 | TU MA212 | 16:30 | What is … a random walk on a network? | Natasa Djurdjevac (FU) | |
| January 28 | BMS Loft | 12:45 | What is … math blogging? | Felix Breuer (FU) | |
| February 4 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … the exit problem? | Han Lie (HU) | |
| February 11 | BMS Loft | 12:45 | What is … P vs NP? | Jannik Matuschke (TU) | play |
| February 18 | TU MA 212 | 16:30 | What is … a weak derivative? | Stefan W. von Deylen (FU) | |
| February 22 | BMS Loft | 9:30 | What is … a matroid? | Matthias Lenz (TU) |
Summer Semester 2010
| Date | Location | Time | Title | Speaker | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 16 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … Hilbert's 16th problem? | Eyal Ron (FU) | play |
| April 23 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … a Theta Body? | Annie Raymond (TU) | |
| April 30 | TU MA212 | 17:00 | What is … a Killing vector field? | Mimi Tsuruga (FU) | play |
| May 7 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … a Fourier Series? | Jerry Gagelman (TU) | |
| May 14 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is … the big deal with math and music? | Aaron Greicius (HU) | |
| May 21 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … a zeta function? | Nicholas Schmidt (HU) | |
| May 28 | Potsdam | 14:00 | Euler Lecture | ||
| June 4 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … a linear system of plane curves? | Angela Ortega (HU) | |
| June 11 | HU 1.023 | 16:00 | What is.. the classifying space of a category? | Stephan Müller (HU) | |
| June 18 | BMS Loft | 12:30 | What is … Polya theory? | Emerson Leon (TU) | |
| June 25 | FU SR031 | 16:30 | What is … a Hybrid Automata? | Shahrad Jamshidi (FU) | play |
| July 2 | TU MA851 | 10:30 | What are … large deviations? | Hanna Döring (TU) | |
| July 9 | FU SR031 | 16:00 | What is … phylogenetic algebraic geometry? | Kaie Kubjas (FU) | play |
Winter Semester 2009/2010
Summer semester 2009
| Date and place | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, @BMS, | What is… the Adaptive Finite Element Method? | Joscha Gedicke |
| May 1 | (General Holiday) | --- |
| May 8 @BMS | What is.. the Dedekind zeta function? | Anna Posingies (HU) |
| May 15 BMS@TU-lounge | What is.. entropy? | Yvon Vignaud |
| May 22 @FU | What is … a Goppa Code? | Nathan Ilten |
| May 29 | Euler Lecture @Potsdam | --- |
| June 5 @FU | What is… a flag vector? | Axel Werner (ZIB) |
| June 12 @Adlershof | Mises Lecture | --- |
| June 19 @BMS | What is … the field with one element? | Laura Hinsch (FU Berlin) |
| June 26 @FU | What is … the square root of a graph? | Robin Scholz (Potsdam) |
| July 3 @FU | What is … topological dynamics? | Peter Krautzberger |
| July 10 | BMS Summer Outing @Golm | --- |
| July 17 @FU |
Winter semester 2008 / 2009
| Datum und Ort | Thema | Vortragender |
|---|---|---|
| 17. Okt., @BMS-Fridays | Vorstellung des Seminars (@ BMS-Friday) | N.N. |
| 24. Okt., @FU | What is… the Random Graph? | Stefanie Frick (FU Berlin) |
| 31. Okt., @BMS-Fridays | What is… Homotopical Algebra? (@ BMS-Friday) | Anton Dochtermann (TU Berlin) |
| 07. Nov., @FU | What is… deformation? | Nathan Ilten (FU Berlin) |
| 14. Nov., @BMS-Fridays | What is an elliptic curve? / Basic Notions in algebraic and arithmetic geometry | Anna Pippich / Fritz Hörmann (HU Berlin) |
| 21. Nov., @FU | What are … loops and the fundamental group? | Dror Atariah |
| 28. Nov., @BMS-Fridays | What is … geometric knot theory? | Barbara Jablonska (TU Berlin) |
| 05. Dez., @FU | What is … Hindman's theorem? | Peter Krautzberger |
| 12. Dez., @BMS-Fridays | What is … spectral expansion? | Anna Pippich (HU) |
| 19. Dez., @FU | What is … similarity of shapes? | Daria Schymura (FU) |
| 09. Jan., @BMS-Fridays | What is … the P vs NP problem? | Matthias Lenz (TU) |
| 16. Jan., @FU | What is … an averaging principle? | Carsten Hartmann (FU) |
| 23. Jan., @BMS-Fridays | What is … the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture? | Fritz Hörmann |
| 30. Jan., @FU | What is … a Fraisse construction? | Artem Chernikov |
| 06. Feb., @BMS-Fridays | What is … Helly's theorem? | Mareike Massow (TU) |
| 13. Feb., @FU | What is… Brownian motion? | Plamen Turkedjiev |
Summer semester 2008
| Datum und Ort | Thema | Vortragender |
|---|---|---|
| Donnerstag, 17. Juli, 16 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 025/026 | What is… the chromatic number of the plane? | Michael Payne |
| Donnerstag, 3. Juli, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… das Kontinuum und was ist sein Problem? | Gido Scharfenberger-Fabian |
| Donnerstag, 26. Juni, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… eine sinnvolle Erweiterung der Halbgruppe der natürlichen Zahlen? | Peter Krautzberger |
| Donnerstag, 19. Juni, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… eine sinnvolle Verallgemeinerung des Zwischenwertsatz? | Felix Breuer |
| Donnerstag, 12. Juni, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… eine Garbe? | Nathan Ilten |
| Donnerstag, 5.Juni, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… die Schälung eines Polytops? | Frederik von Heymann |
| Donnerstag, 29. Mai, 10 Uhr c.t., A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… der Ricci-Fluss? | Tobias Marxen |
| Donnerstag, 22. Mai, 17 Uhr, A6 Raum 031 | Was ist eigentlich… ein Ultrafilter? (und was kann man damit anstellen?) | Peter Krautzberger |
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