Events

The 3rd International Mathematics and Statistics Student Research Symposium (IMSSRS) will be held virtually on Saturday, April 12, 2025. IMSSRS is a free conference welcoming high school, community college, undergraduate, and graduate students to present their mathematics and statistics research, explore current research topics, and connect with like-minded enthusiasts. This year’s program features a keynote address by Dr. Susan Goldstine (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) on "The Long and Winding Road to Non-Euclidean Geometry." There will also be a panel discussion on "Life After College," exploring career options for mathematical science graduates, with opportunities for audience Q&A. Abstract submission and registration deadlines are March 28. While presenters must be students, all are welcome to attend. Visit the event website for more details and share the experience with fellow students and colleagues.

The geometric arrangement of a material’s constituents plays an important role in governing its behavior. Concepts from discrete mathematics to describe these geometric arrangements, including notions of rigidity and flexibility, can bring fundamental insight into how a material might respond to stress, be designed, be reconfigured, etc. Beyond materials, the notions of network rigidity can be applied to more abstract networks and geometries, such as those found in data science. This workshop aims to build connections between the field of mathematical rigidity theory, other topics in applied mathematics, and related areas of science and engineering.

The workshop will explore various topics related to discrete structures and randomness, including but not limited to percolation, random graphs, and stochastic geometry. The program will feature presentations from the 9 keynote speakers below, as well as contributed talks. - Timothy Budd (Radboud University) - Nicolas Curien (Université Paris-Sud) - Daniel Dadush (Utrecht University) - Zakhar Kabluchko (University of Münster) - Júlia Komjáthy (Delft University of Technology) - Irène Marcovici (Université de Rouen Normandie) - Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg) - Wioletta Ruszel (Utrecht University) - Clara Stegehuis (Twente University) For more information and registration, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/words2025/home The registration deadline is February 28, 2025. We encourage junior researchers to propose a contributed talk. We look forward to seeing you in Groningen! Tobias Müller, Réka Szabó and Gilles Bonnet

This is an informal workshop entirely dedicated to young mathematicians who work in differential geometry in a broad sense. The scientific theme of the workshop is the study of topological and geometric properties of complex manifolds, and, more in general, of manifolds endowed with ''special'' geometric structures, either integrable or non-integrable.

The goal of this conference is to present a panorama of research directions in mathematics and mathematical physics related to the scientific program of our CRC 1624 "Higher structures, moduli spaces and integrability". The CRC 1624 has started in the Spring of 2024. It aims to stimulate interactions between highly active topics in mathematics such as higher structures and their applications in TQFT and CFT, the geometry of moduli spaces with their applications in SUSY QFT and string theory like the swampland program, and integrability with its multitude of applications in quantum field theory and string theory. With this conference we aim to stimulate new interactions between mathematics and theoretical physics by bringing together leading representatives of these research directions.

The Hanseatic Dynamical Systems Days (HanDSDays) are recurring one-day workshops taking place at universities in Northern Germany. The goal of the workshop is to enhance connections, collaborations and exchange of ideas within the Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory community. The 11th HanDSDay will take place at the University of Bremen at March 28th, 2025. For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/handsdays11

This workshop will be centered on recent advances in graph rigidity and interactions between rigidity, algebraic statistics, and matroid theory. Three major advances are the recent resolution of the matroid maximality conjecture, the newly developed link to maximum likelihood estimation in Gaussian graphical models, and the recent positive resolution of Lovasz and Yemini's connectivity conjecture for generic rigidity. The workshop will showcase a diverse sample of current work addressing fundamental problems in graph rigidity, algebraic matroids, and algebraic statistics.

Control theory and reinforcement learning converge on a shared objective: facilitating autonomous, real-time decision-making to optimize dynamical processes. Historically, these disciplines have diverged in assumptions regarding available prior information and in analytical techniques applied. However, recent advances bridging the two domains are fostering collaborations. The upcoming CWI research semester programme in spring 2025, themed "Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning: Connections and Challenges", will comprise a spring school and workshops on various sub-topics, orchestrated by a distinguished team including Aditya Gilra, Bert Kappen, Debabrota Basu, Frans Oliehoek, Maryam Kamgarpour and Sean Meyn, to explore the intersections and challenges within these intertwined fields.

The proposed three-day workshop will focus on interrelated mathematical advances in each of the following highly active areas of current research: complex birational geometry (led by MMP), K-stability, and moduli spaces. These domains are of fundamental importance for the (birational) geometry and classification of complex projective varieties as well as for the understanding of their moduli spaces. The workshop will focus on some of the current frontiers that are of particular importance to each of these areas.

The school in Geilo will be devoted to selected topics in analysis, geometry, and differential equations. Participants are invited to stay from Sunday evening March 2 to Friday March 7. The scientific program for the winter school will begin in the morning of Monday March 3. The main lecturers are: - Mike Eastwood (Adelaide, Australia): Prolongation and symmetry - Karin Melnick (Luxembourg): Rigid geometric structures and their automorphism groups - Sigmund Selberg (Bergen, Norway): The geometry of the light cone, the vector fields method, and global existence for non-linear wave equations - Francisco Torres de Lizaur (Seville, Spain): Dynamics of 2D and 3D divergence-free flows, with applications to fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics In addition to these, the meeting will have regular / contributed lectures by participants.