News Archive

2024

  • Why is maths indispensable for artificial intelligence? »
  • Long Night of the Sciences on 22 June at the House of the Leibniz Association »
  • DFG to fund new Collaborative Research Center with WIAS participation »
  • WIAS researcher selected as participant for prestigious conference »
  • Grief for Wolfgang Dreyer »
  • ISIMM medal for Alexander Mielke »
  • Quantum Computing in Academia and Industry - Kick-off event for Thematic Einstein Semester »
  • IVW and WIAS organize MMS Days 2024 »
  • WIAS launches Iris Runge Postdoc Program »
  • Supporting democracy and human dignity »

2023

  • Moritz Flaschel awarded ETH silver medal »
  • Ioannis Papadopoulos new MATH+/BMS Dirichlet Postdoc »
  • Congratulations to former WIAS Director Jürgen Sprekels on his 75th birthday »
  • Patricio Farrell is “Brain City Ambassador” »
  • Iris Runge Program launched »
  • Jonas Köppl participates in Heidelberg Laureate Forum »
  • Mathematics for better batteries »
  • Audit berufundfamilie: WIAS successfully re-audited »
  • Leibniz President visits WIAS »
  • Long Night of the Sciences on 17 June at the House of the Leibniz Association »
  • Berlin Mathematics Day in Adlershof »
  • WIAS and ATB organize MMS Days 2023 »
  • WIAS awarded for family- and life phase-conscious personnel policy »
  • Schrödinger Fellow Michael Kniely at the WIAS »

2022

  • WIAS director Michael Hintermüller elected new MATH+ chair »
  • Peter Friz and Alexander Mielke awarded MATH+ Distinguished Fellows »
  • WIAS young researchers honored at TU Berlin's Dies Mathematicus »
  • Mathematics our universal language! »
  • Celebrating the diversity of science! »
  • Berlin Research 50 (BR50) has founded an association »
  • WIAS researcher featured in Leibniz Magazine »
  • MATH+ Cluster Days »
  • WIAS at Long Night of the Sciences »
  • ESCO 2022 Best Student Paper Award to Sarah Katz and co-authors »
  • Statement by the four founding coordinators of Berlin Research 50 (BR50) on Russia's attack on the Ukraine »
  • WIAS and PIK organise MMS Days 2022 »

2021

  • WIAS successful in Leibniz competition »
  • Recent results of joint research with the Tyndall Institute (Cork, Ireland) »
  • DFG presents Funding Atlas 2021 »
  • Thematic Einstein Semester on Mathematics of Imaging in Real-World Challenges starts »
  • 15th International Conference on Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications »
  • AMaSiS Workshop on Applied Mathematics and Simulation for Semiconductors and Electrochemical Systems »
  • Leibniz MMS Summer School organized by WIAS in Schloss Dagstuhl »
  • MaRDI funded within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI »
  • Katharina Hopf selected as Leibniz Mentoring Program participant »
  • Entropy “Best Paper Award 2021” to Petr Vagner and coauthors »
  • WIAS Online Contribution to the Long Night of the Sciences. »
  • Launch of new Einstein Research Unit on quantum computing »
  • Scientific American on the mathematics of how connections become global »
  • SIAM President Susanne C. Brenner new member of WIAS' Scientific Advisory Board »

2020

  • Benedikt Jahnel acquires Junior Group in Leibniz competition »
  • ECMI Webinar Math for Industry 4.0 - Models, Methods and Big Data will take place on December 2-3, 2020 »
  • Thematic Einstein Semester on Energy-based Mathematical Methods for Reactive Multiphase Flows started »
  • Katharina Hopf's dissertation honoured »
  • TetGen 1.6 Release »
  • Grief for Konrad Gröger »
  • Master students program for female students started »
  • Successful participation of the WIAS in the DFG Priority Program 2256 »
  • WIAS Research on COVID-19 related topics »
  • ECMI webinar on "Mathematics of the COVID19 crisis" »
  • Hot OLEDs can "switch back" »
  • Audit berufundfamilie: WIAS successfully re-audited »
  • Joint initiative BR50 launched by the Berlin non-university research institutions »
  • Markus Kantners' Ph.D. thesis awarded by publication in Springer Theses »
  • 5th Leibniz MMS Days in Potsdam »

2019

  • Grief for Herbert Gajewski »
  • Patricio Farrell acquires Junior Group in Leibniz competition »
  • Monograph by J. Polzehl and K. Tabelow published »
  • Prof. Peter Deuflhard passed away »
  • ICCOPT 2019 in Berlin »
  • Grand Opening MATH+ »
  • Wolfgang König coordinates new DFG Priority Program »
  • “SeMA Journal best paper award” to Volker John and coauthors »
  • 91st Meeting of the Executive Committee of the IMU at the WIAS »
  • Two WIAS contributions among the top 10 highly cited articles of IMAJNA »
  • New ECMI Special Interest Group succesfuly started »

2018

  • Collaborative Research Center on Control of Chaotic Systems extended »
  • 70th birthday of Juergen Sprekels »
  • MATH+ will be funded as a Cluster of Excellence! »
  • Colloquium in honor of the 60th birthday of Alexander Mielke »
  • J. T. Oden Fellowship for Alexander Linke »
  • Leibniz MMS Summer School successful »
  • IMU decides to make its secretariat permanent at WIAS »
  • DFG presents Funding Atlas 2018 »
  • Long Night of the Sciences on Juni 9, 2018 »
  • Girls' Day 2018 at the WIAS »
  • ISIMM Junior Prize 2018 awarded to Matthias Liero. »
  • Weierstrass Institute successfully evaluated! »
  • Problem arising from Mathematical Biology solved »
  • Leibniz MMS Days 2018 successfully organized by IOM, TROPOS and WIAS »

2017

  • Paper on modeling of quantum light sources published in Physical Review B »
  • Leibniz Award for Apprentices 2017 »
  • Hans-Christoph Kaiser elected Deputy Spokesman of the representative bodies' for severely disabled employees Leibniz network »
  • Tagesspiegel special issue on the occasion of the 15th MATHEON anniversary »
  • 15 Years Research Center MATHEON »
  • Preliminary proposal for Center of Excellence MATH+ positively evaluated »
  • CIM-WIAS Workshop on Topics in Applied Analysis and Optimisation »
  • Positive feedback for MIMESIS network »
  • New publication in SIAM Review »
  • Conferment of the audit berufundfamilie certificate at festive event in Berlin »
  • Long Night of the Sciences on Juni 24, 2017 »
  • New group set up at WIAS »
  • WIAS part of new DFG Collaborative Research Centre »
  • New sceintific paper appeared in Physical Review Letters »
  • WIAS again certified a family-friendly employer »
  • The Future on Stage »
  • DFG-AIMS Workshop in Mbour (Senegal) »
  • TIB Hannover and WIAS organize 2nd Leibniz MMS Days »

2016

  • Wolfgang Koenig at rbb inforadio »
  • Leibniz as a Mathematician »
  • Kick Off Meeting of new DFG Priority Program SPP 1962 at WIAS »
  • ERC Consolidator Grant “Geometric aspects in pathwise stochastic analysis and related topics” started on September 1, 2016. »
  • Volume “Mathematics and Society” (editor: W. Koenig) has been released on the occasion of the 7th European Congress of Mathematics. »
  • Monograph “The Parabolic Anderson Model” by W. Koenig has been released by Birkhaueser. »
  • “Long Night of the Sciences” at June 11. »
  • WIAS Directorship Transition Ceremony on May 19, 2016. »
  • Konrad Gröger honoured on the occasion of his 80th birthday. »
  • Michael Hintermüller elected SIAM Fellow. »
  • WIAS welcomes Leibniz President. »
  • Peter Friz awarded ERC Consolidator Grant. »
  • Michael Hintermueller new WIAS director. »
  • Nature Scientific Report on the dynamics of ocean rogue waves »
  • DFG will support new Research Unit on "Rough Paths, Stochastic PDEs and Related Topics". »

2015

  • Collaborative Research Center on Semiconductor Nanophotonics extended. »
  • Math advent calendar of DMV and MATHEON online. »
  • Festive event to mark the 200th birthday of Weierstrass on October 31, 2015. »
  • Special edition on the 200th birthday of Weierstrass has been released by Springer. »
  • European Marie Curie Doctorate Network on Mathematics and Materials Science for Steel Production will start on Oct. 15. »
  • J. Pellerin awarded Computers and Geosciences Best Paper Award 2014. »
  • ZIM project on In-situ Metrology development for semiconductor processing. »
  • Optimization Letters Best Paper Award 2014 to Roland Hildebrand. »

2014

  • QMath12 proceedings published. »
  • J. Pellerin awarded Computers and Geosciences Scholarship 2014. »
  • 3rd Annual ERC Berlin-Oxford Young Researchers Meeting on Applied Stochastic Analysis. »
  • Workshop on Recent Advances in High-Frequency Statistics. »
  • IMU General Assembly recognizes commitment of IMU secretariat at WIAS. »
  • BMS Summer School on Applied Analysis for Materials. »
  • International Symposium of Finite Volumes for Complex Applications. »
  • Joint paper with MBI on optical filaments published in "Nature Photonics"". »
  • First Berlin-Singapore Workshop on Quantitative Finance and Financial Risk »
  • Berlin Mathematics Festival on May 22. »
  • 19th Berlin Day of Mathematics for school children on May 17. »
  • Euler Lecture 2014 on May 16. »
  • WIAS at "Long Night of the Sciences" on May 10. »
  • Workshop "Mathematik für die digitale Fabrik". »
  • Fields medalist W. Werner at WIAS. »
  • WIAS at Hannover Fair »

2013

  • Vladimir Spokoiny's "Mega Grant" from Russian government extended by two years. »
  • ISIMM Junior Prize 2014 awarded to Elisabetta Rocca and Stefan Neukamm. »
  • Scientific paper on "Compressible Octave Spanning Supercontinuum Generation by Two-Pulse Collisions" published in "Physical Review Letters". »
  • Further education of teachers at WIAS on the occasion of IMU's Klein Workshop. »
  • Scientific paper on "Droplets on liquids and their journey into equilibrium" published in "European Physical Journal". »
  • Joerg Polzehl elected as IMS Fellow. »
  • Joint paper with IAPP on organic semiconductors published in "Physical Review Letters"". »
  • European launch of "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" initiative at UNESCO in Paris. »
  • WIAS is partner in "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" initiative »
  • Marita Thomas nominated as "Gamm Junior". »

2012

  • "SGP-Award" to Hang Si. »
  • Leibniz Association is funding W. Dreyer's research project Mathematical Models for Phase Transitions in Lithium-ion Batteries »
  • Ph.D. Thesis on "Self-compression of intense optical pulses and the filamentary regime of nonlinear optics" (C. Bree) published in Springer Theses »
  • 10 years DFG Research Center MATHEON »
  • WIAS successful in competition according to "DFG Funding Atlas 2012" »