Contents:

Open Calls for Nominations

• Oberwolfach Prize 2025
• John Todd Award 2025

Open Calls for Applications to Participation

• Oberwolfach Seminars 2025
• Banach Center – Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar 2025
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Spring 2026
• Oberwolfach Research Fellows

Open Calls for Proposals

• Oberwolfach Workshops 2027
• Oberwolfach Mini-Workshops 2026
• Oberwolfach Seminars 2026
• MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop 2026

General News

• Construction Work on the Dining Hall
• 13th MaRDI Newsletter

Open Calls for Nominations

Oberwolfach Prize 2025

In cooperation with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach the Oberwolfach Foundation calls for nominations for the Oberwolfach Prize 2025. The prize is endowed with 10,000 € and is awarded to early-career researchers with outstanding achievements in analysis and applied mathematics. We invite all experienced researchers in the field to submit nominations before 1 August 2025 to the director of the institute.

Candidates should be mathematicians with Ph.D./Dr. degree received not more than 10 years ago. Nominations should include one pdf-file containing a description of the scientific achievements, curriculum vitae and publication list of the candidate. Please address your proposal to the director of the institute prior to the deadline:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Schwarzwaldstraße 9-11
77709 Oberwolfach
Germany

Email: director@mfo.de

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John Todd Award 2025

In cooperation with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach the Oberwolfach Foundation calls for nominations for this year's John Todd Award. The John Todd Award is endowed with 1,000 € and recognizes early-career scientists with excellent achievements in numerical analysis. We invite all experienced researchers in the field to submit nominations before 1 August 2025 to the director of the institute.

Candidates should be mathematicians with Ph.D./Dr. degree received not more than 10 years ago. Nominations should include one pdf-file containing a description of the scientific achievements, curriculum vitae and publication list of the candidate. Please address your proposal to the director of the institute prior to the deadline.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Schwarzwaldstraße 9-11
77709 Oberwolfach
Germany

Email: director@mfo.de

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Open Calls for Applications to Participation

Oberwolfach Seminars 2025

Ph.D. students and postdocs are invited to apply for the Oberwolfach Seminars in 2025. The seminars are organized by leading experts in the field, and address to promising early career researchers from all over the world. The aim is to introduce the participants to a particular interesting development. The Institute covers board and lodging. By the support of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, travel expenses can be reimbursed up to 150 EUR in average per person (against copies of travel receipts). The number of participants is restricted to 24.

Two seminars in fall 2025 are still open for application:

Moduli Spaces of Canonical Metrics: Metric Riemannian Geometry and Topology
Organizers:
Fei Han, Singapore
Qiongling Li, Nankai
Wilderich Tuschmann, Karlsruhe
Ruobing Zhang, Madison/Princeton
Date (ID): 23 – 28 November 2025 (2548a)
Deadline: 15 September 2025

Time Parallel Time Integration
Organizers:
Stephanie Friedhoff, Wuppertal
Martin J. Gander, Genève
Laurence Halpern, Paris
Veronique Martin, Amiens
Julien Salomon, Paris
Date (ID): 23 – 28 November 2025 (2548b)
Deadline: 15 September 2025

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Banach Center – Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar 2025

There will be a Banach Center – Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar addressing to Ph.D. students and postdocs in fall 2025. The deadline for applications has been extended to 1 August 2025.

Modern Algebraic Geometry in Algebraic Combinatorics and Tensors
Organizers:
Joachim Jelisiejew, Warsaw
Mateusz Michalek, Constanz
Date (ID): 2 – 7 November 2025 (2545a)
Deadline: 1 August 2025

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Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Spring 2026

Every year in spring and in autumn, there are week-long Arbeitsgemeinschaften (study groups) in Oberwolfach with about 50 participants. The idea of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft is to learn by giving one of the lectures on the topic under study. The topic of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft in spring 2026 was recently announced:

Arithmetic Holmony Bounds and Applications to Irrationality
Organizers:
Frank Calagary, Chicago
Vesselin Dimitrov, Pasadena
Yunqing Tang, Berkeley
Date (ID): 29 March – 3 April 2026 (2614)
Deadline: 1 November 2025 

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Oberwolfach Research Fellows

Small groups of researchers who want to come for a more extended period to Oberwolfach to carry out joint research in the stimulating atmosphere of the MFO can apply as Oberwolfach Research Fellow (OWRF). For fresh post-docs, it is additionally possible to apply for a Leibniz Fellowship in order to become an Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow (OWLF). Within OWLF applications as a single researcher are also possible. Projects from all areas of mathematics can be supported by these programs, in particular, interdisciplinary research and cooperation is encouraged.

In view of the good audio-video facilities at the MFO, there is an option to apply for an OWRF research stay which includes a hybrid cooperation with a parallel research group at another place in the world. This can be a university or another research institute with a substantial distance to the MFO, usually outside Europe. It is up to the applicants to arrange such a cooperation with the other university or institute and to submit an additional application there if necessary.

All information about the programs and the different options can be viewed on our webpage on longer-term research stays.

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Open Calls for Proposals

Oberwolfach Workshops 2027

The deadline for proposals of Oberwolfach Workshops in 2027 is 31 July 2025. The decision on the proposals by the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee is scheduled to the end of October 2025. Please carefully check the description of the program and our guidelines for proposals of an Oberwolfach Workshop, in particular the new policy concerning the continuous renewal of teams of organizers.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Director Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken, via proposals@mfo.de.

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Oberwolfach Mini-Workshops 2026

The fixed weeks and deadlines to apply for an Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop in 2026 are

* This week is reserved for Tandem-Workshops (deadline Sep 2025). If no Tandem-Workshop is approved the week can be used for Mini-Workshops (deadline Jan 2026).

For each of these weeks the decision about the Mini-Workshops takes place about 3 weeks after the corresponding deadline for application, which is about half a year before the week of the Mini-Workshop.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Director Prof. Gerhard Huisken, via proposals@mfo.de. See also our guidelines for proposals.

Tandem Option

As an option, in special cases a proposal for a Mini-Workshop can be in hybrid format, containing an additional component of online participants (not more than the number of on-site participants). This option is meant in particular for cases where high travel costs would otherwise prohibit a group of scientists from a country with weaker research infrastructure from participating in a Mini-Workshop. In this case the proposal should also contain a concept and schedule of the activities planned to be jointly with the group of online participants, taking into account any differences in time-zones. Arrangements for hosting such a non-Oberwolfach tandem component at another institute should be mentioned in the proposal, but are up to the organizers of the Mini-Workshop and have to be independent of MFO.

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Oberwolfach Seminars 2026

The seminars address to excellent and promising graduate students and post docs. The aim is to introduce the participants to a particular hot development. There will be capacity for 6 seminars in 2026, the free slots are as follows:

2618      26 Apr - 1 May 2026 
2643      18 Oct - 23 Oct 2026 
2648      22 Nov - 27 Nov 2026 

The deadline for proposals of Oberwolfach Seminars in 2026 is 31 July 2025. The decision on the proposals by the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee is scheduled to the end of October 2025. See also our description of the seminar program.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Vice Director Prof. Dr. Matthias Hieber, via proposals@mfo.de.

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MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop in September 2026

The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (MFO), Germany, and the Australian Mathematical Research Institute MATRIX invite proposals for a tandem workshop taking place simultaneously in a hybrid format at MATRIX and MFO in the week of 6-11 September 2026. The workshop is held simultaneously in both locations. At each institute about 20 participants are possible (up to 24 at MFO), who can interact in the usual intense way on site and in addition share a certain number of joint lectures/discussions via zoom. Please see the details in the open call and send proposals before the deadline, 1 September 2025. 

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General News

Construction Work on the Dining Hall

On Thursday, 7 June, construction work began at the institute to expand the dining hall. We are making every effort to minimize any disruptions and to ensure that the workshop program continues smoothly and without compromise. The extension of the dining hall will provide additional space and further enhance the comfort of our guests. It will also allow us to offer a buffet in the future. The construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year. We appreciate your understanding and patience during the construction phase.

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13th MaRDI Newsletter

The new MaRDI newsletter introduces the MaRDI Portal, the entry point to all MaRDI services. The main article presents five typical user profiles: a mathematics researcher, a PhD student, a computational biologist, a professor, and a math hobbyist. The Data Date interview takes an even closer look at the portal’s background, purpose, and development.

MaRDI (Mathematical Research Data Initiative) is a Germany-wide initiative to address challenges in mathematical research. It is aimed at the mathematical community to reconsider how to use – and provide – research data by using the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles.

The MFO is part of the MaRDI consortium, coordinated by the Berlin Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS). More information can be found at https://www.mfo.de/library/libservices/mardi.

Interested readers can subscribe to the MaRDI newsletter: Math & Data Quarterly

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