The MFO once again received an excellent rating by the Senate of the Leibniz Association in the regular evaluation process. In its statement of March 19, 2024, the Senate recommends to continue the joint funding of the institute by the federal and state governments.
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"How can we fairly divide a necklace with various types of beads? We use this problem as a motivating example to explain how geometry naturally appears in solutions of non-geometric problems. The strategy we develop to solve this problem has been used in several other contexts." Read more in the snapshot "The Geometry of Fair Division" by Florian Frick...
The book written by Paul Breiding, Kathlén Kohn and Bernd Sturmfels presents the lecture notes from the corresponding Oberwolfach Seminar given in summer 2023 at the MFO.
The Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach (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 21-26 September 2025.
To celebrate this year's Love Data Week (February 12-16) the MaRDI consortium created the game "Data Love Quest".
The newsletter will inform you on the latest news and activities of the MFO, in particular with regard to open calls and upcoming scientific events at the Institute.
Ten years ago the MFO published the first “Snapshot of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach”. Since then, almost 130 articles from various fields of mathematics have been added and more are to follow. We would like to thank all authors and editors who contributed to the series and helped to make mathematical research more accessible to an interested public!
Ph.D. students and postdocs are invited to apply for the "Oberwolfach Seminars" in 2024. 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.
Snapshot No. 5/2023: "Cutoff Phenomenon: Surprising Behaviour in Card Shuffling and other Markov Chains" by Isabelle Baraquin, Nadia Lafrenière and Katharina Schuh
Early career researchers in mathematics and computer science from all over the world can apply for one of the 200 exclusive spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual networking conference. The 11th HLF will take place from September 22 to 27, 2024.
The MFO's annual report for 2022 is now available online.
In its recent annual meeting the "Verein zur Förderung des Mathematischen Forschungsinstituts Oberwolfach" (Förderverein, Friends of Oberwolfach) has elected Hannah Markwig (Tübingen University) as the new head of the association. We are very grateful for her engagement in the support of the MFO! We would also like to thank her predecessor in this position, Ursula Gather, for her many years of commitment.
The two books present the lecture notes of the Oberwolfach Seminars on "Interfaces: Modeling, Analysis, Numerics" (vol. 51) and "Tropical and Logarithmic Methods in Enumerative Geometry" (vol. 52) given in fall 2021 and 2022.
The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany has published a statement on the current situation in Israel. The MFO supports this statement.
Carla Cederbaum receives the Media Prize of the German Mathematical Society (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) for her science communication projects for various target groups, among them the "Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach".
The book written by Dan Abramovich, Anne Frühbis-Krüger, Michael Temkin and Jarosław Włodarczyk presents the lecture notes from the corresponding Oberwolfach Seminar given in fall 2021 at the MFO.
The Oberwolfach Foundation awards in cooperation with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach the Oberwolfach Prize 2022 to Vesselin Dimitrov for his outstanding contributions in the field of algebra and number theory. The award ceremony will take place on October 14, 2023 at the MFO.
The newsletter will inform you on the latest news and activities of the MFO, in particular with regard to open calls, upcoming scientific events and changing procedures at the Institute.
The Oberwolfach Foundation awards in cooperation with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach the John Todd Award 2022 to Michael Lindsey for his outstanding contributions in the field of numerical analysis. The award ceremony will take place on June 15, 2023 at the MFO.
The institute hosts the final week of the preparatory seminars. At the end of the week the German candidates for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) will be selected.