All talks

of the

$``\vec{w}h\alpha\mathfrak{t}\;\; i\mathbb{S}\ldots\text{?''}$ Seminar


Abbreviations

FU: Freie Universität Berlin. HU: Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin. Ol: On-line. Ot: Other.
TBA: To be arranged. TU: Technische Universität Berlin. Ur: Urania. Vn.: Venue. WIAS: Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik. ZIB: Zuse-Institut Berlin.

Dates given in the format YYYY/MM/DD. Links to the talks can be found in the symbol “”.


2023/24

Winter Semester

Talks will be in person. Most talks, unfortunately, will not be livestreamed. Feel free to approach us if you would like to give a talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2023/11/03FUWhat is (integer) linear programming?Ekin Ergen
2023/11/17TUWhat is a low-complexity coloring?Jonas Köppl
2023/12/01FUWhat is a sofic group?Manuel Staiger
2023/12/15HUWhat is a Fukaya category?Muhammed E. Guelen
2024/01/12TUWhat is a tropical plane curve?Kamillo Ferry
2024/01/26FUWhat is algebraic K-theory?Vittorio di Fraia
2024/02/09TUWhat is a (multi-type) branching process?Marta dai Pra

2022/23

Summer Semester

The MATH+ colloquia are taking place in presence — we will be having in-person talks (but also streamed online). Feel free to approach us if you would like to give a talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2023/04/28HUWhat is an Eisenstein series?Marco Flores (HU)
2023/05/05No talk (Euler lecture in Potsdam)
2023/05/12FUWhat is important in mathematical modeling of materials?Lukas Abel (HU)
2023/05/26TUWhat is an interacting particle system? Musxhu (Julian) Kern (WIAS)
2023/06/09FUWhat is a group C*-algebra?Dr. Sanaz Pooya (U Potsdam)
2023/07/07FUWhat is the blow-up method?Dennis Chemnitz (FU)

Winter Semester

Talks will be in person, but we will be livestreamed as well. Feel free to approach us if you would like to give a talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2022/10/21FUWhat is a semialgebraic set?Kyle Huang (FU)
2022/11/04HUWhat is a Grothendieck topology?Gari Yamel Peralta Alvarez (HU)
2022/11/18No talk
2022/12/02HUWhat is tame geometry?Paul Brommer-Wierig (FU)
2022/12/16TUWhat is a k-tensor? Silas Rathke (FU)
2023/01/13TUWhat is a rational variety?Andrea Di Lorenzo (HU)
2023/01/27HUWhat is an infinity structure?Dingyu Yang (HU)
2023/02/10TUWhat is backpropagation?Shpresim Sadiku (TU, ZIB)

2021/22

Summer Semester

The MATH+ colloquia are taking place in presence again — we will be having in-person talks (but also streamed online). Feel free to approach us if you would like to give a talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2022/04/29TUWhat is epidemic modeling?Johannes Zonker (FU)
2022/05/13TUWhat is a sphere packing?Ji Hoon Chun (TU)
2022/05/20No talk
2022/06/03TUWhat is submodularity?Khai Van Tran (TU)
2022/06/17HUWhat is a McKean-Vlasov process?Martha Nansubuga (HU)
2022/07/01HUWhat is a probabilistically checkable proof?Levent Doğan (TU)
2022/07/15TUWhat is the generalized Poincaré conjecture?Ekin Ergen (TU)

Winter Semester

Due to the current situation, the MATH+ Fridays will take place online, and so will our seminar talks. Feel invited to approach us to give a virtual talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2021/10/22OlWhat is rough volatility?Simon Breneis (WIAS)
2021/11/05No talk
2021/11/19OlWhat is fair division?Jannik Peters (TU)
2021/12/03OlWhat is resurgence theory?Pierre Clavier (IRIMAS, Université de Haute Alsace)
2021/12/17OlWhat is a modular curve?Marco Flores (HU)
2022/01/14No talk
2022/01/28OlWhat is a regular polytope in 3D?Henriette Lipschütz (FU)
2022/02/11OlWhat is the direct method of calculus of variations?Anastasija Pesic (HU)
2022/02/22OlWhat is Uncertainty Quantification?Phillipp Wacker (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2022/02/22OlWhat is the Riemann-Hurwitz formula?Dominik Gutwein (HU)

2020/21

Summer Semester

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the MATH+ Fridays will take place online, and so will our seminar talks. Feel invited to approach us to give a virtual talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2021/04/16OlWhat is a tree decomposition?Raphael Steiner (TU)
2021/05/07OlWhat are Conditional Gradients?Elias Wirth (TU/ZIB)
2021/05/21OlWhat is a finite simple group?Kıvanç Ersoy (FU)
2021/05/28No talk
2021/06/18No talk
2021/07/02OlWhat is persistent homology?Ivan Spirandelli (U Potsdam)
2021/07/09OlWhat is variational image processing?Clemens Sirotenko (WIAS)
2021/07/16OlWhat is Floer homology?Paramjit Singh (HU)

Winter Semester

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the MATH+ Fridays will take place online, and so will our seminar talks. Feel invited to approach us to give a virtual talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2020/12/11OlWhat is Noether's theorem?Niklas Martensen (HU)
2021/01/15OlWhat is an expander graph?Alp Müyesser (FU)
2021/01/22OlWhat is a multigrid method?Felix Baumann (ZIB)
2021/02/05OlWhat is a Coulomb gas?Gaëtan Borot (HU)
2021/02/19No talk
2021/03/02OlWhat is an image in mathematics?Johannes von Lindheim (TU)
2021/03/02OlWhat is a matrix model?Raphaël Belliard (HU)

2019/20

Summer Semester

Due to the pandemic, the MATH+ Fridays are mostly cancelled this semester, and we cannot offer physical talks either. However, we are able to host virtual seminar talks. Feel invited to approach us to give a virtual talk!

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2020/06/05OlWhat is an ergodic decomposition of invariant measures?Shah Faisal (HU)

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2019/10/07FUWhat is the probabilistic analysis of a condition number?Josué Tonelli-Cueto (TU)
2019/10/08FUWhat is a nonnegativity certificate?Janin Heuer (TU Braunschweig)
2019/10/09FUWhat is estimation for Gaussian models?Carlos Amendola (TU München)
2019/10/10FUWhat is $M_{g,n}$?Dominic Bunnett (TU)
2019/10/11FUWhat are 32, 462, 4224, ... counting?Jean-Philippe Labbé (FU)
2019/10/18UrWhat is the point of pointless topology?Georg Lehner (FU)
2019/10/25No talk
2019/11/01No talk
2019/11/08UrWhat are algebraic curves and their tropical friends?Dominic Bunnet (TU)
Marta Panizzut (TU)
2019/11/15No talk
2019/11/22No talk
2019/11/29UrWhat is the role of convexity in variational problems?Janusz Ginster (HU)
2019/12/06No talk
2019/12/13No talk
2019/12/20No talk
2020/01/10No talk
2020/01/17UrWhat is the behavior of random graphs?Ander Lamaison (FU)
2020/01/10No talk
2020/01/31TUWhat is gaussian multiplicative chaos?Paul Hager (TU)
2020/02/07No talk
2020/02/18UrWhat is the dimension of a partial order?Felix Schröder (TU)

2018/19

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2019/04/12TUWhat are support vector machines?Katerina Papagiannouli (HU)
2019/05/10No talk
2019/04/26UrWhat is Steinitz's theorem?Sophia Elia (FU)
2019/05/03FUWhat is a g_d^r?Carlos Maestro Pérez (HU)
2019/05/10No talk
2019/05/17No talk
2019/05/24UrWhat is Minkowski geometry?Fei Xue (TU)
2019/05/31TUWhat is a differential-algebraic equation?Riccardo Morandin (TU)
2019/06/07UrWhat are Betti numbers?Marta Panizzut (TU)
2019/06/14TUWhat is a regularity structure?Tom Klose (TU)
2019/06/21UrWhat is Klein's $j$-invariant?Gari Yamel Peralta Álvarez (HU)
2019/06/28No talk
2019/07/05HUWhat is a random walk in random environment?Anna-Lisa Sokol (TU)
2019/07/12No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2018/10/19No talk
2018/10/26UrWhat is the secret of the zeta function?Barbara Jung (HU)
2018/11/02No talk
2018/11/09UrWhat is the Euler characteristic of a polytope?Hannah Sjöberg (FU)
2018/11/16TUWhat is a topological surface?Georg Lehner (FU)
2018/11/23No talk
2018/11/30UrWhat is the Alexander polynomial of a knot?Max Krause (TU)
2018/12/07FUWhat is the best voting system?Josué Tonelli-Cueto (TU)
2018/12/14UrWhat are tensor networks, topological order and entanglement renormalization?Alex Nietner (FU)
2018/12/21No talk
2019/01/11FUWhat are interval graphs, interval orders, and their friends?Simona Boyadzhiyska (FU)
2019/01/18UrWhat is a competing species model?Florian Nie (TU)
2019/01/25No talk
2019/02/01TUWhat is a hydrodynamic limit?Tommaso Cornelis Rosati (HU)
2019/02/08UrWhat is like to lower the mixed volume?Dimitrios Bogiokas (FU)
2019/02/15No talk
2019/02/19UrWhat is the Wright-Fisher diffusion?Eugenio Buzzoni (TU)

2017/18

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2018/04/20No talk
2018/04/27UrWhat is a matroid?Jorge Alberto Olarte (FU)
2018/05/04No talk
2018/05/11No talk
2018/05/18UrWhat are Kronecker Coefficients?Levent Doğan (TU)
2018/05/25No talk
2018/06/01UrWhat is control theory?Alejandro López (FU)
2018/06/08TU$``\vec{w}h\alpha\mathfrak{t}\;\; i\mathbb{S}\ldots\text{?''}$ Seminar 10th Anniversary
What is an ultrafilter?

Peter Krautzberger

2018/06/15UrWhat is a scheme?Marco D'Addezio (FU)
2018/06/22No talk
2018/06/29UrWhat are semialgebraic sets in context?Josué Tonelli-Cueto (TU)
2018/07/06FUWhat is a positional game?Alp Müyesser (Carnegie Mellon)
2018/07/13OtWhat is a ranking algorithm?Benjamin Gardiner (TU)
2018/07/20No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2017/10/20No talk
2017/10/27UrWhat is a random graph?Jannes Münchmeyer (HU)
2017/11/03TUWhat is algebraic statistics?Carlos Améndola (TU)
2017/11/10UrWhat is a finite element method?Monika Eisenmann (TU)
2017/11/17No talk
2017/11/24UrWhat is a spectrahedron?Mario Kummer (MPI Leipzig)
2017/12/01No talk
2017/12/08TUWhat are monomial tropical cones for multicriteria optimization?Georg Loho (TU)
2017/12/15UrWhat is the Teichmüller space of a surface?Lara Skuppin (TU)
2017/12/22No talk
2018/01/12TUWhat are large deviations?András Tóbiás (TU)
2018/01/19UrWhat are Maxwell's equations?Marek Gluza (FU)
2018/01/26No talk
2018/02/02UrWhat is a homotopy invariant?Alexander Müller (FU)
2018/02/09No talk
2018/02/16UrWhat is an inverse problem?Héctor Andrade Loarca (TU)
2018/02/20UrWhat are molecular dynamics?Mohsen Sadeghi (FU)

2016/17

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2017/04/21UrWhat are Hamiltonian dynamics?Alexander Fauck (HU)
2017/04/28TUWhat are triangulated spheres and Pachner moves?Giulia Codenotti (FU)
2017/05/05UrWhat is variational inference?Patrick Jähnichen (HU)
2017/05/12No talk
2017/05/19No talk
2017/05/26No talk
2017/06/02UrWhat is Iwasawa theory?Marcin Lara (FU)
2017/06/09No talk
2017/06/16No talk
2017/06/23No talk
2017/06/30UrWhat are $\mathsf{BPP}$, $\mathsf{RP}$ and the other probabilistic complexity classes?Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU)
2017/07/07TUWhat is a condition number?Paul Breiding (TU)
2017/07/14UrWhat is Onsager's conjecture?Robert Lasarzik (TU)
2017/07/21FUWhat is Gröbner basis doing in Sudoku?Irem Portakal (FU)

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2016/10/21UrWhat is mixed integer linear programming?Stanley Schade (FU/ZIB)
2016/10/28No talk
2016/11/04UrWhat is a modular form?Antareep Mandal (HU)
2016/11/11No talk
2016/11/18No talk
2016/11/25No talk
2016/12/02No talk
2016/12/09No talk
2016/12/16UrWhat is formal mathematics?Martin Skrodzki (FU)
2017/01/13UrWhat is randomness good for?Shagnik Das (FU)
2017/01/20No talk
2017/01/27UrWhat is the length of a potato?Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU)
2017/02/03No talk
2017/02/10UrWhat is a (discontinuous) Galerkin finite element method?Lasse Hinrichsen (FU)
2017/02/17No talk
2017/02/21UrWhat is linear programming?Georg Loho (FU)

2015/16

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2016/04/22No talk
2016/04/29UrWhat is symplectic geometry?Mara Ungureanu (HU)
2016/05/06No talk
2016/05/13UrWhat is a Chow ring?Fei Ren (FU)
2016/05/20No talk
2016/05/27No talk
2016/06/03No talk
2016/06/10No talk
2016/06/17UrWhat is an eigenvector of a tensor?Kathlén Kohn (TU)
2016/06/24No talk
2016/07/01No talk
2016/07/08OtWhat is a sphere packing?Albert Haase (FU)
2016/07/15No talk
2016/07/22No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2015/10/16UrWhat is representation theory?Patrick Da Silva (HU)
2015/10/23No talk
2015/10/30UrWhat is a period?Filippo Nuccio (Université St. Étienne)
2015/11/06No talk
2015/11/13TUWhat is reciprocity?Jan Hofmann (FU)
2015/11/20No talk
2015/11/27No talk
2015/12/04No talk
2015/12/11UrWhat is discrete Fourier analysis?Christoph Spiegel (FU)
2015/12/18No talk
2016/01/08No talk
2016/01/15UrWhat is a $p$-adic number?Claudius Heyer (HU)
2016/01/22No talk
2016/01/29UrWhat is a stochastic process?Stefan Rüdrich (FU)
2016/02/05FUWhat is an origami constructible number?Josué Tonelli Cueto (HU)
2016/02/12UrWhat is the disjoint paths problem?Miriam Schlöter (TU)
2016/02/16UrWhat is a rational function?Irem Portakal (FU)

2014/15

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2015/04/17No talk
2015/04/24UrWhat is the complexity of matrix multiplication?Pierre Lairez (TU)
2015/05/01No talk
2015/05/08TUWhat is a supercritical percolation cluster?Nguyen Tuan Anh (TU)
2015/05/15No talk
2015/05/22No talk
2015/05/29No talk
2015/06/05FUWhat is a transfer operator?Adam Nielsen (ZIB)
2015/06/12UrWhat is group homology?Peter Patzt (FU)
2015/06/19HUWhat is the heat kernel?Asilya Suleymanova (HU)
2015/06/26No talk
2015/07/03No talk
2015/07/10UrWhat is Ramsey theory?Manh Tuan Tran (FU)
2015/07/17No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2014/10/17No talk
2014/10/24HUWhat is a syzygy?Daniele Agostini (HU)
2014/10/31UrWhat is an Ehrhart polynomial?Hannes Pollehn (TU)
2014/11/07No talk
2014/11/14UrWhat is a $\operatorname{CAT}(0)$ space?Sebastian Meinert (FU)
2014/11/21No talk
2014/11/28UrWhat is a (complex) hyperplane arrangement?Arnau Padrol Sureda (FU)
2014/12/05FUWhat is the ham sandwich theorem?Florian Frick (TU)
2014/12/12UrWhat is a Hamiltonian system?Jonathan Youett (FU)
2014/12/19No talk
2015/01/09UrWhat is sparse and redundant representation modeling for image processing?Wang-Q Lim (TU)
2015/01/16TUWhat is a van Kampen obstruction cocycle?Isaac Mabillard (IST Austria)
2015/01/23FUWhat is the probabilistic method?Shagnik Das (FU)
2015/01/30No talk
2015/02/06UrWhat is (algebraic) complexity theory?Jesko Hüttenhain (TU)
2015/02/13No talk
2015/02/17UrWhat is a scale in motion?Thomas von Larcher (FU)

2013/14

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2014/04/18No talk
2014/04/25UrWhat is the Navier-Stokes equation?Ariane Papke (FU)
2014/05/02No talk
2014/05/09UrWhat is a random graph?Adam Streck (FU)
2014/05/16No talk
2014/05/23HUWhat is a partial zeta function?Miguel Grados (HU)
2014/05/30No talk
2014/06/06UrWhat is an isohedral tiling?Michael Joos (TU)
2014/06/13No talk
2014/06/20UrWhat are the moduli spaces of curves?Giulia Battiston (FU)
2014/06/27HUWhat is the Atiyah-Singer index theorem?Lucas Braune (IMPA Rio de Janeiro)
2014/07/04UrWhat is a Riemannian manifold?Lara Skuppin (TU)
2014/07/11FUWhat is time-of-death modeling?Jonas Krone (TU)
Zoi Tokoutsi (FU)
2014/07/18UrWhat is a gyroid?Ulrich Reitebuch (FU)

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2013/10/18UrWhat is combinatorial rigidity?Louis Theran (FU)
2013/10/25HUWhat is a hyperreal number?Uğur Doğan (HU)
2013/11/01UrWhat is a graph limit?Codrut Grosu (FU)
2013/11/08TUWhat is the relation between Laplace transform and Z-transform?Deniz Genlik (TU)
2013/11/15UrWhat is the conformal geometry of surfaces?Wayne Lam (TU)
2013/11/22FUWhat are mean curvature flow and its self-shrinkers?Keita Kunikawa (Tohoku Univ)
2013/11/29TUWhat is a Wasserstein distance?Matthias Liero (WIAS)
2013/12/06HUWhat is a Grassmannian?Eva Martinez (HU)
2013/12/13UrWhat are the Burger's equation and heat equations?Juan Camilo Orduz (HU)
2013/12/20No talk
2014/01/10OtWhat is the representation theory of finite groups?Peter Patzt (FU)
2014/01/17UrWhat is a 4D object?Faniry Razafindrazaka (FU)
2014/01/24FUWhat is the spacetime constraints paradigm?Christoph von Tycowicz (FU)
2014/01/31UrWhat is a Carleson operator?Yizhi Sun (TU)
2014/02/07No talk
2014/02/14No talk
2014/02/18UrWhat is the prime number theorem?Ananyo Dan (HU)

2012/13

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2013/04/19UrWhat is a higher order tensor decomposition?Max Pfeffer (TU)
2013/04/26HUWhat is an $L$-function?Miguel Grados (HU)
2013/05/03UrWhat is the Nash embedding theorem?Ariane Beier (U Potsdam)
2013/05/10No talk
2013/05/17No talk
2013/05/24No talk
2013/05/31No talk
2013/06/07FUWhat is a subgradient?Elias Pipping (FU)
2013/06/14No talk
2013/06/21UrWhat are abstract functions and weak convergence?Christian Kreusler (TU)
2013/06/28TUWhat is matrix completion?Franz Király (TU)
2013/07/05UrWhat is a self-avoiding random walk?Giovanni Conforti (HU)
2013/07/12UrWhat is a variational inequality?Carsten Gräser (FU)
2013/07/19No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2012/10/19UrWhat is a smoke ring?Felix Jakob Knöppel (TU)
2012/10/26TUWhat is persistent homology?Mijail Guillemard (TU)
2012/11/02UrWhat is a quaternion algebra?Christian Wald (HU)
2012/11/09HUWhat is a Bruhat-Tits tree?Inder Kaur (HU)
2012/11/16No talk
2012/11/23FUWhat is a regular map?Faniry Razafindrazaka (FU)
2012/11/30UrWhat is a spacetime singularity?Phillipo Lappicy (FU)
2012/12/07HUWhat is a Hodge locus?Ananyo Dan (HU)
2012/12/14UrWhat is $SU(2)$ and why does it double-cover $SO(3)$?Florian Frick (TU)
2012/12/21No talk
2013/01/11No talk
2013/01/18TUWhat is a quasiconformal mapping?Isabella Thiesen (TU)
2013/01/25UrWhat is a $j$-invariant?Emre Sertöz (HU)
2013/02/01FUWhat is a monotonicity formula?Ahmad Afuni (FU)
2013/02/08UrWhat is a rational tangle?Silvia de Toffoli (TU)
2013/02/15TUWhat is a Palindromic Eigenvalue Problem?Christian Schröder (TU)
2013/02/19UrWhat is a positional game?Dennis Clemens (FU)

2011/12

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2012/04/13TUWhat is a spectral method?Maciek Korzec (TU)
2012/04/20UrWhat is a dissipative weak solution?Romain Nguyen (FU)
2012/04/27HUWhat is a path-following method?Jennifer Rasch (HU)
2012/05/04FUWhat is software development?Kristian Rother
2012/05/11No talk
2012/05/18TUWhat is a differential inclusion?Shahrad Jamshidi (FU)
2012/05/25FUWhat is a configuration space?Dror Atariah (FU)
2012/06/01HUWhat is a problem in mathematical finance?Julio Backhoff (HU)
2012/06/08UrWhat is a group action?Mikola Lysenko (UW Madison)
2012/06/15TUWhat is a Dirac operator?Juan Orduz (HU)
2012/06/22UrWhat is the Fabricius-Bjerre theorem?Felix Günther (TU)
2012/06/29UrWhat is a group representation?Giovanni de Gaetano (HU)
2012/07/06UrWhat is Brownian motion?Adrián Gonzalez Casanova (TU)
2012/07/13HUWhat are $\operatorname{Ext}$ and its applications?Hannah Enders (HU)

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2011/10/21UrWhat is diffusion?Maciek Korzec (TU)
2011/10/28UrWhat is tropical geometry?Cesar Ceballos (FU)
2011/11/04HUWhat is a zeta function?David Ouwehand (HU)
2011/11/11No talk
2011/11/18FUWhat is a Gröbner basis in a polynomial ring?Andre Mialebama (FU)
2011/11/25TUWhat is the Lagrangian relaxation of an integer program?Jonad Pulaj (ZIB)
2011/12/02UrWhat is a lattice in a Lie group good for?Barbara Jung (HU)
2011/12/09UrWhat are propagating interfaces and level set methods?Antoine Laurain (HU)
2011/12/16No talk
2012/01/06UrWhat is a shearlet?Wang-Q Lim (TU)
2012/01/13No talk
2012/01/20UrWhat is an independent transversal?Lothar Narins (FU)
2012/01/27TUWhat is the connection
 between the Kantian intuition of mathematical objects and diagrams?
Özge Ekin (FU)
2012/02/03UrWhat is risk?Samuel Drapeau (HU)
2012/02/10HUWhat is the a Feynman integral?Christian Bogner (HU)
2012/02/22UrWhat is the fundamental group and covering spaces?Fabian Lenhardt (FU)

2010/11

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2011/04/15UrWhat is a modular form?Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula (HU)
2011/04/22No talk
2011/04/29UrWhat is the Kuhn-Tucker theorem?Thomas Lehmann (ZIB)
2011/05/06TUWhat is an infinitesimal?Thomas El Khatib (TU)
2011/05/13UrWhat is a graph?Daniel Heldt (TU)
2011/05/20No talk
2011/05/27UrWhat is the direct method in the calculus of variations?Beatrice Bugert (WIAS)
2011/06/03No talk
2011/06/10UrWhat is a moduli space?Fabian Müller (HU)
2011/06/17FUWhat is a sheaf?Nikolai Beck (FU)
2011/06/24UrWhat is linear programming?Ambros Gleixner (ZIB)
2011/07/01No talk
2011/07/08UrWhat is a Green's function?Marcel Ortgiese (TU)
2011/07/15HUWhat is a matroid?Markus Hihn (HU)

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2010/10/22UrWhat is a Catalan number?Jean-Philippe Labbé (TU)
2010/10/29TUWhat is Hilbert's 17th problem?Moritz Schmitt (TU)
2010/11/05UrWhat is a stable marriage?Ágnes Cseh (TU)
2010/11/12HUWhat is a selflocator?Heinrich Mellmann (HU)
2010/11/19FUWhat is a multifunction?Klebert Kentia (HU)
2010/11/26UrWhat is the origin of elliptic functions?Barbara Jung (HU)
2010/12/03UrWhat is the probabilistic method?Anita Liebenau (FU)
2010/12/10UrWhat is cognitive neuroscience?Roland Friedrich (HU)
2010/12/17No talk
2011/01/07FUWhat is a derived category?Andreas Hochenegger (FU)
2011/01/14UrWhat is a Diophantine equation?Stefan Keil (HU)
2011/01/21TUWhat is a random walk on a network?Natasa Djurdjevac (FU)
2011/01/28UrWhat is math blogging?Felix Breuer (FU)
2011/02/04HUWhat is the exit problem?Han Lie (HU)
2011/02/11UrWhat is $\mathsf{P}$ vs $\mathsf{NP}$?Jannik Matuschke (TU)
2011/02/18TUWhat is a weak derivative?Stefan W. von Deylen (FU)
2011/02/22UrWhat is a matroid?Matthias Lenz (TU)

2009/10

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2010/04/16FUWhat is Hilbert's 16th problem?Eyal Ron (FU)
2010/04/23UrWhat is a theta body?Annie Raymond (TU)
2010/04/30TUWhat is a Killing vector field?Mimi Tsuruga (FU)
2010/05/07UrWhat is a Fourier series?Jerry Gagelman (TU)
2010/05/14HUWhat is the big deal with math and music?Aaron Greicius (HU)
2010/05/21UrWhat is a zeta function?Nicholas Schmidt (HU)
2010/05/28No talk
2010/06/04UrWhat is a linear system of plane curves?Angela Ortega (HU)
2010/06/11HUWhat is the classifying space of a category?Stephan Müller (HU)
2010/06/18UrWhat is Pólya theory?Emerson Leon (TU)
2010/06/25FUWhat is a hybrid automata?Shahrad Jamshidi (FU)
2010/07/02TUWhat are large deviations?Hanna Döring (TU)
2010/07/09FUWhat is phylogenetic algebraic geometry?Kaie Kubjas (FU)
2010/07/16No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2009/10/16FUWhat is a Gröbner basis?René Birkner (FU)
2009/10/23UrWhat is algorithmic differentiation?Hernan Leovey (HU)
2009/10/30TUWhat is a Facet Massacre?Bruno Benedetti (TU)
2009/11/06UrWhat is a self-avoiding random walk?Noemi Kurt (TU)
2009/11/13FUWhat is Morse theory?Carsten Schultz (TU)
2009/11/20FUWhat is a Moduli space?Nicola Tarasca (HU)
2009/11/27TUWhat is a quantum group?Inna Lukyanenko (TU)
2009/12/04UrWhat is a Seifert surface?Silvia de Toffoli (TU)
2009/12/11No talk
2009/12/18UrWhat is a rough path?Joscha Diehl (HU)
2010/01/08UrWhat is a geodesic?Tobias Pfeiffer (FU)
Dror Atariah (FU)
2010/01/15FUWhat is a semimartingale?Plamen Turkedjiev (HU)
2010/01/22UrWhat is a language game?Hartwig Mayer (HU)
2010/01/29TUWhat is a multigrid?Oliver Sander (FU)
2010/02/05UrWhat is a graph associahedron?Carsten Lange (FU)
2010/02/12No talk

2008/09

Summer Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2009/04/17No talk
2009/04/24UrWhat is the adaptive finite element method?Joscha Gedicke (HU)
2009/05/01No talk
2009/05/08UrWhat is the Dedekind zeta function?Anna Posingies (HU)
2009/05/15TUWhat is entropy?Yvon Vignaud (TU)
2009/05/22FUWhat is a Goppa code?Nathan Ilten (FU)
2009/05/29No talk
2009/06/05FUWhat is a flag vector?Axel Werner (ZIB)
2009/06/12No talk
2009/06/19UrWhat is the field with one element?Laura Hinsch (FU)
2009/06/26FUWhat is the square root of a graph?Robin Scholz (U Potsdam)
2009/07/03FUWhat is topological dynamics?Peter Krautzberger (FU)
2009/07/10No talk
2009/07/17No talk

Winter Semester

DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2008/10/17No talk
2008/10/24FUWhat is the random graph?Stefanie Frick (FU)
2008/10/31UrWhat is homotopical algebra?Anton Dochtermann (TU)
2008/11/07FUWhat is deformation?Nathan Ilten (FU)
2008/11/14UrWhat is an elliptic curve?
Basic notions in algebraic and arithmetic geometry
Anna Pippich (HU)
Fritz Hörmann (HU)

2008/11/21FUWhat are loops and the fundamental group?Dror Atariah (FU)
2008/11/28UrWhat is geometric knot theory?Barbara Jablonska (TU)
2008/12/05FUWhat is Hindman's theorem?Peter Krautzberger (FU)
2008/12/12UrWhat is spectral expansion?Anna Pippich (HU)
2008/12/19FUWhat is similarity of shapes?Daria Schymura (FU)
2009/01/09UrWhat is the $\mathsf{P}$ vs $\mathsf{NP}$ problem?Matthias Lenz (TU)
2009/01/16FUWhat is an averaging principle?Carsten Hartmann (FU)
2009/01/23UrWhat is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture?Fritz Hörmann (HU)
2009/01/30FUWhat is a Fraisse construction?Artem Chernikov (HU)
2009/02/06UrWhat is Helly's theorem?Mareike Massow (TU)
2009/02/13FUWhat is Brownian motion?Plamen Turkedjiev (HU)

2007/08

Summer Semester

The talks until 2008/07/03 were held in German.
DateVn.Title of talkSpeaker
2008/05/22FUWas ist eigentlich ein Ultrafilter (und was kann man damit anstellen?)Peter Krautzberger (FU)
2008/05/29FUWas ist eigentlich der Ricci-Fluss?Tobias Marxen (FU)
2008/06/05FUWas ist eigentlich die Schälung eines Polytops?Frederik von Heymann (FU)
2008/06/12FUWas ist eigentlich eine Garbe?Nathan Ilten (FU)
2008/06/19FUWas ist eigentlich eine sinnvolle Verallgemeinerung des Zwischenwertsatz?Felix Breuer (FU)
2008/06/26FUWas ist eigentlich eine sinnvolle Erweiterung der Halbgruppe der natürlichen Zahlen?Peter Krautzberger (FU)
2008/07/03FUWas ist eigentlich das Kontinuum und was ist sein Problem?Gido Scharfenberger-Fabian (FU)
2008/07/10No talk
2008/07/17FUWhat is the chromatic number of the plane?Michael Payne (FU)