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Die rauhen Welten des Martin Hairer – Teil 2

In Teil 1 von “Die rauhen Welten des Martin Hairer” hatte ich einige Grundbegriffe Revue passieren lassen, die für Hairers Forschung zu stochastischen Differentialgleichungen wichtig sind – und damit auch zum Verständnis von Hairers Vortrag …

29. Sep 2014 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment

Die rauhen Welten des Martin Hairer – Teil 1

Martin Hairers Vortrag an Dienstag, “Taming infinities” – Unendlichkeiten zähmen – bot einen faszinierenden Überblick über einiges an dem, was der Mathematiker erforscht – und wofür er 2014 auch die Fields-Medaille bekommen hat. Hairers Arbeit …

29. Sep 2014 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment

HLF Connections

Looking back on this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum, what comes to mind are less the separate talks – splendid though a number of them were – but the connections. A key characteristic of the HLF, …

29. Sep 2014 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment

Verräterische Blicke – Eye-Tracking

Journalisten haben schon oft vom “Eye-Tracking” gehört. Mittels dieser Technik wird verfolgt, wo die Augen von Lesern hinwandern; was sie zuerst lesen; wo der jeweilige Leser aussteigt und den Blick schweifen lässt, umblättert, weiterliest. Dafür …

26. Sep 2014 | By Beatrice Lugger | 10 comments

Vinton Cerf warns about digital oblivion

After the fall of the Roman Empire, a dark age came in which a large part of the ancient knowledge was lost in Europe. Manuscripts were destroyed in wars and fires, or became illegible before …

26. Sep 2014 | By Michele Catanzaro | 0 comments

Esoterische Programmiersprachen – Schönheit in der Informatik

Nachdem Michael Atiyah seinen Eröffnungsvortrag “Beauty in Mathematics” gehalten hat, schoss mir eine Frage in den Kopf: “An welchen Stellen gibt es die Schönheit in der Informatik?”. Das Erste, was mir dazu einfiel, sind sogenannte …

26. Sep 2014 | By Marlene Knoche | 4 comments

Atmosphere and Light: Impressionism in Algebraic Geometry

On Monday, Sir Michael Atiyah spoke about beauty in mathematics. Shigefumi Mori’s talk on Thursday started with an interesting meditation on similarities between mathematics, design, and impressionist paintings. Where Atiyah’s talk was very general, Mori …

26. Sep 2014 | By Evelyn Lamb | 12 comments

- oliver
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Great sharing.
- takamihashi
- Zu: Computers and Proof
Since the invention and manufacture of computers from the last century until now have greatly improved, computers have been of great help in our work.
- ton de apel
- Zu: HLF 2019 Kicks Off with a Q&A with ACM President Cherri Pancake (plus La La Lab and the Science of Music)
The presentation was great and it was of great help.
- Martin Holzherr
- Zu: Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence
GPT-3’s 175 billion parameters also mean, that Deep Learning Architectures can be memory constrained. Potential users ofGPT-3 indeed reported, that they coudn‘t run it because … Read more
- Martin Holzherr
- Zu: Computers and Proof
So if computers can prove our results for us now, do we even need mathematicians any more? Of course we do. There are limitations on … Read more

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Die rauhen Welten des Martin Hairer – Teil 2

Die rauhen Welten des Martin Hairer – Teil 1

HLF Connections

Verräterische Blicke – Eye-Tracking

Vinton Cerf warns about digital oblivion

Esoterische Programmiersprachen – Schönheit in der Informatik

Atmosphere and Light: Impressionism in Algebraic Geometry

Vint Cerf on being forgotten or remembered

The rough worlds of Martin Hairer – part 2

Klare und angewandte Mathematik