The HLF has started! A graphic selection of the Opening Ceremony 26. Sep 2017 | By Constanza Rojas-Molina | 1 comment
A Mathematical Easter Egg To make all the HLF attendees’ lives easier this week, the organisers have put together a marvelous app which includes the programme for the event, information about the conference, a full delegate list with a … 26. Sep 2017 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments
Persistence, Patience, and Soft Skills in Selling: Part 1 of my Convo about Success in STEM with the Father of the Internet, Vint Cerf On a sunny day in Heidelberg, Germany’s Science City, I had a friendly chit chat with Vint Cerf, gentleman scholar, mathematician, computer scientist, and vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Oh, and he’s … 26. Sep 2017 | By Alaina G. Levine | 1 comment
No, There’s No Nobel in Math It’s the very first on the Nobel Prize’s list of frequently asked questions: Is there a Nobel Prize in Mathematics? Alas; it turns out that Alfred Nobel didn’t much appreciate the icy abstractions of mathematics. … 26. Sep 2017 | By Ben Orlin | 2 comments
Approximate Gaussian Elimination One of the more technical lectures at the HLF so far was given by Daniel Spielman, on the Approximate Gaussian Elimination algorithm his research group has produced, and how it differs from traditional Gaussian Elimination. … 25. Sep 2017 | By Katie Steckles | 2 comments
Math ⇔ Art: the Gosper curve Running alongside the 5th HLF is an exhibition of mathematical art by the astrophysicist Aldo Spizzichino. He’s taken ideas from mathematics, and used his own set of programs (in Fortran, no less) to produce his … 25. Sep 2017 | By Paul Taylor | 1 comment
The 25 Who Are Here, and 1 Who Is Not The Heidelberg Laureate Forum begins—how else?—with a healthy dollop of pomp. The audience rises. Doors are thrown open. And, with a blast of orchestral music, twenty-five living legends of mathematics and computer science shuffle down … 25. Sep 2017 | By Ben Orlin | 0 comments
Math ⇔ Art: what is a rotogon? Alongside this week’s Laureate Forum, there’s an art exhibition on display in the nearby Old University building. Math ⇔ Art (Math is Art, Art is Math) is a collection of computer-generated artworks by Italian astrophysicist … 25. Sep 2017 | By Katie Steckles | 2 comments
Algorithms are certifiable, and HLF is now open As opening ceremonies go, this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum opening was quite enjoyable. Of course there need to be official words by representatives from key partners and supporters, such as the Baden-Württemberg Minister for Science, … 25. Sep 2017 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments