Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Molecule of the Year 1992

In 2013, inspired by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, the first Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) was held. Fast forward ten years, and the links between the two events are as close as ever. Every year, …

30. Sep 2023 | By Sophie Maclean | 0 comments

The Man Who Wired the World: Robert Metcalfe and Connectivity

The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum kicked off with a captivating lecture by Robert Metcalfe, the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient and the inventor of Ethernet. In his engaging style, Metcalfe took the audience on a journey through the past, present, and future of connectivity. Read more

28. Sep 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 7 comments

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

A Weaver of Virtual Worlds – Rachel Masters

Hiking and fishing in the Rocky Mountains were part and parcel of 10th HLF attendee Rachel Masters’ childhood. Nowadays, she taps into these experiences while developing the best possible immersive and therapeutic nature-based virtual reality (VR) experiences – forest landscape escapes through which people can take quick mental breaks. Read more

19. Sep 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 0 comments

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

A Champion for Change – Francis Saa-Dittoh

Ghanaian PhD student Francis Saa-Dittoh is a ferocious reader of sci-fi books. His reading habits have taught him that technology-wise almost anything imaginable is possible. However, his practical involvement in the field of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) has taught him that what is possible isn’t always appropriate. Read more

12. Sep 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 1 comment

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

Deepfakes and Open Science – Shifani Dilrukshi Gamage

Dilrukshi Gamage, a postdoctoral fellow from Sri Lanka who studies how society is influenced by technology, is already an HLF ‘veteran’. She attended the 5th HLF in 2017, midway through her PhD in Computer Science. Since then, she has carried with her the following advice offered by ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient and cryptologist, Martin Hellman: “The interesting thing in research is to be curious rather than furious.” Read more

05. Sep 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 0 comments

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

Enjoying the Beauty of Maths – Matias Palumbo

To Matias Palumbo, mathematics is beautiful, and even artistic; rigorous and complex, yet also simple – and often-times all these descriptions at once. He is one of the 200 young mathematicians and computer scientists from across the world who will have the opportunity at the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum to learn from recipients of some of the most prestigious prizes in their respective fields.
Matias hails from Argentina – the same country as Luis A. Caffarelli, who in 2023 became South America’s first ever Abel Prize winner.
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29. Aug 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 1 comment

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

The Physicist Embracing Opportunities – Victoria Sánchez Muñoz

Interested in community outreach projects? Then make sure to brainstorm a few ideas at the 10th HLF with upcoming attendee Victoria Sánchez Muñoz over a round of tic-tac-toe. Community engagement is one of the (many) aspects about her PhD studies on quantum games at the University of Galway (UoGalway) in Ireland that the 29-year-old Spanish physicist enjoys the most. Read more

22. Aug 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 5 comments

Circling the Square

While it might seem like a boring shape, the humble square can be a source of many interesting mathematical structures. For example, if you bring the sides around and join them in the middle, you …

02. Aug 2023 | By Katie Steckles | 3 comments

Potenzreihen und Konvergenzkreise

Nach längerer Pause will ich mich jetzt beeilen, dem Lobpreis der komplexen Zahlen und der holomorphen Funktionen das dritte wesentliche Teilstück hinzuzufügen: die Sache mit der unendlichfachen Differenzierbarkeit, mehr noch: der Entwickelbarkeit in eine Potenzreihe.Diesmal …

26. Jul 2023 | By Christoph Pöppe | 21 comments

What is an Aperiodic Monotile?

Just over two months ago, the mathematical world celebrated a new discovery. And this was unlike any new discovery mathematics had seen for some time: as well as being a groundbreaking new piece of research …

05. Jul 2023 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments