21 Essential Quotes from Sir Michael Atiyah The joke among bloggers over breakfast: What award hasn’t Atiyah won? A Fields Medalist and Abel Prize recipient, he is a living legend: his index theorem (developed with Singer) revolutionized both mathematics and quantum physics. … 20. Sep 2016 | By Ben Orlin | 1 comment
Wie sind die jungen Forscherinnen und Forscher zum HLF gekommen? (Forts.) Meine ersten Nachforschungen dazu, wie die hier anwesenden jungen Forscher zum diesjährigen HLF und, vorher, zur Mathematik bzw. zur Informatik gekommen sind, hatte ja bereits (nicht allzu überraschend) einige Gemeinsamkeiten offenbart – inspirierende Lehrer ebenso … 20. Sep 2016 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment
How did the young researchers get here? (ctd) My first quest for the paths that brought young researchers to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum already showed certain common factors – inspiring teachers in high school and/or university, inspiring books among them – but my … 20. Sep 2016 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Zum gefühlten Du – wie man zu Koryphäen Distanz abbaut Bei mir hat es fast ein Jahr lang gedauert, bis ich vom Sie zum Du kam und auch so gefühlt habe. Der Betreuer meiner Diplomarbeit hatte mir kurz nachdem ich anfing in seinem Labor zu … 20. Sep 2016 | By Tobias Maier | 1 comment
Mentoring Advice From a Few Young Researchers The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is very much about mentoring, regardless of whether we explicitly call it that. Young researchers are eager to get insight and advice from the laureates as well as each other. As … 20. Sep 2016 | By Gail Carmichael | 0 comments
How mathematicians can learn from, and even embrace, their mistakes It’s always nice to be right—but sometimes, says Professor Günter Ziegler, it’s more interesting to be wrong. “Math starts with a mistake,” says Ziegler, who researches discrete geometry at the Free University of Berlin, and … 19. Sep 2016 | By Daniel Gross | 0 comments
Jan Poleszczuk: from HLF2013 to mathematical oncology When Jan Poleszczuk was starting college, he wanted to study computer science but his father talked him out of it. He suggested math instead: “if you are going to know math then you can switch … 19. Sep 2016 | By Artem Kaznatcheev | 0 comments
Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Young researchers’ paths to mathematics (and more) How did people get here? In the sense of: How did the young researchers (and others) attending the Heidelberg Laureate Forum become interested in mathematics (and computer science)? That will be one of my guiding … 19. Sep 2016 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Wie sind die jungen Wissenschaftler/-innen hierher gekommen? Wie sind die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des Heidelberg Laureate Forums hierher gekommen? Im Sinne von: wie sind sie zur Mathematik oder zur Informatik gekommen? Das werde ich im Laufe der nächsten Tage weiter erkunden. Die … 19. Sep 2016 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment
On a Single Piece of Paper, Explain Your Research Area One of the hardest things about research in technical fields: Explaining what the heck it is that you do. The natural sciences have it easy: they study physical, tangible things. Perhaps those things are weird and … 19. Sep 2016 | By Ben Orlin | 4 comments
