Where Dreams and Reality Intersect! Bushra Anjum, HLF13 participant: The admission season for the university has arrived, and with that comes newly printed crisp university prospectus. B lazily grabbed a copy of the new prospectus of the university where she … 18. Sep 2013 | By Guest blogger | 3 comments
Escaping the Confucian trap We’re going to have quite a number of interesting laureates in town. But before we go live, so to speak, let me blog about a laureate who, sadly, couldn’t come. My (totally unsubstantiated) guess is … 18. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment
6 out of 200: Stereovision Meet Pauline Tanin this short Q&A series with 6 out of 200 young researchers. A series with mathematicians and computer scientists participating at the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 22-27, 2013. For the … 18. Sep 2013 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 comments
Einer von 200 – ein kurzes Vorabinterview mit Stephan Holzer Stephan Holzer studierte Mathematik und Informatik in Mainz, München und Harvard und ist heute Doktorand in der Distributed Computing Group der ETH Zürich. Gemeinsam mit 199 weiteren ausgewählten Jungforscherinnen und -forschern ist er Teilnehmer des … 18. Sep 2013 | By Tarek R. Besold | 1 comment
A Warrior for the Blind Why should sighted people have all the fun? Kyle Rector, one of the young participants in this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum, doesn’t think they should. As part of her dissertation research on “eyes-free technology” at … 17. Sep 2013 | By Dana Mackenzie | 0 comments
Die Probleme mit den Rundungen Ja, ich habe die Ehre, beim ersten Heidelberg Laureate Forum dabei sein und darüber bloggen zu dürfen. Auf der Suche nach spannenden Blogthemen sticht mir im Vortragsprogramm der Vortragstitel “Desperately needed remedies for the undebuggability … 17. Sep 2013 | By Benjamin Hiller | 0 comments
6 out of 200: Break the Vicious Cycles of Poverty and Disease Meet Calistus N. Ngonghala in this short Q&A series with 6 out of 200 young researchers. A series with mathematicians and computer scientists participating at the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 22-27, 2013. … 17. Sep 2013 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 comments
“Mein Hirn ist in der Stadt” Der Mathematiker Paul Erdős ist zu Recht eine Legende – nach der Artikelzahl war er der produktivste Mathematiker überhaupt. Und insbesondere ist er dafür bekannt, dass er oft und gerne mit den unterschiedlichsten Kollegen zusammen … 17. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment
The Meta Post to the 6 out of 200 series One of many ways of characterizing the typical HLF attendee is probably the fact that, when faced with a blog article series called “6 out of 200“, their first reaction is not likely to be … 16. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 2 comments
“My brain is in town” Paul Erdős was in many ways a mathematician’s mathematician – the most prolific researcher in mathematics in terms of article number, and legendary for the number of his collaborations. There is a reason why the … 16. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
