Heidelberg Laureate Forum

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

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HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

Circling the Square

Potenzreihen und Konvergenzkreise

What is an Aperiodic Monotile?

The „Dismal” State of Mathematics Textbooks and How to Improve It

Komplexe Analysis und der harmonische Oszillator

A Question of Curvature

Giving Back to the Community