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Squares – shapes with four right-angle corners, and four equal-length sides – are lovely. Mathematicians especially love them, as evidenced by the number of nice geometrical and numerical constructions based on squares. For example, a …

Here you can take a look at all the artworks created by the Young Researchers who participated in the Intercultural Science-Art Project.   Akinade Mary Oluwabunmi (Nigeria) “Nkan tio ba kọjaa mathematics, o kọjaa eniyan”(Yoruba)“Whatever …

The Idea Once the 200 Young Researchers who would participate in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) were already chosen, they were all invited to participate to an Intercultural Science-Art Project entitled ‘Magritte Meets Science’, …

There were quite a number of interesting points raised at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum panel debate about the Gender Gap in Science on September 27. But the statement I keep coming back to is the …

John Hopcroft ist Preisträger des ACM A.M Turing Award, den er 1986 zusammen mit Robert E. Tarjan für grundlegende Errungenschaften im Design und in der Analyse von Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen erlangte. Er zeichnete sich besonders …

In her acceptance speech for the Abel Prize in 2019, Karen Uhlenbeck made an unusual note to the students and researchers in attendance: “Think about the planet,” she said, “and take one less flight next …

Shwetak Patel, the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing winner and Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, was a participating laureate at this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). During his presentation at HLF, …

Am Donnerstagmorgen war beim Heidelberg Laureate Forum am unteren Rande der linken Projektion (die üblicherweise die Vortragenden zeigt) eine Live-Mitschrift zu sehen. Angesichts der Komplexität der behandelten Themen war die Mitschrift bemerkenswert gut. Fast alle …

Thursday morning, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, text from a live transcription began to appear at the bottom of one of the main screens. Given the complexity of the topics under discussion, the transcription was …

Every year at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) a hot topic, or theme, related to mathematics and computer science is chosen to be addressed by a panel of experts. At this year’s HLF the hot topic sessions, …

This year’s Hot Topic, Climate Change, was a wild ride, with an intense three-and-a-half hours of compact talks, each with a different perspective on the problem. The reliability of our climate models was one of …

In Tuesday’s opening lecture at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Joseph Sifakis, 2007 Turing Award winner, discussed whether we can trust autonomous systems and considered the interplay between the trustworthiness of the system – the …

Mit Diskussionsrunden ist das so eine Sache. Zu Beginn der Diskussionsrunde des Heidelberg Laureate Forum zum Thema wissenschaftliches Publizieren sah es so aus, als hätten die Organisatoren die Diskussionspartner recht einseitig zusammengestellt. Gerard Meijer (Direktor …

Debates are a tricky thing. At the beginning of the debate about Scientific Publishing at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Today, it looked very much as if the organisers had forgotten to invite parties from the …

Yesterday morning at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) laureates Yoshua Bengio (2018 Turing Award), Edvard Moser (2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), and Leslie G. Valiant (1986 Nevanlinna Prize and 2010 Turing Award) each …

Ist es wirklich schon sieben Jahre her, seit das erste Heidelberg Laureate Forum stattfand? Es gibt keinen Grund, an der offiziellen Zählung zu zweifeln, und ich habe auch während der diesjährigen Eröffnungsfeier des Heidelberg Laureate …

Has it really been seven years since the first Heidelberg Laureate Forum? I have no reason to doubt the official count, and I did find indications, throughout this year’s opening ceremony for the Heidelberg Laureate …

The 7th annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) has officially begun! Yesterday (September 21st) was the opening ceremony, which included a “science slam” on the history and founding of HLF from Andreas Reuter, Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate …