Heidelberg Laureate Forum 
10 out of 200: Escaping the dependency hell – Fernando Chirigati improves computational reproducibility
Meet Fernando Chirigati (on the righthand side in the above photo, togehter with the ReproZip team), computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: From classical ballet to modern mathematics – Dragana Radojičić makes sense of stock markets
Meet Dragana Radojičić, mathematician and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Dragana Radojičić, … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: From diagrams to formulas via computers – Ricardo Buring loves teaching math
Meet Ricardo Buring, mathematician and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Ricardo Buring and … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: The who’s who of the internet – Janelle Mason improves our cybersecurity
Meet Janelle Mason, computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Janelle Mason. … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: Serving the people – Khac-Hoang Ngo improves our telecommunication
Meet Khac-Hoang Ngo, computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Khac-Hoang … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: Of cats and donuts – Adele Jackson uses topology to tackle classification problems
Meet Adele Jackson, mathematician and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Adele Jackson … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: Of math, memory, and marathon – Bastian Wiederhold is on the fast track
Meet Bastian Wiederhold, mathematician and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Bastian Wiederhold … Weiterlesen
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Michael Atiyah – ein Vorbild für junge Wissenschaftler
Die letzten Vorbereitungen für das diesjährige Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) werden bereits bis ins kleinste Detail getroffen, schließlich steht es unmittelbar vor der Tür und die Erwartungen und Hoffnungen sind bei allen Teilnehmern entsprechend groß. … Weiterlesen
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10 out of 200: For a better tomorrow – Anmol Kabra applies machine learning to sustainability problems
Meet Anmol Kabra, computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd -27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality? My name is Anmol … Weiterlesen
Heidelberg Laureate Forum
10 out of 200: Teaching the teachers – Zirhumanana Balike Dieudonné takes math to rural areas
Meet Zirhumanana Balike Dieudonné, mathematician and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and your nationality? My … Weiterlesen
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Abelian Groups
The Abel Prize in mathematics, one of the awards whose laureates join us each year for the HLF, was originally proposed in 1899 as a complement to the Nobel prizes – to recognise achievement in … Weiterlesen
Heidelberg Laureate Forum
10 out of 200: About finding your own path – Anna Vasilchenko uniquely combines journalism, computer science, and education
Meet Anna Vasilchenko, computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 22nd – 27th, 2019. What are your name and nationality?My name is Anna Vasilchenko. … Weiterlesen
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Addition and Abstraction
In a previous post, I talked about the mathematical idea of generalisation – taking a system or idea and extending it in as many directions as possible to see what other interesting things we can … Weiterlesen
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How much maths can you buy with £50?
The Bank of England has recently announced their decision for who to feature on the newly redesigned £50 note, and I’m pleased to say it’s a mathematician! They’d already decided it was going to be … Weiterlesen
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The Nobel Prize for Mathematics
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an annual opportunity to celebrate some of the world’s top mathematicians and computer scientists, by gathering together the recipients of prestigious maths and computer science prizes, including the Abel Prize, … Weiterlesen
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The Lynx and the Hare
While my training is in pure mathematics, I also have an appreciation of the way applied mathematicians make use of it. Maths can be deployed to understand, explain and predict the behaviour of real-world situations, … Weiterlesen
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The maths behind the Fields Medal
One of the prizes celebrated annually at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is the Fields Medal – one of the highest honours a mathematician can receive, and awarded once every four years to up to four … Weiterlesen
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IMU Abacus Medal
One of the prizes awarded to HLF Laureates is the Nevanlinna prize – given every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, to celebrate outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences. That is … Weiterlesen
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Stairs and generalisation
One of the great things about being a mathematician is that you learn how to tackle arithmetic and calculations and manipulate equations, so if you come across any of these problems in your work or … Weiterlesen
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Combinatorics Puzzles
If you look up combinatorics on Wikipedia, it’s described as ‘a branch of mathematics primarily concerned with counting’. You might be forgiven for thinking, if you have studied maths at school level but not encountered … Weiterlesen