Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Duisburg-Essen

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Summer school on Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Correspondence

From August 25 to 29, 2025, a Summer school on Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Correspondence will take place in Essen. Dima Arinkin and Linus Hamann will teach mini-courses, and we also expect to have a couple of research talks. Registration is now open!

Research Training Group 2553 will be continued

The German Research Foundation DFG has decided that our Research Training Group 2553 “Symmetries and classifying spaces: analytic, arithmetic and derived” will be funded for a second period of four and a half years, until March 2029. The next 5 doctoral positions have been filled as early as October 2024.

Irwin Yousept scout for Henriette Herz programme

In the Henriette Herz programme of the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Dr. Irwin Yousept has been appointed as the first scout at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

How mathematics decodes the hidden

Inverse problems and their applications are being researched by Dr. Yi-Hsuan Lin from the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan). He is a guest of Prof. Dr. Irwin Yousept in the Department of Mathematics for 18 months. Lin's stay is funded by a research fellowship for experienced researchers in the Humboldt Foundation’s Henriette Herz Scouting Program.

Past Events

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Talks at the faculty of mathematics

Today (Wednesday, 30. April 2025.)

Today: Dr. Constantin Christof (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
On the role of pointwise curvature properties in optimal control.
Wednesday, 30. April 2025, 16:00 in room no. WSC-S-U-4.02, campus Essen. Mathematics Colloquium.

Talks within the next 10 days

Dr. Martin Ladecky (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
FFT-Accelerated Microstructure Topology Optimization.
Monday, 05. May 2025, 16:00 to 17:00 in room no. V15 R05 H25, campus Essen. Numerical Mathematics and Mechanics Seminar.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Huhmann (PH Weingarten)
„Pentomino digital“ – Geometrielernen digital unterstützen.
Monday, 05. May 2025, 16:45 in room no. WSC-S-U-2.01, campus Essen. Didactics of Mathematics Colloquium.

Benedikt Graessle (Universität Zürich)
Hierarchical Argyris AFEM for biharmonic eigenvalues: Rehabilitation of the Argyris element.
Thursday, 08. May 2025, 14:00 in room no. WSC-O-4.65, campus Essen. Numerics Research Seminar.

Laurine Weibel (Rennes)
Finiteness results for hyperbolic orbifold pairs.
Friday, 09. May 2025, 11:00 in room no. WSC-S-U-3.03, campus Essen. Other events of the Mathematics Department.

Research Cooperations

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