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“Dissertation Award 2022 for Dr. Markus Ebke”

The Bielefeld University Society for Excellence announced that Dr. Ebke will be awarded the 2022 Dissertation Prize for his dissertation entitled "Universal Scaling Limits of the Symplectic Elliptic Ginibre Ensemble." In his dissertation, Dr. Ebke studied the distribution of e...

Gandalf Lechner Wins the 2022 von Kaven Award

The 2022 von Kaven Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) goes to Prof. Dr. Gandalf Lechner for his achievements in the mathematical formulation of relativistic quantum systems. The €10,000 DFG award will be presented on 12 September at the annual meeting of t...

LQP46 Workshop on Foundations and Constructive Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Erlangen, June 24-25

LQP46 Workshop on Foundations and Constructive Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Erlangen, June 24-25 On June 24-25 the 46th iteration of the local quantum physics workshop series will take place in person in Erlangen. This series is an opportunity mostly for younger colleagues (PhD students, Post...

MathPhysDays in Erlangen from July 14 to 16, 2022

„MathPhysDays“ is a workshop taking place in Erlangen from July 14 to 16, 2022, on the occasion of Andreas Knauf’s last days „on duty“ as part of the teaching body of the Department Mathematik at the FAU. Further information is available at the MathPhysDays website.

Four new professors at the Department of Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics welcomes four new professors who have come to Erlangen in the fall of 2021. Prof. Dr. Gandalf Lechner has taken over the new chair for Mathematics (Operator Algebras) within the Heisenberg Programme as of 01.09.2021. Prof. Dr. Torben Krüger leads the Chair of Math...

Alexander Vasiliev Award 2020 for ‘Reflection Positivity on Spheres’

The paper Reflection Positivity on Spheres by Karl-Hermann Neeb and Gestur Ólafsson (Department of Mathematics at Louisiana State University) won the 2020 Alexander Vasiliev Award of the journal Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Birkhäuser Verlag). The award is named in honor of the founding Editor...

Application period started: ARIADNETechNat career mentoring for female students

Until 10 October 2021, female students of Master’s and State Examination programmes, who are interested in further academic qualification can apply for admission to the career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat master 2022 with programme runtime January – October 2022. ARIADNET...

Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium): The application period has begun

The application period for the Germany Scholarship for the winter semester 2021/22 began on 15.06.2021. Students can apply for a Germany Scholarship until 15.07.2021. You can find all the necessary information about the application here.

1st FRASCAL Virtual Colloquium

The PhD students and postdocs of the GRK 2423 FRASCAL, which is a collaboration of FAU scientists from the Faculty of Engineering (Departments WW, MB, CBI) and the Faculty of Science (Departments Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics), are currently organizing a remarkable series of weekly lectures on rec...

International research challenge seeks solutions for logistics of the future

Shorter transport times with less outlay The human race is becoming increasingly mobile and long commutes to the workplace are the norm. At the same time, the amount of goods sent via the road network continues to rise. This is causing established transport systems to quickly reach their limits. To...