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| Feb 16, 2026 | On February 21, 2026, I will give a talk at the mathematics olympiad on Conway’s Game of Life, exploring how simple rules can lead to surprisingly complex behavior. |
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| Feb 01, 2026 | Since February 1, 2026, I serve as a W3 Professor of Algebra at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. |
| Dec 29, 2025 | I participated in the “WissPod-Jahresrückblick 2025 oder: KI in der Wissenschaft!?” at 39C3 (in German). The topic of the session was “KI in der Wissenschaft”. A video recording is available on media.ccc.de, and the episode is now also in the podcast feed on wissenschaftspodcasts.de. |
| Dec 06, 2025 |
I started a PeerTube instance for my videos under tube.mathe.social. There you can watch and download videos I publish without any tracking or ads. Read more about it on the blog. |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Barbara Betti posted a new paper Graphical Scattering Equations and also defended her PhD thesis on October 30! Congratulations 🎉! |
| Sep 24, 2025 | A translated and shortened version of our essay Mathematics in the Context Window (with Christian Stump) appeared on spektrum.de (Spektrum der Wissenschaft) today: Wo Mathematik und KI zusammenpassen - und wo nicht. |
| Sep 02, 2025 | Together with Mathias Magdowski we are organizing a Fediverse and Mastodon Workshop at OvGU Magdeburg on October 6, 2025. Join us to learn more about this exciting social network. |
| Jul 14, 2025 | The episode Unendlich minus Unendlich of my podcast Eigenraum was featured in the German newspaper taz because it answers the question of seven year old Theo writing to ask what is $\infty - \infty$. |
| Jun 12, 2025 | The recording of my talk Studieren und Lehren trotz LLMs at the Tag der Lehre (Dies academicus) at OvGU Magdeburg is available on YouTube (in German). |
| May 28, 2025 | Pull request #4100 has been merged! 🎉 Anna Hofer has been working on the implementation of injective resolutions over monoid algebras in OSCAR for several months and her work is now included in the experimental section of the official OSCAR release. |
| May 21, 2025 | The latest episode 48 of Eigenraum podcast features Manon Bischoff from Spektrum der Wissenschaft. We discuss the meaning of the 1000 page proof of the geometric Langlands program. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or on your podcast app. |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Niclas Niederdrenk joins the group as a new PhD student. |
| Mar 04, 2025 | New preprint: The Likelihood Correspondence with Hal Schenck, Bernd Sturmfels, Maximilian Wiesmann. |