Fest der Bonner Mathematik

The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics succeeded in the Excellence Strategy and will be funded for seven more years. The “Fest der Bonner Mathematik” – with three scientific talks followed by an afterparty will provide an occassion to celebrate this marvelous news together with students, colleagues, and friends.
   

Date: November 30, 2018

Venue: Neues Hörsaalzentrum, Endenicher Allee 19c, Bonn

Party: CAMPO Campusmensa Poppelsdorf, Endenicher Allee 19, Bonn

Program

14:15 - 14:45 Welcome and greetings
14:45 - 15:45 Felix Otto (MPI Leipzig): De Giorgi's ideas on gradient flows and the thresholding scheme for mean curvature flow
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Claire Voisin (Collège de France, Paris): Decomposition of the diagonal and rationality questions
17:30 - 18:30 Harry Yserentant (TU Berlin): Approximation of functions in high space dimensions - some techniques and an example
18:30 - Party