News

The DFG has approved a new project! The principal investigators are Max Hoffmann and Tobias Weich. In Project Ö, they design activities for learners of different ages focussing on the concepts of integrality and (mathematical) structure, as well as their productive combinations. You will soon find more information here.

Our opening conference proved to be a complete success! After more than a year of planning, the conference took place in Paderborn in September under the title of the CRC "Integral Structures in Geometry and Representation Theory". With prestigious speakers, it attracted renowned mathematicians from all over the world, such as Maryna Viazovska and Efim Zelmanov, both winners of the Fields Medal.
A detailed report (in German) can be found on the website of Paderborn University, and a short version on that of Bielefeld University.

The DFG has approved another new project, A8! The goal of this project is to compute the stable cohomology of symplectic and orthogonal groups, primarily in the case of forms over the integers. Principal investigator of this project is Fabian Hebestreit. You find more information about A8 here.

The DFG has approved a new project! Ana Botero is now the principal investigator of the new project B7. The main goal of this project is an infinite Chern–Weil theory for singular, semipositive, invariant metrics on automorphic vector bundles on mixed Shimura varieties. You find more information, including preprints, here.

In December 2023, the general assembly elected Fabian Januszewski as the new equal opportunity manager from Paderborn. The CRC has two equal opportunity managers, one from Bielefeld University, Christopher Voll, and one from Paderborn University, who coordinate the CRC’s gender equality measures.

The new KidsBox is a mobile parent-child room for children of ages 1.5 - 7 years. It fits in an office and contains various toys, books, painting materials, and further aid and sanitary products.
To borrow the KidsBox, please contact Melanie Kreimeyer or Elena Tielker.
For more information about existing mobile parent-child rooms in Paderborn, see here.

Quanta Magazine interviewed Claudia Alfes-Neumann, Steve Kudla, Don Zagier, and many more mathematicians about modular forms:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/behold-modular-forms-the-fifth-fundamental-operation-of-math-20230921/
Modular forms play a major role in Projects A1, B1, B5, B6, and C1 in our CRC.

See the article here: https://phoqs.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/pbmath-2023-erfolgreicher-durchlauf-der-diesjaehrigen-sommerschule

The European Research Council has awarded an Advanced Grant to our Mercator fellow. Amnon Neeman is currently guest of the TRR at Bielefeld. He will stay until the end of September and will give a talk in the BIREP seminar in June.
For further information see:
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-2022-advanced-grants-results
https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/birep/seminar.php

Our Mercator fellow will be awarded the Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal on 21 April in Braunschweig. The event will consist of a colloquium with lectures by Henry Cohn, Gabriele Nebe, and Don Zagier followed by the award ceremony and a lecture by Maryna Viazovska on "Packing spheres in big dimensions“.
More information can be found here: http://bwg-nds.de/gauß-medaille/