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.
KidsBox
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.
Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math
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/