• 5 November: MATH+ Day - including the talk The hardest subject in mathematics by Małgorzata Peszyńska (Oregon State University)
• 19 November: Edith Elkind (U Oxford) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Mind the gap: fair division with separation constraints
• 3 December: Marcos Mariño (Université de Genève): A deal with the devil: making sense of divergent series
• 17 December: Valentin Blomer (U Bonn): Analysis on arithmetic manifolds
• 14 January: Jürgen Jost (MPI MiS Leipzig): Mathematics for exploring chemical space
• 28 January: Jürgen Richter-Gebert (TU Munich): Regular 4-Polytopes, Quaternions, and Hopf Fibrations
  
• 11 February: Maria J. Esteban (U Paris Dauphine): Functional inequalities and their role in Analysis, Probability, Geometry and (Mathematical) Physics

• 6 November: MATH+ Day
• 27 November: Elisabetta Rocca (U Pavia): Recent topics in the modeling and analysis of diffuse interface tumor growth
• 11 December: Amie Wilkinson (U Chicago): Symmetry and asymmetry in dynamics
• 15 January: Harald Helfgott (U Göttingen): Expander graphs in number theory: the prime divisibility graph
• 22 January: Rolf Krause (USI, Lugano): Scales of knowledge
• 5 February: Sylvia Serfaty (NYU Courant): Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
• 19 February: Richard E. Schwartz (Brown U): On the optimal paper Möbius band

Summer Semester 2020

• 17 April: Boris Mordukhovic (Wayne State U): Optimal control of perturbed sweeping processes with applications
• 24 April: Richard Nickl (U Cambridge: Bayesian Inverse Problems: Challenges at the interface of data science, PDEs and high-dimensional statistics
• 15 May: Euler Lecture: Fernando Marques (Princeton U)
• 29 May: tba
• 12 June: Kathryn Hess (EPFL Lausanne) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium:
• 26 June: Edriss Titi (U Cambridge): Mathematics of Turbulent Flows: A Million- Dollar Problem! (online talk)
• 3 July: Celebrating BMS - 12 years of Excellence Initiative, Certificate Ceremony

Winter Semester 2019/20

• 18 October: Dana S. Scott (Emeritus Carnegie Mellon University, Visiting Scientist/Scholar UC Berkeley): Geometry without points
• 8 November: Samuel Payne (U Texas, Austin): Tropical curves, graph homology, and top weight cohomology of M_g
• 29 November: Barbara Zwicknagl (HU Berlin) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Mathematical variations on pattern formation in smart materials
• 13 December: MATH+ Day
• 17 January: Bhargav Narayanan (Rutgers U): Thresholds
• 7 February: Petra Schwer (OVGU Magdeburg): Building bridges between Geometry and Algebra

Summer Semester 2019

• 26 April: Jeff Erickson (U Illinois): Variations on a theme of Steinitz
• 10 May: Euler Lecture: Claire Voisin (Collège de France)
• 24 May: Horst Martini (TU Chemnitz): Minkowski geometry from the discrete point of view
• 7 June: Kristin Shaw (U Oslo): On the topology of real algebraic hypersurfaces
• 21 June: Katrin Wendland (U Freiburg) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Representations of Moonshine
• 5 July: Richard-von-Mises-Lecture together with
  Takashi Kumagai (Kyoto U): Anomalous random walk and diffusion in random media

Winter Semester 2018/19

• 26 October: Folkmar Bornemann (TUM): Finite Size Effects: Random Matrices, Quantum Chaos and Riemann Zeros
• 9 November:  Raman Sanyal (Goethe U Frankfurt): The discrete and the continuous side of valuations -- same same but different
• 30 November: András Stipsicz (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics): Invariants of knots
• 14 December: Sylvie Paycha (U Potsdam) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Are locality and renormalisation reconcilable?
• 18 January: Sylvie Méléard (CMAP, École Polytechnique): Stochastic dynamics for adaptation and evolution of microorganisms
• 8 February:  Deane Yang (NYU Courant): Minkowski problems for convex bodies

Summer Semester 2018

• 27 April: Louis J. Billera (Cornell U): In pursuit of a white whale: On the real linear algebra of vectors of zeros and ones
• 4 May: Euler Lecture: Emmanuel Jean Candès (Stanford U)
• 18 May: Christine Bessenrodt (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Symmetries and tensor products
• 1 June: Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (U Lorraine / LJLL at Sorbonne U): Control theory and some applications on inverse problems and degenerate equations
• 15 June: BMS Friday on the occasion of Grothendieck's 90th birthday:
  Moritz Kerz (U Regensburg): Negative algebraic K-theory, Carlos Simpson (U Nice): From the nonabelian Grothendieck period conjecture to the structure of surfaces uniformized by the ball
• 22 June: Richard-von-Mises-Lecture: Daniele Boffi (U Pavia): Finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem
• 29 June: Felipe Cucker (City U of Hong Kong/EVF TU Berlin): On the homology of semialgebraic sets
• 13 July: Monique Laurent (CWI Amsterdam): Ordering data with combinatorial graph algorithms

Winter Semester 2017/18

• 27 October: Steffen Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen): Graphical models
• 10 November: Ilaria Perugia (U Vienna): Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Trefftz finite elements
• 24 November: Claus Scheiderer (U Konstanz): Spectrahedral shadows
• 15 December: Anna Wienhard (U Heidelberg): A tale of rigidity and flexibility: discrete subgroups of higher rank Lie groups
• 19 January: Marlis Hochbruck (KIT): On the numerical solutions of linear Maxwell's equations
• 2 February: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI/UC Berkeley): Discrete Notions of Homotopy and Homology
• 16 February: Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (U Cambridge): Model based learning in imaging

Summer Semester 2017

• 21 April: Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley): Symplectic embeddings of cubes
• 5 May: Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin): Machine learning and AI for the sciences -- towards understanding
• 19 May: Euler Lecture: Alfio Quarteroni (EPFL Lausanne)
• 2 June: Sujatha Ramdorai (U British Columbia): Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Galois representations and Iwasawa theoretic invariants
• 16 June: von Mises Lecture: Thomas Valentin Mikosch (U Copenhagen): Richard von Mises and the development of modern extreme value theory
• 30 June: Avi Wigderson (IAS Princeton): Randomness
• 14 July: Camillo De Lellis (U Zurich): The Onsager Theorem and folding papers

Winter Semester 2016/17

• 21 October: Alexander Martin (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): Combinatorial optimization problems with physical constraints
• 4 November: Maryna Viazovska (HU Berlin): Solving packing problems by linear programming
• 17 + 18 November: BMS 10th Anniversary
• 2 December: Peter Teichner (MPIM Bonn): Four-dimensional Manifolds revisited
• 16 December: Christoph Benzmüller (FU Berlin): Computational Metaphysics: The Virtues of Formal Computer Proofs Beyond Maths
• 13 January: Dietrich Stoyan (TU Bergakademie Freiberg): Stochastic Geometry in Nature, Arts and Design
• 27 January: Monika Ludwig (TU Vienna): Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Geometric classification
• 10 February: Endre Süli (U Oxford): Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods: Stability, Accuracy, Adaptivity

Summer Semester 2016 

• 29 April: Shiri Artstein-Avidan (U Tel Aviv) - Kovalevskaya Lecture: Billiards in convex domains
• 13 May: Enrico Arbarello (U La Sapienza, Rome): Enumerative geometry, intersection theory and moduli spaces
•  27 May: Euler-Lecture - Yuri Manin (MPIM Bonn)
• 17 June: Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): Tensors and their eigenvectors
• 8 July: Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research New England/MIT): Mysteries of sphere packing in high dimensions
  
  
  

Winter Semester 2015/16

• 16 October: Geordie Williamson (MPI Bonn): Mathematics in light of representation theory
• 30 October: Pierre Cartier (U Paris-Diderot and IHÉS): Towards a Galois theory of transcendental numbers
• 13 November: Christian Haase (FU Berlin), at TU Berlin: Hodge Numbers & Lattice Points
• 27 November: Emo Welzl (ETH Zurich): Crossing-Free Perfect Matchings, etc., on Wheel Point Sets
• 11 December: Julia Wolf (U Bristol) - Kovalevskaya Lecture: Quadratic Fourier Analysis
• 15 January: Philippe Michel (EPFL): Applied l-adic Cohomology
• 29 January: Christof Schütte (ZIB): Model reduction for stochastic processes exhibiting multiple scales
• 12 February: Lex Schrijver (U Amsterdam), at TU Berlin (Horst-Wagon Saal H1012): The partially disjoint paths problem
  
  
  

Summer Semester 2015

• 24 April: Peter Bürgisser (TU Berlin): Geometry, invariants, and the elusive search for complexity lower bounds
• 08 May: Nina Gantert (TUM, Munich): Random media and percolation
• 22 May: Euler Lecture: Cédric Villani (UPMC/CNRS): Of particles, stars, and eternity
• 29 May: Workshop on Nonlinear Algebra
• 12 June: Nathalie Wahl (U Copenhagen) - Kovalevskaya-Lecture: Stabilizing symmetries
• 26 June: von Mises Lecture: John Walsh (U British Columbia): Some remarks on stochastic partial differential equations
• 10 July: Benjamin Sudakov (ETH Zurich): Induced matchings, arithmetic progressions and communication 

 

Winter Semester 2014/15

• 17 October: Volker Remmert (U Wuppertal): Visual representations of the mathematical sciences in early modern Europe
• 31 October: Martin Henk (TU Berlin): Geometry of Numbers: Convex Bodies and Lattice Points
• 14 November: Stephanie B. Alexander (UIUC) - Kovalevskaya-Lecture: Alexandrov Geometry
• 28 November: Anders Björner (KTH): Random walks on complex hyperplane arrangements and self-organising libraries
• 12 December: Alberto Abbondandolo (Ruhr U Bochum): A promenade on the two-sphere
• 09 January: Joachim Weickert (U Saarland): Image Compression with Differential Equations
• 23 January: Angelika Steger (ETH Zurich): The determinism of randomness and its use in combinatorics
• 06 February: Joseph M. Landsberg (Texas A&M U): What can geometry tell us about computer science?

Summer Semester 2014

• 25 April: Eduard Feireisl (Czech Academy of Sciences): Interaction of scales in mathematical fluid dynamics
• 09 May: Mario Arioli: A gentle introduction to complex and quantum graphs and their applications
• 16 May: Euler Lecture: Martin Hairer (U Warwick): Taming infinities
• 23 May: Alina Marian (Northeastern U): Volumes of moduli spaces -- will take place within the framework of the MAF Intensive Course @ HU
• 06 June: Craig S. Kaplan (U Waterloo): Metamorphoses and deformations of tilings
• 13 June: von Mises Lecture: Leszek F. Demkowicz (UT Austin): Finite elements for Maxwell equations
• 20 June: Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zurich): Cohomology of the moduli space of curves
• 04 July: Christian Bär (U Potsdam): Positive curvature in 4 dimensions
• 18 July: Myfanwy Evans (U Erlangen) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Geometry... in a material world...

Winter Semester 2013/14

• 18 October: Ileana Streinu (Smith College): Degrees of Freedom
• 01 November: László Lovász and Katalin Vesztergombi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest): Limits of graphs and nondeterministic property testing
• 15 November: Boris Springborn (TU Berlin): Discrete conformal maps
• 29 November: Martin Burger (U Münster): Patterns and Minimal Models
• 13 December: Felix Otto (MPI Leipzig): Playing with Partial Differential Equations
• 10 January: Benson Farb (U Chicago): Braids, homology, permutations and polynomials -- ZIB lecture hall
• 17 January: Jeff Weeks: Visualizing Four Dimensions (Handout available for download)
• 31 January: Lilian Pierce (HCM) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Bringing the Carleson operator out of Flatland

Summer Semester 2013

• 19 April: Reinhold Schneider (TU Berlin): Hierarchical Tensor Product Representations
• 03 May: László Székelyhidi (U Leipzig): Bending Surfaces and Turbulent Energy Cascades
• 31 May: Euler Lecture in Potsdam with David Eisenbud (MSRI): "Syzygies from Cayley to Kontsevich and beyond"
• 14 June: von Mises Lecture with Louis H.Y. Chen (National University of Singapore): "From functional equations to probability approximations: The amazing Stein's Method"
• 21 June: Etienne Emmrich (TU Berlin): On monotone operators, evolution equations, and existence via discretization
• 05 July: Mireille Bousquet-Melou (LaBRI): Self-avoiding Walks
• 12 July: Barbara Wohlmuth (TU Munich) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Numerical analysis for computational science

Winter Semester 2012/13

• 19 October 2012: Ulrich Pinkall (TU Berlin): Decomposing Smoke into Smoke Rings
• 02 November 2012: Joachim Schwermer (U Wien): On arithmetically defined hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• 16 November 2012: Opening of the RTG Stochastic Analysis
• 30 November 2012: Alan Rendall (MPI): Spacetime singularities and heteroclinic chains
• 14 December 2012: Jason Cantarella (U Georgia): The geometry and topology of random polygons
• 11 January 2013: Opening Colloquium of IRTG Moduli and Automorphic Forms
• 25 January 2013: Özlem Imamoglu (ETH Zurich) Kovalevskaya Colloquium: On Klein's j-invariant
• 08 February 2013: Dorothy Buck (Imperial College London): DNA knots: Why they're (biologically) important and (mathematically) interesting

Summer Semester 2012

• 20 April 2012: Edriss Titi (UC Irvine): The Navier-Stokes, Euler and Other Related Equations
• 11 May 2012: Simon Brendle (Stanford U): Euler Lecture in Potsdam
• 08 June 2012: Karen Vogtmann (Cornell U) - Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Outer Spaces
• 22 June 2012: Tom Banchoff (Brown U): Folds, Intersections and Inflections for Smooth and Polyhedral Surfaces: Distinguishing Cylinders from Möbius Bands (Download Presentation)
• 29 June 2012: Martin Bridson (Oxford U): Discrete groups: A story of geometry, complexity, and imposters (Download Presentation)
• 06 July 2012: Peter Mörters (U Bath): Tossing coins, matching points, and shifting Brownian motion

Winter Semester 2011/12

• 21 October 2011: Charlie Elliott (U Warwick): Evolving interfaces and surfaces
• 28 October 2011: Hannah Markwig (U Saarland):
  What corresponds to Broccoli in the real world? (Download presentation)
• 11 November 2011: Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University) (Kovalevskaya Colloquium): Distinguishing the "hand" of the master?
• 02 December 2011: Igor Rivin (Temple U): Probability, geometry and algorithms of matrix groups 
• 09 December 2011: James Sethian (UC Berkeley): Advances in Advancing Interfaces: Efficient Algorithms for Inkjet Plotters, Coating Rollers, Semiconductors, Retinopathy Diagnosis, and Chemical Pathway Analysis
• 06 January 2012: Gitta Kutyniok (TU Berlin): Imaging Science meets Compressed Sensing (Download presentation)
• 20 January 2012: Penny Haxell (U Waterloo): Independent transversals, or, choosing faculty committees (Download presentation)
• 03 February 2012: Michael Kupper (HU Berlin): Risk, model uncertainty and nonlinear expectations

Summer Semester 2011

• 15 April 2011: Katrin Bringmann (U Köln): Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Mock theta functions, probability and cellular automata models
• 29 April 2011: John M. Sullivan (TU Berlin): Ropelength criticality for knots and links
• 13 May 2011: Dan Spielman (Yale U): Approximating Graphs and Solving Systems of Linear Equations (presentation for download)
• 20 May 2011: Euler Lecture Potsdam: Timothy Gowers (Cambridge): The internet and new ways of doing mathematics
• 27 May 2011: Ulisse Stefanelli (IMATI): Evolution = Minimization ?
• 10 June 2011: Valery Alexeev (U Georgia): Polytopes, tilings, and compact moduli of algebraic varieties (Presentation for download)
• 24 June 2011: Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): The Central Curve in Linear Programming (Presentation for download)
• 01 July 2011: Richard von Mises Lecture: Christian P. Robert (U Paris Dauphine): On Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods
• 08 July 2011: Wendelin Werner (U Paris Sud - Orsay): Random surfaces and their geometry

Winter Semester 2010/11

• October 22, 2010: Don Zagier (MPI Bonn): Mathematics in Another World - A report on Japanese mathematics in the Edo period
• November 5, 2010: Marie-Françoise Roy (U Rennes) Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Certificates of positivity
• November 26, 2010: Jean-Benoît Bost (U Paris-Sud Orsay): The work of Jacobi on elliptic functions: an introduction for today's mathematician
• December 3, 2010: Joel Spencer (NYU): Der Zauberer von Budapest - Paul Erdös and the Rise of Discrete Mathematics
• December 10, 2010: Rafael Nunez (UCSD): What then is Mathematics? A view from Cognitive Science
• January 14, 2011: Jens Funke (U Durham): Hecke and Langlands - A little bit of number theory
  (Presentation for download)
• January 28, 2011: Bernd Wegner (Zentralblatt für Mathematik): Zentralblatt MATH - the gateway to mathematics literature
• February 11, 2011: David P. Williamson (Cornell U) Humboldt Lecture: What Computers Can Compute
  (Presentation for download)

Summer Semester 2010

• April 23, 2010: Lex Schrijver (CWI and U Amsterdam): Bounding Stable Sets in Graphs and Codes
  (Presentation for download)
• May 7, 2010: Andrew Stuart (U Warwick): Inverse Problems
  (Presentation for download)
• May 21, 2010: Marcus du Sautoy (U Oxford): Through the looking glass: groups from a number theoretic perspective
  (Presentation for download)
• May 28, 2010: Euler Lecture Potsdam: Wendelin Werner (U Paris-Sud)
• June 4, 2010: Ciro Ciliberto (U Roma 2 - Tor Vergata): Geometric aspects of polynomial interpolation in more variables
  (Presentation for download)
• June 18, 2010: Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers U): The Number of Isomers of Nicotine
• July 2, 2010: Alison Etheridge (U Oxford) Kovalevskaya Colloquium: The pain in the torus: modelling populations in a spatial continuum
• July 16, 2010: Aner Shalev (Hebrew U Jerusalem): Words: From Number Theory to Finite Simple Groups

Winter Semester 2009/10

• October 23, 2009: Andreas Griewank (HU Berlin): "Derivative based Optimization"
• November 6, 2009: Ragni Piene (Oslo) Kovalevskaya Colloquium: "Counting curves: the hunting of generating functions" (Presentation for download)
• November 20, 2009: North German Algebraic Geometry Seminar (NoGAGS): Klaus Hulek (Hannover): "Geometry of Moduli Spaces" (Presentation for download)
• December 4, 2009: Jack van Wijk (Eindhoven): "Knots, Maps, and Tiles: Three Mathematical Visualization Puzzles" (Presentation for download)
• December 18, 2009: Peter K. Friz (TU Berlin): "Rough paths and the Gap Between Deterministic and Stochastic Differential Equations" (Presentation for download)
• January 8, 2010: Martin Rumpf (Bonn): "Geodesics in the the space of shapes"
• January 22, 2010: Felix Mühlhölzer (Göttingen): "Surprises in Mathematics" (Handout for download)
• February 5, 2010: Victor Buchstaber (Manchester/Moscow): "Combinatorics of simple polytopes and differential equations" (Presentation for download)

Summer Semester 2009

• April 24, 2009: Michael Hintermüller (HU Berlin): "Use Level Sets and Relax!"
  (Presentation for download)
• May 8, 2009: Benedict Gross (Harvard): "Values of zeta functions at negative integers and the dimensions of spaces of modular forms"
• May 15, 2009: Keith Ball (UC London) "The second law of probability: entropy growth in the central limit theorem"
  (Presentation for download) Extended Version for download (PPT)
• May 29, 2009: Euler Lecture in Potsdam: Hendrik W. Lenstra (Leiden): "Modelling Finite Fields"
• June 12, 2009: von Mises Lecture in Adlershof: Albert Shiryaev (Steklov Institute of Mathematics): "From von Mises' COLLECTIVE to Kolmogorov's COMPLEXITY"
• June 19, 2009: Margaret Wright (New York University), Kovalevskaya Colloquium: "Non-derivative optimization: Mathematics, engineering, or heuristics?"
  (Presentation for download)
• July 10, 2009: BMS Summer Outing to MPI in Golm: Cedric Villani (ENS Lyon/Princeton): "Legacy of Boltzmann"
  (presentation for download) (talk for download)

Winter Semester 2008/09

• October 17, 2008: Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg): "Political Space Curves"
• October 31, 2008: Martin Skutella (TU Berlin): "Flows over time - classical and more recent results"
• November 14, 2008: Michael Rapoport (Bonn): "On the zeta function of Shimura varieties"
• November 28, 2008: Wolfgang Lück (Münster): "Topological Rigidity"
• December 12, 2008: Jay Jorgenson (City College of New York): "Identities in Euclidean and Hyperbolic Geometry which follow from Existence and Uniqueness Theorems"
• January 9, 2009: Susanne Albers (Freiburg): "Network Design Games"
• January 23, 2009: Annette Werner (Frankfurt), Kovalevskaya Colloquium: "Bruhat-Tits buildings and their compactifications" February 6, 2009: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University Jerusalem): Helly-type theorems
   

Summer Semester 2008

• April 25, 2008: Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam): Modular forms and counting curves over finite fields
• May 9, 2008: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen):Compressed Sensing
• May 23, 2008: Euler Lecture in Potsdam: Michael Hopkins, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
• June 6, 2008, Please note: change of location - Kleist-Saal at Urania:Hans Föllmer (HU Berlin): Bright spotlights, dark shadows: probabilistic aspects of financial risk
• June 20, 2008: Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (EPFL) Kovalevskaya Colloquium: "The Euclidean division"
• July 4, 2008: BMS visits the Wissenschaftssommer (Summer of Science) in Leipzig
• July 11, 2008: Opening of the BMS Lounge at FU with BMS Summer Party (Sommerfest)!

Winter Semester 2007/08

• October 26, 2007: BMS Professor Herbert Edelsbrunner (Duke/Berlin):Measuring scale before simplification
• November 2, 2007: Wendelin Werner (Université Paris Sud) Coloring at random
• November 9, 2007: Rainer Weissauer (Heidelberg) Coverings of Riemann surfaces and a new kind of Galois groups
• November 23, 2007, at HU Adlershof: Claus Michael Ringel (Bielefeld): Invariant subspaces of nilpotent operators
• December 14, 2007:  Ilka Agricola (HU Berlin): The E₈ challenge
• January 11, 2008: Rupert Klein (FU Berlin): Multiple scales in Weather and Climate
  January 25, 2008: Ruth Kellerhals (Fribourg) Hyperbolic isometry groups and small volume (Kovalevskaya Colloquium) 
• February 8, 2008: BMS Professor Shmuel Friedland (Chicago/Berlin): Counting matchings in graphs, with applications to the monomer-dimer models

Summer Semester 2007

• May 4, 2007, 10:00-12:00: a LaTeX workshop with Christoph Eyrich
  Colloquium at 14:00: George Francis (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign):
  Designing computer animations with chalk and blackboard
• May 11, 2007, 2007, Kovalevskaya Colloquium by Olga Holtz (TU Berlin):
  "How to multiply matrices fast (and why bother)?''
• May 25, 2007, in Potsdam: Euler-Vorlesung in Sanssouci
• June 8-10, 2007, at TU Berlin: Graphics workshop, with Bill Casselman (UBC, Vancouver),
  the cover graphics editor for the Notices of the AMS
• June 8, 2007, at TU Berlin, MA 043: Alexander Barvinok (U Michigan, Ann Arbor):
  The asymptotic equivalence of counting and optimization
• June 15, 2007: Bill Casselman (UBC, Vancouver): An illustrated history of geometry
• June 22, 2007: Andrei Okounkov (Princeton): Box counting
• June 29, 2007, at the BMS Loft of the Urania: Albert Cohen (Paris 6):
  Harmonic Analysis and Image Processing
• July 13, 2007: Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley/Berlin): Algebraic Degree of Semidefinite Programming
• July 20, 2007: Jan Kristensen (Oxford/HU Berlin): The Problem of Regularity in the Calculus of Variations

Winter Semester 2006/07 

• October 20, 2006: Jürg Kramer : Overview of the BMS
• December 1: Excursion to Dresden, Guided tour to the Mathematisch-physikalischer Salon of the Zwinger
• John Sullivan, TU Berlin: Geometric knot theory
• November 3, 2006: Peter Schröder, CalTech: "Discrete Exterior Calculus with an application to circulation preserving simplicial fluid simulation"
• November 17, 2006: The first Kovalevskaya Colloquium: Hélène Esnault, Essen: "Congruences for the number of rational points of varieties defined over finite fields"
• November 24: Robert Bryant, Duke University: "Aufwiedersehen Surfaces, Revisited"
• December 15: Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna: "Gödel's Vienna" (celebrating the end of the Gödel year)
• January 19, 2007: The first Mathematics as a Whole Colloquium: Martin Aigner, FU Berlin:"Volumes, polyhedra, and prime numbers: A common combinatorial look"
• February 2,2007: morning program: BMS-Workshop on Presentation Training with Brigitte Lutz-Westphal
  Eberhard Knobloch: "Euler and Leibniz on the infinite" (celebrating Euler year 2007)
• February 12/13, all day, at the BMS Loft of Urania: BMS Days
• February 16: See the sea - Excursion to the Berlin Aquarium