19/20 February 2018 at the BMS Loft, Urania

Berlin People, Projects, Opportunities

Program

Sunday, 18 February 
19:00   Pizza Dinner (organized by BMS students)

Monday, 19 February                                                                                                                

09:45   Welcome  
10:00   BMS Program and Student Life 
11:00   Sylvie Roelly (U Potsdam): (Random) dynamical sphere packing
12:00   Lunch Break / Group Meetings I / Individual Interviews
15:30   Timo de Wolff (TU Berlin): An introduction to nonnegativity and polynomial optimization
17:00   Reception


Tuesday, 20 February                                                                                                                  

10:00 "What is...?" Seminar
11:00   Frank Noé (FU Berlin): Finding tiny black swans: Mathematics for the very small and the very rare
12:00   Lunch Break / Group Meetings II / Individual Interviews
15:30   Bruno Klingler (HU Berlin): What is... the Hodge conjecture?
16:30   BMS Math Slam/Math Quiz (organized by BMS students)

20:00   Beer Night (organized by BMS students)

Please note, the BMS Days are followed by the BMS Student Conference.