Announcements
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On July 3, 2008 Günter
M. Ziegler will receive the 2008 Communicator Prize,
awarded by Stifterverband für
die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the
German Research Foundation DFG
for his outstanding role in communicating between Science and the public - see the press release.
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On March 17, 2008 Günter
M. Ziegler received the 2008 Archimedes Prize of the
German teacher's society for mathematics and the natural sciences,
MNU for his role in the
Jahr der Mathematik 2008 - see the press release.
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On March 14, 2008 the German Science Foundation DFG announced that
Michael Huber, guest professor in our group,
will be the recipient of a 2008
DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize. The award ceremony will be June 2.
Congratulations!
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Günter M. Ziegler
has started a blog Mathematik im Alltag - in German - at
http://www.wissenslogs.de
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A special issue in the memory of
Victor Klee
in the journal
Discrete
& Computational Geometry
will be edited by
Peter Gritzmann,
Bernd Sturmfels, and
Günter M. Ziegler.
Please see this page
for further information.
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Live at Urania Berlin,
Friday, November 11, 19:30:
Günter M. Ziegler
in a public discussion about
Excellence in Berlin (in German)
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NOTE: The Block Course
Block Course on Complexity of Geometric Problems
planned for Sept. 2007 at FU Berlin, has to be postponed for some indefinite
time, probably until next spring!
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Join the Research Training Group Methods for Discrete
Structures for the
Fall School on Algorithmic Graph Structure Theory,
October 4-7, 2007!
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Humboldt Prize winner
by Bernd Sturmfels,
who arrived for a year 2007/2008 in Berlin, will teach a
short course
"A Combinatorial Introduction to Tropical Geometry,
September 12-15, 2007 at TU Berlin.
For more information, see the Course Homepage.
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Günter M. Ziegler
is the coordinator for the BERLIN
MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL: This new mathematics graduate program
is a joint endeavor of the three Berlin universities, funded by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
in the framework of the
"Exzellence Initiative".
Don't miss the the
BMS Fridays Colloquium!
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The Research Training Group
Methods for Discrete Structures
(Coordinator:
Günter M. Ziegler)
has started October 2006: See the
Monday
Lectures term schedule!
We will be offering six more Ph.D. fellowships in 2007!
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The DFG-Research Group
Polyhedral Surfaces
(speaker: Alexander
Bobenko) is now meeting on Tuesdays for its Seminar.
