News
Ursula Ludwig accepts offer from the University of Nice (France)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Ludwig (University of Münster/University of Duisburg-Essen) has accepted an offer from the University of Nice (France) and has started her professorship there as of September 1, 2024. We congratulate her to this success and we are glad that she will remain an associated member of the RTG 2553.
Research Training Group 2553 will be continued
The German Research Foundation DFG has decided that our Research Training Group 2553 “Symmetries and classifying spaces: analytic, arithmetic and derived” will be funded for a second period of four and a half years, until March 2024. We are very happy about this emphatic confirmation of our work in the Research Training Group, and above all about being able to support current and future doctoral students in the Research Training Group in the coming years. The next 5 doctoral positions are to be filled as early as October 2024.
Summer school on Hodge theory and Shimura varieties
Early Researchers in Number Theory Workshop 2024
From September 18 to 20, 2024, the Early Number Theory Researcher Workshop 2024 will take place in Essen. The invited speakers are Johannes Anschütz, Yukako Kezuka and Andreas Mihatsch. Registration is open until July 1, 2024!
Workshop on Complex Hyperbolicity
On February 22 and 23, 2024 a “Workshop on Complex Hyperbolicity” will take place in Essen. The speakers are Damian Brotbek, Ariyan Javanpeykar and Jörg Winkelmann.
VBAC – Recent applications to the geometry of moduli spaces
From August 28 to September 1 the Summer school and conference “VBAC – Recent applications to the geometry of moduli spaces” will take place in Essen. There will be mini-courses by Camilla Felisetti, Margarida Melo and Isabel Vogt.
PhD days 2023
On Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th of march, several of the pure math PhD students will give talks on their research interests. This is a great opportunity for Master students to inform themselves on what doing a PhD (in Essen) might be like and for the PhD students in Essen to find out what others in the faculty are interested in.
Conference Harnessing Motivic Invariants
From June 27 to July 1 the Conference “Harnessing Motivic Invariants” will take place in Essen.
Summer School on Arithmetic Geometry
In the week of September 5 to 9, we will hold a Summer School on Arithmetic Geometry in Essen, on the occasion of Massimo Bertolini’s 60th birthday. Samit Dasgupta, David Loeffler, Vincent Pilloni, Alice Pozzi will give mini-courses. In the week after the school, there will be a conference in Milano .
ALGANT Graduation Ceremony
The ALGANT Graduation Ceremony takes place in Essen from July 11 to July 13.
Workshop on Complex Analysis and Geometry
From June 20 to 24, a Workshop on Complex Analysis and Geometry, organized by Daniel Greb and George Marinescu, will take place in Essen.
Johannes Sprang joins the Essen Seminar as a junior professor
As of May 1, Dr. Johannes Sprang starts as a junior professor in the Department of Mathematics at Essen. His research focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory. Before coming to Essen he worked at the University of Regensburg. In this summer term, he already teaches a course on algebraic number theory here in Essen. We are very happy to welcome him in our team.
Spring school on the mod $p$ Langlands correspondence
In the week of April 26 – 30.4., the Research Training Group 2553 will hold a Spring School towards a mod $p$ Langlands correspondence. Christophe Breuil, Florian Herzig, Yongquan Hu, Stefano Morra and Benjamin Schraen will give talks about their very recent results.
ALGANT Graduation Ceremony
The ALGANT Graduation Ceremony takes place from July 13 to July 15 — this year as a virtual event.
Summer school on Hodge theory and Shimura varieties
Canceled due to the corona epidemy.
From August 10 to 14, we will have a Summer school on Hodge theory and Shimura varieties in Essen. Matt Kerr, Andreas Mihatsch and Colleen Robles will teach mini-courses, and we also expect to have a couple of research talks. Registration is open!
Research Training Group 2553 “Symmetries and classifying spaces: analytic, arithmetic and derived”
The German Research Foundation DFG will fund a Research Training Group run by the Essen Seminar for Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetic starting April 2020. The first funding period will run for four and a half years. After an initial phase, eventually 13 positions for PhD students and one postdoc position will be funded. The first 4 positions will be formally announced shortly.