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Mikaela Iacobelli: inaugural lecture
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On 13 May, Professor Mikaela Iacobelli gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Challenges and Breakthroughs in the Mathematics of Plasmas". She has been an associate professor at the Department since April 2023.
Menny Akka: introductory lecture
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On 8 May, PD Dr Menny Akka gave his introductory lecture entitled: "Homogeneous spaces: a playground for arithmetic, dynamics, groups and geometry".
Giovanni Felder: farewell lecture
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On 28 February, Professor Giovanni Felder gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Pentagons". He has been a professor at the Department since 1996.
Sarah Zerbes: inaugural lecture
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On 21 February, Professor Sarah Zerbes gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Elliptic curves and Fermat’s last theorem". She has been a professor at the Department since 1 January 2022.
Jonas Peters: inaugural lecture
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On 30 October, Professor Jonas Peters gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "What happens if? Can we learn from data how ecosystems react to changes?" He has been a professor at the Department since 1 April 2023.
Sara van de Geer: farewell lecture
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On 31 May, Professor Sara van de Geer gave her farewell lecture entitled: "Data dust". She has been a professor at the Seminar for Statistics since 2005.
Alain-Sol Sznitman: farewell lecture
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On 3 May, Professor Alain-Sol Sznitman gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Of chance and serendipity". He has been professor at the Department since 1991.
Peter Hintz: inaugural lecture
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On 5 April, Professor Peter Hintz gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Mathematics of black holes". He has been professor at the Department since July 2021.
Joaquim Serra: inaugural lecture
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On 5 April, Professor Joaquim Serra gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Smoothness in nature and elliptic partial differential equations". He has been professor at the Department since January 2021.
Dylan Possamaï: inaugural lecture
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On 31 March, Professor Dylan Possamaï gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Contract theory and optimal control: a (short) story about incentives". He has been professor at the Department since August 2020.
Beatrice Acciaio: inaugural lecture
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On 31 March, Professor Beatrice Acciaio gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Adapted Wasserstein distance for robust stochastic optimization". She has been professor at the Department since August 2020.
Michael Struwe: farewell lecture
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On 13 October, Professor Michael Struwe gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Geometric analysis – variations on a theme". He has been professor at the Department since 1986.
Afonso Bandeira: inaugural lecture
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On 26 October, Professor Afonso Bandeira gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Computation, statistics, and optimization of random functions". He has been professor at the Department since September 2019.
Peter Feller: inaugural lecture
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On 26 October, Professor Peter Feller gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Knots and geometry". He has been assistant professor at the Department since September 2019.
Dietmar Salamon: farewell lecture
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On 22 November, Professor Dietmar Salamon gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Life in the search of truth and beauty". He has been professor at the Department since November 1998.
Paul Embrechts: farewell lecture
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On 30 May, Professor Paul Embrechts gave his farewell lecture entitled: "January 31, 1953, and September 11, 2001: Living with Risk". He has been professor at the Department since November 1989.
Demetrios Christodoulou: farewell lecture
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On 16 May, Professor Demetrios Christodoulou gave his farewell lecture entitled: "A personal experience through mathematics and physics". He has been professor at the Department since 2001.
Vincent Tassion: inaugrual lecture
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On 9 October, Professor Vincent Tassion gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Percolation theory: a mathematical perspective". He has been assistant professor at the Department since January 2017.
Rima Alaifari: inaugural lecture
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On 25 September, Professor Rima Alaifari gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Stable extraction of information from unstable systems". She has been assistant professor at the Department since October 2016.
Thomas Willwacher: inaugural lecture
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On 11 May, Professor Thomas Willwacher gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Feynman diagrams in algebra and topology". He has been associate professor at the Department since May 2016.
Alessandro Carlotto: inaugural lecture
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On 2 March, Professor Alessandro Carlotto gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Isolated gravitational systems: four centuries of mathematical challenges". He has been assistant professor at the Department since September 2016.
Alessio Figalli: inaugural lecture
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On 28 February, Professor Alessio Figalli gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Optimal transport: theory and applications". He has been professor at the Department since September 2016.
Patrick Cheridito: inaugural lecture
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On 23 November, Professor Patrick Cheridito gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Risk, uncertainty and insurance contracts". He has been professor at the Department since June 2016.
Lorenz Halbeisen: inaugural lecture
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On 24 May, Dr Lorenz Halbeisen gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Über die Existenz mathematischer Objekte". He has been a Senior Scientist at the Department since autumn 2014.
Christoph Keller: inaugural lecture
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On 14 March, Prof. Christoph Keller gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Symmetrien in der Mathematik und Physik". He has been an assistant professor at the Department since October 2015.
Will Merry and Alessandro Sisto: inaugural lectures
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On 1 March, Prof. Will Merry and Prof. Alessandro Sisto gave their inaugural lectures.
Habib Ammari: inaugural lecture
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On 10 December, Prof. Habib Ammari gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Mathematics for imaging". He has been a professor at the Department since May 2015.
Evelina Viada: inaugural lecture
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On 24 September, Prof. Evelina Viada gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Numbers and equations". She has been an assistant professor at the Department since November 2014.
Rico Zenklusen: inaugural lecture
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On 15 September, Prof. Rico Zenklusen gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Mit kombinatorischer Optimierung zur Nadel im Heuhaufen". He has been an assistant professor at the Department since April 2015.
Paul Nelson: inaugural lecture
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On 20 April, Prof. Paul Nelson gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Arithmetical eigenfunctions". He has been an assistant professor at the Department since August 2014.
Peter Jossen and Martin Larsson: inaugural lectures
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On 26 February, Prof. Peter Jossen and Prof. Martin Larsson gave their inaugural lectures.
Hans-Rudolf Künsch: farewell lecture
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On 12 November, Prof. Hans-Rudolf Künsch gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Welch ein Zufall!". He has been professor at the D-MATH since October 1983.
Antti Knowles: inaugural lecture
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On 16 April, Prof. Antti Knowles gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Universale Phänomene in Zufallsmatrizen". He has been professor at the Department since January 2014.
Nicolai Meinshausen and Benjamin Sudakov: inaugural lectures
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On 26 March, Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen and Prof. Benjamin Sudakov gave their inaugural lectures.
Wendelin Werner: inaugural lecture
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On 18 February, Prof. Wendelin Werner gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Zufallsmässig kritzeln, malen und kneten". He has been professor at the Department since June 2013.