The Berlin Mathematics Research Center

MATH+

is a cross-institutional and transdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence where researchers will explore and further develop new approaches in application-oriented mathematics. Emphasis is placed on mathematical principles for using ever larger amounts of data in life and material sciences, in energy and network research, and in the humanities and social sciences. The aim is to boost not only scientific progress, but also technological innovation and the comprehensive understanding of social processes.

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Clinical Research and Health Care
Progress in medicine as well as biotechnology more than ever relies on progress in mathematics to complement traditional lab-based approaches.
In close cooperation with medical doctors, engineers and pharmaceutical industry, Matheon successfully supports e.g. the design of patient-specific therapies, computer assisted surgery planning like implant design and systems biology.
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Metropolitan Infrastructure
Transportation, communication, energy supply – our society strongly depends on well-functioning infrastructure. Its design has a long term impact, is expensive and its decisions are often almost irreversible.
Mathematics plays a key role in handling the complexity and optimization of such networks – and Matheon develops mathematical tools for it.
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Optical Technologies
The great challenges of our modern world lie in the areas health, environment, energy, production or safety. A key factor for scientific advances and innovations in these areas is the generation and manipulation of photons, for example for data transmission, high-resolution microscopy or the processing of industrial materials. Matheon helps to understand and shape the complex new phenomena associated with it.
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Sustainable Energies
The German Energiewende requires big efforts in developing reliable, efficient and cost-effective systems of regenerative energy supply, not to forget energy efficiency as a whole. Matheon finds solutions for multiple optimization problems in energy distribution, material development and usage, and production processes.
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Geometric Design and Visualization
There is a growing demand for visualization of complex data – e.g. in medical imaging, production processes or even in mathematics itself.
Matheon develops fundamentally new mathematical concepts and geometric algorithms to foster image processing, computer graphics – or simply a better understanding of mathematical correlations
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Education and Outreach
Mathematics is more and more present in everyday life. But when it comes to the public's awareness of it and the way mathematics is taught at schools, there is still improvement needed. Matheon initiates closer cooperation between schools and universities, is engaged in teachers' education, and offers a broad spectrum of activities to communicate the exciting and application-driven aspects of mathematics.
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The mission of Matheon is application driven mathematics.

Our scientists develop new methods in modeling, simulation, and optimization for real world processes in all key technology areas. The research covers projects in the areas Clinical Research and Health Care, Metropolitan Infrastructure, Optical Technologies, Sustainable Energies, as well as Geometric Design and Visualization. New methodologies are developed in interdisciplinary cooperation with project partners from industry, economy and science.
Matheon also cooperates with schools and the general public to raise public awareness in the wide applicability of mathematics and to attract new generations of young researchers.

Matheon is a joint research center of the three Berlin universities (Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and the mathematical research institutes WIAS (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik) and ZIB (Zuse Institut Berlin).

Research in Matheon is currently supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin via the Einstein Center ECMath.

Matheon Head

Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann

2008 - 2016 Chair of the Research Center Matheon

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News

2019-04-08

Prof. Gitta Kutyniok honored with SIAM Fellowship

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM, elected Gitta Kutyniok as a Fellow 2019, for her contributions to applied harmonic analysis (wavelet-theory, shearlet-theory, time-frequency analysis, etc.), compressed sensing, and imaging sciences. The SIAM Fellows Program recognizes members of SIAM who have made outstanding contributions to their discipline. Kutyniok is Einstein-Professor for Applied Functional Analysis at TU Berlin. Within MATH+, she is, amongst others, PI, member of the BMS Executive Board, and Special Coordinator for “Mathematics of Data Science.“ read more »

2019-04-02

ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. Gavril Farkas

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in the sum of 2.15 million euros to Gavril Farkas for his proposal “Syzygies, moduli and topological invariants of groups.“ He intends to use the grant for a large research group that will continue to investigate the idea of connecting the different fields of algebra and topology. Gavril Farkas is Professor for Algebraic Geometry at the HU Berlin, member of the BMS Executive Board, and MATH+ Principle Investigator. read more »

2019-03-19

GAMM awards Matheon and BMS Alumni

The International Association for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) has awarded two of this year's prizes to BMS and Matheon alumni.
Dr. Friederike Hellwig (HU Berlin) has received the Dr.-Klaus-Körper Prize for her excellent dissertation "Adaptive Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin Finite-Element-Methods".
Dr. Dietmar Gallistl (formerly HU Berlin, now U Twente (NL)) was awarded the Richard von Mises Prize for his outstanding work on the discretization of elliptic problems of higher order.
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2019-03-01

Nicolas Perkowski receives Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the DFG

The junior professor at the HU Berlin and research group leader at the MPI for Mathematics in Natural Sciences in Leipzig is honored with the most important German young researchers award in recognition of his scientific achievements in the field of probability theory. His research focuses on singular stochastic partial differential equations, applied stochastic analysis, and robust financial mathematics. Perkowski is BMS alumnus. Together with colleagues, he leads the MATH+ projects AA1-3 and AA4-1. read more »

2019-01-28

Cleaning up in Space: Berlin School Team is testing its development on board the ISS on 28.01.

The grand finale of this year's MIT and NASA competition SPHERES will take place on January 28th, 15:00 - and students from the Berlin-based Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium will join the event via internet connection in Alicante (Spain). Then astronauts on the ISS will fly the mini satellites programmed by 14 international school teams. Their task this time: Collecting dangerous space junk, which increasingly threatens satellites and other flying space objects such as the ISS. The Berlin participants, supported by the Research Center Matheon and now the new Cluster of Excellence MATH +, have been among the top teams for many years. read more »

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