FACULTY OF

MATHEMATICS

For his online teaching during the summer semester 2020, Christian Kaspers was awarded with the Otto von Guericke Teaching Award 2020 of the OVGU. 

Photos, a video and all information can be found in the official press release der OVGU.

(Photo: Jana Dünnhaupt)

The Discrete Mathematics group welcomes Ingo Czerwinski as a new member of their team. Ingo Czerwinski lives in Karlsruhe, he will work as an external doctoral student on questions from discrete maths.

On October 19, 2020, he presented his present results about the values sets of APN functions to the whole group in an online talk. Everybody who is interested can find a preprint of his work here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/705

In the September faculty council meeting, Alexander Pott was unanimously voted the new dean of the Faculty of Mathematics of the OVGU. He will start his third term as dean on October 1, 2020.

In cooperation with Ilaria Cardinali (Siena), Michel Lavrauw (Istanbul) and Klaus Metsch (Gießen), Alexander Pott will organize the 6th Irsee Conference on Finite Geometries. The conference will take place from September 6-12, 2020, at the Irsee Monastery. All information can be found here.

Alexander Pott was selected as a guest editor for a special edition of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics in honor of the 65th birthday of K. T. Arasu. He will handle this task in cooperation with Dean Crnković (Rijeka, Croatia) and Ka Hin Leung (Singapore).

All important information about the special edition can be found here.