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Computing Earthquakes – Mathematician Prof. Gert Zöller Develops Probability Models for Earthquakes and Other Disasters
The province of Groningen in the Netherlands is not generally considered a seismic hotspot. Nevertheless, an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter... more
Geometry at Infinity – Mathematicians of the University of Potsdam are researching actually unimaginable things
Prof. Dr. Christian Bär holds the professorship for geometry at the University of Potsdam and investigates differential geometry and its neighboring... more
Hundreds in Bundles – A mathematics app to help children understand the place value of numbers
As with many other problems, the Covid-19 crisis is relentlessly exposing the digital deficits in many German schools and school systems. Even in... more
In My Little Chamber – The Difficult Task of Writing a Doctoral Thesis During the Corona Crisis
On the corona pandemic – contributions from the University of Potsdam Vittoria Sposini from Italy and Samudrajit Thapa from India are PhD students in the Theoretical Physics Group of Prof. Ralf Metzler at the Institute... more
Bringing Order to Chaos – A Mathematician brings together data and models with improved methods
Small variations can have big effects. This insight is part of Dr. Jana de Wiljes’ everyday work life. The researcher works with mathematical models... more
I See What You See - Potsdam Cognitive scientists develop models for predicting eye movements
For some time, cognitive scientists have been focusing on the human gaze, especially when it comes to reading and viewing images and objects. We know... more
The Best of Both Worlds - The Connection between the Weather, Amoebae, and the Human Gaze
Data is all the rage. Satellite images make the entire world available - in detail and around the clock. Humans, too, are being captured down to the... more
Goals, Teams, and Theory – Mathematician Ulrich Kortenkamp brings together probability calculation and soccer
For some, soccer is a bore, since not much is going on. Others follow “their” team every weekend. Ulrich Kortenkamp is a soccer fan and Professor of... more
“Like on a Train Platform after a Football Match” – Researching the inside of cells with statistical mechanics
Beginning where others stop and describing the indescribable indefinable are Ralf Metzler’s passions. Statistical mechanics is his hobbyhorse. The... more