October 2025
MINGZ Postdoc Welcome Night
The MIN-Faculty at Universität Hamburg welcomes all new (and anybody that still feels new) postdoctoral fellows in Hamburg, to the supportive environment at the MIN faculty and at PIER Education Platform (PEP). We will make you familiar with structures at the MIN faculty and have two mini Workshops to choose between!
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Sven-Ake Wegner
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Sven-Ake Wegner (University of Hamburg, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics)
Lecture title: Categorification in functional analysis
Abstract: PDF
Colloquium on Mathematical Statistics and Stochastic Processes: Prof. Yi Yu
Guest lecturer: Prof. Yi Yu, Professor at University of Warwick, Department of Statistics
Lecture: Optimal Cox regression under federated differential privacy: coefficients and cumulative hazards
Contact: Prof. Dr. Johannes Lederer, Mathematics of data driven methods, University of Hamburg
Disputation: Sofiya Onyshkevych "Shape Optimization for Aerodynamic Problems"
Invitation to the university-public part-digital disputation in the context of the doctoral project of
Ms. Sofiya Onyshkevych
Title of the thesis: „Shape Optimization for Aerodynamic Problemsy“
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Babette de Wolff
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Babette de Wolff (University of Hamburg, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics)
Lecture title: Networks, delays and patterns
Abstract: PDF
November 2025
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Bastian Harrach
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Bastian Harrach (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Mathematics)
Lecture title: From inverse problems in PDEs to convex semidefinite optimization
Abstract: PDF
MINGZ Doctoral Welcome Night
The MIN Graduate Center (MINGZ) is excited to invite the new (and not-so-new) doctoral researchers to a Welcome Night. You will be able to get to know the MINGZ, meet your fellow doctoral candidates, and grab a beer. We will provide information on:
How to get started at Universität Hamburg;
How to optimize the journey towards your doctoral degree;
How to cope with stress, planning your career...
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Markus Bachmayr
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Markus Bachmayr (RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Geometry and Applied Mathematics )
Lecture title: Low-rank approximations for time-dependent partial differential equations
Abstract: PDF
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Vadym Aizinger
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Vadym Aizinger (University of Bayreuth, Chair of Scientific Computing)
Lecture title: Performance portability of a discontinuous Galerkin shallow water model on CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs
Abstract: PDF
December 2025
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Kaname Matsue
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Kaname Matsue (Kyushu Universit, Japan, Institute of Mathematics for Industry)
Lecture title: Description of finite-time singularities via dynamics at infinity
Abstract: PDF
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Tomas Sauer
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Tomas Sauer (University of Passau, Chair of Digital Image Processing)
Lecture title: Compression, visualization and handling of really large CT images
Abstract: PDF
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Angela Stevens
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens (University of Münster, Institute for Analysis and Numerics)
Lecture title: Kinetic equations in mathematical epidemiology and 'complete' sets of invariants
Abstract: PDF
January 2026
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Marcus Waurick
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Marcus Waurick (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Applied Analysis)
Lecture title: Nonlocal effects induced by homogenization of metamaterials
Abstract: PDF
Colloquium on Applied Mathematics: Prof Dr. Andrea Walther
Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium on Applied Mathematics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Andrea Walther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Mathematics)
Lecture title: On optimality conditions for nonsmooth functions
Abstract: PDF