Alumni Newsletter LXVIII, August

A l u m n i N ew s l e t t e r
No. 68, August 2015
W
elcome to the sixty-eigth editon of our
online newsletter, which will inform
you about the highlights of the Kaiserslautern Graduate School ‘Mathematics as a
Key Technology‘.
Admissions for the 2015/16 study programmes
1. FROM THE DEPARTMENT
Please find the home countries of all the selected candidates below:
Summer School on Algebraic and Tropical
Geometry
A total of 29 international students have been
accepted to the graduate study programmes at
the Department of Mathematics in the winter
semester 2015/16.
Armenia China Ghana Indonesia Kazakhstan Nigeria Sri Lanka Tanzania 1
3
4
1
1
1
2
1
Bangladesh
Ethiopia India Iran Nepal Pakistan Syria USA
2
1
3
1
3
1
2
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On the occasion of the 50-year-long diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel,
the project IMAGINARY Israel by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
(MFO) was launched. It receives funding from
the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF) and is organized within the Research in
The next table shows the admissions by proGermany campaign of the BMBF, with the aim
gramme and specialisation:
of strengthening the traditionally very good
mathematical research collaborations between
WS 2015/16 (total)
29
the two countries. Master (total) 25
Financial Mathematics and Statistics
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The project consists of two mathematics exhibiAlgebra 7
tions for the general public, a summer school
Industrial Mathematics
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and a conference mainly for young mathemaAnalysis und Stochastics
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ticians from Germany and Israel. The summer
PhD MIC
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school will be hosted at the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern PhD theses successfully defended in June and
from September 7-11, 2015.
July
Programme
Ren, Yue (24.06.2015)
“Tropical Geometry in Singular”
The programme of the summer school consists Supervisor: Markwig
of three series of lectures with accompanying
example classes. The summer school aims at Kobert, Maria (22.07.2015)
advanced graduate students, PhD students and “Application of the Finite Pointset Method to
young PostDocs interested in the subject. The moving boundary problems for the BGK model
participants are supposed to be familiar with the of rarefied gas dynamics”
basics of algebraic geometry, say, in the form of Supervisor: Klar
an introductory course on algebraic geometry.
Jahnert, Florian (24.07.2015)
Please find detailed information under:
“Construction of a Mittag-Leffler Analysis and
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~keilen/ its Applications”
Conferences/ATG2015/index.html
Supervisor: Grothaus
FROM THE DEPARTMENT
Kleinert, Jan Lars (24.07.2015)
“Simulating Granular Material using Nonsmooth Time-Stepping and a Matrix-Free
Interior Point Method”
Supervisor: Simeon
Professor Oleg Smolyanov from the Lomonosov Moscow State University was a guest of
Prof. Dr. Grothaus (Functional Analysis and
Stochastic Analysis) from July 1-31, 2015.
Dr. Mandi Schaeffer-Fry from the Metropolitan
State University of Denver was a guest of Prof.
Ishak, Norizarina (30.07.2015)
“Aspects and Applications of the Wilkie Dr. Malle (Algebra) from July 7-22, 2015.
Investment Model”
Henrike Häbel from the Chalmers University
Supervisor: Korn
of Technology, Göteborg is a guest of Juniorprof. Dr. Redenbach (Statistics) from July 11
Staff Development
to August 7, 2015.
Herr Dr. Marc Goerigk (AG Optimierung) hat ei- Prof. Dr. Radha Kessar from the City University
nen Ruf auf eine Lectureship an der University London was a guest of Prof. Dr. Malle (Algebra)
of Lancaster, Großbritannien, erhalten.
from July 28-31, 2015.
Wir gratulieren ihm recht herzlich und
warten auf seine Entscheidung.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch
Am 22. Juni 2015 wurde Dr. Mario Hefter, AG
Computational Stochastics, für seine herGuests at the Department
ausragende Dissertation vom Freundeskreis
der TU mit einem Preisgeld von 800 Euro
Dr. Hiep Tuan Dang from the University of ausgezeichnet.
Dalat, Vietnam, is a guest of Prof. Dr. Decker
Wir gratulieren ihm ganz herzlich
(Algebra) from June 12 to August 12, 2015.
und wünschen ihm weiterhin viel Erfolg.
Graduation Ceremony
The Department of Mathematics invites all former and present students
as well as the staff to join the annual graduation ceremony.
The ceremony takes place on
23 October 2015 at 4 pm,
Building 42, Audimax
At 6:30 pm dinner is served at Mensa II - if you wish to participate, please
contact Beate Siegler ([email protected].)
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FROM THE UNIVERSITY
2. FROM THE UNIVERSITY
Schülerinnentag
Doing sport on the campus – a good oppor- Am 1. Oktober 2015 findet der nächste
tunity to relax
Schülerinnentag ‚Natur, Wissenschaft, Technik‘
für Schülerinnen der Klassenstufen 10-13
von 9.00 bis 16.00 Uhr statt.
Anmeldung ist vom 1. Juli bis 20. September
2015. Programm und Anmeldung findet sich
unter: www.uni-kl.de/schuelerinnentag.
Skulpturen an der Uni
It is a well-known fact that doing sport and
being healthy correlate. Apart from that, sport
is fun. So in the spring, the University of Kaiserslautern and Unisport decided to invent
“campusletics”: a new course of exercises on
the campus where all the students, employees
and guests can burn off their energy. A course
of different stages, which is similar to a keepfit trail, leads along the campus and through
the neighbouring forest whereby modern gym
equipment and urban trends like calisthenics
can be combined with the quiet of nature. The
word “campuslethics” is a compound consisting
of the words “campus” and “athletics”. This new
creation of strength training, coordination training and endurance training is supposed to be
qualified for beginners and advanced people,
which becomes obvious on the information
boards close to the stations that show exercises of various levels of difficulty. To find out
if this assumption is true, the secretary of the
Graduate School, Mrs Roth, took the challenge
of doing several exercises and reporting about
her experiences. In her opinion, the different
exercises are explained easily on the information boards. The exercises are interesting and
challenging, but also fun. They are a good way
to relax and to get away from the daily routine
that is sometimes exhausting.
Bitumenquelle
Am Waldrand unter der Brücke, an der Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße, steht auf dem Gelände
der Technischen Universität das etwa 15
Meter lange Kunstwerk „Bitumenquelle“,
das Gerd Rappenecker aus Stuttgart im
Jahr 1982 im Rahmen des internationalen
Steinbildhauer-Symposions der Universität
aus Sandstein geschaffen hat. Bei der Einweihung des Kunstwerkes schüttete der
Künstler heißes Bitumen durch den Kopf des
großen, stehenden Steines (links) und ließ
es durch die leicht geneigte Rille des langen
Steinbandes fließen. Mit dem Bitumen strich
er den etwas versetzt stehenden Stein (vorne)
schwarz an. Inzwischen ist der lange Stein mit
der Rille teilweise so zugewachsen, daß man
das Kunstwerk in seiner Gesamtheit nicht
mehr richtig erkennen kann.
Foto: (Karina Kuproth)
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FROM KAISERSLAUTERN, GERMANY
3. FROM KAISERSLAUTERN
DIE RHEINPFALZ Sommerredaktion
DIE RHEINPFALZ hatte wieder ihre Sommerredaktion für eine Woche in der Fußgängerzone eingerichtet. Treffpunkt war das „Paneo“
am Schillerplatz. Tische und Stühle samt
Hollywood-Schaukel standen bereit für die
zahlreichen Gäste aus dem öffentlichen Leben: Politiker, Unternehmer, Wissenschaftler,
Sportler, Künstler...
Sie ka­men auf eine nette Plauderei mit den
Redakteuren bei einer Tasse Kaffee oder erfrischenden Getränken. So machten es sich
auch TU-Präsident Prof. Dr. Helmut Schmidt
und Kanzler Stefan Lorenz auf der HollywoodSchaukel bequem. In lockerer Atmosphäre
erzählten sie über Forschung und Lehre an der
Universität, von erfreulichen Perspektiven, von
den bestehenden Sonderforschungsbereichen
und von der Verbesserung der Studienqualität.
4. FROM GERMANY
Asylum and refugee policy in Germany – a
late-breaking topic
Within these last two years, the number of
refugees seeking asylum in Europe has increased dramatically. Since the European
countries disagree massively on the question
of how many asylum seekers to accept, this
topic is one of the mostly discussed issues in
the media nowadays. Despite the sometimes
critical attitude of the politicians, in our private
environment we can notice a striking number
of private initiatives to help the refugees.
Article 16a of the Basic Law grants victims
of political persecution an individual right of
asylum. The fundamental right of asylum has
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high priority and expresses Germany’s willingness to fulfil its humanitarian obligation to
admit refugees. Therefore, people granted
asylum status and those granted refugee status receive a temporary residence permit and
are given the same status as Germans within
the social insurance system. They are entitled
to social welfare, child benefits, child-raising
benefits, integration allowances and language
courses as well as other forms of integration
assistance.
To fulfil its obligations, Kaiserslautern created the website http://kl-ist-bunt.de/ to give
information on facts and figures, emerging
questions and other responsibilities. People
interested in volunteering can help the asylum seekers in everyday life (e.g. visits to the
doctor or authorities), teach the German language and culture or introduce the refugees
to leisure activities. In this way, Kaiserslautern,
like numerous other cities, tries to make sure
that the asylum seekers and the locals get
along well and they feel comfortable with
each other.
From January to June 2015, Germany received
a total of 179,037 asylum applications compared to 77,109 applications in the same
period of time in 2014, which means that the
number of asylum requests has more than
doubled (+132.2%). In 2015, one-fifth of the
asylum applicants came from Syria, followed
by the Republic of Kosovo (17.9%), Albania
(13.6%), Serbia (6.3%), Iraq (5.4%), Afghanistan (5.0%), Macedonia (2.6%), Eritrea (2.2%),
Nigeria (1.8%), Pakistan (1.7%) and others
(23.4%). In 2014, Germany received the highest number of asylum applications compared
to the other countries in the European Union,
namely about one-third of all applications or
a total of 172,945. In relation to the entire
population of the countries, Sweden is number
one with 7.8 asylum applications per 1,000
inhabitants, followed by Hungary (4.2 per
1,000) and Malta (3.0 per 1,000). In Germany,
the rate is 2.1 refugees per 1,000 citizens.
Other European countries do not receive so
many asylum applications: France received
0.9, Finland 0.6, Great Britain about 0.5, Spain
0.1 and the Czech Republic 0.09 - all per 1,000
inhabitants.
FROM THE WORLD, DEUTSCH-ECKE, FCK
5. FROM THE WORLD
Jemandem den Kopf verdrehen
Nepal Mathematical Society
Ein Herz erobern / jemanden um den Finger wickeln
Last Saturday (1 August) the general assembly
of Nepal Mathematical Society elected a new
executive body of this prestigious academic
organization.
The body has given a great responsibility of
the Presidentship to our alumnus Prof. Dr.
Tanka Nath Dhamala.
We congratulate him. Definitely, Prof. Dhamala
is the right person to strengthen the academic
excellence in the mathematical education and
to popularise mathematics in Nepal.
The Nepal Mathematical Society has great
responsibility to enhance mathematical issues
in Nepal and a wider networking around the
world. It was founded in January 1979 by enthusiastic Nepalese mathematicians of that
time, with the aim of enhancing the academic
excellence in studying, teaching, research and
applications of Mathematics. The Nepal
Mathematical Society is an association
of professional mathematicians dedicated to promote mathematical sciences
in the country. The society edits various
publications and holds conferences and
talk programs at local and national level.
(machen, dass jemand beginnt, einen zu lieben)
(Erfolg haben, sodass sich jemand verliebt)
Es hat gefunkt
(sie haben sich verliebt)
Wenn es nicht passt
Jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen
(ablehnen, ignorieren)
Jemandem einen Korb geben
(kein Interesse zeigen)
Jemanden versetzen
(nicht zu einer Verabredung kommen)
Jemanden sitzen lassen
(den anderen verlassen)
Jemanden abschießen
(den Kontakt beenden)
7. FCK
Neue Saison
Nach dem erfreulichen Auftaktsieg in Duisburg
mit 1:3 sind die Roten Teufel wieder auf dem
Boden der Tatsachen gelandet und müssen
sich mit einem 0:0 gegen Braunschweig
begnügen.
Impressum
Alumni News 68, 2015
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6. DEUTSCH-ECKE
Graduate School „Mathematics as a Key Technology“
University of Kaiserslautern
Department of Mathematics
P.O. Box 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Redensarten für Flirt und Liebe
E-mail : [email protected]
Fax
: +49 631 205 2048
Web
: www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/grad_school
Schmetterlinge im Bauch haben
Editors: Anna Maria Schwarz, Beate Siegler, Falk Triebsch
(positives, nervöses Gefühl im Bauch haben)
Auf Wolke sieben schweben
(sehr glücklich sein, weil man verliebt ist)
Layout:
Beate Siegler
Next issue: October 2015
Deadline for contributions: September 15, 2015
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