As usual, we will have two invited speakers this year, one internal and one external. They have been chosen by popular vote.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Zwicknagl

Humboldt University of Berlin

Barbara Zwicknagl received PhD in applied Mathematics from the Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics in Bonn under the supervision of Stefan Müller in 2011. She has worked as a researcher in many different institutions before joining the applied Mathematics research group at Humboldt University (HU). Currently, she is working as professor and chair of the applied mathematics research group at HU, Berlin. She also gives her services as an Executive Board and Council member of MATH+.

Her research focuses on variational calculus, approximation theory and non-linear elasticity.

More information can be found on her webpage.

Prof. Dr. Carla Cederbaum

University of Tübingen

Carla Cederbaum is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Tübingen. She has received her doctorate in 2011 from the Free University (FU) of Berlin under the supervision of Gerhard Huisken. Besides mathematical research, she is involved in communicating mathematics to general public too. Some of her talks can be accessed here.

Carla’s research interests are Mathematical Relativity, Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis.

For more information, visit her webpage here.

(Photo by: Christoph Jäckle)