Institutskolloquium des IPP 2020

Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev Ort: Zoom Meeting Room 1

Discrete Tomography: Revealing Structures in Numbers, Metals, and Plasma Columns

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 05.06.2020
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: PD Dr. Andreas Alpers
  • Dr. Andreas Alpers is a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Liverpool since 2019. He received his Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technical University of Munich in 2003, spent several postdoc years at the City University of New York, Cornell University, and the Technical University of Denmark (there jointly affiliated with the Materials Research Department). In 2018 he received his Habilitation in Mathematics from the Technical University of Munich. His main area of research is in discrete inverse problems.
  • Ort: Zoom Meeting Room 1
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de
Since its first meeting devoted to this topic in 1994, discrete tomography has developed into a powerful imaging tool with a remarkably rich theory connecting various mathematical and application fields. Unlike its "continuous" counterpart, computerized tomography (CT) introduced in the 1970s, discrete tomography deals with the reconstruction of discrete objects, which are typically accessible through data that has been acquired from a small number of angles. In this rather general talk, I would like to illustrate several recent developments in this field focusing on problems of revealing structures in numbers, metals, and plasma columns. Among the persons and entities that make an appearance in this talk are the Beatles, the U.S. Census Bureau, Leonhard Euler, and Bavarian farmers. [mehr]

Pattern Spotting, Quantification and Magic in the languages of Ancient Iraq

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 04.09.2020
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Martin Worthington
  • Martin, an Assyriologist, is Associate Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He was previously Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, at the University of Cambridge. His publications have been awarded two international prizes, by the American Oriental Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. His most recent book (Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story; Routledge, 2019) is a mix of philology and literary criticism which argues that a crucial message from a god in the story of the Babylonian Noah was so worded as to simultaneously voice two different messages which sounded the same (and thereby mislead the hearers). In 2018 he directed the world's first Babylonian-language film, The Poor Man of Nippur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYoFlnJLoE&t=879s), which was shortlisted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the 2019 'Research in Film' award. Martin's principal research interests are in Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian grammar and literature. His current book project is called 'Sargon's Riddle'.
  • Ort: Zoom Meeting Room 1
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de
Cuneiform tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia number in the hundreds of thousands. They offer astonishingly detailed pictures of the lives and doings of the societies which invented writing and urbanisation, pioneered astronomy, and gave us 360 degrees in a circle. Everything we know about them has had to be worked out – a huge endeavour of the last 150 years, which is still ongoing. This talk, which assumes no prior knowledge, will show something of the methods we use in grappling with Babylonian and Assyrian – from working out the grammar, to navigating problems of meaning and textual logic, to reconstructing pronunciation. It is designed for those who are curious about ancient languages, and would like to have an idea of what goes on 'behind the scenes'. [mehr]

Sustainable control of disease resistance – the case for GM wheat Sustainable control of disease resistance – the case for GM wheat

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 04.12.2020
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Brande Wulff
  • Brande is a molecular plant pathologist and geneticist. He uses high throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to identify genes restricting major diseases of wheat. His long-term aim is to use cloned genes from wild ancestors of wheat to engineer durable resistance to these diseases in cultivated wheat. Brande works in the John Innes Centre, UK, a centre for research and training in plant and microbial sciences.
  • Ort: Zoom Meeting Room 1
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de
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