Interview with @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social, and @gavagesylvie.bsky.social in @euromathsoc.bsky.social magazine on their research and passions. ems.press/content/seri...

European Mathematical Society@euromathsoc.bsky.social · 2w ago

📖 EMS Magazine No. 140 is now online! Featuring big mathematics 📚, Michèle Audin 🕊️, Side by side interviews 🎙️, a carbon footprint calculator 🌍, scientific authority 🔍, the Lie–Størmer Center 🏛️, zbMATH Open digitisation 💻, and mathematics education 🎓. euromathsoc.org/magazine/iss...

Great short video by @mathandcobb.bsky.social on the applicability of Group Theory! youtu.be/n_w_J48oAwU

The many, MANY, applications of group theory

YouTube video by Alvaro Lozano-Robledo

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GROW@Dresden 2026 took place yesterday and today @tudresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de: This conference explores graduate programmes and research opportunities for students of underrepresented gender identities in mathematics, especially women. @haharrington.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

Ever wondered how to quantify the spatial relationship between different species (eg cell co/trilocalisation)? Lovely working with this interdisciplinary team — math @nerdarajan.bsky.social @tomchaplin.xyz @majirouses.bsky.social meets oncology @leedham-simon.bsky.social @joshuabull.bsky.social

Owen Maresh@graveolens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

arxiv.org/abs/2603.03237 /Topology of Multi-species Localization Abhinav Natarajan, Thomas Chaplin, Joshua A. Bull, Eoghan J. Mulholland-Illingworth, Simon J. Leedham, Helen M. Byrne, Maria-Jose Jimenez, Heather A. Harrington (@haharrington.bsky.social}

Nikola Sadovek in @haharrington.bsky.social group & Daniel McGinnis @princetonupress.bsky.social, solved a 38-year-old mathematical puzzle by finding a precise rule for when a point, line, or plane can simultaneously intersect a whole family of convex shapes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come and join our Discrete Laplacian workshop in Dresden, Germany 🙌! With Karel Devriendt, Otto Sumray, and Giulio Zucal, we are organising the workshop in MPI-CBG, 22-25 Jun 2026. Thanks to the support from Heather Harrington's group at CSBD, MPI! Abstract ddl: 1 Mar 2026 More details follow 🧵

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow Program is now open. We look forward to receiving your applications by March 13, 2026! Further information can be found here: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/jobs...

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 6mo ago

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

"Topology and Biology on Zeeman's Centenary" 16-17 December 2025 at the Warwick Mathematics Institute @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social A centenary conference celebrating the interdisciplinary research curiosity exemplified by Christopher Zeeman. #MathSky sites.google.com/view/zeemanc...

Zeeman's Centenary Conference

16-17 December 2025 at the Warwick Mathematics Institute

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Looking forward @mmbronstein.bsky.social

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 8mo ago

As part of the @oeaw.bsky.social General Assembly on Dec 5, Michael Bronstein & Georg Winter, directors of @aithyra.bsky.social, & @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, will discuss “Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine.” www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...

Deadline for applied topology postdoc in Dresden closes in a week. Please share with early career researchers!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 10mo ago

The new @mpi-cbg.de research group leader Daniela Egas Santander is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Applied Topology for Biology. Apply until November 16th here: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6002777...

Greeted this morning with the blackboard of math discussion— looks like algebra, topology and data— during tea yesterday @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

The new @mpi-cbg.de research group leader Daniela Egas Santander is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Applied Topology for Biology. Apply until November 16th here: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6002777...

Our call for ELBE Visiting Faculty at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden is live with deadline 30 November: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a... Please visit us during your sabbatical! @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

Very grateful to work w/ @yutian.bsky.social @hirokisayama.bsky.social Renaud Lambiotte for this foundational work! It made us rethink what constitutes a "unit" of interaction, leading to the idea that grouped coherent edges can form a single interaction (matrices). Hope this brings a new angle 🙂.

Hiroki Sayama@hirokisayama.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published -- my first PRL paper in 22 years! An amazing collaborative project with Yu Tian, Sadamori Kojaku and Renaud Lambiotte "Matrix-Weighted Networks for Modeling Multidimensional Dynamics" doi.org/10.1103/jw1k...

Two years today! Very grateful 🙏 @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away. Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

arxiv.org/abs/2509.09886 /The 3D index and Dehn filling/ Daniele Celoria, Craig D. Hodgson, J. Hyam Rubinstein

The 3D index and Dehn filling

We provide a rigorous proof of the Gang-Yonekura formula describing the transformation of the 3D index under Dehn filling a cusp in an orientable 3-manifold. The 3D index, originally introduced by Dim...

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Cool paper out by mathematicians studying population dynamics with algebraic geometry @georgysch.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

Georgy Scholten@georgysch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165

Enjoying learning about membrane transport, structural biology and lipids from our Thursday seminar speaker Rich Hite @hitelabmskcc.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Silviana Amethyst from our ASB group is teaching the Computational Algebraic Geometry course at the Gene Golub #SIAM summer school in Montréal (August 4-15th: www.siam.org/programs-ini...). Topics: foundations of, software of, & advances & open problems in computational algebraic geometry 😊. Enjoy!

New pre-print: Probabilistic algorithm for computing all local minimizers of Morse functions on a compact domain - Archive ouverte HAL 📄 Preprint: hal.science/hal-05160251v1 💻 Julia: github.com/gescholt/Glo... #Optimization #JuliaLang #ScientificComputing #ComputerAlgebra

We’re looking for a mathematical research and collaboration manager to join our new initiative of mathematics in a biology institute in Dresden, Germany! @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social Please share widely: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/5734151...

Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d) – Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik

We are looking for: Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d), Full Time, Dresden

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We are searching for an AI researcher in lab automation, statistical ML and (theoretical) physics AI for bio/med. Expression of interest and nominations welcome!!!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · last yr.

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Thanks to @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Max Wiesmann for organising this Dresden-Leipzig meetup! And for the MTO at @mpi-cbg.de for this beautiful picture of all the attendees.

New interdisciplinary math+bio paper! Mouse liver assembloids model periportal architecture and biliary fibrosis. In vitro assembloids modelling the mouse liver periportal region were built to study processes causing scarring (cholestatic injury/biliary fibrosis) and the shape change this causes.

Awesome new paper in @nature.com from PhD student Benjamin Yang @benjaminojr.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology Group!

Haochen Yang@benjaminojr.bsky.social · last yr.

New interdisciplinary math+bio paper! Mouse liver assembloids model periportal architecture and biliary fibrosis. In vitro assembloids modelling the mouse liver periportal region were built to study processes causing scarring (cholestatic injury/biliary fibrosis) and the shape change this causes.

The group of Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social together with the Heather Harrington group @math-mpicbg.bsky.social & @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social develop next-generation organoid model that reconstructs liver architecture to better understand liver disease. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

I posted about this paper this a while ago on another website, but figured I'd post it here now that I have a few followers. (Joint with @haharrington.bsky.social, Jacob Leygonie, @uzulim.bsky.social, and Louis Theran). arxiv.org/abs/2411.08201 1/10

New paper on arXiv! 'Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data', From Maria Torras Perez, @torrasperez.bsky.social, Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social, et al: arxiv.org/abs/2505.02717

Topology across Scales on Heterogeneous Cell Data

Multiplexed imaging allows multiple cell types to be simultaneously visualised in a single tissue sample, generating unprecedented amounts of spatially-resolved, biological data. In topological data a...

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Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...