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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 04/08/2026

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...

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Tien Chih @tienchihmath.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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

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The many, MANY, applications of group theory

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 27/03/2026

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

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 25/02/2026

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...

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Yu Tian @yutian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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 🧵

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Center for Systems Biology Dresden @csbdresden.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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...

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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"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...

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Zeeman's Centenary Conference

16-17 December 2025 at the Warwick Mathematics Institute

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 24/10/2025

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...

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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

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Sadamori Kojaku @skojaku.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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 🙂.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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!

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Georgy Scholten @georgysch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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!!!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Haochen Yang @benjaminojr.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 29/05/2025

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...

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David Beers @davidbeersmath.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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...

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Great to meet so many new members of the maths for AI hub. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social Looking forward to the next conference in June!!!

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Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Erlangen AI Hub, unlike the name suggests, is located in England. Join us for a cool conference at the intersection of math and ML.

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Very excited that our Oxford members and postdocs on the collaboration grant @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social joined our research retreat!

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

First Maths retreat @mpi-cbg.de @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social of course we brought a chalk board! ❤️ The title of applied projects is “Wonderland” in rainbow colors. And mandatory afternoon walk /discussion around math talks :)

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Fulvio Gesmundo @fulges.bsky.social from the Université de Toulouse visited Vincenzo @vincgalg.bsky.social this week to work on tensor geometry. Fulvio works on tensor decomposition, ie rewriting tensors to make them usable for computations. Happy to have you with us Fulvio!

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So excited that Vukasin is visiting @csbdresden.bsky.social and will join Oxford @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social with our oxford MPI collaboration grant @mpi-cbg.de

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Vukašin Stojisavljević - a postdoc at the Université de Montréal who will soon be joining us as a postdoc - is visiting us this week! He'll be giving a talk tomorrow at TUDresden @tudresden.bsky.social on nodal topology and TDA (2.30pm, room WIL C/104). Please do join! Welcome Vukašin :)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Uzu Lim @uzulim.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My paper with Luis Scoccola and @haharrington.bsky.social were accepted to present in ICML 2025 🥳🥳 We use gradient descent to solve a fundamental problem in computational topology: Compute a topologically good cover of a dataset. It improves Mapper and persistent homology! arxiv.org/abs/2503.09767

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Cover Learning for Large-Scale Topology Representation

Classical unsupervised learning methods like clustering and linear dimensionality reduction parametrize large-scale geometry when it is discrete or linear, while more modern methods from manifold lear...

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CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Save the date: the Erlangen AI Hub’s 'Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence Conference’ 9 – 11 June 2025 at Queen Mary University of London, will bring together leading minds from the UK’s mathematical, algorithmic & computational communities. Registrations open soon @mmbronstein.bsky.social

A dark blue graphic with bright blue text reading ‘Erlangen AI Hub: Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence Conference 9th-11th June 2025 Maths Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS registrations will open soon. For any other queries or questions, please contact erlangenhub@cs.ox.ac.uk’. On the right-hand side of the image there is a bright blue graphic of a circle with connected dots and lines that point to and connect with smaller circles within the graphic.

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Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 29/04/2025

Come to Vienna to work at the intersection of AI and biological and medical research. These are fantastic opportunities!

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Evelyn Sander just shared a link to an arXiv article she and her collaborators posted: "3D Printing of Invariant Manifolds in Dynamical Systems" arxiv.org/abs/2504.15884 Here are some screenshots of the article. Lovely!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Faculty hire alert! We are so excited to announce the wonderful Jane Coons - a postdoc in the Algebraic Systems Biology group - will be an Assistant Professor in the Mathematical Sciences dept at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts in the US, starting August. Huge congrats Jane! 🩵😎

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Well done Ben! Our first collaboration with experimental biologists @mpi-cbg.de Here’s to many more results combining new math + experimental bio!!!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

After Munich, longstanding collaborator Elizabeth Gross visited us from the University of Hawaii. She gave a wonderful talk about dynamic Markov bases, and had some great conversations with Jiayi, Jane, @georgysch.bsky.social, Türkü, and many others. Here she is with @haharrington.bsky.social

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Aida Maraj @aidadoesmath.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Danai Deligeorgaki receives the prestigious Swedish Knut and Alice Wallenberg grant with @mpi-cbg.de, @math-mpicbg.bsky.social as host institution. We are very enthusiastic to welcome Danai in Dresden and work with her on her research project goals! kaw.wallenberg.org/en/danai-del...

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Danai Deligeorgaki | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A bunch of our mathematicians are currently at the Algebraic Statistics 2025 conference in Munich: sites.google.com/view/algstat... Aida Mara @aidadoesmath.bsky.social Georgy Scholten @georgysch.bsky.social Jiayi Li Jane Coons

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AlgStat 2025

Technical University of Munich, Germany March 24-28, 2025

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