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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 04/05/2026

Apply now for this upcoming workshop (June 22-25, 2026) at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social bringing together researchers from a variety of subjects to present and discuss recent advances in the theory and use of discrete Laplacians. plan.events.mpg.de/event/617/

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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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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A huge and warm welcome to Daniela Egas Santander, our fourth mathematics group leader here at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social!

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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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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social from CalTech visited us this week - a real interdisciplinarian, spanning fields from algebraic statistics & geometry to computational biology. Here he is highlighting the confounding of biological signal & technical noise in single cell genomics data. @mpi-cbg.de

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Georgy Scholten @georgysch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

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

Also from Oxford and the @haharrington.bsky.social ASB group is Rob McDonald. He models spatial data in many contexts - think tumours, Covid, and climate change. Wonderful to have you here too Rob!

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

The wonderful Gill Grindstaff has been with us this week from Oxford, working on a couple of phylogenetic protects with @haharrington.bsky.social and Rene Hoekzema. Welcome Gill!

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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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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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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 26/06/2025

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...

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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.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Claudia Fevola from INRIA Saclay is with us this week, visiting Türkü Özlüm Çelik - they are working on algebraic curves and the solution to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation used in modelling the motion of water waves. Welcome Claudia!

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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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...

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

A great short chalk talk on game theory from Irem Portakal from MPI-MiS.

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

A couple of beautiful short talks from PhD students Elke Neuhaus from MPI-MiS on quantum chemistry, and Leon Renkin @leon-renkin.bsky.social from MPI-CBG on persistent homology in organoids.

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

We had a couple of short talks over lunch, including one from Niharika Chakrabarty Paul from MPI-MiS, about computing phylogenetic invariants for time-reversible models, from a paper (arxiv.org/abs/2505.20526) that started at the Women in Algebraic Statistics workshop in Oxford last year :)

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

Eric Pichon-Pharabod from the Numerical Algebraic Geometry group at MPI-MiS is now talking on algebraic curves.

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

And now Ben Hollering - a Humboldt postdoc from TU Munich and long term guest of MPI-MiS in Leipzig - is telling us about graphical continuous Lyapunov models

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

Next up was Carl Modes, leader of the Network Complexity and Systems Biophysics group here at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social, talking about the theoretical underpinnings of morphogenesis: topology and geometry meeting biology.

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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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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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Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We did it! 🎉 🍾🥂 Our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) got renewed until 2032! I am so proud of our team and all the great work we did to achieve this.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

👏🥳 'Funding the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life for its next phase represents an outstanding opportunity to bring cutting-edge research at PoL to a new level. PoL will use its unique perspective to understand key features of living systems, including the emergence of function and robustness.'

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Talks, discussions, great dinners, and even some Mathletics (thanks Hannah and Tessa!). A wonderful retreat.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We had many others too, but here’s us celebrating Maria Torras Pérez’s @torrasperez.bsky.social new paper going up on arXiv about a new visualisation method to study spatial patterns in cell distribution data. More to come on this!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Sergio Serrano de Haro Iváñez @sergiosdhi.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology group explaining how topological data analysis can be applied to colorectal cancer.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Joining us at the retreat, and soon also as a postdoc in @aidadoesmath.bsky.social’s group is Carlotta Langer talking about information-theoretic complexity measures in the context of integrated information theory. Madly interesting stuff.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Karel Devriendt, a postdoc with @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social in the Mathematical Structures and Applications group, talking about his work on discretising curvature in graphs.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Silviana Amethyst, a Research Engineer also in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, showcasing Bertini2, a program for solving polynomial systems: silviana.org/computer_pro...

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Kelly Maggs @k311ym4gg5.bsky.social, a postdoc in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, thinking about ways of coming from mathematics and approaching interdisciplinary work with biologists

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A few snippets from our retreat. First up, Türkü Özlüm Çelik @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social, one of our math group leaders, giving a window into her ideas about computational algebraic geometry. ‘This showcases how fruitful and delicate a mathematical structure of some natural phenomenon can be’.

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Highlights to come from Brunów, Poland, but here we all are! All current and upcoming members. A wonderful couple of days getting to know more about each others’ work. All three groups together: @haharrington.bsky.social, Türkü Özlüm Çelik, and @aidadoesmath.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Our mathematicians are on retreat in Poland! Coming together for lots of short talks and many side discussions. @jiayi-li.bsky.social is currently talking machine learning

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

And here’s Vukašin Stojisavlević himself! Great to have you with us :)

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Recently Türkü Özlüm Çelik was visited by Claudia Fevola (INRIA Saclay), Yelena Mandelshtam (Institute for Advanced Study), and Simonetta Abenda (University of Bologna) to work on algebraic curves. Here they are at dinner after lots of mathematics!

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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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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A lil end of the week dinner with lots of drink symmetry with @annamfra.bsky.social @vincgalg.bsky.social @aidadoesmath.bsky.social @fulges.bsky.social and Shelby Cox. Summer is coming!

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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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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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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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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social, the first postdoc to get a group leader position from the Algebraic Systems biology group last summer, came to visit us from the MPI of Plant Breeding Research in Köln (Cologne). So lovely to have you back with us Hadrien!

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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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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sometimes we go on bike rides by the beautiful Elbe! 🚴‍♀️🚴

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Danai Deligeorgaki was here this week visiting @aidadoesmath.bsky.social to discuss the combinatorics of statistical models. Wonderful to have you here Danai!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We missed Jiayi these last few weeks - after Algebraic Statistics, she stayed in Munich to work with Jose Rodriguez from April 5 to 9, then headed to the SLMath workshop for Al in Mathematics in Berkeley. She also got to see her much loved cat. So happy to have you back Jiayi!

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Math for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Team training in Barcelona - a really productive time. Systems, comms, planning, and much more. Here they are in front of Gaudi’s La Pedrera/Casa Milà 🏛️

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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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