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This workshop has been organized by the members of the STRUC­TURES Exploratory Project "Mathematics & Data".

In the workshop the participant will be introduced to the main techniques utilized in topological data analysis and their implementation provided by the python package scikit-tda. Introductions to the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology will be complemented by respective hands-on tutorial sessions. The workshop will conclude with an exploratory project of these methods on ‘real data’, which may be provided by the participants.

Registration Deadline: October 11th, 2020 online at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2V50PhVQTQcXQgL_MtiNeEco8f5Uf7f-9fskO0qckZJnO7g/viewform
Detailed information about the workshop can be found at the website https://micbl.github.io/TDAworkshop/.

The Seminar series will start with Ashia Wilson who will present A Dynamical Perspective on Accelerated Methods. Ashia is in transition from Microsoft Re­search to her soon to start assistant professorship at MIT, and currently based in Hei­del­berg.
Title: A Dynamical Perspective on Accelerated Methods.
Time: Thursday, 15th of October, 16:15
Place: Online via the Link: https://audimax.heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/sch-7ge-ntc
Abstract is available here.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Razvan G. Gurau has accepted the new STRUC­TURES Pro­fes­sorship on Mathematical Physics. Pro­fes­sor Gurau, presently directeur de recherche at CNRS and the Center for Theo­re­ti­cal Physics (CPHT) at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, is a world leading expert in the theory of random tensors and its connections to quan­tum field theory, gravity and topology. He will join the STRUC­TURES community this December.

Three scientists at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty are receiving generous support from the Eu­ro­pean Re­search Council (ERC), which has awarded each of them an ERC Starting Grant for excellent young researchers. It will fund the re­search projects of Dr. Philipp Preiss in quan­tum physics, Dr. Lutz Greb in chemistry and PD Dr. Lucas Schirmer in medicine. ERC resources totalling approximately 4.5 million euros are available for this purpose. The funding period for all three projects is five years.

Further details can be found on the press report site of Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty.

The Institute for Theo­re­ti­cal Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy together with the Cluster of Excellence STRUC­TURES at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty announces an opening for a
FULL PROFESSORSHIP (W3) IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS.

We are looking for an internationally recognized theorist working on quan­tum physics in the context of quan­tum simulation, physical aspects of information theory, and the foundations of new methods of information processing and computation. The new professor should establish contact to the Hei­del­berg re­search groups in experimental and theo­re­ti­cal physics, and in particular provide theo­re­ti­cal perspectives for future experiments. This professorship is a key component in the Hei­del­berg cluster of excellence STRUC­TURES and in the newly established focus area physics of information/novel methods of computation at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Please have a look at the full job ad for further details: Job advertisement

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their application in English including a CV, a list of publications, a list with teaching experience and a re­search plan in electronic form (pdf) until October 21, 2020 to the Dean, Prof. Dr. T. Plehn, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, D-69120 Hei­del­berg (dekanat@physik.uni-heidelberg.de).

Title: Initial state fluctuations of QCD conserved charges in high energy nuclear collisions

Abstract: We initialize the Quan­tum Chromodynamic conserved charges of baryon number, strangeness, and electric charge arising from gluon splitting into quark-antiquark pairs for the initial conditions of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A new Monte Carlo procedure that can sample from a generic energy density profile is presented, called Initial Conserved Charges in Nuclear Geometry (ICCING), based on quark and gluon multiplicities derived within the color glass condensate (CGC) effective theory. We find that while baryon number and electric charge have nearly identical geometries to the energy density profile, the initial strangeness distribution is considerable more eccentric and is produced primarily at the hot spots corresponding to temperatures of T≳ 400T ≳ 400 MeV for PbPb collisions at √s N N = 5.02 TeV. 

Speaker: Dr. Mauricio Martinez Guerrero (North Carolina State Uni­ver­si­ty)
Thursday, August 20, 16:00 h, ITP, Online
Link: https://cern.zoom.us/j/99708870674

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