Rationality of the Space of Hankel Matrices

By Henri Linus Breloer – April 2026 Hankel matrices arise in a variety of contexts. They play a key role in statistics and tensor methods. From the perspective of algebraic geometry, the space of Hankel matrices with rank no greater than some fixed r forms an affine variety. These spaces…

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Secondment at Inria

By Matteo Bechere – April 2026 In the fall of 2025 I moved to Antibes, a town close to Nice in the southeast of France, to join the Aromath team at Inria. I was to spend 10 months, under the supervision of Bernard Mourrain, to work on my PhD project.…

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Secondment at CNRS-LAAS

By Llorenç Balada Gaggioli – April 2026 My second year of PhD is taking place in Toulouse, where I have been working in the Polynomial Optimization group at LAAS. After my first year in Prague working on quantum optimal control from the physics perspective, now I have been focusing on…

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Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF)

By Henri Linus Breloer (UiT) The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) – https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/ is a week-long event where young researchers in mathematics and computer science have the unique opportunity to meet and interact with the laureates of their fields. I was fortunate enough to attend this extraordinary event as a PhD…

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Workshop Bedlewo

We’d like to share news about a “summer” school run by Joachim Jelisiejew and Mateusz Michalek in November, in Bedlewo (near Poznan) under the auspices of Oberwolfach.

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