HLF Review 2014

Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates 

Meet the Next Generation 

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REVIEW 

2014

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Mathematics and comuter science erade all asects and 

sheres of life. The roide the foundation for todas highl 

engineered and modern societ, and the belong to our 

culture. Their social releance will continue to grow. 

Dr. h. c. Dr.Ing. . h. Klaus Tschira 

Review 2014 

nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

Setember , 

ublished b the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation 

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ontents 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome 

The nd HLF The Net Ste 

Knowledge Transfer is the Name of 

the Game 

Talent Meets erience 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum No. II 

Abel Laureates Meet Young 

Researchers in Heidelberg 

 

 

Selection rocess and Scientic 

ommitte 

onference lements 

3 2 Heidelberg 

utreach ctivities 

3 7 IMAGINARY 

 

Film Festial 

 

Testimonials 

 

Numeric Riddles of Heidelberg 

About the Forum 

he Particiants 

 

Structure 

 

The Laureates 

 

Organizers 

 

Success Stor 

2 2 Suorting Institutions 

 

The Young Researchers 

 

The Awards 

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HLF Diary 

ommunications 

 

Sunda, Setember 

 

Broadening the Network 

 

Monda, Setember 

 

Tuesda, Setember 

Rsum 

7 2 ednesda, Setember 

 

Remembering Klaus Tschira 

 

Thursda, Setember 

 

Thank You 

 

Frida, Setember 

 

HLF Team 

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elcome 

The nd HLF The Net Ste 

After a er successful start in , the nd Hei 

delberg Laureate Forum in tried to further 

deelo the comonents of this uniue eent. 

Based on the feedback we got from the artici 

ants of the HLF , we slightl changed the 

structure of this ears Forum. Of course, we 

ket those arts which clearl were er oular, 

such as the lenar talks b the laureates, the 

ecursions, the school isits, and the arious so 

cial eents in articular the Baarian Night. But 

we also tried to strengthen those arts where 

imroements were thought necessar b the 

articiants. The fall into two broad categories 

First, the oung researchers should be able to 

contribute more actiel to the oerall eent, 

and second, eole asked for more oortuni 

ties for informal interaction between the laure 

ates and the oung researchers. 

To accommodate the rst reuest, we added a 

oster ehibition to the rogram, where oung 

researchers can resent their current work and 

discuss it with the articiants. Another new 

feature is a secial session dedicated to a hot 

toic, which hoefull is of interest to both, the 

laureates and the oung researchers, and thus 

should sark a liel discussion. At the HLF 

the hot toic focused on the role of mathemat 

ics and comuter science in emerging countries 

a subect that was also addressed b a satellite 

conference of the International onference of 

Mathematicians IM in Seoul. 

The second reuest was accommodated b lea 

ing some additional free slots in the rogram 

and b roiding enough sace for a large num 

ber of small discussion grous to assemble in an 

adhoc fashion. 

Another new comonent in , was the 

IMAGINARY ehibition which ran arallel to the 

Forum in the same enue as the lectures. This 

ehibition originated from the Mathematisches 

Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. It consisted of 

a large number of fascinating isual renderings 

of comle mathematical functions. 

e are condent that all these modications 

heled to make the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

an een more liel, stimulating and rewarding 

eent for all its articiants and guests. 

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Knowledge Transfer is the Name of the Game 

Recentl, when our Federal hancellor Angela 

Merkel was seaking at the oening of the 

Lindau Meeting of the Laureates of the Nobel 

rize in conomics, she soke about understand 

abilit Let me close with an admonition to ou 

scientists Seak understandabl. en the most 

comlicated matters can be soken about in sim 

le language. This is an essential recondition to 

mutual understanding. 

hen I was a freshman, I tried to follow a lec 

ture on the theor of numbers howeer, it was 

dicult The lecturer had the rare abilit to 

write euations from both ends, nall nishing 

with the eual sign. Toda, students would ust 

take a hoto with their smart hones, but back 

in , students were eected to take notes. 

That was of course uite imossible. hen we 

comlained, the lecturer relied You should be 

glad If I did not write it on the blackboard, ou 

wouldnt een understand the gist of what Im 

saing. 

I hae been in the rocess of lanning a build 

ing for the deartment of Mathematics and 

omuter Science for the local uniersit to be 

inaugurated net ear. As was to be eected, 

the mathematicians strongl oiced their desire 

for blackboards in eer room. I used to smile 

at this reuest. How could the desise such 

ecient new tools like roecting oweroint 

slides Howeer, thinking of the long ago lecture, 

it dawned on me riting on the blackboard 

forces ou to reduce the seed of talking, which 

is necessar when resenting a toic to an audi 

ence not suosed to be alread familiar with. 

So, after all, oweroint is er ecient, but 

sometimes not eectie 

Aart from that, writing is erhas unintended 

a means to seak slowl, at the seed of writing. 

Thus, it is not surrising hand written slides hae 

the same downside, as anbod can testif who 

eer heard a resentation b Sir Roger enrose. 

The conclusion is simle riting will slow down 

seaking and thus in most cases make writing on 

a blackboard more eectie, although less e 

cient than roecting slides. Alwas remember 

Knowledge transfer is the name of the game 

Dr. h. c. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Klaus Tschira 

in his opening speech on Sunday, Sep. 21, 2014 

Founder of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation 

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Talent Meets erience 

Histor tells us that talents ma aear at an 

time and an location worldwide. amles 

abound consider for instance the Indian Srinia 

sa Ramanuan and the Norwegian 

Niels Henrik Abel , who both oer 

came humble backgrounds to make formidable 

contributions to mathematics. Instrumental for 

both of them was the ossibilit to meet the 

leading mathematicians of their time. 

On a smaller scale we all know that big decisions 

can be made based on smaller incidents a 

good mathematics teacher can inuence our 

choice of rofession, and the encounter with an 

eminent mathematician or listening to a brilliant 

lecture can decide our secialization. 

This is what the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is 

all about to gie the most romising talents 

worldwide the oortunit to meet and discuss 

with the best mathematicians of the world. The 

combination of the ounger Fields Medalists 

with the more eerienced Abel Laureates ro 

ides an ecetionall stimulating atmoshere 

for the oung talents. The fact that man of the 

most challenging roblems aear at the inter 

face between mathematics one of the oldest 

sciences and comuter science arguabl one 

of the oungest sciences adds to the atmos 

here. 

To see the sarkle in the ees of the oung tal 

ents when the can discuss with the heroes in 

their eld, makes it all worthwhile. 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum was again 

organized in an eert manner b the er able 

sta of HLF, alwas looking for small imroe 

ments. It is the urose of the International 

Mathematical Union to romote international 

cooeration in mathematics. Finding a better 

wa than the Heidelberg Laureate Forum to ac 

comlish that, is dicult. e are all looking for 

ward to the rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum in 

with great eectations. 

Professor Helge Holden 

Secretar of the International Mathematical Union 

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Heidelberg Laureate Forum No. II 

Taking lace annuall in this historic cit, the 

nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum was een bet 

ter than the rst, if that is ossible. The rimar 

moer, Klaus Tschira a founder of the German 

software rm SA, has again generousl su 

orted this weeklong eent through his erson 

al Foundation. AM Turing Award, the Inter 

national Mathematics Union Fields Medal and 

Neanlinna rize and the Norwegian Academ 

of Science and Letters Abel rize are additional 

sonsors and organize the selection of the 

oung researchers who oin with the Laureates 

for a week. There were lent of oortunities 

for formal lectures and informal small grou 

gatherings to link the mathematics and 

comuter science researchers to each other and 

the Laureates in attendance. The Heidelberg 

Laureate Forum sta roided suerb lanning, 

oerational and logistical suort throughout 

this eent, adating in real time to suggestions 

for imroement. 

It would be hard to oerstate the energ leels 

reached in this eent. If we had been arranged in 

a circle, we might hae outdone the Large Had 

ron ollider at RN As usual, I learned man 

new things from both the mathematicians and 

the comuter scientists. 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is one of the 

best new actiities in which AM is engaged and 

I redict that it will become a strong and new 

tradition among the man was in which AM 

contributes to and reinforces the imortance of 

comuting in our societ. 

Professor Vinton Cerf 

ast resident of the Association for omuting 

Machiner AM 

cert from erfs U 

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Abel Laureates Meet Young Researchers in Heidelberg 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum was established 

in . The agreement on collaborating in the 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum between the orga 

nizers and the institutions awarding the rizes 

was signed in Oslo on Ma nd on the occasion 

of the th Abel rize eremon. 

Three Abel Laureates attended the Heidel 

berg Laureate Forum Sriniasa S. R. aradhan, 

Sir Michael Atiah and ohn Tate. 

In his seech at the oening of the nd Heidel 

berg Laureate Forum Klaus Tschira stressed that 

knowledge transfer between generations of sci 

entists is still the most imortant element. And 

he added that this goes both was. 

e are ha that the idea of roiding a com 

munication laorm for ecellent researchers 

in mathematics and comuter science works 

uite well. It seems that desite the increasing 

releance of the arious digital media, ersonal 

echange and direct interaction are considered 

indisensable b most, said Klaus Tschira. 

A new element is added to the rogram this ear, 

the Hot Toic. The urose is to ush the aware 

ness for an area that includes the imact of 

mathematics and comuter science for societ. 

One of the toics will be the role of comuter 

science in deeloing countries. 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum was made os 

sible because of the strong suort of the scien 

tic institutions that award the most restigious 

rizes in mathematics and comuter science. 

Aleander olf, resident of the Association for 

omuting Machiner, Ingrid Daubechies, res 

ident of the International Mathematical Union, 

and Nils hr. Stenseth, resident of the Norwe 

gian Academ of Science and Letters all said that 

the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is here to sta. 

Anne-Marie Astad 

Information Adiser of the Norwegian Academ of 

Science and Letters 

Nils hr. Stenseth hands oer a book about Niels 

Henrik Abel to Klaus Tschira at the oening of the 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum . 

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Testimonials 

Sani Abba 

In m oinion, this is the most ecellent, well 

organized, rofessionall structured and intel 

lectual gathering that I hae eerienced in m 

career. 

Isaac Burke 

A once in a lifetime eerience to engage with 

some amazing eole. I thoroughl enoed not 

ust the thrill of meeting these greats but being 

free to ick their brains, learn from their wisdom 

and een to debate with them. I am leaing the 

Forum, insired and motiated in general, but 

also with fresh research ideas and insight into 

m own area of work. For this I am etremel 

grateful. 

arlos ernuda Garcia 

One of the most enriching eeriences in m life. 

Kamalika Datta 

After attending the Forum, to m leasant sur 

rise I realized that the laureates are er hum 

ble eole ust like us. This fact has immensel 

motiated me to target bigger goals in m future 

career. 

Natalia Daz Rodrguez 

Insiring, encouraging, motiating, idea elo 

sion and creatiit. 

arasara Sridhar Duggirala 

Meeting and interacting with laureates is reall 

an insiring eerience. I hae learned that great 

works come from great eort. It reuires er 

sistence, atience and looking at beaut while 

soling roblems. Talking to them, meeting 

them and asking for insiration denitel heled 

me to generate ideas for the future. 

gnes seh 

The Forum is the most motiating eent I can 

imagine. No matter in which direction m future 

career is going, I will regard this week as a mile 

stone. 

Rachel ummings 

This was an incredible eerience 

Ale ndert 

The Forum was a fantastic wa to reect uon 

the greater science we all ursue. 

Yanfei ing 

HLF roides us such a fantastic oortunit to 

use our minds and ees to ersonall connect 

with laureates of honorable awards, far beond 

what we gained from reading aers and books. 

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acueline A. Fairle 

The HLF was an intellectual wonderland, lled 

with magical eeriences of riceless encoun 

ters with anguards of mathematics and com 

uter science. This Forum has roided me with 

an incomarable insiration that I will relish as I 

embark uon m indeendent research career. 

Daid Gaser 

The HLF is a meeting of eerienced and oung, 

a meeting of dierent cultures, a meeting of the 

oretical and alicable and a meeting of count 

less discilines, all belonging to mathematics 

and comuter science. 

etr Hosek 

here eerience and wisdom meet enthusi 

asm and assion. 

Mirco Mahlstedt 

er oung researcher in mathematics and 

comuter science likes to challenge and discuss 

his own research as well as being insired b e 

cellent researchers not b reading their books 

or aers, but b talking to them in erson. 

Sumit handra Mishra 

It is reall great to be able to talk to toclass re 

searchers and listen to their eeriences. I asked 

some of them about how the used to feel and 

what kind of roblems the used to face when 

the were oung researchers and the told me 

that the also used to feel the same. To me, that 

was er encouraging. It gies me condence 

that, someda in the future, I will also do some 

great work if I continue working on the kind of 

roblems I like. 

Anu akhar 

After attending the HLF, now I am so motiated 

to think I could be a laureate in future. 

hristof Leng 

A great eent erfectl organized, a wide range 

of insiring talks, and great eole to chat with 

both laureates and oung researchers. 

Mickal Randour 

The laureates and the HLFF gae us oung re 

searchers an amazing gift to listen to, learn from 

and discuss with those brilliant minds. Yet, een 

more than their intelligence, what I found the 

most insiring is their endless curiosit, their 

eagerness to understand the world, and their 

willingness to share and confront their iews 

with oung researchers. 

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Structure 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation 

HLFF was established to organize the annu 

al Heidelberg Laureate Forum HLF, which is a 

catiating assembl of the worlds most brilliant 

mathematicians and comuter scientists. 

oung researchers from all oer the world are 

granted the oortunit to ersonall meet and 

acutel discuss with the laureates of their se 

cialized elds. 

The HLF recognizes that communication is the 

kestone of scientic rogress, and that time is 

fundamental to cultiate meaningful connec 

tions. Therefore, for one rieting week in Heidel 

berg, the reciients of the Abel rize, the Fields 

Medal including the Neanlinna rize for con 

tributions in Mathematical Asects of Informa 

tion Science, and the AM A.M. Turing Award 

engage with oung researchers in a rofound 

scientic dialogue. 

In Setember , the nd HLF eceeded ele 

ated eectations, once again seng the stan 

dard for what a gathering of this signicance can 

be. The uniue laorm allows for interactions 

between the laureates and the oung research 

ers that die dee beneath the surface, creating 

a sace where secic research ueries can be 

discussed and erhas een resoled. 

The HLF was initiated b the German foundation 

Klaus Tschira Stiftung KTS, which romotes 

natural sciences, mathematics and comuter 

science, and the Heidelberg Institute for The 

oretical Studies HITS. The Forum is organized 

b the HLFF along with the KTS and HITS. It is 

strongl suorted b the awardgranting insti 

tutions, the Association for omuting Machin 

er AM AM A.M. Turing Award, the Interna 

tional Mathematical Union IMU Fields Medal, 

Neanlinna rize, and the Norwegian Academ 

of Science and Letters DNA Abel rize. 

The formal agreement between the organizers and 

the awardgranting institutions was signed in Oslo on 

Ma , . 

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Organizers 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum HLF is orga 

nized b the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foun 

dation HLFF, a nonrot foundation that was 

established b the German foundation Klaus 

Tschira Stiftung KTS in . The HLFF drew 

its insiration from the Lindau Nobel Laureate 

Meetings, drien to roide an enironment 

where the worlds most enerated mathema 

ticians and comuter scientists rofoundl in 

teract with outstanding international oung re 

searchers. 

Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS) 

In , Klaus Tschira, hsicist and cofounder 

of the software coman SA, established the 

Klaus Tschira Stiftung in German as a nonrot 

foundation. The Foundation romotes the ad 

ancement of natural sciences, mathematics and 

comuter science and stries to raise arecia 

tion for these elds. The KTS is one of uroes 

largest riatel funded nonrot foundations. 

The Foundation was ointl managed b Klaus 

Tschira and Beate Siegel. 

The inuence of the KTS reaches all ages and 

eertise, from kindergartens, to uniersities, 

to research institutes throughout German. The 

Foundation also roides the funding for the 

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and 

the Forscherstation the Klaus Tschira ome 

tence enter for arl Science ducation. 

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Heidelberg Institute for 

Theoretical Studies (HITS) 

In anuar , the Heidelberg Institute for The 

oretical Studies HITS was established as a re 

search institute of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung. HITS 

has grown into one of the most rominent re 

search centers in German, with around sci 

entists from countries working in research 

grous. The conduct dierse research in areas 

from astrohsics to cell biolog where large 

amounts of data are collected and analzed. The 

scientists are articiating in international ro 

ect consortia, such as the Human Brain roect 

in the life sciences, or the irgo onsortium 

in astrohsics. One of the institutes rimar 

goals is to increase awareness in the scientif 

ic communit and encourage the ublic to be 

come more aware of the imortance of comut 

erbased, datadrien science, eseciall in the 

natural sciences. Therefore, HITS has launched 

the ournalist in Residence rogram, a grant 

for eerienced scientic ournalists, giing 

them the oortunit to deeen their know 

ledge in all asects of datadrien science. The 

institute was ointl managed b Klaus Tschira 

and comuter scientist Andreas Reuter, who 

both initiated the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. 

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Suorting Institutions 

Association for Computing Machinery 

AM, the Association for omuting Machiner, 

is the worlds largest educational and scientic 

comuting societ, uniting comuting educa 

tors, researchers and rofessionals to insire di 

alogue, share resources and address the elds 

challenges. 

International Mathematical Union 

The International Mathematical Union IMU has 

a signicant global resence with more than 

member countries and romotes the deelo 

ment of mathematics in an of its forms ure, 

alied or educational. The IMU encourages 

worldwide cooeration in mathematics and or 

ganizes the International ongress of Mathema 

ticians eer four ears. 

The Norwegian Academy 

of Science and Letters 

The Norwegian Academ of Science and Letters, 

founded in , is a nongoernmental, nation 

wide bod which embraces all elds of learning. 

Its main urose is to suort the adancement 

of science and scholarshi in Norwa. 

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Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut 

Oberwolfach 

The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Ober 

wolfach MFO is a uniue infrastructure in the 

eld of mathematics and holds internationall 

a leading osition, since it eseciall suorts 

scientic research with its ecellent facilities, 

highl ualied workshos and small Research 

in airs grous. 

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center 

for Informatics 

The LI is one of the leading research centers 

for comuter science in the world. Since 

it has organized seminars of the highest scien 

tic caliber. The LI fosters worldclass informa 

tics research b bringing together internationall 

renowned researchers and romising oung sci 

entists. Oer , scientists from all oer the 

world attend Dagstuhl eents each ear. 

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The Awards 

Abel Prize 

ACM A.M. Turing Award 

The Abel rize is awarded eer ear for out 

standing scientic work in the eld of mathe 

matics, including mathematical asects of com 

uter science, mathematical hsics, robabilit, 

numerical analsis and scientic comuting, sta 

tistics, and also alications of mathematics in 

the sciences. In addition to honoring outstand 

ing mathematicians, the Abel rize contributes 

towards raising the status of mathematics in so 

ciet and cultiating the interest of children and 

oung eole in mathematics. The Abel rize, 

named after Norwegian mathematician Niels 

Henrik Abel , and the Fields Medal 

hae often been described as the Mathemati 

cians Nobel rizes. 

The rize amount is million NOK . 

As an annual rize, the AM gies the AM A.M. 

Turing Award, AMs oldest and most restigious 

award, for maor contributions of lasting imor 

tance to comuting. The AM A.M. Turing Award 

is often regarded as the Nobel rize of omut 

ing and is recognized as the highest distinction 

in comuter science. It was named in honor of 

Alan Mathison Turing , the British 

mathematician and comuter scientist widel 

considered as the father of theoretical comuter 

science. 

The award is resented each une at the AM 

Awards Banuet and is accomanied b a rize 

of US,,. 

www.abelrize.no 

httamturing.acm.org 

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Fields Medal 

Nevanlinna Prize 

The Fields Medal is one of the two restigious 

awards granted at the International ongress of 

Mathematics eer four ears. It recognizes out 

standing mathematical achieement for eisting 

work and for the romise of future achieement. 

Two to four medals are awarded to mathemati 

cians who hae to be ounger than fort ears 

old on anuar of the ongress ear. The Fields 

Medal, established in and named after the 

anadian mathematician . . Fields, is one of 

the most restigious awards in the eld of math 

ematics and often described as the Nobel rize 

of Mathematics. There is also a monetar rize 

of , anadian dollars accomaning the 

Medal. 

The Rolf Neanlinna rize is resented on the 

occasion of the International ongress of Math 

ematicians as well, and signies outstanding 

contributions in Mathematical Asects of Infor 

mation Sciences. For the rize winner, the same 

reuirements as for the Fields medalists al 

An awardees th birthda must not occur be 

fore anuar of the ear of the ongress at 

which the rize is awarded. The rize was estab 

lished in and named to honor the Finnish 

mathematician Rolf Neanlinna. 

www.mathunion.org 

generalrizeseldsdetails 

www.mathunion.org 

generalrizesneanlinnadetails 

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Selection rocess and Scientic ommittee 

In its rst two ears, the HLF receied seeral 

hundred alications from asiring mathemati 

cians and comuter scientists from all oer the 

world. To ensure that onl the most ualied are 

selected, the alication rocess of the HLF is 

structured in seeral stes. In an oen alica 

tion rocess, eer oung researcher who works 

in mathematics or comuter science can register 

to al in using the online alication tool. Af 

ter the submission deadline, in the rst of a two 

hase rocess, all alications are reiewed b 

an international grou of scientists. This rst 

hase is rimaril handled b the awardgranting 

organizations, suorted b the Heidelberg In 

stitute for Theoretical Studies, Mathematisches 

Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, and b Schloss 

Dagstuhl Leibniz enter for Informatics. 

In the second hase of the alication rocess, 

a shortlist of roosed candidates is submitted 

to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundations 

Scientic ommittee, which makes the nal de 

cision. 

Young researchers can al once at each stage 

of their career as an undergraduate, a graduate 

hD and as a ostdoc. 

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Members (sorted by last name): 

ennifer Tour haes 

Microsoft Research AM Association for 

omuting Machiner 

Klaus Tschira 

KTS Klaus Tschira Stiftung HLFF Heidelberg 

Laureate Forum Foundation 

GertMartin Greuel 

Uniersitt Kaiserslautern MFO Mathema 

tisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach 

Helge Holden 

NTNU Trondheim Norwegian Uniersit of 

Science and Technolog Abel Board 

Andreas Reuter 

HITS Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical 

Studies HLFF Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

Foundation 

Sriniasa S. R. aradhan 

New York Uniersit Abel Board 

Reinhard ilhelm 

Uniersitt des Saarlandes LI Leibniz enter 

for Informatics 

eanhristohe Yoccoz 

ollge de France aris IMU International 

Mathematical Union 

Dierk Schleicher 

acobs Uniersit Bremen IMU International 

Mathematical Union 

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Plenary Lectures 

Postdoc Workshops 

Laureates hold lenar lectures generall in the 

morning sessions. The choice of the lecture sub 

ect is entirel u to the seaker. Therefore, to 

ics range from technical subects to science and 

education or olitics. 

Young researchers who hae reached a ost 

doc degree are inited to roose a worksho. 

ostdoc articiants of the HLF can choose 

to submit an toic, the Scientic ommitee 

then selects the best roosals. ostdoc work 

shos are generall held in the afternoon 

sessions of the HLF. 

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Poster Sessions 

The Hot Topic 

The oster session adertises the scientic work 

of the hD candidates who all are inited to con 

tribute to this session. After reiewing the sub 

mitted abstracts, the osters are selected. 

The Hot Toic is a new session te at the nd 

HLF. The urose is to ush the awareness for 

an area that includes the imact of mathematics 

and comuter science for the societ. 

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Visits to Institutes and Companies 

Social Events 

Young researchers are oered the oortunit 

to isit arious research institutes and coma 

nies that are located in and around Heidelberg. 

These ecursions hel the oung researchers 

to enlarge their occuational networks and to 

learn more about the research sites and working 

conditions of Germans southwest. 

Nearl eer afternoon and eening etra 

ordinar social eents gie all articiants the 

oortunit to meet outside the academic 

surrounding. This art of the HLF is an imort 

ant and crucial asect for oung researchers 

to get to know each other and to make new 

friends. During the HLF the beautiful landscae 

and scener of the RhineNeckar region are dis 

coered. 

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Heidelberg 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation 

HLFF has designed a laorm to adance re 

search ideas and cultiate creatiit. The annual 

HLF takes lace in Heidelberg, which is one of 

Germans most concentrated hotsots of sci 

ence and renowned research sites, attracting 

scholars and isitors from all corners of the globe. 

Heidelberg Uniersit, Ruerto arola, found 

ed in , is one of the oldest uroean uni 

ersities and the oldest uniersit in German. 

Heidelbergs academic tradition not onl sans 

centuries, but includes a ast and etensie net 

work. ell oer , students are attending 

one of the ten colleges, uniersities or ocational 

schools located in the cit and surrounding area. 

The cit and science are insearabl linked and 

are fundamental to Heidelbergs oularit as a 

focal oint for international academic echange. 

Man rominent research institutes like the 

uroean Molecular Biolog Laborator, the 

German ancer Research enter and four Ma 

lanck Institutes contribute to Heidelbergs 

esteem. 

Heidelberg and the surrounding region gained 

signicant recognition on the global market as 

home to software giants SA and SAS. During the 

HLF, the oung researchers had the oortunit 

to choose one out of ten selected institutions 

and comanies in the area to isit. 

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The HLFF uses the Forum to cultiate the 

knowledge of oung researchers through dia 

logue and echange with the worlds most e 

nerated scientists. In addition, through a com 

rehensie rogram of accomaning eents, 

the HLF stries to eleate the ublics interest 

and ercetion of mathematics and comuter 

science. 

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IMAGINARY 

IMAGINARY, the interactie mathematical e 

hibition, commenced the outreach actiities of 

the nd HLF and was hosted at the Kulturhaus 

Karlstorbahnhof in Heidelberg for three weeks 

in summer. 

The isitors were encouraged to obsere the al 

gorithmic creations through the ees of mathe 

matics. The isual and aesthetic comonents of 

the ehibition were catiating, romting isi 

tors to articiate in the interactie elanations. 

The unimaginable was made isible and tangible 

b a fascinating galler of algebraic surfaces and 

the ersonal creations of isitors. The main at 

tractions of the IMAGINARY ehibition were the 

interactie rograms and installations, which ac 

tiated the mathematician and artist in each of 

the guests. 

collaboration with the MFO. The ehibition con 

sisted of a galler full of fascinating mathemati 

cal images, some interactie installations where 

isitors could eeriment with mathematical art, 

D scultures of algebraic surfaces and seeral 

stations with eeriments inoling arious he 

nomena. 

The ehibition imressed about , isitors, 

including numerous school grous who benet 

ed from the eert tours through the galler. 

The IMAGINARY ehibition was enisioned at the 

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwol 

fach MFO for the German ear of mathematics 

in , and was suorted b the Klaus Tschira 

Stiftung. It went on the road as a traeling ehibi 

tion and was hosted in oer cities worldwide 

todate. In Heidelberg, it was organized b the 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation HLFF in 

Huge imression the cube at Heidelberg main 

station inited eerone to isit the IMAGINARY 

ehibition. 

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Film Festial 

Konrad Zuse, Alan Turing und Ada Lovelace 

Knowing the names of these ioneers in math 

ematics and comuter science is sucient for 

most, but for those whose interest runs deeer, 

there was the weeklong lm festial of the HLFF. 

isitors discoered Ada Loelaces signicance as 

the rst female rogrammer, how Konrad Zuse 

built the rst functioning comuter and what 

allowed Alan Turing to succeed in breaking the 

nigma code. 

During the lm festial at the end of ul, the 

audiences were inited to submerge themseles 

in the world of mathematics and comuter sci 

ence and to be guided through the subects b 

eerts. In addition to biograhies of famous sci 

entists and researchers, current documentaries 

were included in the rogram. Olier eon, with 

omment ai dtest les Maths, succeeded in 

diselling the student isitors stereote that 

math is boring and unnecessar. It gae some 

of the greatest mathematicians in the world an 

oen stage from which to seak. Among them 

was eanierre Bourguignon, resident of the 

uroean Research ouncil, who did not want 

to miss the oortunit to attend this eent in 

Heidelberg. 

The festial nale was rominentl resented b 

katerina remenko, the Russian lmmaker and 

mathematician. Her fascinating lm, olors of 

Math, allowed iewers to obsere the beaut of 

mathematics through the ees of famous con 

temorar mathematicians. 

Many students exchanged the classroom for 

the movie theater. 

During the week of the lm festial the morn 

ing rogram was designed eseciall for them. 

Therefore, lent of classes, chaeroned b their 

teachers, swaed the chalkboard for the mo 

ie screen in order to aroach mathematics and 

comuter science from a dierent ersectie. 

There were also eerts onsite for the morning 

sessions who introduced the lms, and after 

wards, elored and discussed the themes in 

deth with the students. 

The success that the HLF eerienced with the 

format of the lm festial was roen b the mass 

of isitors and the ositie reactions, aboe all 

from the school grous. The morning rograms 

oered were so raidl sold out that additional 

lastminute showings had to be scheduled. 

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Numeric Riddles of Heidelberg 

How do ou inite eole to engage in mathe 

matics and comuter science Bring both elds 

home in riddle form and irtuall sere them for 

breakfast. 

So, the HLFF deised ten dierent Numeric 

Riddles of Heidelberg with orthograhic and 

historical references to Heidelberg which were 

rinted on togo bags from a local baker. er 

one who icked u breakfast from the baker 

could take a numeric riddle home with them and 

immediatel begin soling the uzzle. 

katarina remenko 

At rst glance, the Numeric Riddles of Heidel 

berg seemed erfectl simle howeer, who 

eer attemted to sole them, uickl realized 

that brainteasing mathematical and comuter 

scientic riddles were hidden within. 

, bags were gien out during the romo 

tion and the riddles solutions were osted on 

the HLFF website. 

Rätseln Sie mit! 

Die Heidelberger Zahlengeschichtenn 

Heidelberger Forscher haben einen Roboter programmiert, der durch 

ein senkrecht stehendes Labyrinth läuft und dabei von einer Plattform auf die 

darunter liegende fällt. Nachdem er dort gelandet ist, läuft er in die andere 

Richtung. 

A B C D 

A B C D 

Informatikrätsel Nr. 3 

In welchem Fach landet 

der Roboter? 

Lösung und weitere Rätsel: www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.de/raetsel 

Die Zahlengeschichten und die Ausstellung IMAGINARY sind Aktionen der Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation und der 

Klaus Tschira Stiftung, mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Mathematischen Forschungsinstituts Oberwolfach und der Bundesweiten 

Informatikwettbewerbe. 

Icon by Flaticon.com 

One of the Numeric Riddles 

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Participants 

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articiants 

The Laureates 

The laureates articiation is ital to the success 

of each Heidelberg Laureate Forum therefore, 

the HLFF inites all reciients of the Fields Medal, 

AM A.M. Turing Award, Abel rize and the Ne 

anlinna rize. In , the nd HLF was elated 

that twentfour of these outstanding scientists 

acceted the initation and came to Heidelberg 

in the last week of Setember. 

The laureates at the Oening eremon. 

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ir ichael Francis tiyah 

Fields Medal, Abel rize, 

anul hargava 

Fields Medal, 

anuel lum 

AM A.M. Turing Award, 

inton ray erf 


tehen . ook 


erd Faltings 


artin airer 


ohn . ocroft 


illiam orton ahan 


Leslie Lamort 


higefumi ori 


Peter Naur 


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articiants 

Ng o hu 


oseh ifakis 


aniel ielman 

Neanlinna rize, 

Richard dwin tearns 


Ivan utherland 


Robert ndre aran 

Neanlinna rize, AM A.M. Turing 

ward, 

ohn orrence ate 

Abel rize, 

rinivasa . R. aradhan 

Abel rize, 

ladimir oevodsky 


endelin erner 


ean-hristohe occo 


m elmanov 


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articiants 

Success Stor 

oung researchers from all oer the world 

were selected to articiate in the weeklong 

eent. 

all the articiants, from oung researchers to 

laureates, engaged in ibrant conersations re 

garding science, academia and life as a scientist. 

In Noember , the Heidelberg Laureate Fo 

rum Foundation sent out its call for alications 

for the second time. Oer the following three 

months, mathematicians and comuter scien 

tists from eer corner of the globe were inited 

to submit their online alications on the HLF 

website. More than , international oung 

researchers answered the call for alications 

and registered with the HLF alication tool. The 

renowned Scientic ommittee of the Heidel 

berg Laureate Forum used a twostage rocess 

to select the most ualied candidates to 

articiate in the nd Heidelberg Laureate Fo 

rum. 

The internationalit of the HLF has increased 

from countries in to oer in . 

The HLFs recognition has grown with registra 

tions from dierent countries, a sike of 

oer countries comared to the inaugural 

ear. These gures roe the italit of the com 

munications network of the HLF, which eeri 

enced tremendous success in the rst two ears. 

The romising numbers should onl imroe in 

the coming ears, eseciall couled with the 

ecellent feedback about the Forum from the 

oung researchers. Throughout the HLF week 

Alumni networks 

The HLFF stries to kee in touch with their ar 

ticiants following the HLF to kee u with news 

about their careers. Therefore, an alumni net 

work is being established, to enable the artic 

iants and the organizers to sta in touch after 

the eent is oer. 

The HLFF is thrilled to reort about the success 

es of their articiants and alumni. Hearing how 

careers are adanced is alwas benecial, and 

the HLF actiel uses its channels to share the 

stories. Broadcasting the ositie stories can be 

adantageous to other oung researchers along 

their career ath. The rst success stor of one 

of the HLF alumni came in amazingl fast after 

the st HLF. Onl a few weeks after the rst Fo 

rum, the HLFF receied news that Adamou Ibra 

him, one of the inaugural articiants, obtained 

a great osition and made an imressie climb 

on the career ladder. The HLFF was so enthusi 

astic about Adamou Ibrahim that the decided 

to inite him as a seaker for the Hot Toic anel 

The role of mathematics and comuter sciences 

in deeloing countriesemerging economies. 

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“The HLF has had, and will have a great 

impact on my career.” 

12 days before the 1st HLF, Adamou Ibrahim 

received his PhD and 6 months later, he was 

named permanent professor at the University 

of Maradi, Niger – a great success story for one 

of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum’s alumni. 

Adamou Ibrahim receied his Masters in Science 

in from the Uniersit of Niame, Niger 

and went on to ursue a hD at the Uniersit of 

antabria in Sain. He receied his hD das 

before the HLF. Less than half a ear later, Ada 

mou obtained a ermanent osition as rofessor 

at the Uniersit of Maradi in Niger. 

In an interiew with the Heidelberg Laureate 

Forum Foundation, he talks about his success 

stor and how the HLF heled him to ush his 

career as a researcher. 

1. What is your research focus? Could you 

please tell us a little bit about your career as 

a scientist? 

M research focuses on omuter Algebra Al 

gebraic Geometr for ADAGD, and omuta 

tional Geometr. 

Adamou Ibrahim against the backdro of the beauti 

ful scener aboe the Neckar rier in Heidelberg. Ada 

mou was one of the selected articiants of the 

st Heidelberg Laureate Forum. 

I had a riori a er large ocation for maths and 

hsical sciences with er good grades in class, 

which attracted the attention of m high school 

rofessors. 

I was admitted to the Abdou Moumouni Uni 

ersit of Niame which was the onl uniersi 

t in the countr at the time in the Facult of 

Sciences in , where I obtained a Matrise s 

sciences mathmatiues with er high honors 

in and m Masters in Mathematics otion 

Algebra, Geometr and Algorithmic in December 

, with honors. 

After waiting about two ears for Sanish isa 

administration, I came to Sain to begin m 

thesis in une , at the Uniersit of anta 

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articiants 

bria with a contract under the uroean net 

work SAGA Shaes, Geometr and Algebra, 

httwww.saganetwork.eu a Marie urie 

Initial Training Network from F. Suerised 

b two loel rofessors Mario Fioraanti and 

Laureano Gonzalezega, m hD thesis, titled 

ure and Surface Bisectors, and oronoi Dia 

gram of a famil of arallel halflines in R, was 

successfull defended on Setember , . 

That means that I obtained the title of hD of 

Science, secialit Mathematics and omut 

er Science with the higher grade of Ato um 

Laude das before the HLF started. 

After e months looking for a osition around 

the world, on March , , I hae been named 

ermanent rofessor at the Uniersit of Maradi 

one of three newl created uniersities in 

in Niger. 

2. What are the working conditions for mathematicians 

and computer scientists like in 

Niger? 

The working conditions for mathematicians and 

comuter scientists in m countr were not 

good enough comared to the conditions in u 

roe, for eamle. But recentl the conditions 

are becoming increasingl accetable, but till 

now the access to most imortant scientic our 

nals is not eas due to lack of subscrition from 

local uniersities, and er often the seed of 

the Internet connection is er weak. Thus, oer 

of hD conducted were ointl suerised, 

or full in some foreign uniersities in the Africa 

subregion, uroe, Asia or USA. 

3. In your opinion, which skills are important 

to succeed in academia? How do you acquire 

them? 

In m oinion, the cometences most imort 

ant for a successful course in academia are cer 

tainl the ualit of basic education from home 

to school, the determination in laborious work, 

haing an imortant goal and the erseerance. 

M education at rimar, middle, and high 

school was in general of er good ualit. For 

eamle m high school maths rofessors are of 

er high edagogical leel. I hae a goal to show 

that in an famil class, it is ossible to reach a 

certain imortant academic eak in order to mo 

tiate m brothers and sisters in m countr. 

4. How important is the scientific dialogue for 

young scientists in the early stages of their 

career? 

Scientic dialogue is er crucial for oung sci 

entists who are in the rocess of building their 

career since at the initial stage some comle 

mentar constructie concets will be needed to 

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oerl establish and consolidate their research 

eld and to see how to link with others elds. 

7. How did the HLF influence your career? Did 

you benefit from participating in the HLF? 

5. How did you hear about the HLF? Why did 

you apply? 

I learnt about the HLF from rofessor Toms Re 

cio, one of the most loel rofessors of the Uni 

ersit of antabria m uniersit in Sain, who 

as soon as there is an imortant eent that might 

interest me, makes me aware of it. I saw that 

the HLF is robabl one of the most imortant 

eents for me that can roide me the ossibilit 

to meet and discuss directl with the most suc 

cessful mathematicians and comuter scientists 

in order to learn more and be insired b their 

recious talent. This will certainl further roel 

m scientic ocation 

The HLF has had, and will hae a great imact on 

m career, but I think it is too earl for me to as 

sess such an imact. It should be noted that the 

short conersations I had, gae me another new 

ersectie for research in general. The guided 

tour in some local institutes and comanies in 

Heidelberg shows me an ideal model to emulate 

for the deeloing countries like mine, where 

scientic research should be much more high 

lighted in faor of deeloment. 

8. Do you have any advice for young scientists? 

I would like to adise oung scientists to be, in 

general, er accurate, conscientious and endur 

ing in the deeloment of their scientic career. 

6. How did you benefit from the interdisciplinarity 

of the HLF? 

The interdiscilinarit of the HLF has been high 

l benecial for me, since m research is based 

both on mathematics and on comuter science, 

eseciall concerning algorithmic issues. 

At m stage, oung researchers need more 

comlementar concets and comrehensions 

which are indisensable. For me the eent came 

at a erfect time in m career. 

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Participants 

The Young Researchers 

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HLF Diary 

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elcome to Heidelberg 

For the second consecutie ear in Heidelberg, 

the worlds brightest mathematicians and com 

uter scientists gathered at the Heidelberg Lau 

reate Forum. The New Uniersit of Heidelberg, 

the Forums rimar enue, was charged with 

ecitement as all the articiants came together 

for the oening ceremon of the nd HLF. No ef 

fort was sared in order to make all articiants 

sta, ranging from the laureates and oung re 

searchers to guests, in Heidelberg comfortable 

and memorable. The HLF sta was reared to 

hel all the guests at the numerous hositalit 

desks to ensure that eer need was catered to 

so the could rela comletel and eno the 

conference. 

Young researchers from nearl nations were 

resent at the nd HLF, een more internation 

al than the inaugural ear a great success and 

roof of the scientic networks italit. On the 

oening da, articiants mingled and immedi 

atel began roting from the HLFs rincile 

discourse holds the ke to deeloment. en 

before the oening ceremon had begun, the 

foer of the New Uniersit was electric with 

communication. It was not onl the emerging 

generation of scientists resonsible for the ele 

ated energ, the laureates eagerness to meet 

the oung researchers was fundamental to the 

dnamic atmoshere. Likewise, the fascinating 

discussions held amongst each other enhanced 

the intellectual rowess of the ambience. 

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Time to Say Hello 

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Oening eremon 

The HLF was commenced b Klaus Tschira, the 

founder of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. He 

welcomed all of his guests in the New Auditori 

um of Heidelberg Uniersit, and reinforced how 

knowledge transfer is the name of the game. 

His seech was followed b the scientic chair 

erson of the HLFF, rof. Dr. Andreas Reuter, who 

eressed his gratitude for Klaus Tschiras initia 

tie and introduced the guest seakers. 

Theresia Bauer, the Minister of Science, duca 

tion and Fine Arts of Badenürttemberg, rere 

sented local olitics at the HLF, emhasizing the 

imortance of such an eent. 

Among the ealted seakers of the nd HLF 

oening ceremon were rof. Bernhard itel, the 

resident of Heidelberg Uniersit, as well as the 

Lord Maor of the it of Heidelberg, Dr. ckart 

ürzner. 

Finall, reresentaties of the three awardgrant 

ing institutions took the stage to address the 

HLF audience rof. Aleander olf, resident of 

the Association for omuting Machiner rof. 

Ingrid Daubechies, resident of the Internation 

al Mathematical Union and rof. Nils hristian 

Stenseth, resident of the Norwegian Academ 

of Science and Letters. 

Standing oations for the laureates. 

New Auditorium, Heidelberg Uniersit 

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of. Dr. Bernhard itel 

resident of Heidelberg Uniersit 

rof. Dr. Aleander olf 

resident of the Association for omuting 

Machiner AM 

Theresia Bauer, M.A. 

Minister of Science, ducation and Fine Arts 

Badenürttemberg 

Dr. h. c. Dr.Ing. . h. Klaus Tschira 

Founder of KTS and HLFF 

rof. Dr. Ingrid Daubechies 

resident of the International Mathematical 

Union IMU 

Dr. ckart ürzner 

Lord Maor of the it of Heidelberg 

rof. Dr. Nils hr. Stenseth 

resident of The Norwegian Academ of 

Science and Letters DNA 

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Recetion 

Following the imressie HLF oening ceremon, 

the art moed to a recetion at the Marstall 

afeteria, one of the dining halls of Heidelberg 

Uniersit, where eerone could continue their 

intensie discussions. Being one of the oldest 

structures of the uniersit, the Marstall was the 

ideal seng for the oening recetion of the 

HLF. The meter long building is one of the 

few constructions in Heidelberg from the late 

middle ages, resumabl built b lector Ludwig 

. around as a militar arsenal. After seer 

al renoations, toda the Marstall houses a caf 

eteria and art of the uniersit administration. 

At the recetion, the articiants could engage 

in conersations and share ideas while enoing 

delicious snacks and drinks in an informal seng. 

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Laureates lenar Lectures 

Michael Francis Atiyah 

Beaut in Mathematics 

Manuel Blum 

Towards a Theor of Humanl omutable rotocols 

Wendelin Werner 

Randomness, continuum, and comle analsis 

William Morton Kahan 

Deseratel Needed Remedies for the Undebugga 

bilit of Large Floatingoint omutations in Science 

and ngineering 

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Workshops and Poster Session 

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orkshos and oster Session 

Postdoc Workshops 

hili Hungerlnder Semidenite rogram 

ming and its Famous Alications in Mathemat 

ics and omuter Science 

Relinde urrius rrororrection in Digital om 

munication oding Theor and Network oding 

Mircea etrache Gauge Theor, Nonlinear 

Analsis of Singularities and Geometric Inari 

ants 

ulian Gutierrez GALOIS Games in Logic and 

Informatics 

Mathias Nieert Tractabilit in omuter Sci 

ence and Mathematics 

Martin otthast Building a Successful Research 

Grou eole, Mone, Outut 

Irina alciu. Software Fallbacks for Intels Has 

well Restricted Transactional Memor 

gnes seh Stabilit in Networks 

a Daruloa no oster title aailable 

Natalia Diz Rodrgues Semantic and Fuzz 

Modelling and Recognition of Human Actiities 

in Smart Saces A ase Stud on Ambient As 

sisted Liing 

Tegan merson Reduced Dimension Signal De 

tection and Alications 

Michael Feischl Otimal Adatiit for artial 

Dierential uations 

Nathanal Fialkow The alue roblem for 

robabilistic Automata 

Sira Gratz luster Algebras of Innite Rank 

Poster Sessions (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) 

Aran Guarati no oster title aailable 

Harsh Bhatia onsistent StreamlineBased 

Analsis of ector Fields 

etr Hosek Safe Software Udates ia Multier 

sion ecution 

Isaac Burke Uniersal Grbner Bases of Deter 

minantal Ideals 

Lee oonseok Local LowRank Matri Aroi 

mation 

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Tobias Kluth Numerical ognition in ision 

Based on a Toological Inariant 

Dinesh Kanchana Thilakarathna Moing from 

louds to Mobile louds 

Danai Koutra no oster title aailable 

Yalut Userentric Social Networking Oerla 

Ma Daniel Mcart Leiserson no oster title 

aailable 

Yasuuki Tsukamoto Obects with roection 

Images ust Like a ube 

Mirco Mahlstedt DeAmericanization and the 

Reduced Basis Method 

Tanwi Mallick Automated Analsis of Indian 

lassical Dance from Kinect Multimedia Data 

Iana Miloic onditional Distributions of 

LowDimensional roections from HighDimen 

sional Data licit rror Bounds. 

huntian ang Martingale and athwise 

Solutions to the Stochastic ZakharoKuznetso 

uation with Multilicatie Noise 

Matthias Stehan ilhelm iFire A Firewall 

for ireless Networks 

Marinka Zitnik Learning b Fusing Heteroge 

neous Data 

oin OMahon Smarter Tools for iti Bike 

Sharing 

Annalisa Occhiinti Modelling of Breast ancer 

and Bone Metastasis irculating Tumour ells 

and Thera 

Fernando Guilherme Silano Lobo imentel 

rime Numbers and Network Structure The 

Missing Link 

etar Saun no oster title aailable 

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Schwetzingen astle 

The Schwetzingen alace, former summer resi 

dence of the lectors alatine harles III hili 

and harles I Theodore, roided the erfect 

seng for a wonderful eening rogram on the 

second da of the HLF. All elements came togeth 

er in sectacular fashion as the closing hours of 

dalight accented the immense alace grounds. 

ntering the ecetionall ornate gardens, the 

laureates, oung researchers and guests were 

welcomed b the Maor of Schwetzingen, Dr. 

Ren ltl, and the music of the SA BIG BAND, 

creating a wonderful seng for an eening full 

of eciting conersations. At the recetion in the 

garden and during the dinner in the magnicent 

halls, the guests were able to echange their e 

eriences from the da. The software coman 

SA not onl sulied the band, the also su 

orted the dinner. 

For an afterdinner highlight, the guests were 

inited to isit the theatre of the alace, which 

was built in and is considered a ure roco 

co creation. After seeral hases of renoation, 

neoclassical inuences were added, seen in its 

resent comosition made for a stunning close 

to the eening. 

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Joseph Sifakis 

Is omuting a Science 

Martin Hairer 

Taming innities 

Vinton Gray Cerf 

On Digital reseration 

Ngô Bảo Châu 

Number theor and the Langlands rogram 

Leslie Lamport 

How to write a st entur roof 

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Hot Toic 

Peter Benner 

How Herbicides Adanced Alied Math in cuador 

Hermann Mena, Ph.D. 

How Herbicides Adanced Alied Math in cuador 

Adamou Ibrahim 

Mathematics and omuter Sciences in Niger Role, 

Diculties and rosects 

Pheakday Nguonphan 

Science, technolog engineering and mathematics 

for deelment of ambodia 

Pazhayam Jathavedan Narayanan 

iewoint from India 

Mohammad Kaykobad 

iewoint from Bangladesh 

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Hot Toic 

At the nd HLF the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

Foundation introduced a new te of eent the 

Hot Toic Session. This afternoon focused on 

and discussed the sociall releant asects of 

mathematics and comuter science. The Hot 

Toic resentations heled to fulll the HLFFs 

underling urose of bolstering scientic com 

munication. 

The rst Hot Toic challenged the theme The 

Role of Mathematics and omuter Sciences in 

Deeloing ountries. This subect continued 

the discussion of the MNAO conference of the 

International Mathematical Union IMU, which 

alread addressed this toic in Seoul at the be 

ginning of August. The IMU, artner of the HLFF, 

has been romoting mathematics and suort 

ing mathematicians in deeloing countries 

since . It also roides adice and counsels 

international facilities and institutions, as well as 

goernment and nongoernment organizations 

www.mathunion.orgcdc. 

Addressing the resonsibilit for wealth coun 

tries in sonsoring science and its arious facets 

in oorer regions of the world is highl comle 

and not limited to single discilines. 

The HLF is tring to raise awareness of these is 

sues in mathematics and comuter science since 

both discilines are integral to the roserit of 

the estern world. Mathematics and comut 

er science ae the wa and guide the future 

of the ongoing digital reolution. The results of 

this reolution materialize as new roducts sold 

on modern markets and hae generated growth 

and wealth whereer the are aailable. Toda, 

in industrialized nations, these roducts aect 

all asects of our lies, eseciall in economics 

and sciences. ould this become a realit for 

Third orld deeloing countries, too 

Fie resentations coered the subect at the 

nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

• The mathematician Adamou Ibrahim has 

been emloed as a fulltime rofessor in 

his home countr Niger since he articiat 

ed as a oung researcher in the st HLF. In 

, the number of uniersities in Niger in 

creased from one to four. 

Ibrahim Amadou Mathematics and om 

uter Sciences in Niger Role, Diculties and 

rosects 

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• Mohammad Kakobad, a comuter scien 

tist from Bangladesh, discussed the math 

olmics, which he has been successfull 

organizing for seeral decades eole from 

all social classes in Bangladesh are eager to 

articiate in these cometitions, a earning 

which is much lacking in the estern world. 

Mohammad Kaykobad The Role of Math 

ematics and omuter Science in Deelo 

ing ountries iewoint from Bangladesh 

• eter Benner from the Ma lanck Institute 

for Dnamics of omle Technical Sstems 

resented with his former hD student Her 

mann Mena from the cuadorian indige 

nous tribe of the Otaalos. The elained 

how a scienticolitical crime stor heled 

to um start mathematics in cuador and 

simultaneousl minimized the cultiation of 

coca. 

Peter Benner, Hermann Mena How Her 

bicides Adanced Alied Math in cuador 

research center in hnom enh. 

Phanpheakdey Nguon Science, technolo 

g engineering and mathematics for deel 

ment of ambodia 

• rof. Naraanan is the director of the In 

ternational Institute of Information Technol 

og, Hderabad, India. From to 

he was the rst resident of AM India and 

established man imortant initiaties for 

the comuting communit in India. 

PJ Narayanan The Role of Mathematics 

and omuter Science in Deeloing oun 

tries iewoint from India 

httwww.heidelberglaureateforum.org 

hottoic 

• The scientist hanheakde Nguon talked 

about how assionate ambodia is about 

comuter science and mathematics. He re 

sented his lans for a scientic comuting 

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Oktoberfest 

ith the Oktoberfest in Munich oening during 

the HLF week, the organizers decided to gie the 

articiants a taste of the Oktoberfest in Heidel 

berg. ith freshl taed beer and a Baarian 

buet, the articiants were taken on a culinar 

ourne to Baaria that was sulemented b 

the folklore dancing grou dressed in traditional 

costumes. The enue was a traditional Heidel 

berg guest house, which brews its own beer and 

seres classic German cuisine. 

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Schools Visited by Laureates 

arlBoschSchule, Heidelberg 

oseh ifakis 

arlFriedrichGauGmnasium, Hockenheim 

anuel lum 

Gmnasium nglisches Institut, Heidelberg 

ir ichael Francis tiyah 

HannahArendtGmnasium, Haloch 

ladimir oevodsky 

HebelGmnasium, Schwetzingen 

anul hargava 

HohenstaufenGmnasium, berbach 

ean-hristohe occo 

KurfürstFriedrichGmnasium, Heidelberg 

ohn orrence ate 

Integrierte Gesamtschule Mannheim 

Herzogenried, Mannheim 

Robert ndre aran 

riatgmnasium St. LeonRot, St. LeonRot 

artin airer 

S t. Rahael Gmnasium, Heidelberg 

aniel ielman 

hile the oung researchers seized the oor 

tunit to tour arious institutions in and around 

Heidelberg, the laureates were inited to isit 

local schools. Faithful to its motto, Inigorating 

the net generation, the HLF fullled its goal 

of ositiel imacting the ounger generation 

with the school isits. It not onl gae high school 

students the oortunit to meet rizewinning 

mathematicians and comuter scientists, but 

also ignited their amazement with the sciences. 

Since all onsite organization la in the hands of 

the schools hosting the laureates, some of the 

enerated scientists gae lectures in front of the 

entire senior class, while others met with smaller 

select grous that were eseciall interested in 

either mathematics or comuter science. 

It was immediatel obious that there were no 

reserations between these leading researchers 

and the students. The laureates gae the stu 

dents insight into their lies, elained their sci 

entic work and willingl answered all uestions. 

These encounters were er ehilarating for the 

uils. The students were amazed, motiated, 

insired a morning like this is like cand for in 

terested students, and its eect lasts a lot lon 

ger than cand, one teacher told the HLFF. 

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Institutes Visited by Young Researchers 

Biouant 

www.biouant.unihd.de 

uroean Molecular Biolog Laborator MBL 

www.embl.de 

German ancer Research enter DKFZ 

www.dkfz.de 

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies 

HITS 

www.hits.org 

Interdiscilinar enter for Scientic omuting 

IR 

www.iwr.uniheidelberg.de 

Mathematics enter of Uniersit of Heidelberg 

MATH 

www.match.uniheidelberg.de 

Ma lanck Institute for Astronom MIA 

www.mia.de 

Ma lanck Institute for Nuclear hsics MIK 

www.mihd.mg.de 

SA 

www.sa.com 

SAS 

www.sas.com 

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ednesda, Setember 

Boat Tri on the Neckar Rier 

Nestled into the articularl charming landscae 

of the lower Neckar alle, Heidelberg and the 

RhineNeckar region oer tourists a wide range 

of attractions. roided with good weather, one 

of the most icturesue eents is certainl a boat 

tri urier through the rolling green hills of the 

Odenwald and to the castles of the Neckar alle. 

The destination of the boat tri was an alluring 

garden caf with a catiating rier iew where 

the guests enoed coee and cake. After soak 

ing in the sights and sounds of Neckarsteinach, 

the artciants boarded the boat back to Hei 

delberg. The charm of the scener encouraged 

articiants to meet new eole, make friends 

and breathe life into new ideas. 

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Thursda, Setember 


Manjul Bhargava 

Rational oints on ellitic and herellitic cures 

Robert Endre Tarjan 

Data Structures 

Shigefumi Mori 

Algebraic geometr s. imressionism aintings 

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz 

Regularit ersus chaos in area resering mas 

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Recetion it of Heidelberg 

For the second consecutie ear, the Lord Maor 

of Heidelberg, Dr. ckart ürzner, inited the lau 

reates and organizers of the HLF to a recetion 

in in the large ouncil hamber of the historic 

it Hall. He welcomed the laureates and em 

hasized how great the honor is for a scientic 

cit like Heidelberg to host such a restigious 

eent as the HLF with a collection of the most 

enerated mathematicians and comuter scien 

tists in the world. 

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Gerd Faltings 

Diohantine euations 

John Hopcroft 

omuter Science in the Information Age 

Efim Zelmanov 

Innite Grous 

Daniel Spielman 

The ath from Lalacian matrices to the Kadison 

Singer roblem 

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losing Discussions at MBL 

On the last da of the Heidelberg Laureate Fo 

rum, all the laureates and oung researchers 

were inited to a summar session in the lecture 

hall of the Adanced Training entre at the MBL. 

In order to imroe the eent and adat to the 

interests of their target grou, the HLF organiz 

ers attach great imortance to the oinions and 

suggestions of their articiants. During this ses 

sion, articiants discussed how the workshos 

held b ostdoc candidates and the oster ses 

sions can be imroed. The organizers listened 

intentl to the suggestions and ideas and will 

make eer attemt to imlement them in the 

coming ears in order to erfect the eent. 

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Farewell Dinner at Heidelberg astle 

The last eening of the HLF marked the conclu 

sion of a wonderful week full of liel discussions 

and a igorous echange of ideas. hat enue 

could hae t this occasion better than Heidel 

berg astle in all of its enchantment and breath 

taking anoramic iews Heidelberg astle 

ainted an historic scene to celebrate the earli 

est and most modern sciences. The earliest arts 

were built before and were thereafter e 

anded, which later sered as residence to the 

lectors alatinate until its destruction b Louis 

I in the th centur. Sections were restored 

and the ruins hae become one of the most sig 

nicant historic buildings of the area, ng for 

an eent of such rominent scientic echange. 

The HLF guests were inited on a tour, led b 

guides dressed in historical garments and who 

brilliantl orated its histor. After eloring the 

grounds and absorbing its folklore, the guests 

were escorted to the terrace for refreshments 

and comelling conersation while oerlooking 

the Neckar alle and the most ancient art of 

Heidelberg. 

A festie dinner was sered in the beautiful Roal 

Hall, roiding the otimal background for the 

aledictor eening. 

Although striing for an een more insiration 

al eent for the rd HLF in , the organizers 

look back with great ride on two highl success 

ful Forums, which together hae hosted a total 

of oung researchers and laureates. In 

the future, the HLFF will imroe its schedule 

and from now on alternate between August and 

Setember. 

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Communications 

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ommunications 

Broadening the Network 

As a oung eent with growing notoriet, com 

munications and ublic relations la a ital role 

for the success of the HLF. In order to raise the 

Forums international role, the HLF adoted 

seeral measures in the communications deart 

ment. A rimar goal of the HLFs communica 

tions team is to reach as man future articiants 

as ossible. The HLF is therefore building a net 

work of science ournalists, who hel sread the 

word b announcing alication eriods for the 

HLF, b sharing information on the alication 

rocess and on the eent itself. 

A fundamental target grou of the HLF is oung 

researchers all oer the world. Facebook and 

Twitter are great channels to connect with oung 

researchers and to sta in touch with them and 

their communit een after their articiation in 

the HLF. The HLF therefore recognizes the alue 

of eectie communication through its arious 

social media channels. 

In order to facilitate the alication and registra 

tion rocess for the articiants, the HLFF has 

created a freuentl asked uestions section 

on their website. articiants can nd answers 

to the most common uestions concerning the 

alication rocess and the reuirements for a 

ling. 

The HLF website was launched in October 

and trac has been steadil increasing. Numbers 

show that man of the sidebars are oular. One 

of the secial attributes of the website is the fact 

that it is ossible to access a lie broadcast of the 

eent during the HLF week. Lectures and anel 

discussions are later archied and can be ac 

cessed an time after the eent, thus enabling e 

erone interested to listen to the greatest minds 

of mathematics and comuter science an time. 

The HLF endeaors to enhance awareness of their 

uniue networking eent through communica 

tion measures and to achiee greater isibilit in 

the scientic communit. Uniersities are also a 

ke target grou that is ust as imortant. During 

the alication rocess, alicants are asked 

how the learned about the HLF which gies us 

a good imression of the oerall imact of com 

munication eorts. Analsis of these data roes 

that the HLF is increasing its recognition in the 

international scientic communit. These osi 

tie ndings insire the organizers to continual 

l imroe their eorts in order to achiee their 

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goal of anchoring the HLFs lace as a remier 

networking eent. 

In striing for more international isibilit, the 

HLF was resent at the International ongress of 

Mathematicans IM, which was held in Seoul 

in August . The Fields Medal is awarded at 

this biggest international conference for math 

ematicians, which is held eer four ears in a 

dierent countr. ith more than , artic 

iating mathematicians from countries, the 

IM roided the erfect laorm to romote 

the HLF. The HLF was resent with a booth at 

the IM ehibition as well as at seeral satellite 

conferences, which were held at the same time 

in Seoul, to romote the initiatie of the HLF and 

attract new alicants. To ensure that the HLF 

network grows, the HLFF oers trael grants for 

ournalists to coer the conference. 

During the HLF week, the eent was coered b 

a team of bloggers whose blogs were accessible 

from the HLF website. Blogs oer a more detailed 

ersectie on the articiants as well as content 

of some of the lectures. The blogger team was 

coordinated b Beatrice Lugger, a chemist, sci 

ence ournalist and social media eert, who is 

currentl deut scientic managing director of 

Naik National Institute for Science ommuni 

cation. The blogging team consisted of eln 

Lamb, Marlene Knoche, ohn D. ook, Thilo Küss 

ner, Markus ssel and Tim onrad. 

ith more than , alicants from almost 

countries, the HLF has alread reached sig 

nicant international isibilit. Howeer, there is 

alwas room for imroement, so all of our com 

munication tools will continue to build uon the 

network to ensure that it continues to thrie. 

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Résumé 

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Rsum 

Remembering Klaus Tschira 

In the middle of the editorial rearations for 

this reort we were hit b the tragic news of the 

uneected and untimel death of our founder 

Klaus Tschira. 

This reort coers the HLF , which he er 

actiel articiated in and which he enoed im 

mensel. At the same time, rearations for the 

rd HLF are full underwa, and it is almost im 

ossible to imagine this haening without him. 

Klaus Tschira was much more than ust the 

founder of the HLF he was an insirational source 

in a larger number of was. He had alwas been 

genuinel interested in scientic research, and 

after his etremel successful career as an en 

trereneur, he established the foundation Klaus 

Tschira Stiftung with the clear goal of suorting 

the natural sciences, mathematics and comut 

er science as eectiel as ossible. In , he 

set u the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical 

Studies HITS, a basic research organization co 

ering subects ranging from molecular biolog to 

astrohsics, statistics, comutational linguistics, 

and comuter science. He was coninced that 

new breakthroughs would rimaril be achieed 

at the interfaces between the discilines. hen 

deciding on a new research grou, Klaus Tschira 

followed the adice ames Brant onant gae 

in There is onl one roed method of 

assisting the adancement of ure science that 

of icking men of genius, backing them hea 

il, and leaing them to direct themseles. He 

suorted the research grous generousl, but 

he neer tried to inuence their agenda it was 

the results he was interested in and the science 

in general. Klaus was a regular at all the inter 

nal seminars, talking to the scientists at length 

which occasionall resulted in the creation of a 

new research grou. 

Klaus Tschira was interested in an unusuall 

wide range of toics, all of which he addressed 

with utmost meticulousness. He alwas tried 

to downla his own role and imortance. He 

ket in the background, aoiding ublic honors 

wheneer ossible. Neertheless, he recognized 

the imortance of the gifted indiidual for the 

rogress of science, and tried to get such eole 

interested in his ideas. This is the reason he en 

thusiasticall embraced the idea of establishing 

the Heidelberg Laureate Forum and turned it 

into a highl successful eent. 

Klaus Tschira touched the lies of man eole 

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and changed them for the better, be it in the 

contet of SA, in his foundations and research 

institutes, or through his man funding ro 

grams. His demise is a huge loss for the research 

communit in German and beond. 

e will dearl, trul miss the clear strategic 

thinker, the generous atron, the creatie su 

orter of research, the loer of language and of 

wordla, and last but not least, the warmheart 

ed, humorous, fatherl friend. 

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Thank Rsum ou 

Thank You 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation wishes to eress its sincere thanks and great areciation 

for the inaluable engagement and suort. 

Laureates 

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oung Researchers 

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cientic ommiee 

ity of eidelberg 

eidelberg niversity 

Local research institutes, 

comanies and schools 

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HLF Team 

hairerson HLFF Managing Director KTS 

Klaus Tschira 

hairerson HLFF Managing Director KTS 

Beate Siegel 

Scientic hairerson HLFF Managing Director HITS 


Head of ommunications KTS 

Renate Ries 

Head of onference Management HLFF 

Ruth etzlar 

onference Organization & Outreach Actiities HLFF 

hristiane Schirok 

Stehan Hlz 

2nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum 

Young Researchers Relations HLFF 

Yasmin Keese 

Ale Kanak 

Raihaneh Karimian azi 

ommunications HLFF 

Sabine Kluge 

Online ommunications & Technical oordination HLFF 

Tobias otanowski 

Multimedia Design & Deeloment 

Stehan Hlz 

Ucoming Meetings 

rd HLF August , 

th HLF Setember , 

th HLF August , 

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