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The Man Who Wired the World: Robert Metcalfe and Connectivity
The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum kicked off with a captivating lecture by Robert Metcalfe, the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient and the inventor of Ethernet. In his engaging style, Metcalfe took...
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Molecule of the Year 1992
In 2013, inspired by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, the first Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) was held. Fast forward ten years, and the links between the two events are as close as ever. Every...
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Posters of Progress: All Eyes on the Young Researchers Taking the Stage
Young researchers explaining their reseach posters at the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. While the laureates are the main attraction of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), the young researchers are...
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How to Guarantee You Win the Lottery
Image credits: Jacqueline Macou from Pixabay.com Lotteries take place in many places around the world, and are an interesting case study in human behaviour and our relationship with mathematics. It is...
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In den alten Zeiten, als von den elektrostatischen Kopierern noch nicht die Rede war und von Laserdruckern schon gar nicht, wurden Dokumente in kleiner Auflage – Arbeitsblätter in der Schule,...
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A Conversation with Karen Uhlenbeck
It was the second day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in September 2023 and I was sat nervously in my hotel room. Karen Uhlenbeck, while not attending the Forum in person, was to be on a...
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Can You Tell Cats Apart from Guacamole?
For humans, telling cats and guacamole apart is (hopefully) a trivial task. For modern image-focused neural networks, it is also an achievable task. However, as ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Adi...
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The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Sketchnotes
The week of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which once a year brings together bright young mathematicians and computer scientists with the most prominent scientists in the field, started with...
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Die seltsamen Fehlleistungen neuronaler Netze
Die Großtat, für die Adi Shamir berühmt wurde, ist schon eine ganze Weile her. Im Jahr 1977 erfand er, gerade mal 25 Jahre alt, gemeinsam mit Ron Rivest und Leonard Adleman das asymmetrische...
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Hunting the Snark
A while ago I wrote about zero-player games, including the famous Game of Life created by mathematician John Conway. If you are confused because you thought the Game of Life was a board game where you...
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Pioneering Graph Theory – László Lovász
László Lovász is an accomplished man: He won the Abel Prize in 2021 alongside Avi Wigderson, another laureate who attended the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) this year; he was President of the...
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Breaking the Silo: The Rising Trend (and Challenges) of Multidisciplinary...
The days of the lone scientist working in isolation trying to solve the mysteries of the universe are long gone – if they ever existed in the first place. The vast majority of good science nowadays...
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Why People Hate Maths, and Why You Should Love It
“Oh, I hated maths at school.” It is a phrase every mathematician has heard time and time again. Indeed, just in the past month, I have found myself explaining the joy and value in learning maths at...
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A Mathematical Exchange of Gifts
Image credits: Julia Larson At this time of year, it is common to run a gift exchange between family members or co-workers. This way, instead of everyone buying gifts for everyone else (or, more...
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The Dawn of Generative AI: Promise, Peril, and Debate
In a world where machines can ‘dream up’ art, music, and news, how do we define what is acceptable in the realm of AI innovation? In the past year, generative AI has emerged seemingly out of nowhere....
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Hugo Duminil-Copin: The Maths, the Man
Hugo Duminil-Copin will be a name familiar to mathematicians worldwide. He was awarded the 2022 Fields Medal for his work in statistical physics, making him just about as famous as a mathematician...
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What Do Food and Research Have in Common? More Than You Might Think
A common German saying is that “love goes through the stomach” – but perhaps the same could be said of research? At the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in 2023, an annual networking conference bringing...
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A Ubiquitous Surd
Mathematical discoveries that involve the square root of three are like buses – you wait a long time for one, then two come along at once (to be clear: that is pretty much the only way in which they...
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AI May Enable Us to Explore the Deep Sea Like Never Before
The deep sea is notoriously difficult to explore. With crushing water pressure, frigid temperatures, and no sunlight, there is no easy way to peer into the depths of the oceans. We built supersonic...
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How to Detect Viruses with a Raspberry Pi and No Software
AI-generated image for this topic (Dall-E 3). The first virus started infecting computers in 1986. Nowadays, the virus architecture has changed, operating systems have changed, but viruses are still a...
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