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Articles, textbooks, blogs and tweets – today science can take many shapes to communicate. Ancient Greek and Roman authors could not discuss natural phenomena or mathematical problems on Twitter. However, they used an impressive variety of different formats, including poetry, lectures and inscriptions on sundials. Presentation and Discussion with Einstein Visiting Fellow Liba Taub.

Keynote and Discussion on Biomaterials with David Mooney, Einstein Visiting Fellow and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard University

Catalysts are among the most important driving forces behind the technological achievements of our present age. Lecture and discussion with John F. Hartwig, Einstein Visiting Fellow and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley

They light up children’s eyes and continue to fascinate us when grown up: soap bubbles. But hardly anybody who is enjoying the iridescent beauty of a soap bubble is aware that this light entertainment wouldn’t be possible without tough physics. Lecture and discussion with James Sethian, Einstein Visiting Fellow and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley

Adele Goldberg and Thomas Y. Levin, highly renowned academics from Princeton University, have been awarded “Einstein Visiting Fellowships” for another two years. The program “Einstein Visiting Fellow” of the Einstein Foundation Berlin aims at integrating outstanding foreign scientists into the Berlin research landscape. Goldberg and Levin will each receive 150.000 Euro per year to oversee their own research groups at Freie Universität Berlin until October 2014. Linguist Goldberg and media scholar Levin first became Einstein Visiting Fellows in November 2010, with groups at Freie Universität Berlin, one of Germany's leading research institutions that were granted excellence status within the country's Excellence Initiative. Goldberg’s group is part of the university’s Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotions”; Levin collaborates with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, both institutions founded within the German Excellence Initiative to promote…

The Einstein Foundation Berlin has agreed to fund the creation of an Einstein Center for Mathematics Berlin (ECMath). ECMath will be the first centre in the new Einstein Center programme. An application has been submitted for €8 million in funding for the period 2013-2017. The funding decision was made based on the recommendation of the Scientific Commission. It was the commission’s responsibility to judge the proposal on its scientific excellence and its importance for Berlin as a research hub. To do this, it invited a group of highly regarded international experts to Berlin to conduct a two-day assessment. The experts attested that the joint proposal put forward by the Technische Universität Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) and the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) was of outstanding international importance. Three successful mathematical…

Historische Postkarten-Platte

Gramophones are normally remembered as the means our forefathers used to listen to music. What is largely forgotten today is that gramophone discs also served a very different purpose from the 1920s to 1950. Lecture and Discussion with Thomas Levin, Einstein Visiting Fellow and Associate Professor of German at Princeton University

Nancy Fraser am Rednerpult

Having started as a housing slump in the United States, the crisis finally spread from the markets to the everyday life of people around the globe. Einstein Visiting Fellow Nancy Fraser offers an explanation for the devastating consequences of the financial crisis. Keynote and public debate.

Raymond Dolan

Turing’s work on decoding the German “Enigma” machine in World War II has made an important contribution to our understanding of the brain. Einstein Visiting Fellow Raymond Dolan will argue that the decoders of “Enigma” were confronted with a similar problem like the brain trying to make sense of its environment.

Startbild Video Roger Traub

Meeting Einstein Lecture by Roger Traub.

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On 5 December 2011, the Einstein Foundation Berlin awarded its first Einstein Professorships at the TU Berlin.