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First Einstein Center approved

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…
Meeting EinsteinThomas Levin

Phonopost: Rediscovering a Forgotten Chapter of Media History

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
Meeting EinsteinNancy Fraser

From Crisis to Change?

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.
Meeting EinsteinRaymond Dolan

Alan Turing and the Mystery of Decoding the Brain

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.
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Meeting Einstein: Roger Traub

Meeting Einstein Lecture by Roger Traub.
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NewsFoundationJuri RappsilberGitta KutyniokMartin Oestreich

Three Einstein Professorships for the TU

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