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On February 23 the screening of "The Discrete Charm of Geometry" at the Hausdorff Center in Bonn featured a fully occupied hall. That is, the evening was a great success. Director Ekaterina Eremenko also attended the event.

Wie bilden sich Kristalle und Schwärme? Dieses spannende Thema an der Grenzfläche von Mathematik, Physik, Biologie und Informatik können Lehrer in einer interaktiven Fortbildung unter Anleitung von Forschern des SFB Transregio 109 erkunden. Der Workshop wird am 12.03.2016 an der FU Berlin stattfinden.

A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. Scientists united by the idea of discretization, which, in short, means: constructing continuous objects from basic building blocks. Akin to the scientists’ search …

How can you make good flat maps of the round earth?' Our story begins with Mercator's world map of 1569, the first angle-preserving (or 'conformal') world map. His idea fell on fruitful soil, from which a new branch of mathematics has developed. The movie shows some of the highlights of this development, yielding a series of elegant visual forms which arise as 'conformal maps' on a variety of surfaces in 2- and 3-D. Featuring non-technical language, a simple aesthetic, compelling animation, and an original score, the movie builds an accessible bridge from everyday experience to a beautiful but little-known mathematical theory that continues to bear technological fruit today in fields such as computer graphics and architecture.

As a teaser for the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" in the mathematics department at the TU Munich, Jürgen Richter-Gebert and his team show how to build "bombs" from wooden sticks, which surprisingly contain lots of mathematics.