Veranstaltungen & Vorträge Kalendar

Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht zu allen öffentlichen wissenschaftlichen Vorträgen und Veranstaltungen, sowie zu Veranstaltungen für die Öffentlichkeit am MPI-CBG. Nicht-öffentliche Vorträge werden im Intranet des Instituts bekanntgegeben. Umfassende Information zu Vorträgen und Workshops an weiteren Dresdner Wissenschaftseinrichtungen finden Sie im Dresden Science Calendar.

Aktuelle Veranstaltungen

Aktuelle Vorträge

  • Apr 2, 2026 15:00 - 16:00

    Secant varieties of curves and algebro-geometric knot theory

    Mario Kummer

    TU Dresden

    CSBD SR Top Floor (VC)

    Host: Local Organisers: Nikola Sadovek, Maximilian Wiesmann, Giulio Zucal

    Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

    Abstract

    Knot theory aims to classify embeddings of the circle to 3-space up to isotopies. A classical way to distinguish non-equivalent knots is to find a suitable invariant that takes different values on the two given knots. In the same spirit, given a smooth projective curve over a field, we want to classify its embeddings to projective 3-space up to a suitable notion of isotopy. We will explain how determinantal representations of secant varieties give rise to invariants and discuss to which extent they completely classify embeddings up to our notion of isotopy. A prominent role will be played by various variants of the writhe. This is joint work with Daniele Agostini.

  • Apr 16, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    The role of energy in cellular information processing

    Jeremy Gunawardena

    Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Aida Maraj

    Abstract

    Energy expenditure is essential to life but cellular information processing can take place without it. Bacterial gene regulation, for example, appears not to rely on it. We have, in consequence, adopted an equilibrium thermodynamic perspective for thinking about how genes work, even in eukaryotes. I will discuss theoretical results based on the "linear framework" that characterise the limits, or Hopfield barriers, to information processing at equilibrium and the challenges of undertaking compelling experiments to reveal the impact of energy expenditure in eukaryotic genomes. More broadly, I will suggest that this research programme shows how mathematical theory can sometimes get behind the data, to uncover a conceptual landscape that leads to new kinds of experiments and new ways of interpreting data.

  • Apr 16, 2026 14:00 - 16:00

    A Three-Regime Theorem for Flow-Firing

    Selvi Kara

    Bryn Mawr College

    CSBD SR Top Floor (VC)

    Host: Local Organisers: Nikola Sadovek, Maximilian Wiesmann, Giulio Zucal

    Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

    Abstract

    Flow-firing, introduced by Felzenszwalb-Klivans, is a 2D analogue of chip-firing: an integer flow on the edges of a cell complex evolves by repeatedly applying local rerouting moves around faces. In their original work, the only proven confluent family on the grid stabilized (independent of firing choices) into an Aztec diamond, a centered diamond-shaped patch of unit squares. In this talk I will explain how far this phenomenon extends. For a natural family of conservative “pulse” initial conditions, we prove a three-regime theorem: there is a small-support regime with unique stabilization to the Aztec diamond, an intermediate regime where stabilization occurs but the terminal state is not unique (though the Aztec diamond can still occur), and a large-support regime where confluence fails, including a range where the Aztec-diamond outcome is impossible.

  • May 7, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Daniel Fletcher

    UC Berkeley, USA

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Stephan Grill

  • May 21, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Jacqueline Tabler

    Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Stephan Grill

    Molecular and Cellular Systems Organoids and Organisms

    Abstract

    TBA

  • May 28, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Raymond Goldstein

    University of Cambridge, UK

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Pierre Haas

  • Jun 11, 2026 00:00 - 00:05

    TBA

    Benjamin Schumann

    TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: André Nadler

    Molecular and Cellular Systems Organoids and Organisms Physics of Living Systems

    Abstract

    TBA

  • Sep 17, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Takashi Hiiragi

    Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Augusto Ortega Granillo and Jonathan Jackson

  • Sep 24, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Maria Elena Torres-Padilla

    Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Merixtell Huch

  • Oct 29, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Katharina Sonnen

    Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Rita Mateus

    Molecular and Cellular Systems Organoids and Organisms Physics of Living Systems

  • Nov 5, 2026 00:00 - 00:05

    TBA

    Anne-Claude Gavin

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Martin Buitrago Arango and Koichiro Takenaka

    Molecular and Cellular Systems Organoids and Organisms

    Abstract

    TBA

  • Nov 12, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    Madeline Lancaster

    University of Cambridge

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Claudia Gerri

  • Dec 3, 2026 11:00 - 12:30

    TBA

    Martin Beck

    Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Alexander von Appen

    Molecular and Cellular Systems Physics of Living Systems Organoids and Organisms

  • Dec 10, 2026 11:00 - 12:00

    TBA

    David Pellman

    Harvard Medical School, USA

    CBG Large Auditorium

    Host: Alexander von Appen