FAU MoD Lecture Series
Lectures at FAU MoD, Research Center for Mathematics of Data at FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Format: On-site (FAU) | Online (Live-streaming)
FAU MoD Lecture: Moving your robotic hand is a matter of time and practice
Speaker: Claudio Castellini
Affiliation: The Assistive Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Date: November 23, 2026
Topic: robotics, AI
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FAU MoD Lecture: Trustworthy AI: Reliable, Explainable, Revisable
Speaker: Ute Schmid
Affiliation: Cognitive Systems Group, University of Bamberg and Bamberg Center of Artificial Intelligence (BaCAI)
Date: November 16, 2026
Topic: AI
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FAU MoD Lecture: Reverse typography and the theory of shape: Can old books be brought back to life?
Speaker: Jean‑Michel Morel
Affiliation: Division of Industrial Data Science. School of Data Science, Lingnan University. Hong Kong
Date: June 19, 2026
Topic: theory of shape
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FAU MoD Lecture: Breaking Nonconvexity: Consensus-Based Optimization
Speaker: Massimo Fornasier
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics. Technical University of Munich
Date: May 11, 2026
Topic: optimization, nonconvexity
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FAU MoD Lecture: A data-driven approach to closed-loop control of wound state progression to drive healing outcomes
Speaker: Marcella M. Gomez
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz
Date: May 4, 2026
Topic: data-driven approach, state progression
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FAU MoD Lecture: Data Driven Modeling for Scientific Discovery and Digital Twins
Speaker: Dongbin Xiu
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics. The Ohio State University
Date: April 20, 2026
Topic: digital twins, data driven modeling
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FAU MoD Lecture: Hybrid Modeling and System Identification: Past and Future Directions
Speaker: Helon Hultmann Ayala
Affiliation: PUCPR, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
Date: February 16, 2026
Topic: modeling, system identification
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FAU MoD Lecture: A long life: How desirable is it, evolutionarily speaking?
Speaker: Hanna Kokko
Affiliation: Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iomE). Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Date: February 2, 2026
Topic: human, evolution
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FAU MoD Lecture: Bridging numerics and scientific machine learning for industrial applications
Speaker: Christopher Straub
Affiliation: Fraunhofer IISB
Date: January 26, 2026
Topic: machine learning, numerics, applications
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FAU MoD Lecture: Quantum firmware: optimal control for quantum processors
Speaker: Tommaso Calarco
Affiliation: University of Cologne | University of Bologna
Date: November 17, 2025
Topic: quantum, optimal control
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FAU MoD Lecture: AI Components in PDE Solvers
Speaker: Nils Thürey
Affiliation: TUM, Technical University of Munich
Date: November 10, 2025
Topic: AI, PDEs, partial differential equations
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FAU MoD Lecture: Finding the optimal model complexity of whole-brain models and digital twins
Speaker: Xenia Kobeleva
Affiliation: Department of Neurostimulation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Date: October 27, 2025
Topic: brain models, digital twins
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FAU MoD Lecture: Disruption in science and engineering happens at scale
Speaker: Johannes Brandstetter
Affiliation: Johannes Kepler University
Date: October 13, 2025
Topic: LLM models, science, engineering
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FAU MoD Lecture: Exemplary applications of machine learning and optimization in quantum chemistry
Speaker: Andreas Görling
Affiliation: FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Date: July 7, 2025
Topic: quantum, machine learning, optimization
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FAU MoD Lecture & workshop: AI for maths and maths for AI
Speaker: François Charton
Affiliation: Meta | FAIR | École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Date: June 23 – 24, 2025
Topic: AI, maths, mathematics
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FAU MoD Lecture: Optimization-based control for large-scale and complex systems: When and why does it work?
Speaker: Lars Grüne
Affiliation: Universität Bayreuth
Date: June 3, 2025
Topic: optimization, complex systems
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FAU MoD Lecture: Mathematics of neural stem cells: Linking data and processes
Speaker: Ana Martin-Villalba
Affiliation: Molecular Neurobiology. DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum)
Date: May 7, 2025
Topic: mathematical modelling, neural stem cells
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FAU MoD Lecture S. Jin / N. Liu (double session)
Speaker: Shi Jin, Nana Liu
Affiliation: SJTU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Date: May 2, 2025
Topic: quantum, random batch methods, pdes, partial differential equations
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FAU MoD Lecture: Do you think you understand sex and death? Why predictions about biological processes require more than just intuition
Speaker: Hanna Kokko
Affiliation: Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iomE). Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Date: January 28, 2025
Topic: sex, death, predictions
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FAU MoD Lecture: Control Design for Mixing in Incompressible Flows
Speaker: Weiwei Hu
Affiliation: FAU DCN-AvH | University of Georgia, Athens (UGA)
Date: December 05, 2024
Topic: control, transport, fluid mixing
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FAU MoD Lecture. Special December 2024
Speaker: Holger Rauhut, Christian Bär
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut der Universität München, Institut für Mathematik. Universität Potsdam
Date: December 03, 2024
Topic: bias, deep learning, deep neural networks, approximations, maps
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FAU MoD Lecture: Measuring productivity and fixedness in lexico-syntactic constructions
Speaker: Stephanie Evert
Affiliation: FAU MoD member/vice-spokesperson | CCL – Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Date: November 13, 2024
Topic: cognitive linguistics, productivity
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FAU MoD Lecture: New avenues for the interaction of computational mechanics and machine learning
Speaker: Paolo Zunino
Affiliation: MOX, Politecnico di Milano
Date: October 24, 2024
Topic: Neural networks, computational mechanics, machine learning
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FAU MoD Lecture: Discovering and Communicating Excellence
Speaker: Ute Klammer
Affiliation: Universität Duisburg-Essen
Date: October 16, 2024
Topic: communication, science, visibility
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FAU MoD Lecture: Thoughts on Machine Learning
Speaker: Rupert Klein
Affiliation: Mathematik & Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin
Date: September 20, 2024
Topic: data-based modelling, machine learning, ML
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FAU MoD Lecture: Promoting Gender Equity in Mathematics: Strategies and Solutions
Speaker: Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita
Affiliation: UnB, University of Brasília | SBM, President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society
Date: June 3, 2024
Topic: gender equity, mathematics
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FAU MoD Lecture: Using system knowledge for improved sample efficiency in data-driven modeling and control of complex technical systems
Speaker: Sebastian Peitz
Affiliation: Universität Paderborn
Date: May 15, 2024
Topic: system knowledge, symmetries, data-driven modeling
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FAU MoD Lecture: Image Reconstruction – The Dialectic of Modelling and Learning
Speaker: Martin Burger
Affiliation: DESY, German Electron Synchrotron | Universität Hamburg
Date: March 20, 2024
Topic: uncertainty, image reconstruction
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FAU MoD Lecture: The role of Artificial Intelligence in the future of mathematics
Speaker: Amaury Hayat
Affiliation: École des Ponts ParisTech
Date: January 11, 2024
Topic: AI models, theorems, mathematics
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FAU MoD Lecture Series. Special November 2023
Speaker: Michael Kohlhase, Edriss S. Titi
Affiliation: FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Cambridge. Texas A&M University. Weizmann Institute of Science
Date: November 22, 2023
Topic: Formalized mathematics, computational representation, downscaling data assimilation algorithms
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FAU MoD Lecture: Free boundary regularity for the obstacle problem
Speaker: Alessio Figalli
Affiliation: ETH Zürich
Date: October 11, 2023
Topic: Caffarelli, free boundary
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FAU MoD Lecture: Physics-Based and Data-Driven-Based Algorithms for the Simulation of the Heart Function
Speaker: Alfio Quarteroni
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Date: July 6, 2023
Topic: data-driven, simulation
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FAU MoD Lecture: From Physics-Informed Machine Learning to Physics-Informed Machine Intelligence: Quo Vadimus?
Speaker: George Em Karniadakis
Affiliation: The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering, Brown University, MIT, PNNL
Date: May 30, 2023
Topic: machine learning
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FAU MoD Lecture: From Alan Turing to contact geometry: Towards a “Fluid computer”
Speaker: Eva Miranda
Affiliation: UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech
Date: April 19, 2023
Topic: Alan Turing, geometry
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FAU MoD Lecture: Applications of AAA Rational Approximation | A Tour of Chebfun
Speaker: Nick Trefethen
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Date: February 1, 2023
Topic: AAA rational approximation, Chebfun
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FAU MoD Lecture: Learning-Based Optimization and PDE Control in User-Assignable Finite Time
Speaker: Miroslav Krstic
Affiliation: University of California San Diego
Date: September 19, 2022
Topic: optimization, PDE control
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FAU MoD Lecture: Moving your robotic hand is a matter of time and practice
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FAU MoD Lecture: Trustworthy AI: Reliable, Explainable, Revisable
Date: Mon. November 16, 2026 Event: FAU MoD Lecture Organized by: FAU MoD, the Research Center for Mathematics of Data ...