Math for Science at MPI-CBG
@math-mpicbg.bsky.social
Mathematicians developing mathematics and methods to look at living systems differently.
Colocated at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social in Dresden, Germany.
Colocated at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social in Dresden, Germany.
Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social from CalTech visited us this week - a real interdisciplinarian, spanning fields from algebraic statistics & geometry to computational biology. Here he is highlighting the confounding of biological signal & technical noise in single cell genomics data. @mpi-cbg.de
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social from CalTech visited us this week - a real interdisciplinarian, spanning fields from algebraic statistics & geometry to computational biology. Here he is highlighting the confounding of biological signal & technical noise in single cell genomics data. @mpi-cbg.de
Also from
Oxford and the @haharrington.bsky.social ASB group is Rob McDonald. He models spatial data in many contexts - think tumours, Covid, and climate change. Wonderful to have you here too Rob!
Oxford and the @haharrington.bsky.social ASB group is Rob McDonald. He models spatial data in many contexts - think tumours, Covid, and climate change. Wonderful to have you here too Rob!
August 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Also from
Oxford and the @haharrington.bsky.social ASB group is Rob McDonald. He models spatial data in many contexts - think tumours, Covid, and climate change. Wonderful to have you here too Rob!
Oxford and the @haharrington.bsky.social ASB group is Rob McDonald. He models spatial data in many contexts - think tumours, Covid, and climate change. Wonderful to have you here too Rob!
The wonderful Gill Grindstaff has been with us this week from Oxford, working on a couple of phylogenetic protects with @haharrington.bsky.social and Rene Hoekzema. Welcome Gill!
August 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The wonderful Gill Grindstaff has been with us this week from Oxford, working on a couple of phylogenetic protects with @haharrington.bsky.social and Rene Hoekzema. Welcome Gill!
Silviana Amethyst from our ASB group is teaching the Computational Algebraic Geometry course at the Gene Golub #SIAM summer school in Montréal (August 4-15th: www.siam.org/programs-ini...). Topics: foundations of, software of, & advances & open problems in computational algebraic geometry 😊. Enjoy!
August 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Silviana Amethyst from our ASB group is teaching the Computational Algebraic Geometry course at the Gene Golub #SIAM summer school in Montréal (August 4-15th: www.siam.org/programs-ini...). Topics: foundations of, software of, & advances & open problems in computational algebraic geometry 😊. Enjoy!
Claudia Fevola from INRIA Saclay is with us this week, visiting Türkü Özlüm Çelik - they are working on algebraic curves and the solution to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation used in modelling the motion of water waves. Welcome Claudia!
July 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Claudia Fevola from INRIA Saclay is with us this week, visiting Türkü Özlüm Çelik - they are working on algebraic curves and the solution to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation used in modelling the motion of water waves. Welcome Claudia!
Thanks to @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Max Wiesmann for organising this Dresden-Leipzig meetup! And for the MTO at @mpi-cbg.de for this beautiful picture of all the attendees.
June 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thanks to @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Max Wiesmann for organising this Dresden-Leipzig meetup! And for the MTO at @mpi-cbg.de for this beautiful picture of all the attendees.
A great short chalk talk on game theory from Irem Portakal from MPI-MiS.
June 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A great short chalk talk on game theory from Irem Portakal from MPI-MiS.
A couple of beautiful short talks from PhD students Elke Neuhaus from MPI-MiS on quantum chemistry, and Leon Renkin @leon-renkin.bsky.social from MPI-CBG on persistent homology in organoids.
June 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A couple of beautiful short talks from PhD students Elke Neuhaus from MPI-MiS on quantum chemistry, and Leon Renkin @leon-renkin.bsky.social from MPI-CBG on persistent homology in organoids.
We had a couple of short talks over lunch, including one from Niharika Chakrabarty Paul from MPI-MiS, about computing phylogenetic invariants for time-reversible models, from a paper (arxiv.org/abs/2505.20526) that started at the Women in Algebraic Statistics workshop in Oxford last year :)
June 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We had a couple of short talks over lunch, including one from Niharika Chakrabarty Paul from MPI-MiS, about computing phylogenetic invariants for time-reversible models, from a paper (arxiv.org/abs/2505.20526) that started at the Women in Algebraic Statistics workshop in Oxford last year :)
Eric Pichon-Pharabod from the Numerical Algebraic Geometry group at MPI-MiS is now talking on algebraic curves.
June 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Eric Pichon-Pharabod from the Numerical Algebraic Geometry group at MPI-MiS is now talking on algebraic curves.
And now Ben Hollering - a Humboldt postdoc from TU Munich and long term guest of MPI-MiS in Leipzig - is telling us about graphical continuous Lyapunov models
June 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
And now Ben Hollering - a Humboldt postdoc from TU Munich and long term guest of MPI-MiS in Leipzig - is telling us about graphical continuous Lyapunov models
Next up was Carl Modes, leader of the Network Complexity and Systems Biophysics group here at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social, talking about the theoretical underpinnings of morphogenesis: topology and geometry meeting biology.
June 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Next up was Carl Modes, leader of the Network Complexity and Systems Biophysics group here at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social, talking about the theoretical underpinnings of morphogenesis: topology and geometry meeting biology.
Awesome new paper in @nature.com from PhD student Benjamin Yang @benjaminojr.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology Group!
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Awesome new paper in @nature.com from PhD student Benjamin Yang @benjaminojr.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology Group!
And it was shown that cell localisation patterns occurring at multiple spatial scales are relevant for disease progression.
May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
And it was shown that cell localisation patterns occurring at multiple spatial scales are relevant for disease progression.
Perez et al introduce a novel visualisation method—persistence weighted death simplices (PWDS)—which maps topological features detected by persistent homology back to their locations in the original tissue data, enhancing interpretability
May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Perez et al introduce a novel visualisation method—persistence weighted death simplices (PWDS)—which maps topological features detected by persistent homology back to their locations in the original tissue data, enhancing interpretability
Talks, discussions, great dinners, and even some Mathletics (thanks Hannah and Tessa!). A wonderful retreat.
May 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Talks, discussions, great dinners, and even some Mathletics (thanks Hannah and Tessa!). A wonderful retreat.
We had many others too, but here’s us celebrating Maria Torras Pérez’s @torrasperez.bsky.social new paper going up on arXiv about a new visualisation method to study spatial patterns in cell distribution data. More to come on this!
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We had many others too, but here’s us celebrating Maria Torras Pérez’s @torrasperez.bsky.social new paper going up on arXiv about a new visualisation method to study spatial patterns in cell distribution data. More to come on this!
Sergio Serrano de Haro Iváñez @sergiosdhi.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology group explaining how topological data analysis can be applied to colorectal cancer.
May 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sergio Serrano de Haro Iváñez @sergiosdhi.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology group explaining how topological data analysis can be applied to colorectal cancer.
Joining us at the retreat, and soon also as a postdoc in @aidadoesmath.bsky.social’s group is Carlotta Langer talking about information-theoretic complexity measures in the context of integrated information theory. Madly interesting stuff.
May 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Joining us at the retreat, and soon also as a postdoc in @aidadoesmath.bsky.social’s group is Carlotta Langer talking about information-theoretic complexity measures in the context of integrated information theory. Madly interesting stuff.
Karel Devriendt, a postdoc with @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social in the Mathematical Structures and Applications group, talking about his work on discretising curvature in graphs.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Karel Devriendt, a postdoc with @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social in the Mathematical Structures and Applications group, talking about his work on discretising curvature in graphs.
Silviana Amethyst, a Research Engineer also in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, showcasing Bertini2, a program for solving polynomial systems: silviana.org/computer_pro...
May 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Silviana Amethyst, a Research Engineer also in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, showcasing Bertini2, a program for solving polynomial systems: silviana.org/computer_pro...
Kelly Maggs @k311ym4gg5.bsky.social, a postdoc in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, thinking about ways of coming from mathematics and approaching interdisciplinary work with biologists
May 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Kelly Maggs @k311ym4gg5.bsky.social, a postdoc in the Algebraic Systems Biology group, thinking about ways of coming from mathematics and approaching interdisciplinary work with biologists
A few snippets from our retreat. First up, Türkü Özlüm Çelik @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social, one of our math group leaders, giving a window into her ideas about computational algebraic geometry. ‘This showcases how fruitful and delicate a mathematical structure of some natural phenomenon can be’.
May 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A few snippets from our retreat. First up, Türkü Özlüm Çelik @turkuozlumcelik.bsky.social, one of our math group leaders, giving a window into her ideas about computational algebraic geometry. ‘This showcases how fruitful and delicate a mathematical structure of some natural phenomenon can be’.
Highlights to come from Brunów, Poland, but here we all are! All current and upcoming members. A wonderful couple of days getting to know more about each others’ work. All three groups together: @haharrington.bsky.social, Türkü Özlüm Çelik, and @aidadoesmath.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵
May 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Highlights to come from Brunów, Poland, but here we all are! All current and upcoming members. A wonderful couple of days getting to know more about each others’ work. All three groups together: @haharrington.bsky.social, Türkü Özlüm Çelik, and @aidadoesmath.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵
Our mathematicians are on retreat in Poland! Coming together for lots of short talks and many side discussions. @jiayi-li.bsky.social is currently talking machine learning
May 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our mathematicians are on retreat in Poland! Coming together for lots of short talks and many side discussions. @jiayi-li.bsky.social is currently talking machine learning