MESIGA is the "Meeting of the European SIAM and GAMM student chapters" taking place biennially. After a short hiatus, the Trier student chapters revitalized the long held tradition in 2023 with the torch passing on to the Postdam and Berlin student chapters to host the next student chapter conference in 2025.
The conference will take place from Tuesday, 11.03.2025, to Thursday, 13.03.2025, with an additional industry partner event on Monday, 10.03.2025, in the evening at lovely bar gelb in Potsdam.
The main conference venue is the Campus Golm of the University of Potsdam.
The plenary and contributed talks take place in the main lecture hall, room 108, of house 28. Other locations will be announced accordingly.
The conference is open to early career scientists of the organizing universities and research centers, all members of the SIAM and GAMM student chapters and students of the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+. We welcome everyone from late master students, doctoral students to early postdocs.
We are welcoming contributed talks and posters for the conference. Please send a single pdf-file containing your title and abstract (max. 1 page) via mail to mesiga25@uni-potsdam.de after your conference registration. Both must not exceed one page. Should there be more talk applications than available slots, the program committee will make a selection and you may be asked to present a poster instead. The deadline for abstract submissions will be the 10th of February 2025.
For master students without access to travel support we can provide a small number of travel stipends generously provided by the Berlin Mathematics Research Center Math+. Please submit a short letter of motivation (max. 1 page), a short CV and a certificate of enrollment via mail to mesiga25@uni-potsdam.de after your registration. In case there are more applications than available stipends, the program committee will select among applicants.
Please register as well as submit your title and abstract here:
Registration Link
| Martin Stoll | - Professor for Scientific Computing @ TU Chemnitz | |
| Carmen Gräßle | - Juniorprofessor for Flows and Dynamics @ TU Braunschweig | |
| Anne Wald | - Juniorprofessor for Applied Mathematics in the Natural Sciences @ Uni Göttingen | |
| Julia Grübel | - Postdoctoral Researcher in Energy Systems and Market Design @ TU Nürnberg |
On Monday, 10.03.2025, there will be an informal welcome event with an industry speaker from CARIAD on safe AI at Volkswagen. The event will take place atbar gelb in Potsdam. Entrance starts at 7pm, the presentation starts at 7.30pm and drinks can be ordered at your own expense all night! Title and abstract will be announced soon.
The poster session will take place on Tuesday afternoon, 11.03.2025. We will provide poster walls as well as a nice location and you bring your posters, lots of curiosity and good spirits. Let's have some fun and interesting poster presentations and insightful discussions. A grocery store with plenty of beverages available is close by within walking distance.
Instead of a typical conference dinner, we are planning several smaller dinner groups on Wednesday, 12.03.24, in the evening. The main reasons for this are cost, dietary requirements and social experience. A large conference dinner at an appropriate sized venue gets pricey very fast, especially since we cannot subsidize food and drinks. We want everybody, no matter of available funds or dietary requirements, to be able to take part and smaller group sizes are a great way to get conversations started.
We will book a reservation of about 20 seats each at a number of different restaurants:
Hako Ramen Potsdam (Ramen), L'Osteria Potsdam (Italian), Peter Pane Potsdam (Burger and Grill), Maya's Potsdam (Indian) and Augustiner im Bürgerbahnhof (Bavarian).
Menus are available on the respective websites. Please choose a minimum of two restaurants in the registration form.
To foster skills in presentation and stylistic devices to captivate your audience, we offer a soft skill workshop for young researchers on Thursday, 13.03.25, in the afternoon as an easy-going last event of the conference.
The workshop instructors are part of the popular Berlin poetry slam ensemble Kiezpoeten and prepare three interesting topics to support you in honing your presentations skills. The three workshops will take place in parallel over two hours. Accordingly you may participate in only one of them.
The topics are:
1: Storytelling for Presentation Structure,
2: Humor to Hoom Your Audience, and
3: Stage Presence and Confidence.
More information to come.
Please don't hesitate to contact us via mail for any organizational matters!
| Franziska Thoma @ Universität Potsdam | Jan Martin Nicolaus @ Universität Potsdam | |
| Adrian Schmidt @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Hans Reimann @ Universität Heidelberg |
| Josie König @ Universität Potsdam | Raphael Kuess @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Vahid Nateghi @ MPI Magdeburg | Jonas Schulze @ MPI Magdeburg | |
| Henrik Wyschka @ Universität Hamburg |
We are very grateful for the valuable support and great advice from the SFB 1294 at University of Potsdam in planning this event, as well as in overcoming the many small, medium and not so medium challenges that come with organising a conference. Additionally, we would like to thank the University of Potsdam for providing the venue as well as Potsdam Transfer and the Career Service for providing conference materials and goodies.
We are grateful for the financial support of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Potsdam, the SFB1294, the SFB TRR154, GAMM and the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+.
Finally, we would like to thank SIAM and GAMM as the professional societies that inspired this event by their support and promotion of networking and collaboration among early career researchers and young academics.
