The program Global Challenges for Women in Math Science is funded by the Department of Mathematics. It aims to promote and demonstrate the excellency of female mathematicians, as well as support the development of international contacts and cooperations. There are two award categories, each with different levels - the Achievement Awards and the Entrepreneurial Awards.
Achievement Awards
The best mathematics female students at the levels Bachelor and Masters receive a prize in the form of financial support for enhancing mathematical education or presenting research results.
These awards are granted on the basis of the students' grades. The Service Office Studies selects recipients automatically based on their exam results. The chosen students will be contacted in November each year.
Female Bachelors' Students
The best female students in Bachelors' program recieve:
1st Year: Book or software
2nd Year: Refund for a software course
3rd Year: Refund for an international Summer School for Bachelor students
Female Masters' Students
The best female students in Masters' program recieve:
1st Year: Refund for a workshop or an international Summer School
2nd Year: Refund for an international conference
Entrepreneurial Awards
Every year, we also award the Entrepreneurial Awards to female and male lecturers as part of the Global Challenges for Women in Math Science. Doctoral candidates can apply for the Junior Level; Post-docs, Professors and other faculty members can apply for both the Junior and Senior levels suitable to the described objectives. The awards to which female, male and diverse candidates may apply are marked "(m/f/d)".
Junior Entrepreneurial Awards
Doctoral candidates can receive the following awards:
Presentation of research results at an international conference
Research stay at an international research institution
Research stay at the TUM Department of Mathematics
Invitation of a female mathematician for a short research stay of max.1 month to the TUM Department of Mathematics (m/f/d)
Financial support for an international female doctoral candidate (m/f/d)
Organization of and participation in scientific events held online
Senior Entrepreneurial Awards
Postdocs, Professors and other members of the Department can apply for these prizes:
Research stay at an international research institution (max. 2 months)
Invitation of an international female mathematician for a research stay of max. 2 months (m/f/d)
Financial support for an application to an international granting agency
Organisation of a workshop for female mathematicians (m/f/d)
Organization of and participation in scientific events held online
We look forward to receiving your application for the Entrepreneurial Awards of the Global Challenges for Women program in Math Science. Send your documents by e-mail to Prof. Claudia Czado.
Application
Documents
CV
Project description and motivation (1-2 pages)
Invitation letter and guest researcher's CV (if applicable)
International researchers present their current work at the Colloquium of the Department of Mathematics. It will take place in lecture hall 3 (MI 00.06.011) on Wednesday, 7 February 2024. During the break, coffee, tea and pretzels will be served in the Magistrale. We cordially invite all interested parties!
Lecture date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024
14:30 - 15:30: Christoph Knochenhauer, TUM (Inaugural Lecture)
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00: Lorenz Panny, TUM (Inaugural Lecture)
Partial differential equations are the backbone of many results in applied Mathematical Finance. For example, prices of derivative contracts can be characterized in terms of linear, parabolic, second-order PDEs, and solutions of optimal investment problems are intimately linked to fully nonlinear, parabolic or elliptic second-order equations of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman type. In this talk, we discuss to which extend this relationship can also be reversed in that existence, uniqueness, and regulartiy results on certain PDEs can be given a financial interpretation. In particular, we consider several examples including optimal investment problems for institutional or private investors and optimal execution problems for large agents such as hedge funds. We conclude with an outlook on work in progress on a new notion of differentiability designed to construct regular solutions of degenerate second-order PDEs.
Cryptography and Quantum Computers
Lorenz Panny, TUM: 16:00 - 17:00
The rise of quantum computing threatens the security of currently deployed cryptographic systems that are used, for instance, to secure the internet, as well as pretty much anything else that has a computer chip in it. In this presentation I intend to give a broad overview over the impact of these developments on our cryptographic world and discuss possible solutions to the impending catastrophe, with a particular focus on the mathematical aspects of post-quantum cryptography.