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Welcome to "On A Tangent", where we tell the stories behind the mathematics. In each episode, we meet a different early career mathematician from Mathematics Münster, and learn about their research, their path towards mathematics, and their hopes for the future. We explore the many different shapes that mathematical research can take, the early memories that led people towards the subject, and try to understand a little bit better the voices that make the mathematical community of today.
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- 3 days ago28 min
Episode 14: Swimming, swimming and Geometry with Adam Thompson
In this season’s seventh and final episode of "On a Tangent", Carlo talks with Adam Thompson. Adam shares stories about his time swimming competitively and studying in Australia, his early fascination with geometry in mathematics, and his experiences moving around the world. Adam is a PhD candidate in Christoph Böhm’s research group, where he focuses on Ricci solitons, geometric flows, and spaces with symmetry.
- Sep 7, 202633 min
Episode 13: About the importance of being curious with Malthe Mejlsted
In the sixth episode of On a Tangent’s second season, Carlo talks to Malthe Mejlsted from Copenhagen about his time in Denmark, his participation in mathematics Olympiads, camps, and other science programmes, and what these experiences taught him. As a PhD student under Professor Wilhelm Winter, Malthe is now investigating operator algebras.
- Aug 3, 202627 min
Episode 12: On the purpose of studying Mathematics with Raquel Murat García
In this season's fifth episode of On a Tangent, Carlo speaks with Raquel Murat García about her academic starts in Spain, the shift from more applied science to pure math and her motivation for that, as well as about her reasons to go to Münster. As a PhD candidate of Linus Kramer, in her research Raquel is focusing on condensed group cohomology.
- Jul 6, 202636 min
Episode 11: From playing the organ to geometric group theory with Benjamin Brück
In the second season's fourth episode of On a Tangent, Carlo speaks with Benjamin Brück about his journey to Münster, away from it, and ultimately back again, the stations and challenges along the way and his connection to music. In his research Benjamin is focusing on high dimensional cohomology of arithmetic groups.
- Jun 1, 202634 min
Episode 10: Batman, Beats and p-adic Geometry with Nataniel Marquis
In the third episode von "On a Tangent", Carlo speaks with Nataniel Marquis, a postdoctoral researcher working on p-adic geometry in Eugen Hellmann’s research group, about their enthusiasm for mathematics, Batman’s influence on it, and the French classe préparatoire system, as well as how dancing and music help to clear the mind.
- May 4, 202626 min
Episode 9: Random Walks & Long Runs, with Elisabetta Mazzolari
In the second episode of the second series of On A Tangent, Carlo speaks to Elisabetta Mazzolari. She is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics and works in the field of probability theory. In the podcast, she explains what led her from Pavia via Delft to Münster, and what she does to clear her head.
- Apr 6, 202631 min
Episode 8: From Paris via Copenhagen to Münster, with Maxime Ramzi
In the first episode of the second season of On A Tangent, Carlo talks to Maxime Ramzi, a postdoctoral researcher specialising in algebraic K-theory and homotopical algebra. Maxime talks about how inspiring maths teachers influenced him, how he came to Münster via Copenhagen, and where you might run into him outside of mathematics.
- Dec 11, 202425 min
Episode 7: From Headbutting Gnomes to Infinity Categories, with Edith Hübner
In this episode of On A Tangent, Simone is joined by Edith Hübner, a doctoral researcher in topology. We learn about her journey from physics to mathematics, what headbutting gnomes can teach young children, and the mysteries of infinity categories.
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Welcome to "On A Tangent", where we tell the stories behind the mathematics. In each episode, we meet a different early career mathematician from Mathematics Münster, and learn about their research, their path towards mathematics, and their hopes for the future. We explore the many different shapes that mathematical research can take, the early memories that led people towards the subject, and try to understand a little bit better the voices that make the mathematical community of today.
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