Prof. Dr. Petra Schwer
building 03, room 206a
Tel. +49 391 67 52576
Fax. +49 391 67 41213
petra.schwer@ovgu.de
WISST! - das "What is...?"-Seminar beim Tee!
The WISST! is a seminar of the Institut für Algebra und Geometrie of the OvGU where members of the IAG present definitions / objects / theorems / results / experiments / examples of their interest, of mathematical and/or didactical nature. The seminar is inspired by the "what is...?"-, "15 Minuten"- and "arXiv"-Seminars of the BMS, the KIT and the Uni Bielefeld, respectively, as well as by the "What is...?" Column of the Notices of the AMS.
The speakers talk in an open, informal environment (after tea and coffee!) and present their favorite topics either based on their own research interests or based on works they might have recently stumbled upon on research platforms (such as the arXiv). The talks are short, 10 to 15 minutes long, and held in English. Questions are welcome at all times.
The seminar takes place on Tuesdays, from 13:30 to 13:45, and used to be held in the Seminar Room of the IAG. Due to the current Corona Pandemic, our activities have resumed online via zoom. Below is the past schedule:
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Venue |
03.12.2019 | Yuri Santos Rego | What are... Heegaard splittings? | Common Room (G02-210) |
10.12.2019 | Tobias Boege | What is... a polymatroid? |
IAG Room |
07.01.2020 | Marco Lotz | What are... local groups? |
IAG Room (G03-223) |
14.01.2020 | Frank Röttger | What is... a permutation statistic? | IAG Room (G03-223) |
21.01.2020 | Silke Neuhaus | What is... Grundvorstellung? | IAG Room (G03-223) |
04.02.2020 | Tobias Boege | What is... a hyperfield? | IAG Room (G03-223) |
11.02.2020 | Lamprini Ananiadi |
What is... a staged tree (statistical) model? |
IAG Room (G03-223) |
18.02.2020 | Thomas Kahle | What is... predatory publishing? | IAG Room (G03-223) |
03.03.2020 | Thomas Kahle | What is... a journal? | IAG Room (G03-223) |
02.06.2020 | Irem Portakal | What is... the card game SET? |
Online |
09.06.2020 | Yuri Santos Rego | What is... a good mix of our coffee? |
Online |
13.10.2020 | Patrick Fesser | What is... a certain Messinstrument zur Erfassung von wissenschaftspropädeutischen Kompetenzen im Fach Mathematik? (Ergebnisse einer ExpertInnenbefragung) |
Online |
20.10.2020 | Eliana Duarte | What is... a syzygy? |
Online |
27.10.2020 | Tobias Boege | What is... the real Nullstellensatz? |
Online |
03.11.2020 | Christopher Borger | What is... mixed reciprocity? |
Online |
10.11.2020 | Andreas Kretschmer | What is... a sheaf? |
Online |
17.11.2020 | Philipp Korell | What is... a singulatiry? |
Online |
24.11.2020 | Yuri Santos Rego | What is... a knot complement? |
Online |
01.12.2020 | Marco Lotz | What is... a hyperbolic space? |
Online |
08.12.2020 | Sebastian Geisler | What is... a student's attitude for dropout? |
Online |
15.12.2020 | Philipp Korell | What is... a blow up? |
Online |
05.01.2021 | Yuri Santos Rego | What is... a zeta function? |
Online |
19.01.2021 | Christian Kaspers | tba |
Online |
In case of any questions, please contact the coordinator of the seminar.