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The Algebraic Statistics Conference 2025 (AlgStat2025) was held from March 24 to 28, 2025 at the Technical University of Munich in Garching. The event brought together researchers in algebraic statistics, applied algebraic geometry, and related fields, with strong participation from early-career scientists.
The scientific program featured keynote lectures by Karel Devriendt, Eliana Duarte, Elizabeth Gross, Kaie Kubjas, Sonja Petrović, Elina Robeva, Jose Rodriguez, Frank Röttger, Liam Solus, and Bernd Sturmfels. In addition to the invited talks, the conference included contributed talks, a poster session, and many informal discussions about future directions for the field.
The conference was organized by Carlos Améndola (TU Berlin), Mathias Drton (TU Munich), Benjamin Hollering (TU Munich), and Thomas Kahle (OvGU Magdeburg), with local organization by Andrea Grant (TU Munich), Bettina Haas (TU Munich), and Benjamin Hollering (TU Munich). It received support from the European Research Council (ERC), the DFG Priority Program SPP 2458 “Combinatorial Synergies,” and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The Workshop "Wachspress Geometry" was organized by Rainer Sinn and Martin Winter and took place September 24 - 25, 2024 at the University of Leipzig.
Its goal was to bring together researchers with a shared interest in Wachspress Geometry and to present this field to a broad mathematical audience. In a total of ten talks the various perspectives on this newly emerging field were presented, ranging from adjoint polynomials and Wachspress models, to Amplituhedra and geometric rigidity. The workshop was well-attended, with approximately 15 early-career and 10 senior participants. At least 4 research projects started at this event.
The kick-off meeting of the priority program took place from September 11 to 13, 2024 in Osnabrück. It was attended by 76 participants, around half of whom were PhD and Master's students.
The scientific program consisted of a scientific presentation on each of the nine core topics of the SPP. In addition, there was a mentoring session for prospective and current PhD students, as well as an event in the form of a World Cafe, which served to network the projects.
The next annual conference will take place in Hannover in September 2025, organized by Michael Cuntz.
The DFG sent out the decision letters for (almost) all proposals on April 18-19. We expect the job openings to be published under Job openings soon, and also that (again almost) all positions to be filled before the first Priority Program Annual Conference in September in Osnabrück.
The review panel has met for two days on February 5--6 via zoom. On February 9, all proposal PIs have been informed by the program committee about the panel's funding recommendations. Starting in April, the program will fund 26 projects with 35 PIs and 30 PhD and PostDoc positions.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a 10 million Euro Synergy Grant to the project “UNIVERSE+: Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology”.
We have received 54 proposals by 61 PIs, requesting funds for 71 PhD and PostDoc positions.
The first orientation session of the approved priority programme was a great success with 85 online participants.
