2-Day VSM Training Workshop for Job Applications (and a Career) Outside of Academia
2-day workshop taking place on September 29 and 30, 2025, designed specifically for the VSM PhD students. Some of the planned topics are:
– career planning
– company culture & personal values
– application documents
– job interview
– job search
– digital reputation & career.talk
Registration: tba
https://colab.tuwien.ac.at/display/VSMATH/Career+Days
Location: TU Wien, Sitzungszimmer AD EG, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
https://raumkatalog.tiss.tuwien.ac.at/room/4293
https://maps.tuwien.ac.at/?q=ADEG19
WELCOME to the VSM lunch at TU Wien
The TU Lunch is a relaxed meeting of fellow PhD students of the VSM. It is an opportunity to get together with your fellow PhD students and to get to know the VSM.
While it’s hosted at TU Wien, all VSM PhD students are warmly invited to join!
More information can be found at https://colab.tuwien.ac.at/display/VSMATH/TU+Lunch
Hope to see you there!
Embracing Diversity in STEM
Event Jointly Organized by 4 Doctoral Schools
On February 18, 2025 from 9 am to 5 pm
Main Ceremonial Hall of the University of Vienna
Speakers:
– Keynote by Prof. Anna Danielsson
– Science Talks by Prof. Chi Zhang, Prof. Mathea Sophia Galanski, Dr. Shantanu Dave & Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
More information and registration: https://embracing-diversity-stem.univie.ac.at/home/
Poster: Diversity in STEM Poster
VSM Workshop Mental Health
November 27, 2024, 1:30 pm – 5 pm. at TU Wien, trainer: Nadja Springer
Special topic: impostor syndrom
2-Day VSM Training Workshop for Job Applications (and a Career) Outside of Academia
2-day workshop taking place on September 30 and October 01, 2024, designed specifically for the VSM PhD students. Some of the planned topics are:
– career planning
– company culture & personal values
– application documents
– job interview
– job search
– digital reputation & career.talk
Registration: closed on August 31st
https://colab.tuwien.ac.at/display/VSMATH/Career+Days
Location: TU Wien, seminar room „Seminarraum Techn. Informatik“ entrance at Operngasse 9, ground floor, room number DEEG39
Funding Schemes & Proposal Writing
This Workshop by Harald Schwab (ProjektService, University of Vienna) and Christian Maszl-Kantner (Funding Support and Industry Relations, TU Wien) organized by the VSM will take place on Monday, June 17, 2024 from 10 am to 12 pm.
Location: Hörsaal 7, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1st floor (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna)
doc.schools meet… GPTs in Research and Higher Education
Interdisciplinary panel discussion on GPTs in research and higher education organized by the Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM) and the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP).
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9A, 1090 Vienna
Schedule
16:30 – Entrance
17:00 – Start of the Discussion
18:30 – Refreshments and informal get-together
No registration is needed for participating in this event!
About the Event
The impact of AI tools can be seen in various areas, whether it be science, culture, politics or communication. ChatGPT has become a frequently used resource in many people’s lives and much attention is now drawn to possibilities and obstacles of large language models. But which implications does this change have for the academic world?
In the upcoming edition of our doc.schools meet… panel discussion our invited panelists with various backgrounds will shed light on this matter with regards to GPTs in research and higher education. The panelists will discuss questions such as:
- What is the potential of GPTs in STEM Research and Higher Education?
- What are the limitations you see?
- How should we adapt our research/teaching to the recent progress in AI?
Panelists
- Margret Mundorf
Is a linguist focusing on legal linguistics and text linguistics, writing and communication trainer and lecturer. She co-founded the „Virtuelles Kompetenzzentrum: Künstliche Intelligenz und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten“ and is a board member of the „Gesellschaft für Schreibdidaktik und Schreibforschung e.V.“. - Mario Krenn
Works at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light as a group leader of the Artificial Scientist Lab. His research includes the development of AI-based tools for the design of new quantum experiments and hardware and autonomously semantic networks. - Philipp Petersen
Is assistant professor for machine learning at Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna. His research focuses on approximation theory, applied harmonic analysis and mathematical deep learning in applications. - Benjamin Roth
Is a professor in the area of deep learning & statistical NLP, leading the WWTF Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators „Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing“.
Prior to this, he was an interim professor at LMU Munich. He obtained his PhD from Saarland University and did a postdoc at UMass, Amherst. His research interests are the extraction of knowledge from text with statistical methods and knowledge-supervised learning.
Moderated by Christoph Dellago (University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics)
Student Organizing Team:
Alexandra Edletzberger (VSM), Nikolaos Kalafatakis (VDSP), Mina Monadjem (VSM), Pietro Zito (VDSP)
2-Day VSM Training Workshop for Job Applications (and a Career) Outside of Academia
2-day workshop designed specifically for the VSM PhD students, June 6 and September 19, 2023. Topics:
– career planning
– company culture & personal values
– application documents
– job interview
– job search
– digital reputation & career.talk
September 19, 2023: networking event VSM Career Day – Meet the Industry. The event consisted of two parts:
career.talk
A moderated panel discussion where four mathematics alumni discuss their career (choices) outside of academia.
coffee and talk
Talk to the panelists in smaller groups.
Confirmed panelists are:
-) Johanna Grames (AOP Health)
-) Johannes Schürz (Siemens Technology)
-) Hartwig Sorger (Valida Vorsorge Management)
-) Clemens Wagner-Bruschek (d-fine)
VSM Course „Mathematical Paper Writing“ at TU Wien (1 ECTS)
May and June 2023:
2 units (= 4 hours) on „Mathematical Journals“,
1 unit (= 2 hours) on „LaTeX in Mathematical Paper Writing“,
3 units (= 6 hours) on „Technical English and Paper Writing“,
Science and Art – a desirable symbiosis?
Interdisciplinary panel discussion on the interface between science and art organized by the Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM) and the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP).
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9A, 1090 Vienna
From masterminds fluidly alternating between artistic work and scientific discoveries, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, to today’s technology that can create art independently through artificial intelligence – there has always been an interplay between science and art. But how far does this connection reach and how far should we push the interaction between the two areas? In this term’s edition of “doc.schools meet…”, we have invited four panelists from the arts and sciences to examine this fascinating intersection. Ranging from a professor of applied arts, to a researcher and artist at the Ars Electronica, to a physicist and a mathematician with artistic collaborators, our panelists will discuss questions such as
- Are there common grounds between arts and sciences?
- What should be the role of science in arts/arts in science?
- What is the value of aesthetics in art? What is the value of aesthetics in science?
Panelists
- Ruth Anderwald, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Visual artist and professor at the Institute Zentrum Fokus Forschung (ZFF) where she also teaches theory and practice of artistic research. One of the project leaders of FWF-PEEK project Navigating Dizziness Together, the follow-up of FWF-PEEK project Dizziness–A Resource (2014-1017). - Alessandra Gnecchi, Italian Institute for Nuclear Research, INFN
works as a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical physics. She collaborated with artists through the Arts at CERN project to explore the holographic principle artistically. - Ali Nikrang, Ars Electronica Futurelab
studied computer science at JKU Linz and Composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His research focuses on the interaction between humans and AI with regard to creative tasks, in particular the creation of music. - Klemens Fellner, University of Graz
Professor of Mathematics/Computational Sciences at the University of Graz. Besides his research, he is involved in the interdisciplinary project “the collaborative mind”, where he explores new paths in the creative processes shared by artists and scientists.
Moderated by Eva-Maria Hainzl and Katharina Holzweber
Organizing Team
Organized by VSM students Alexandra Edletzberger, Eva-Maria Hainzl, Steffen Plunder, Jakob Reiffenstein and VDSP student Viktoria Kabel.
Gathering/Welcome Event for PhD Students in Mathematics of the University of Vienna
Monday, December 5, 2022, 2.00 to 4.00 pm, Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
PhD Advisors are encouraged to join from 3.00 pm.
There will be information sessions as well as the opportunity for (informal) exchange.
Mathematics in Africa – a panel discussion
December 1, 2022, 3 pm to 4 pm, HS3, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna (Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna)
At this event Sarah Nakato (TU Graz / Uganda), Geoffrey Mboya (Oxford / Kenya) and Balazs Szendroi (Uni Wien) discussed the challenges and opportunities of mathematics research and teaching on the African continent. Different projects were presented that allow adventurous young people to get involved, such as mentoring schemes, summer schools and MathCamps.
Counting Conundrums and Promoting Maths
September 29, 2022, 2 pm,
Yudhi Bunjamin talked about his outreach work at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney and ran a fun demo workshop called „Counting Conundrums“.
The talk took about 30 mins, workshop about an hour.
Abstract
Since 2018, a large team in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney have been working on designing several interactive mathematics outreach workshops for primary and secondary school students. These workshops are motivated by promoting mathematical thinking rather than by introducing an amusing area or application of mathematics. These workshops have been presented in a wide variety of settings from school visits in regional parts of Australia to our school’s annual Girls Do The Maths event with around 250 students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8B_Dvp-ew
This talk will discuss the motivation and guiding principles behind these workshops. We will present some aspects of the design and development process of these workshops and highlight the considerations which were made as a result of the equity motivation, including mathematical level, cultural sensitivity and accessibility. In particular, we will discuss the interaction between the underlying mathematics and the operational and equity considerations of the workshops.
After a short break we will run a demo workshop which is called „Counting Conundrums“!
Screening of the documentary film Secrets of the Surface
May 12, 2022, to celebrate the International Women in Math Day.
May 12th is the birth date of Maryam Mirzakhani, who was an Iranian mathematician and also the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal.
The film Secrets of the Surface follows Maryam Mirzakhani’s life and work in mathematics.
The one hour film was followed by a half hour discussion. The film was screened at the University of Vienna and online screening Zoom.
This event was organized by the Austrian Association of Women in Mathematics (A²WiM) in collaboration with the Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM). Please find the poster for the event here.
doc.schools meet science communication –
Discussion with a researcher, a journalist, an EdTech-startup founder and a podcaster about the challenges of communicating science to a general audience, Tuesday, March 22, 2022
– How can a consumer distinguish “communicated science” from fake news?
– How much can you simplify science communication without lying?
– Does science communication need to be sensational?
– Does real science always have to be educational?
– Is real science boring?
These and similar questions were tackled from the perspectives of various communication strategies, including “conservative” written form, modern approaches via social media and efforts by academic institutions with
– Michael Drmota, TU Vienna
– Jeanette Gehlert, „Mandelbrot talks“ podcast
– Tanja Traxler, derStandard
– Karim Saad, ClassNinjas
The full programme can be found following this link.
Python Advanced Course
Between March 17 and April 7, 2022, the VSM organized an Advanced Workshop on Python, held online by Claus Aichinger.
As a preparation for this workshop, we organized Python Tutorial Sessions held by students of the VSM. They took place between March 2 and 10, 2022.
Workshop „Funding Schemes“
organized by the VSM, January 20, 2022, online.
VDSP Academy 2021 on PDEs in Mathematical Physics, August 23 – September 3, 2021, online.
This event was organized by the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP) with support by the Faculty of Mathematics and the Vienna School of Mathematics. Master and advanced Bachelor students of physics and mathematics from all over the world were invited to virtually attend keynote talks and hands-on tutorials on Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics.
The VDSP Academy 2021 presented an overview on the field of evolutionary PDEs in the context of physical systems. This course provided the audience with a survey of the field with references to further advanced courses, which respectively concern the individual topics.
doc.schools meet society
Online interdisciplinary discussion on the role of science in society organized by PhD candidates affiliated with the Vienna School of Mathematics and the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics. June 15, 2021. The online discussion was followed by an informal meet-up with the speakers and the other students on gather.town.
Details can be found here.
VSM-Workshop „A PhD in Mathematics – Career Possibilities & Gender Aspects.“
Online Workshop, June 1, 2021.
Workshop „Proposal Writing“
June 25, 2020, organzied by the VSM.
VDS Meets Sports
organized by PhD candidates affiliated with the Vienna School of Mathematics and the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, November 8, 2019, Schrödinger lecture hall of the ESI.
Kick-off Event of the Vienna School of Mathematics
October 16, 2019, Großer Festsaal, University of Vienna
Details are available here
Science Meets Space
On 24 January 2019 the third joint VDS Mathematics and Physics „Science meets“ event took place in the Schrödinger Lecture Hall at the ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9.
The following speakers were invited for presentation and panel discussion:
- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Friedrich Kupka
Lead Scientist at the Institute of Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - Dr. Oliver Jennrich
Fundamental Physics Mission Scientist, and Science Directorate at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC), the Netherlands
Bringing together both mathematical and physics experts resulted in a successful and fruitful exchange.
Local organizers: Yaakov Fein (VDS-P), Dennis Meier (VDS-M), Valeria Milotti (VDS-P), Dang-Khoa Nguyen (VDS-M) and Katharina Werbach (VDS-P).
Science Meets Medicine
On 29 May 2018 the second joint VDS Mathematics and Physics „Science meets“ event took place in the Schrödinger Lecture Hall of the ESI.
The following speakers were present for the panel discussion:
- DI Manfred Bammer, MAS
Competence Unit Biomedical Systems, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) - Marie Doumic, PhD
Wolfgang Pauli Institute, University of Vienna
Inria Paris - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Bianca Gerendas, MSc
Vienna Reading Center, Medical University of Vienna
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis
Bringing together both mathematical and physics experts resulted in a successful and fruitful exchange.
Local organizers: Anna Breger (VDS-M), Yaakov Fein (VDS-P), Manjil Saikia (VDS-M) and Katharina Werbach (VDS-P).
Transferable Skills Workshop: „Funding Schemes“
Thursday, May 17, 2018.
Barbara Leitner (Forschungsservice und Nachwuchsförderung) and Harald Schwab (projektSERVICE Mathematik) gave an informative workshop on international and national funding opportunities with a particular focus on the FWF Schrödinger Scholarship.
VDS Excursion to Munich, January 24 – 26, 2018
Including guided tours at Siemens Munich and BMW Munich.
Advanced Python Workshop, January 8 – 22, 2018
The workshop focused on a sound understanding of core libraries, intermediate to advanced language features as well as best practises. The course aimed to provide participants with tools and techniques to concisely express their ideas in code and achieve their scientific objectives by means of idiomatic Python.
Instructor: Claus Aichinger, initiator and co-organizer of PyDays Vienna, Austria’s largest Python event.
Science Meets Applied Academia
On 16 November 2017 the first joint VDS mathematics and physics ‘Science’ meets took place in the Schrödinger Lecture Hall of the ESI.
The following speakers were present for the panel discussion:
- Prof. Franz Rammerstorfer
Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics (ILSB), Vienna University of Technology (TU) - Prof. Krzysztof Pietrzak
Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria - Dr. Andrey Krasovskii
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Local organizers: Florian Aigner (VDS-M), Axel Böhm (VDS-M), Yaakov Fein (VDS-P), Daniel Scherl (VDS-M) and Katharina Werbach (VDS-P)
Python Workshop – October 30 to November 20, 2017
First Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Vienna Doctoral Schools – September 14-15, 2017
On September 14th and 15th 2017, the Großer & Kleiner Festsaal of the University of Vienna were the setting of the first joint conference of the four Vienna Doctoral Schools (VDSs): “Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience (CoBeNe)”, “Mathematics”, “Molecules of Life (MoL)” and “Physics”.
Transferable Skills Workshop „How to apply for post-doctoral funding“ – June 20, 2016.
An informative workshop on international and national funding opportunities with a particular focus on the relevant funding schemes from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) e.g. Erwin Schrödinger outgoing fellowship, Hertha Firnberg, stand-alone projects etc. and the Individual Fellowships scheme within the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA programme).
Kick-off Event of the Vienna Doctoral School „Mathematics“ – May 17, 2016.
This event featured a brief introduction in what the VDS „Mathematics“ is, „general public“ lectures by Martin Aigner (FU Berlin) and Karl Sigmund, posters by the „inaugural“ crowd of Ph.D. students in the school (accompanied by coffee and cakes).