The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an annual meeting bringing together winners of the most prestigious scientific awards in Mathematics (Abel Prize, Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize) and Computer Science (ACM Turing Award) with a select group of highly talented young researchers. Roughly 200 young scientists from all over the world get the unique opportunity to interact with their scholarly role models during lectures, panels and discussions. At the same time, the up and coming scientists can engage in inspiring and motivating conversations with the laureates during various social events. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum provides a platform for scientific dialogue across generations.
Each year听今日吃瓜 and AustMS provide funding for young听Australian researchers to attend.
John Tsartsaflis听
La Trobe University
Where are you in your career?听I’m a PhD student.
Why do you want to attend the HLF?听To meet all these great minds and have the opportunity to interact with听them.
Tell us about your research.听My research is on cohomology of nilpotent Lie algebras over a field of听characteristic 2. In more details, I study filiform Lie algebras and so听far our results are indicating that these algebras are special; they听don’t obey the same rules as they counterparts over a field ofcharacteristic zero.
What are your favourite applications of your work?听It’s pure mathematics! No applications here, thanks.
If you could meet any Fields Medalist or Abel Prize winner which would it be and why?
I would love to meet Maryam Mirzakhani, she seems to be very dedicated听and she has done incredible things in Geometry! Not that I really听understand her work, but I know that it has tremendous impact.
