Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Founded on March 1, 1996, the institute works on projects which apply mathematics in various areas of natural sciences, in particular physics, biology, chemistry and material science.

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Research groups

Geometry and Complex Systems
Pattern formation, energy landscapes and scaling laws
Nonlinear algebra
Applied analysis
Geometry, groups and dynamics
Discrete sets in geometry
Geometry on surfaces
Stochastic partial differential equations
Mathematical software
Mathematical machine learning
Learning and inference
Interdisciplinary frontiers of algebraic geometry
Probability and variational methods in PDEs
Mathematical structures in physics
Stochastic topology and its applications
Numerical nonlinear algebra

The institute has an extensive visitors programme which has made Leipzig a main place for research in applied mathematics.
The MPI MiS is a member of ERCOM.