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Positions

9/2023
- present
Full Professor of Mathematics, University of Regensburg
W3 Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics
1/2020
-?8/2023
Bonn Junior Fellow, University of Bonn
W2 Professor at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and Institute for Applied Mathematics
8/2017
?-?12/2019
Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting faculty hosted by Prof. L. Craig Evans
4/2017
?-?7/2017
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Postdoc in the research group of Prof. Felix Otto

Education

10/2013
?- 4/2017
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
PhD in Mathematics
  • Advisor: Prof. Felix Otto
  • Title of thesis:?Convergence of phase-field models and thresholding schemes via the gradient-flow structure of multi-phase mean-curvature flow?
  • Grade:?summa cum laude; awarded Otto Hahn Medal
10/2011
?-9/2013
RWTH Aachen University
Master of Science in Mathematics
  • Advisor: Prof. Christof Melcher
  • Title of thesis:?Dynamics of magnetic phase transitions?
  • Grade: 1.0 (excellent); awarded Springorum Denkmünze
10/2008
?-9/2011
RWTH Aachen University
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
  • Advisor: Prof. Josef Bemelmans
  • Title of thesis:?Maximum principles in differential inequalities and monotonicity of solutions?
  • Grade: 1.1 (excellent); awarded Sch?neborn Preis

Honors and Awards

2019 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellowship
NSF Grant, Workshop on Surface, Bulk, and Geometric PDEs: Interfacial, Stochastic, Non-Local and Discrete Structures
2018 Otto Hahn Medal
Awarded for “a highly original convergence proof of a numerical scheme for grain growth”; this is an annual award of the Max Planck Society for the best PhD theses of the past year in Germany among all scientific disciplines.
2016 Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student (OWLG)
Workshop on Calculus of Variations
2013
-2017
IMPRS Graduate School and Stipend
Member of the International Max Planck Research School; scholarship provided by the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
2014 Springorum Denkmünze
Award for an excellent master's degree
2012
-2013
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation; awarded to approximately 1/4% of the German university student population
2012 Sch?neborn Preis
Award for excellent bachelor's degree
2010
-2012
Bildungsfonds
Scholarship provided jointly by the German government and the Aachen-Münchener Insurance
2009
-2013
Dean's List
Among the best 5% of the students at RWTH Aachen University

Organization of Conferences, Workshops & Schools

7/2023 Workshop “Nonlinear PDEs: Recent Trends in the Analysis of Continuum Mechanics”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 17-21, 2023; co-organized with Sebastian Hensel and Kerrek Stinson
7/2023 Hausdorff School “Analysis of PDEs: Variational and Geometric Perspectives”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 10-14, 2023; co-organized with Sebastian Hensel and Kerrek Stinson
2/2023 Minisymposium at SIAM CSE23
Minisymposium on Variational Methods in Machine Learning held at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), Amsterdam, Netherlands; co-organized with Jona Lelmi and Yves van Gennip.
11/2022 YAM Symposium
Inauguration event of the Young African Mathematicians (YAM) program;?co-organized with Franca Hoffmann.
8/2022 Hausdorff School “Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs”
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, August 8-12, 2022;
confirmed speakers: L. Craig Evans, Inwon Kim, Felix Otto, Maria G. Westdickenberg; co-organized with Theresa M. Simon (website).
4/2022 Master’s studies information event
Co-organization, together with Jan Schroer (Algebra) and Margherita Disertori (Mathematical Physics), of first faculty-wide information event aimed at finishing bachelor’s students.
7/2021 Workshop on Geometric and Applied Analysis
Organized workshop at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, July 12-16, 2021 (website), originally planned for summer 2020.

Leadership Roles & Mathematical Engagement

since 10/2022 Young African Mathematicians (YAM) program, Academic Coordinator, Bonn
Since 2021, the YAM program annually supports 3?master’s students for an extended research stay at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn. The selection process happens in several stages in coordination with all Centers of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). Selected students are then matched with faculty at Bonn for suitable research projects. In addition to the research project, YAM fellows can follow classes and work on a research project.
11/2021 Ally Day Bonn, Speaker
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn
since 2/2021 Equal opportunities committee, Member
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bonn.
since 10/2020 CRC seminar
I am co-organizing the joint seminar of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 1060 “The Mathematics of Emergent Effects” (together with Martin Rumpf and Stefan Müller).
6/2014
-6/2017
??? PhD Representative
I represented the students of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences within the Max Planck Society

Invited Seminar and Colloquium Talks

11/2023 Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
Mathematics Colloquium
5/2023 University of Regensburg, Germany
IntComSin Colloquium
5/2023 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Partial Differential Equations?& Applications Seminar
4/2023 Heidelberg University, Germany
Jour Fixe of the Cluster of Excellence?STRUCTURES
4/2023 La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Analysis Seminar
2/2023 Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics?(WIAS), Berlin, Germany
Seminar on Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics
2/2023 University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Joint Analysis?Seminar?and Seminar on?PDE and Applications
2/2023 TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
CASA Colloquium
1/2023 Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Seminar of the trimester program "Mathematics for Complex Materials"
11/2022 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis
11/2022 Bielefeld University, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis
10/2022 Heidelberg University, Germany
HGS MathComp Lecture
6/2022 SISSA Trieste, Italy
Geometric Structures Seminar
6/2022 Online Seminar "Geometric Analysis", div.
co-hosted by U Freiburg, U Halle, U Pittsburgh, and U Salzburg?(video)
5/2022 Centro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada (CIMPA), Universidad de Costa Rica
Seminario de Investigación
3/2022 University of Freiburg, Germany
Kolloquium Reine Mathematik
2/2022 University of Regensburg, Germany
1/2022 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis and Probability
11/2021 FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
11/2021 University of Münster, Germany
11/2021 SISSA Trieste, Italy
Analysis Seminar
11/2021 Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Oberseminar Angewandte Mathematik
10/2021 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Geometry Seminar
3/2021 ??? University of Pisa, Italy
Seminario di Calcolo delle Variazioni
1/2021 ??? Ulm University, Germany
Mathematisches Kolloquium
1/2021 ??? Virtual Analysis and PDE Seminar, div.
co-hosted by Brown U, Columbia U, Georgia Tech, U Wisconsin at Madison, Purdue U, UCLA, UCSD, and UT Austin (video)
5/2020 ??? University of Regensburg, Germany
IntComSin Colloquium
3/2020 ??? Institut de Mathámatiques de Toulouse, France
Séminaire de Calcul des Variations
12/2019 ??? Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Analysis Seminar (video)
4/2019 ??? University of California, Davis, CA
PDE and Applied Mathematics Seminar
2/2019 ??? University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Probability Seminar
1/2019 ??? Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria
Mathematics and CS Seminar
12/2018 ??? Centro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada (CIMPA), Universidad de Costa Rica
Seminario de Investigación
11/2018 ??? Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
SFB Seminar
8/2018 ??? RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis
4/2018 ??? University of California, Los Angeles, CA
The Level Set Collective Seminar at IPAM
1/2018 ??? University of Münster, Germany
Oberseminar at the Institute for Analysis and Numerics
11/2017 ??? Brown University, Providence, RI
Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems Seminar
11/2016 ??? Courant Institute, New York, NY
Analysis Seminar
11/2016 ??? Purdue University, West-Lafayette, IN
PDE Seminar
11/2016 ??? University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar
12/2015 ??? RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis
10/2015 ??? University of Regensburg, Germany
Oberseminar Analysis
10/2015 ??? University of Pisa, Italy
Seminario di Calcolo delle Variazioni
7/2013 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Analysis Seminar

Selected Seminar Talks at Home Institutions

5/2019 ??? Berkeley-Bonn-Paris-Zürich Video Seminar
University of California, Berkeley, CA
4/2019 ??? Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar
University of California, Berkeley, CA
2/2019 ??? Mathematics Undergraduate Student Association: Math Monday
University of California, Berkeley, CA
10/2017 ??? Differential Geometry Seminar
University of California, Berkeley, CA
9/2017 ??? Analysis and PDE Seminar
University of California, Berkeley, CA
6/2016 ??? Analysis AG Seminar
Max Planck Insitute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Invited Talks at Conferences

7/2023 Oberwolfach Workshop on Partial Differential Equations
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
6/2023 Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Interfaces and Free Boundaries
Preliminary meeting for the 81st Fujihara Meeting
6/2023 Workshop on Asymptotic Behaviors of Systems of PDEs Arising in Physics and Biology (ABPDE5)
Polytech Lille, France
6/2023 Workshop on Calculus of Variations and Applications
Université Paris Cité, France
11/2022 Discrete Systems and Calculus of Variations
Institute for Advanced Study, TU Munich, Germany
9/2022 Kick-off workshop for Collaborative Research Center Sparsity and Singular Structures
SFB 1481,?RWTH Aachen, Germany
9/2022 Workshop on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications
TU Chemnitz, Germany
2/2022 Workshop on Free Boundary Problems and Related Evolution Equations
Erwin Schr?dinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, University of Vienna, Austria (video)
11/2021 Workshop on New Trends in Geometric PDEs
University of Münster
10/2020 ??? Annual Meeting of the GAMM Activity Group "Analysis of PDEs" (online)
Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
6/2019 ??? International Conference on Interface Problems in Fluids and Solids
Center for Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies (CAMIS), Guangzhou, China
6/2019 ??? RIMS Workshop: Geometric Aspects of Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
Research Institute for Mathematical Science (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan
6/2019 ??? Luckhaustagung: Material Theories, Statistical Mechanics, and Geometric Analysis
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
1/2019 ??? Oberwolfach Workshop on Surface, Bulk, and Geometric Partial Differential Equations: Interfacial, stochastic, non-local and discrete structures
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
9/2018 ??? Meeting in Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations
La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
6/2017 ??? Workshop on Curves and Networks in Geometric Analysis
Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy
7/2016 ??? Analysis and Numerics in Curvature Energies Meeting
University of Freiburg, Germany

Contributed and Minisymposium Talks at Conferences

8/2022 GAMM Annual Meeting
Symposium on Applied Analysis, RWTH Aachen, Germany
7/2022 SIAM Annual Meeting
Minisymposium on Advances in Variational Methods and Applications to Materials and Machine Learning,?Pittsburgh, PA
9/2021 DMV-?MG Jahrestagung
Minisymposium on PDE models for interfaces and complex structures, University of Passau, Germany?(online)
9/2021 International Conference on Free Boundary Problems
Minisymposium on Free boundary problems in life sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (online)
8/2021 HCM Symposium
Minisymposium on Shape, pattern and partial differential equations, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
5/2021 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science
Minisymposia on Geometric flows in problems from materials science; and Multiscale and stochastic effects in evolution of materials, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain (online)
3/2020 Current Trends in Applied Mathematics
A workshop to celebrate the 50th anniversary of applied mathematics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Minisymposium on Interfaces and free boundaries
7/2018 ??? SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science
Minisymposium on Coarsening in Microstructure, Portland, OR
7/2016 ??? AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Special session on quantitative geometric and functional inequalities and new trends in nonlinear PDEs, Orlando, FL
5/2016 ??? SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science
Minisymposium on recent developments in mathematical modeling of recrystallization, grain growth and related phenomena, Philadelphia, PA
7/2015 ??? Hausdorff School on Nonlinear Evolutions: Kinetic Equations and Defect Dynamics
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

Other Academic Activities

2016-present ??? Refereeing
I regularly?serve as referee for various journals in pure and applied mathematics, including?Inventiones mathematicae,?Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics,?Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis,?Communications in Partial Differential Equations,?Journal of Computational Physics,?Journal of Nonlinear Science,?Mathematics of Computation,?Interfaces and Free Boundaries,...
2009 -2013,
2017-present
??? Teaching
I am an enthusiastic teacher: I have been teaching university students with diverse backgrounds since the end of my first year at university as a teaching assistant, tutor and mentor. I took a break from teaching during my PhD; I was lecturing three upper division undergraduate classes at UC Berkeley per year; now I am lecturing graduate classes and organizing graduate seminars at the University of Bonn. Click?here?for more details.

Attended Summer Schools and Conferences

Have we met before? .... Here's an almost complete list of scientific events I've attended:

11/2022 Discrete Systems and Calculus of Variations
Institute for Advanced Study, TU Munich, Germany
9/2022 Kick-off workshop for Collaborative Research Center Sparsity and Singular Structures
SFB 1481,?RWTH Aachen, Germany
9/2022 Workshop on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications
TU Chemnitz, Germany
8/2022 HCM Conference:?From Dirichlet Forms to Wasserstein Geometry
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics,?University of Bonn
8/2022 GAMM Annual Meeting
Symposium on Applied Analysis, RWTH Aachen, Germany
8/2022 Hausdorff School: Geometric Analysis & Nonlinear PDEs
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics,?University of Bonn
7/2022 SIAM Annual Meeting
Minisymposium on Advances in Variational Methods and Applications to Materials and Machine Learning,?Pittsburgh, PA
6/2022 Hausdorff School: Foundational Methods in Machine Learning
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics,?University of Bonn
2/2022 Workshop on Free Boundary Problems and Related Evolution Equations
Erwin Schr?dinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
11/2021 Workshop on New Trends in Geometric PDEs
University of Münster
10/2021 Annual Meeting of GAMM Activity Group on "Analysis of PDEs"
University of Freiburg, Germany
9/2021 DMV-?MG Jahrestagung
Minisymposium on PDE models for interfaces and complex structures, University of Passau, Germany?(online)
9/2021 International Conference on Free Boundary Problems
Minisymposium on Free boundary problems in life sciences, Humboldt University Berlin (online)
8/2021 HCM Symposium
Minisymposium on Shape, pattern and partial differential equations, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn
5/2021 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science
Minisymposia on Geometric flows in problems from materials science; and Multiscale and stochastic effects in evolution of materials, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao (online)
10/2020 ??? Annual Meeting of the GAMM Activity Group "Analysis of PDEs" (online)
Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
3/2020 Current Trends in Applied Mathematics
A workshop to celebrate the 50th anniversary of applied mathematics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Minisymposium on Interfaces and free boundaries
9/2019 ??? Seventh Heidelberg Laureate Forum
University of Heidelberg, Germany
8-12/?2019 MSRI Program Microlocal Analysis
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA
7/2019 ??? Frontiers of Deep Learning
Simons Insitute, Berkeley, CA
6/2019 ??? International Conference on Interface Problems in Fluids and Solids
Center for Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies (CAMIS), Guangzhou, China
6/2019 ??? RIMS Workshop: Geometric Aspects of Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
Research Institute for Mathematical Science (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan
6/2019 ??? Luckhaustagung: Material Theories, Statistical Mechanics, and Geometric Analysis
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
1/2019 ??? Oberwolfach Workshop on Surface, Bulk, and Geometric Partial Differential Equations: Interfacial, stochastic, non-local and discrete structures
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
9/2018 ??? Meeting in Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations
La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
8-12/ 2018 ??? MSRI Program Hamiltonian Systems, from Topology to Applications through Analysis
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA
6/2017 ??? Workshop on Curves and Networks in Geometric Analysis
Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy
6/2017 ??? Ninth Summer School in Analysis and Applied Mathematics
La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
9/2016 ??? CMI Workshop on Mean Curvature Flow
Clay Mathematics Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
7/2016 ??? Analysis and Numerics in Curvature Energies Meeting
University of Freiburg, Germany
7/2016 ??? Oberwolfach Workshop on Calculus of Variations
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
7/2016 ??? AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Orlando, FL
2/2016 ??? GK Winter School on Geometric Evolution Equations
University of Regensburg, Germany
Poster presentation
7/2015 ??? PIRE Workshop: From Grain Boundaries to Stochastic Homogenization
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Poster presentation
7/2015 ??? Hausdorff School on Nonlinear Evolutions: Kinetic Equations and Defect Dynamics
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Poster presentation
7/2015 ??? Conference on Geometric Analysis, Free Boundary Problems and Measure Theory
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
5/2015 ??? Summer School and Conference on Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
University of Texas at Austin, TX
7/2014 ??? PCMI Summer School on Mathematics and Materials
Park City, UT
6/2014 ??? CIME Summer School on Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory
Cetraro, Italy
2/2014 ??? Winter School on Calculus of Variations in Physics and Materials Science
University of Würzburg, Germany
6/2013 ??? CNA Summer School: Topics in Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, and Applications in Materials Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Faculty of Mathematics

Prof. Dr. Tim Laux


Contact:

Prof. Dr. Tim Laux
Faculty of Mathematics
University of Regensburg

tim.laux(at)ur.de
+49 228 / 73-62225