Mathe läuft bei uns

As Team “Mathe läuft bei uns”, the sporty mathematicians Teresa Rauscher, Johannes Schmucker, and Angelika Wiegele took on the USI Team Run Challenge 2025. The event was held as part of the Klagenfurter Altstadlauf, where participants had to complete a 5 km course in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. The USI awarded a prize to the team with the smallest difference between their own time and the average time of all teams.
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Summer internship at the Department of Mathematics

During the four-week summer internship, students gain insight into academic and scientific life at the Institute of Mathematics. In targeted input phases, combined with self-study phases and group work, they explore accessible mathematical topics.
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Defense of Diane Puges

On June 17, 2025, Diane Puges completed her doctoral studies with her defense. In her presentation, “From Linear Orderings to Infinite Trees: Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Extremal Combinatorics,” she presented her work applying semidefinite methods in a wide range of polynomial optimization applications.

Habilitation colloquium of Dr. Viktoriia Grushkovska

On April 29, 2025, Dr. Viktoriia Grushkovska held the habilitation colloquium entitled “Controlling Nonholonomic Systems: From Steering to Motion Planning in Complex Environments”.

In her talk, she reviewed traditional techniques based on Lie bracket theory for motion planning under nonholonomic constraints and introduced a novel approach that provides a unified solution to these challenges and beyond. The presentation included a discussion on future perspectives in the design of control algorithms for nonholonomic systems operating in complex, dynamic environments, where additional challenges arise due to moving targets and obstacles, external disturbances, and limited knowledge of the mathematical models of both the system and the environment.