Management
Boris KruglikovProfessor
Hans Zana Munthe-KaasProfessor
Cordian RienerDean
The Aurora Center MASCOT will unify and advance research frontiers in the interplay of pure mathematics and computations by exploring fundamental mathematical structures and their increasing significance for modern algorithms and novel program architectures. Indeed, abstractions and ideas from pure mathematics generate crucial insights into the structure of computational algorithms and discretization techniques underlying numerical modeling and physical simulations. But large computations have also become more relevant for research in pure mathematics recently, as increasing computing power offers new possibilities to explore abstract structures and rigorously prove theoretical results that have been out of reach in the past due to their complexity. Between these two poles of interactions, the proposed Aurora Center will unite experts to reveal and exploit fundamental structures of mathematical computations explore the algebraic and geometric nature of computational complexity, and analyze structural methods to reduce this complexity, as well as to adapt these methods to concrete applications in optimization, control theory, and robotics.
A description of the project can be found here.
The first MASCOT workshop took place at the Institute for Mathematics and Statistics on April 20 and 21, 2022.
The schedule of the meeting can be found here: Program.
The list of participants: Boris Kruglikov, Cordian Riener, Dennis The, Hans Munthe-Kaas, Wei Solvang, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Andrey Piatnitsi, Elena Zhizhina, Trygve Johnsen, Chiara Bordin, Hugues Verdure, Viveca Erlandsson, Eivind Schneider, Örs Rebák, Johnson Kessy, Sebastian Debus, Harshit J Motwani, Francesca Zaffalon.
Here is group photo of the participants:
The second MASCOT workshop took place at the UiT campus Narvik on April 3, 2023.
The schedule of the meeting can be found here: Program.
The list of participants: Andrey Piatnitsi, Elena Zhizhina, Boris Kruglikov, Trygve Johnsen, Brahim Amaziane, Igor Velčić, Dennis The, Eivind Schneider, Wijnand Steneker, Aleksander Pedersen.
Here is group photo of the participants:
The third MASCOT workshop took place at the UiT-Tromsø Research Park on April 8-9, 2024.
The schedule of the meeting can be found here: Program.
The list of participants: Boris Kruglikov, Cordian Riener, Dennis The, Andrey Piatnitski, Elena Zhizhina, Trygve Johnsen, Chiara Bordin, Hans Munthe-Kaas, Igor Velčić, Mikhail Cherdantsev, Rodolfo Antonio Rios Zertuche, Eivind Schneider, Omid Makhmali, Duy Ho, Subbarao Venkatesh Guggilam, Wahyu Andy Prastyabudi, Abd Alelah Derbas, Ettore Teixeira Turatti, Wijnand Steneker, Örs Rebák, Arne Lien, Prim Plansangkate, David Sykes, Anders Samuelsen Nordli, Tor Flå.
Here is a group photo of the participants:
