Kurt Gödel Research Center

Events

(See also the list of Visitors at the KGRC and of News regarding (former) KGRC members.)

The KGRC organizes a research seminar and several conferences and workshops. In addition, we recently installed the Friday seminar.

Upcoming and recent news

• February 2021: Vera Fischer accepts a tenure-track professorship in mathematical logic.
• December 2020: Jonathan Schilhan defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Jonathan!
• December 2020: Sandra Müller is awarded a L'Oreal Austria fellowship and Elise Richter fellowship. Congratulations Sandra!
• July 2020: Matthias Aschenbrenner joins the KGRC as director of the group.
• July 2018: Vera Fischer wins this year's Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society. It is awarded at the "Day of Mathematics" at the Faculty of Mathematics on November 9.
• May 2018: Zoltán Vidnyánszky receives the 2018 Paul Turán award. The prize is awarded for Hungarian mathematicians under 40 for internationally recognized excellence in research related to Paul Turán's work and its applications. (Short note in Hungarian language.)
• December 2017: Daniel Soukup receives the Grünwald Géza Prize from the Bolyai Society at the Rényi Institute. The prize is awarded since 1951 to Hungarian mathematicians under 30 for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics research.
• September 2017: Ben Miller is promoted to full professor.
• June 2017: Vera Fischer is awarded a START prize. The START prize is one of the most recognized prizes for young scientists in Austria and includes prize money up to 1.2 million Euro. (All prize winners of 2017 and their projects, introduction in German; photos of the prize giving ceremony.)
• June 2017: Diana Montoya successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations Diana!
• June 2017: The Austrian Academy of Sciences awards the 128 most promising PhD thesis proposals from all of Austria with a DOC stipend. Marlene Koelbing receives one of them. (Press release in German, photos © ÖAW/Elia Zilberberg, Marlene in 0086_0086.jpg and 0087_0087.jpg.)
• May 2017: Sy-David Friedman is interviewed (in German) for the Audimax podcast.
• April 2017: The KGRC was recently ranked as the second-best institute for logic in the world (after Paris 7); see http://derstandard.at/2000055309772/Erstmals-erhoben-Zahl-der-Top-10-Platzierungen-nach-Disziplinen.

• July 2021: Radek Honzík (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC.
• July 2021: Sergei Starchenko and Ya'acov Peterzil (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visit the KGRC.
• July 2021: The KGRC welcomes Victor Torres Perez as a returning member!
• June 2021: Johannes Schürz gives a talk (slides).
• June 2021: Michael Zechner defends his Master thesis.
• May/June 2021: "A Short Talk Series: Research in Set Theory". Researchers working in set theory will give a series of short talks introducing various areas of the subject. The talks are intended for graduate students and will be held digitally Fridays, 9:30 - 10:10am, May 21 - June 18, 2021.
• June 2021: David Chodounský gives a talk (slides).
• May 2021: Diana Carolina Montoya gives a talk (slides).
• May 2021: Lev Bukovsky gives a talk (slides).
• May 2021: Matteo Viale gives a talk.