Johann Bernoulli lezing 34
Dinsdag 1 april 2025, 20:00 uur, Aula Academiegebouw
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Jürgen Jost
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Title: Curvature: How a simple geometric concept became fundamental for theoretical physics and inspires machine learning
Abstract: Curvature was originally conceived as a measure for curves in the plane and surfaces in spaces. In the hands of Gauss and Riemann, it became an intrinsic invariant of a Riemannian metric, with profound applications in Einstein's theory of general relativity, in quantum field theory, and of course, in many branches of mathematics. It was then found that curvature can be characterized by metric relations in triangles, and therefore defined for spaces that are more general than Riemannian manifolds. In our recent research, links with concepts from topological data analysis were discovered, leading to a new conceptualization of curvature with potential applications in machine learning.
Laudatio: Gert Vegter (RUG)