The lecture provides an overview of whether the shape of fullerenes can be determined from their spectrum and presents a stochastic approach based on spectral distributions of regular lattices. The approach is also applied to nanotubes; finally, current advances and open questions in spectral geometry are discussed.

In his lecture, Dr. Thorsten Holzhauser examines the thesis that East Germany has not yet fully arrived in democracy 35 years after reunification and places right-wing extremist election results and differences in political culture in a historical and comparative context within the development of Western democracies.

The third edition of the Kaiserslautern Applied and Industrial Mathematics Days (KLAIM) brought together researchers for over 40 presentations focusing on the topic of »coupled problems.«

The keynote speakers we interviewed emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and practical mathematical research.