Conveners
Keynote III (Dr. Maria Azhar)
- Imke Schneider
Maria Azhar
(The University of Duisburg-Essen)
30/09/2026, 09:00
Keynote Talk
Humans have a natural instinct to characterize objects and sort them into categories. Topology builds on this idea in a particularly unusual way: everyday objects can be classified according to properties that survive continuous deformation. A coffee mug and a doughnut, for example, are topologically equivalent because each has one hole.
Similar ideas have become remarkably powerful in...
