On A Tangent: Voices of Mathematics Münster

Welcome to "On A Tangent", where we tell the stories behind the mathematics. In each episode, we meet a different early career mathematician from Mathematics Münster, and learn about their research, their path towards mathematics, and their hopes for the future. We explore the many different shapes that mathematical research can take, the early memories that led people towards the subject, and try to understand a little bit better the voices that make the mathematical community of today.

Hosted by Simone Ramello, produced by the science communication team of Mathematics Münster
Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay
Graphics by Melina Aggelidakis

On A Tangent: Voices of Mathematics Münster

Latest episodes

Episode 14: Swimming, swimming and Geometry with Adam Thompson

Episode 14: Swimming, swimming and Geometry with Adam Thompson

‧ 28m 15s

In this season’s seventh and final episode of "On a Tangent", Carlo talks with Adam Thompson. Adam shares stories about his time swimming competitively and studying in Australia, his early fascination with geometry in mathematics, and his experiences moving around the world.
Adam is a PhD candidate in Christoph Böhm’s research group, where he focuses on Ricci solitons, geometric flows, and spaces with symmetry.

Episode 13: About the importance of being curious with Malthe Mejlsted

Episode 13: About the importance of being curious with Malthe Mejlsted

‧ 33m 4s

In the sixth episode of On a Tangent’s second season, Carlo talks to Malthe Mejlsted from Copenhagen about his time in Denmark, his participation in mathematics Olympiads, camps, and other science programmes, and what these experiences taught him. As a PhD student under Professor Wilhelm Winter, Malthe is now investigating operator algebras.

Episode 12: On the purpose of studying Mathematics with Raquel Murat García

Episode 12: On the purpose of studying Mathematics with Raquel Murat García

‧ 27m 45s

In this season's fifth episode of On a Tangent, Carlo speaks with Raquel Murat García about her academic starts in Spain, the shift from more applied science to pure math and her motivation for that, as well as about her reasons to go to Münster. As a PhD candidate of Linus Kramer, in her research Raquel is focusing on condensed group cohomology.

Episode 11: From playing the organ to geometric group theory with Benjamin Brück

Episode 11: From playing the organ to geometric group theory with Benjamin Brück

‧ 36m 12s

In the second season's fourth episode of On a Tangent, Carlo speaks with Benjamin Brück about his journey to Münster, away from it, and ultimately back again, the stations and challenges along the way and his connection to music. In his research Benjamin is focusing on high dimensional cohomology of arithmetic groups.