Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI - MIS) in Leipzig was founded on March 1, 1996. It belongs to the math and science section of the Max Planck Society.

Working scientists from various disciplines who to deal with mathematics, for applications in the natural sciences, especially physics, biology, chemistry and materials science at the Institute. The Institute has over 100 employees, Managing Director is Wolfgang Hackbusch.

Main areas of mathematical research are

• Mathematical Physics, Functional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (Working Group of Eberhard Zeidler )
• Pattern formation, energy landscapes, and scaling processes (Working Group of Felix Otto )
• Neural networks ( research group of Jürgen Jost )
• Numerical Analysis ( ' scientific computing ') ( research group of Wolfgang Hackbusch )
• Riemannian, Kählerian and algebraic geometry ( research group of Jürgen Jost ).

The Institute has an extensive visitors program has evolved since its inception to become an international center of applied mathematics.