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Conference “Curvature, Optimal Transport, and Gravity”
September 21–25, 2026
Faculty of Mathematics, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
We are pleased to announce an upcoming conference at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, bringing together communities across Optimal Transport, Metric Geometry, Lorentzian Geometry, General Relativity, and Quantum Gravity.
Further information—including the conference title, invited speakers, schedule, registration, and practical details—will be uploaded in the next weeks.
This conference is funded by the EF A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond, financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (grant number 10.55776/EFP6) and based at the University of Vienna.
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Ph.D. defense Carl Rossdeutscher
Carl Rossdeutscher defended his thesis
“Marginally outer trapped surfaces in cosmological spacetimes: Examples and singularity theorems”
(advisors: Walter Simon, Roland Steinbauer)
today.
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New Postdoc Simone Vincini
Simone Vincini has joined our team as a Postdoc.
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Tobias Beran receives an FWF-Schrödinger grant
We congratulate Tobias Beran for receiving an
FWF-Schrödinger grant for “Structural theory of Lorentzian length spaces“.
He will go to the University of Cardiff.
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New Postdoc Davide Manini
Davide Manini has joined our team as a Postdoc.
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New Postdoc Leonardo García Hevelingand Ph.D. student Stefano Saviani
Leonardo García Heveling as a Postdoc and Stefano Saviani as a Ph.D. student have joined our team.
