6th Austrian Day of Women in Mathematics

Session

Invited talk

26 Feb 2026, 13:30

HS11.02 (University of Graz)

Conveners

Invited talk: From Individual Bites to Ecosystem Patterns: Size-Structured Dynamics in Aquatic Food Webs

• Laura Kanzler (CNRS Paris)

Invited talk: The boundaries of mathematics: infinite games and very large sets

• Sandra Müller

26. From Individual Bites to Ecosystem Patterns: Size-Structured Dynamics in Aquatic Food Webs

Laura Kanzler (CNRS Paris)

Invited Talk

Aquatic ecosystems are shaped by countless interactions between individual organisms - but how do these microscopic encounters scale up to the large-scale patterns we observe in nature? How sensitive are these systems to human influence? Since the 1960s, research has revealed that body size plays a central role in structuring aquatic food webs, acting as a “master trait” that governs how...

28. The boundaries of mathematics: infinite games and very large sets

Sandra Müller (TU Wien)

Invited Talk

The independence phenomenon is a central theme in set theory and more generally in mathematics. Starting from the Continuum Problem, there are numerous statements in various areas of mathematics that can neither be proven nor disproven in the usual axiomatic framework given by the Zermelo Fraenkel Axioms. The most promising approach to attack this issue is by studying extensions of the usual...