Within the framework of the 19th Congress of the Austrian Mathematical Society and the anniversary of the German Mathematic Association (ÖMG-DMV-Congress 11 – 15 September), approximately 450 mathematicians from 34 countries are meeting at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Salzburg. It is the largest all-mathematical event in the German-speaking world. At the same time, the Statistiktage is taking place in cooperation with the Austrian Statistical Society.

The Salzburg biologist Gerhard Obermeyer has received almost 400,000 Euro from the FWF Science Fund for a pollen research project, which makes an important contribution to the future safeguarding of harvest yields of food crops.

Andreas Dür is a political scientist at the University of Salzburg. He is involved in a project financed by the European Research Council (ERC) on the question of power in economic negotiations.