Name: Discrete Laplacians 2026
Start: 2026-06-22T07:10:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-25T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Discrete Laplacians 2026

from Monday, June 22, 2026 (7:10 AM) to Thursday, June 25, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, June 22, 2026

8:30 AM Welcome & registration
Welcome & registration
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM Opening - Heather Harrington (CSBD)
Opening
- Heather Harrington (CSBD)
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Keynote
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM TBD (Mémoli) - Facundo Mémoli (Rutgers University)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Contributed
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:50 AM Neural Feature Geometry Evolves as Discrete Ricci Flow - Max-Konstantin von Renesse (Univ. Leipzig)

11:20 AM Effective Resistance in Simplicial Complexes: Generalizations and Properties - Claudia Landi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
11:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
12:10 PM Keynote
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

12:10 PM TBD (Schaub) - Michael Schaub (RWTH Aachen)
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM TBD (Weber) [Online] - Melanie Weber (Harvard University)
3:40 PM Short break
Short break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Contributed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Generalized Persistent Laplacians and Their Spectral Properties - Arne Wolf (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM Clearing for Persistent Laplacians and Beyond - Rui Dong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

8:30 AM Welcome & registration
Welcome & registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Keynote
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM TBD (Hu) - Kaibo Hu (University of Oxford)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Contributed
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:50 AM Discrete Approximation of Differential Forms on Sampled Vietoris-Rips Complexes - Darrick Lee (University of Edinburgh)

11:20 AM The Discrete Laplacian from Polyhedral Meshes to Graphs - Jooyoung Hahn (Czech Technical University in Prague)
11:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
12:10 PM Contributed
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

12:10 PM Regularization for the inverse conductance problem on networks - Álvaro Samperio (CUNEF Universidad)

12:40 PM measure-theoretic method for computing Ricci flow on point clouds - Dongwoo Gang (Seoul National University)
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM TBD (Jost) - Jürgen Jost (MPI MiS Leipzig)
3:40 PM Short break
Short break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Contributed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Point-Level Topological Representation Learning at the Intersection of Topology and Geometry using the Hodge Laplacian - Vincent Grande (RWTH Aachen University)

4:30 PM Discrete approximation of the Laplacian on a covering manifold - Erik Babuschkin (Universität Göttingen)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

8:30 AM Welcome & registration
Welcome & registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Keynote
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM TBD (Abiad) - Aida Abiad (TU Eindhoven)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Contributed
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:50 AM Diameter, Algebraic Connectivity, and Maximum Relaxation Time in Regular Graphs - Ebrahim Ghorbani (Hamburg University of Technology, Institute for Algorithms and Complexity)

11:20 AM A Ricci flow for resistance curvature - Mark Kempton (Brigham Young University)
11:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
12:10 PM Contributed
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

12:10 PM How To Control Smoothing in Graph Neural Networks - Bastian Epping (RWTH Aachen University)

12:40 PM Affine-Invariant Geometry of Laplacians for Fast Graph Comparison - Boris Stupovski (Institute of Physics Belgrade)
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM TBD (Arrigo) - Francesca Arrigo (University of Strathclyde)
3:40 PM Short break
Short break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Contributed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Experimental methods for the automatic estimation of real cohomology - Antonio Rieser (SECIHTI-CIMAT)

4:30 PM Gremban Expansion for Signed Networks: Algebraic and Combinatorial Foundations for Community-Faction Detection - Fernando Fernando (University Carlos III of Madrid)
6:30 PM Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, June 25, 2026

8:35 AM Welcome & registration
Welcome & registration
8:35 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Keynote
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM TBD (Kassel) - Adrien Kassel (ENS Lyon)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Contributed
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:50 AM Martingales and Asymptotic Phase - Yuliy Baryshnikov (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

11:20 AM Graph limits and their connections to the discrete Laplacian - Ágnes Backhausz (Eötvös Loránd University & HUN-REN Rényi Institute)
11:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
12:10 PM Contributed
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

12:10 PM TBD - Paweł Korzeb (MPI PKS)

12:40 PM Simplicial effective resistance and enumeration of spanning trees - Kang-Ju Lee (Seoul National University)
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM TBD (Engelke) - Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva)
3:40 PM Short break
Short break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Contributed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Extremal conditional independence for Hüsler-Reiss distributions via modular functions - Ignacio Echave-Sustaeta Rodríguez (Eindhoven University of Technology)

4:30 PM Topology of Discrete Laplacian in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: From Trees to Forests - Shiling Liang (MPI-PKS)

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