Winners of this year's SwissMAP PhD & Postdoc Video Competition

14 Sep 2020

Congratulations to Nikita Nikolaev (UNIGE – A. Alekseev’s Group) who is this year’s winner of the SwissMAP PhD & Postdoc Video Competition for his video: How do you solve a really hard problem? With Perturbation Theory!

This year’s 2nd Prize winner is Beatriz Navarro Lameda (UNIGE) for her video: Random Walks.

The SwissMAP PhDs & Postdoc Video Competition aims to answer to non-specialist audiences, the question which is often asked “So, what’s your PhD or research about?”

Submitted videos from our members were judged on explanation of scientific knowledge to First year Mathematics Bachelor students as well as creativity and overall presentation.

We would like to thank the members of the Jury:

Ekaterina Golubeva (UNIGE, Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics)

Joana Mailler (SwissMAP Mathscope Coordinator)

Prof. Marcos Mariño (SwissMAP String Theory Project Leader)

Elise Raphael (SwissMAP Science Officer)

Alessandro Sfondrini (SwissMAP member and author of outreach videos on string theory and black holes)

Prof. Julian Sonner (SwissMAP Group Leader)

How do you solve a really hard problem? With Perturbation Theory!

By Nikita Nikolaev (UNIGE, A. Alekseev Group)

Random Walks

By Beatriz Navarro(UNIGE)

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