Institute of Applied Analysis

Nicolai Gerber

Research interests
  • Coarsening of attractive interacting particle systems
  • Propagation of chaos and mean field limits
  • Swarm-based global optimization and sampling algorithms, e.g. Consensus-Based Optimization and Consensus-Based Sampling

Publications and Preprints

Google Scholar

[1] N Gerber, F Hoffmann, U Vaes. Mean-field limits for consensus-based optimization and sampling (preprint)

[2] N Gerber, U Vaes. Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for the Cucker--Smale model. (preprint)

Teaching

  • Winter term 2024/25 Analysis 3

Education

  • Mathematics (B.Sc.) - University of Bonn (2016 - 2020)
  • Mathematics (Study abroad) - University de Barcelona, Spain (2017 - 2018)
  • Mathematics (M.Sc.) - University of Bonn (2020 - 2023)
  • Economics (M. Sc., without degree) - University of Heidelberg (2023 -2024)
  • Scholarship by German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2017 - 2024)
Office hours

By appointment.