A snapshot of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach is a short text (approx. 5-8 A5 sized pages) that explains a mathematical problem or idea that is related to a scientic program at the MFO. It is targeted at a general audience consisting of advanced high school and undergraduate students, mathematics teachers, science journalists, and other individuals interested in modern mathematics. It can be written in English or German.

The presentation will include a general description of the project. A discussion will consider questions like:

How can an international research institute communicate recent scientific research actively?
Can scientists write comprehensible texts about their research themselves?
How can they be guided and editorially supported?
How can texts about recent research be interesting for a broad audience?

The snapshot project is part of the project Oberwolfach meets IMAGINARY, for which the MFO has recently been awarded a major grant by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Oberwolfach Foundation. In this project, we plan to create and collect high quality mathematics communication content for our platform www. imaginary.org. Our goal is to promote the understanding and appreciation of modern mathematics and mathematical research in the general public world-wide and to provide interested individuals as well as exhibitors, teachers, and science journalists with accessible insights into modern mathematics.

Additional to the presentation of the snapshots and a poster presentation, IMAGINARY is present at the Forum at the Fast Forward Science film festival. IMAGINARY member Guillaume Joivet will receive the first price in the category “Substance” with his latest film “Glacial Mistery”. He was supported - among others - by IMAGINARY members Antonia Mey and Bianca Violet in the production of the film.