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Thoughts on AI, mathematics, and beyond.
AI Agents in Production: Who Controls the Runtime?
AI coding agents are rapidly becoming part of the developer stack. But while the ecosystem moves fast, one question is becoming critical in regulated environments: who actually controls what these agents do at runtime?
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Reduce LLM Calls with Vector Similarity Search
One of the most impactful talks I attended at Codemotion Milano 2025 showed how semantic routing, vector similarity search and semantic caching can dramatically reduce token usage, latency and energy consumption, while keeping quality and context intact.
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RAISE 2025: Between AI Sovereignty, Super Agents and Sweet Macarons in Paris
In July, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the RAISE Summit 2025 in Paris together with my colleague Harald Nezbeda, thanks to the generous support of Anexia. The event took place at the Carro
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Promotio sub Auspiciis and Ring Ceremony with the Federal President of Austria
(This blog post is only available in German.) Es waren wahnsinnig gute und aufregende Tage, gespickt mit Momenten, die noch lange in Erinnerung bleiben werden: Letzte Woche durfte ich meine Promotion
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Research Stay @ Nancy, France
In the last ten days, I was again visiting Manfred Madritsch at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. We continued our work on a special type of integer partitions (see “A Central Limit Theorem
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Summer School @ Park City, USA
Three excellent and productive weeks in Park City, Utah, are slowly coming to an end now. I had the opportunity to participate in the MSRI/PCMI graduate summer school “Number Theory Informed by Comput
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Research Stay @ Nancy, France
In the last one and a half weeks, I was visiting Manfred Madritsch at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. The time there was wonderful and really productive: We worked on a variant of integer
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Talk @ Probability and Combinatorics Seminar in Uppsala
Today I had the great pleasure to give an online talk in the Probability and Combinatorics Seminar of the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University (Sweden). I took the chance to present results o
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(Nearly) Perfect Secret Santa
(This blog post is only available in German.) Es ist Anfang Dezember und somit nicht nur kalt, sondern für viele von uns die Zeit des Wichtelns. Jeder kennt es, jeder liebt es. Naja fast, außer man zi
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On a Special Kind of Prime Numbers
Prime Numbers Today I would like to write a brief blog post about the “atoms” of the natural numbers: prime numbers. Prime numbers are those numbers which are evenly divisible by exactly two numbers,
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Talk @ Doctoral Seminar
Today I gave an online talk on Constructions of Large Caps and Progression-Free Sets in our doctoral seminar. I had the possibility to present some new results of my currenct research projects in addi
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Talk @ Additive Combinatorics 2020
This week, I attended the hybrid conference Additive Combinatorics 2020, which was hosted at the famous mathematics research institute CIRM in Luminy, France. Many of my colleagues are very enthusiast
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Introduction to my Master Thesis
(This blog post is only available in German. An English abstract of my master thesis can be found here.) In diesem Blog-Beitrag gebe ich einen kurzen, möglichst für alle verständlichen Einblick in mei
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Welcome!
Welcome to my new website! I'm very glad that this website is finally online -- and that you read this first blog post. Besides some basic information about myself (on the pages Home and CV) and about
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