Prof. Dr. Gaëtan Borot
Institute for Mathematics
& Institute for Physics
Chair in Mathematical Physics
+ Research group webpage
+ Recent publications
(c) Own collection.
Interests: enumerative geometry, quantum algebra/topology/geometry, topological recursion, integrability, moduli spaces, algebraic structures, random matrix theory, combinatorics, science outreach.
Email: vorname.name at hu strich berlin punkt de
Location: Johann-von-Neumann-Haus, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin
but postal address is different:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Office: Office 1.333 (Haus 1, 3rd floor, right corridor)
Phone: (030) 2093 45479
Secretary: Kristina Schulze, schulze at hu strich berlin punkt de
IMP-Bachelor: Prüfungsauschuss- und KLS-Vorsitz, Studienberatung.
Research initiatives :
- RTG: Rethinking QFT (Berlin, 2019-2029)
- RTG: From geometry to numbers (Berlin/Hannover, 2024-2029)
- Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin (2020-2029)
Teaching and seminars
WiSe 25/26
♦ Lineare Algebra I*
♦ Mathematical physics seminar
SoSe 26
♦ Funktionentheorie
♦ Master reading group: Geometric structures in mathematical physics
♦ Mathematical physics seminar
WiSe 26/27
♦ Random matrix theory
♦ Mathematical physics seminar
News
♦ A SHK-position is open in my group: application deadline 24.02, see the official Ausschreibung.
♦ Since Fall 2025 we gave a new life to the Mathematisches Institutskolloquium, the programme will be updated here.
♦ With Vadim Gorin and Alice Guionnet, we completed our research book Macroscopic asymptotics in discrete beta-ensembles and random tilings: math.PR/2601.16377
♦ I will teach Algebraic Topology at IMM Algiers @NHSM in the summer semester 2026.
♦ Demian Goos, mathematician and science journalist, started in our group in October 2025 and will be active in science communication. He has received the 2025 Medienpreis of the Deutschen-Mathematiker-Vereinigung for his former outreach projects.
♦ I explained the role of physics in enumerative geometry in an outreach video in the "Non-standard models" channel of the physics RTG (produced by Davide Scazzuso, Allison Pinto, Giulia Peveri, and Matthias Driesse)
Upcoming conferences / talks
10. März 2026, TU Berlin
Geometrie und Mathematische Physik Seminar
Macroscopic Gaussian fluctuations in random tilings and the Kenyon-Okounkov conjecture
31. März 2026, IMPAN Krakow
Seminar Combinatorics & Interactions
Macroscopic asymptotics in discrete log-gases and random lozenge tilings
1. Apr. 2026, Physics Institute, Warsaw
Seminar
Large N expansions for random partitions via Nekrasov equations
17-28 Aug. 2026, Sao Paulo
ICTP-SAIFR school on theoretical physics
Mini-course on topological recursion