Lange Nacht der Forschung 2024
24th of May, 5 o'clock, the doors open and the general public invades the central building of the University of Vienna ready for the "Long Night of Research", where researchers prepare activities to showcase their work. The event was a great success and we were there with an exhibition on 'Biomathematics'. It was fulfilling to see how many people were curious about mathematics, our research, and willing to take part in our activities. We had people of all ages. We had very keen parents who wanted to play our simulations with their kids; kids excited with our card game (one came even twice); an elderly lady who did not have enough with our videos and demanded that we show her the equations (and they were there to see); school students with doubts about which university degree to go for; young people inquiring about how large our team is, how long does a project take, how do we work with biologists;... It was tiring and after 5 hours I could barely talk, but the peo