Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), established in 2006 as the first German Cluster of Excellence in Mathematics, is a major center for mathematical research and international scientific exchange. Its spectrum ranges from pure and applied mathematics to interdisciplinary research, including theoretical economics. HCM features the Hausdorff Research Institute (HIM) with its trimester programs and the Hausdorff school for Mathematics (HSM) which is the central institution serving all early-career researchers in mathematics at Bonn: from doctoral students to advanced postdocs.
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News and Highlights
Ana Caraiani, former Bonn Junior Fellow and Hausdorff Chair at the HCM and now professor of pure mathematics at the Imperial College London, has been awarded the 2025 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). She has been honored for contributions to arithmetic geometry and number theory: in particular, the Langlands program.
The University of Bonn is once again welcoming a top-notch reinforcement in the shape of mathematician professor László Végh. He has been appointed to a Hertz Chair, which connects up different disciplines at the University of Excellence in a unique way. László Végh will be based in the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Modelling”, where he will help to strengthen the links between different departments in the fields of algorithms and optimization problems in particular. In addition, László Végh is a member of the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM).
Alessia Nota, former postdoc at the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn and former member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, was awarded the Fubini Prize 2024, together with Bozhidar Velichkov.
Lillian Pierce, Bonn Research Chair and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), has been elected a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) for her many contributions in the support of women both locally and nationally through the organization of such events as “Re:boot Number Theory”, “A room of one’s own”, and Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW). The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has established the AWM Fellows Program to recognize members who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences.
Hausdorff Chairs
The Hausdorff Chairs make it possible to complement the faculty without the usual constraints in terms of timing and fields. We seek internationally outstanding scientists who fit into the broad spectrum of the Hausdorff Center.
Stefan
Müller
Sven
Rady
Angkana
Rüland
Lisa
Sauermann
Christoph
Thiele
Felix Hausdorff
The center is named after the famous mathematician Felix Hausdorff. Felix Hausdorff was born on 8 November 1868 in Breslau as the son of a Jewish merchant. He was appointed associate professor in Bonn in 1910 and assumed a full professorship in 1913 in Greifswald. He returned to Bonn in 1921 to continue his work until 1935. During the national socialist regime, he suffered increasing harassment and humiliation until 26 Januar 1942, when he and his wife chose suicide over imminent deportation to a concentration camp. With his masterpiece Grundzüge der Mengenlehre (1914), Hausdorff established topology as an independent discipline in mathematics. In addition, Hausdorff made significant contributions to general and descriptive set theory, measure theory, algebra, functional anaylsis, probability theory, and insurance mathematics.
Bonn Junior Fellows
The BJF program offers attractive positions in an outstanding scientific environment to excellent researchers at an early stage of their careers. It provides a springboard to prestigious permanent positions worlwide.
