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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.

Intro

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News and Highlights

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Henning Heller receives the Montucla Prize
Henning Heller, postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn and associate member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematikcs, receives the prestigious Montucla Prize from the International Commission for the History of Mathematics (ICHM) 2025. The ICHM is composed of representatives from around 55 nations in which the history of mathematics is taught and/or actively researched. The Montucla Prize is awarded every four years to the author of the best article by a early career scholar published in Historia Mathematica in the four years preceding the International Congress of History of Science and Technology.
Sep 22, 2025
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Bonn again second best university at IMC
At this year's International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) in Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria), held from July 28 to August 3, 2025, the Bonn team finished second in the unofficial team ranking and was thus - as last year - the second most successful university in the world in the competition behind St. Petersburg State University.
Aug 04, 2025
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Frontiers of Science Award for Christian Brennecke
For his scientific work “Bogoliubov Theory in the Gross-Pitaevskii Limit”, Christian Brennecke, Bonn Junior Fellow at the HCM and Professor at the Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn, received the Frontiers of Science Award 2025, together with three co-authors. The prize was awarded on July 13 at the International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing.
Jul 23, 2025
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Jan Schröer, Lorenzo Portinale, Thoralf Räsch: Three teaching awards for Bonn Mathematics
The University of Bonn has honored 14 lecturers for their outstanding commitment with teaching awards, including Jan Schröer from the Mathematical Institute. The prizewinners were selected by the students themselves. The ceremonial presentation of certificates by the Vice-Rector for Studies, Teaching and University Development, Klaus Sandmann, took place as part of the Bonn University Festival in front of over 7,000 participants on Bonn's Hofgartenwiese. In addition, further teaching awards from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences were presented by Vice Dean Barbara Kirchner as part of the Faculty's academic ceremony. Lorenzo Portinale from the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Thoralf Räsch from the Institute of Mathematics are among the awardees for 2025. Bonn Mathematics would like to congratulate all three prizewinners!
Jul 15, 2025

Fields Medalists                          

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Peter Scholze

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Gerd Faltings

Leibniz Prizes                         

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Angkana Rüland

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Catharina Stroppel

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Peter Scholze

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Wolfgang Lück

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Felix Otto

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Stefan Müller

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Gerd Faltings

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Michael Rapoport

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Günter Harder

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.

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Stefan      
Müller

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Sven
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Angkana
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Lisa
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Christoph
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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.

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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.

Johannes 
Alt

Florian 
Brandl

Christian
Brennecke

Laurent 
Côté

Merlin
Christ

Gregor
Gantner

Giles
Gardam

Barbara
Verfürth

Marvin Weidner