Hausdorff memorial prize

The Hausdorff memorial prize is awarded every year for the best dissertation. It commemorates the mathematician Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) who was a professor at bonn from 1910 till 1913 and again from 1921 till 1935.

Terms

The prize is awarded for the best dissertation of an academic year.
Candidates may be nominated by professors or privatdozenten up until 18 October.
The decision is made by Jury appointed by the department.
The prize is composed of a prize money of €500 and selected literature.
The annual award ceremony is held on the anniversary of Felix Hausdorff's death on 26 January (or on an adjacent day).

Current Awardee

Awardees of the Hausdorff Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis in the academic year 2019/20 in Mathematics are:

Dr. Danica Kosanović

Title of the PhD thesis:

A geometric approach to the embedding calculus knot invariants

Dr. Vera Traub

Title of the PhD thesis:

Approximation algorithms for traveling salesman problems

Overview Adwardees

Recipients of the Hausdorff Memorial Award of the Department of Mathematics of previous academic years

2018/19

Herr Dr. Richard Höfer

"Sedimentation of particle suspensions in Stokes flows"

2017/18

Frau Dr. Eva Kopfer

"Heat flows on time-dependent metric measure spaces"

2016/17

Frau Dr. Martina Vera Baar

"Stochastic individual based models of adaptive dynamics and applications to cancer immunotherapy"

2015/16

Herr Dr. Stefan Schreieder

"Construction problems in algebraic geometry and the Schottky Problem"

2014/15

Herr Dr. Robert Kucharczyk

"On arithmetic properties on Fuchsian groups and Riemann surfaces"

2013/14

Frau Dr. Angkana Rüland

"On Some Rigidity Properties in PDEs"

2012/13

Herr Dr. Matthias Erbar

"Ricci curvature and gradient flows of the entropy for jump processes"

2011/12

Herr Dr. Peter Scholze

"Perfectoid spaces"

2010/11

Herrn Dr. Eugen Hellmann

"On arthmetic families of filtered-modules and crystalline representations"

Frau Dr. Barbara Zwicknagl

"Mathematical analysis of microstructures and low hysteresis shape memory alloys"

2009/10

Herr Dr. Benedikt Wirth

"Variational Methods in Shape Space"

2008/09

Herr Dr. Ulrich Terstiegge

"Intersections of arithmetic Hirzebruch-Zagier cycles"

2006/07

Herr Dr. Johannes Ebert

"Characteristic classes of spin surface bundles: Applications of the Madsen-Weiss-Theory"

Herr Dr. Robert Philipowski

"Stochastic Interacting Particle Systems and Nonlinear Particel Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics"

2004/05

Frau Dr. Eva Mierendorf

"On affine Deligne Lusztig Varieties for GL"

Sections

Hausdorff memorial prize

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