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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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Alexis Prévost heads a new Emmy Noether group9
How does water move through a filter with coffee? This question is not so easy to answer, as neighboring areas in the moist coffee powder influence each other. How the hot water moves through the roasted powder is also governed by stochastic processes. Answers are provided by what are known as “percolation models,” which Alexis Prévost is investigating. He joined the University of Bonn from the University of Geneva and now leads an Emmy Noether group. It is being provided with up to 1.3 million euros of funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Leopoldina elects Daniel Huybrechts as a member10
A few weeks ago, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina elected Daniel Huybrechts as a member of the Leopoldina on the recommendation of renowned colleagues from among its members.   
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Leibniz Prize awarded to Angkana Rüland11
Last December, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced that Angkana Rüland from the Cluster of Excellence Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) would receive a Leibniz Prize endowed with 2.5 million euros. She has now been officially presented with the award at Cafe Moskau in Berlin. 
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Jerald L. Ericksen Prize for Sergio Conti, Stefan Müller and Michael Ortiz12
Sergio Conti and Stefan Müller from the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn and the former Bonn Research Chair Michael Ortiz (Caltech) have been awarded the Jerald L. Ericksen Prize 2025 for their work on “Data Driven Problems in Elasticity”. The prize will be awarded at the end of July at the joint SIAM/CAIMS conference AN25 in Montreal.
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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
Rüland

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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

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Florian 
Brandl

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Christian
Brennecke

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Laurent 
Côté

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Gregor
Gantner

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Giles
Gardam

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Barbara
Verfürth

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Links

  1. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/him/home
  2. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hsm-school/home
  3. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hsm-school
  4. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/structure/staff
  5. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hsm-school/home#Support
  6. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/research/home#iru
  7. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/diversity-equity/gender-equity
  8. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/opportunities/home
  9. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/alexis-prevost-heads-a-new-emmy-noether-group
  10. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/leopoldina-elects-daniel-huybrechts-as-a-member
  11. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/leibniz-prize-awarded-to-angkana-ruland
  12. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/jerald-l-ericksen-preis-fur-sergio-conti-stefan-mueller-und-michael-ortiz
  13. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/news/news
  14. https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/variational-methods/home/
  15. https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/micro/en/rady
  16. https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/pde-inverse-problems/home
  17. https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/users/sauermann/home
  18. http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/thiele/
  19. https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/felix-hausdorff/about-felix-hausdorff
  20. https://wt.iam.uni-bonn.de/people/probability-theory/johannes-alt/home
  21. http://brandlf.com/
  22. https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/users/brennecke/home
  23. https://www.math.uni-bonn.de/~lcote/
  24. https://ins.uni-bonn.de/staff/gantner
  25. https://www.gilesgardam.com/
  26. https://ins.uni-bonn.de/staff/verfuerth