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Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

Bonn is an internationally renowned center for mathematical research and teaching. 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, the Hausdorff school (HSM) which mainly addresses postdocs, and our graduate school (BIGS) for PhD students.

Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics

Hausdorff School for Mathematics

Department of Mathematics
- the Institutes

The University of Bonn has four institutes dedicated to mathematical teaching and research. The Department of Mathematics coordinates teaching and research in Mathematics within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn. If you love mathematics, Bonn is the place to be!

Mathematical Institute

Institute for Applied Mathematics

Institute for Numerical Simulation

Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is a research institute for pure mathematics and belongs to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG). With its well known guest program the institute aims at stimulating the exchange of ideas within the international mathematics community.

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

News and Highlights

Jerald L. Ericksen Prize for Sergio Conti, Stefan Müller and Michael Ortiz

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 Montral.

Abel in Bonn - Abel Symposium 2025

The Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund has established an annual Abel Symposium, which is administrated by the Norwegian Mathematical Society. The symposium follows the final meeting of the Abel Prize Comittee. This year, the Abel Symposium takes place on Thursday, January 23th, 2025, at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) in Bonn, Germany, hosting world-leading speakers in various fields of mathematics.

Hausdorff Memorial Prize awarded to Meike Neuwohner and Radu Toma

As every year, the Department of Mathematics awards the Hausdorff Memorial Prize to the best dissertation in mathematics. As there were two outstanding nominations from very different mathematics disciplines this year, the jury decided to award the Hausdorff Memorial Prize for the academic year 2023/2024 twice: to Meike Neuwohner and Radu Toma. Herbert Koch, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, presented the award on January 15.

Hausdorff Chair

We look forward to filling one Hausdorff Chair which corresponds to full professorship with tenure. The position will be devoted to Theoretical Mathematics.