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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 for Mathematics (HSM) which is our central institution for all early career researchers - postdocs and PhD students - and comprises our graduate school (BIGS Mathematics).

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

Jan Hasenauer and Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz win transdisciplinary research prize

The Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) Modelling and Life and Health at the University of Bonn have presented their €100,000 research prize, entitled “Modelling for Life and Health,” for the second time. The winners—Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz and Jan Hasenauer—will be using their prize money to study the functions of “scavenger cells” in the lungs at the interface between mathematics and medicine. Jan Hasenauer ist a member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) and one of the leaders of its Interdisciplinary Research Unit (IRU) "Mathematical life sciences".

Heisenberg funding for Asgar Jamneshan

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted Asgar Jamneshan into the Heisenberg program. Asgar Jamneshan is carrying out research into the foundations of higher-order Fourier analysis. The mathematician, who is an associate member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), will receive funding of up to 570,000 Euro.

Former Bonn PhD student Richard Höfer receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025

Richard Höfer, professor at the University of Regensburg and former PhD student in Bonn, has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025. The prize is considered the most important award in Germany for researchers in the early stages of their careers. The award ceremony will take place on June 3 in Berlin.

Dennis Gaitsgoy awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prize

Dennis Gaitsgory, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars “for foundational works and numerous breakthrough contributions to the geometric Langlands program and its quantum version; in particular, the development of the derived algebraic geometry approach and the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in characteristic 0”.