Universität Bonn

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.

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News and Highlights

Skolem Award for Floris van Doorn9
Together with four other scientists, Floris van Doorn receives the Thoralf Skolem Award 2025. This prize rewards a paper, published in the International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) proceedings ten years ago, that has passed the test of time by proving to be the most influential paper in the field of automated deduction in that year. The award will be presented at CADE-30 in July 2025.
Minkowski Medal of the German Mathematical Society for Markus Hausmann10
The Minkowski Medal of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) for 2025 goes to Markus Hausmann, Professor at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn.
HCM funded for seven more years11
We are very happy to share the news that the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) has been selected for another 7 years of funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 
Jan Hasenauer and Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz win transdisciplinary research prize12
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) "Mathematics and life sciences".

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 
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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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