Mathematics: Foundations, Models, Applications

Cluster of Excellence, established 2006

The "Hausdorff Center for Mathematics" is one of the 37 Clusters of Excellence, which are being funded for five years each within the German government's Excellence Initiative.

The theme of the Hausdorff Center is mathematics, of which we share a broad and dynamic vision. At its center stands the classical core: the mathematics of famous and fruitful conjectures, the mathematics that is in symbiosis with theoretical physics, and which continually reveals to us deep and unexpected connections. Beyond this core, mathematics drives, and is driven by, the successful trend towards quantitative modeling in the natural and social sciences. Mathematics is constantly appropriating ideas and concepts from other areas; it assimilates these and deepens them through that process. The steadily improving performance of computers opens new perspectives for model simulations and the direct transfer of mathematics into technological applications. (more...)

The center involves the four mathematics institutes at Bonn, the Max Planck Institute, and the Institute for Economic Sciences. The involved faculty consists of about 50 Bonn professors in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and theoretical economics.

Within the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM) offers special trimester programs on mathematics and theoretical economy, and the Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematics (BIGS) provides an attractive research training environment for doctoral students.