This year’s von Kaven Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) is awarded to Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus. The prize honours mathematicians for outstanding research achievements. Thomas Nikolaus, spokesperson of our Cluster, conducts research in the fields of homotopy theory and K-theory, at the intersection of topology and algebra.

In the current "Förderatlas 2024" published by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Münster ranks first regarding the subject of mathematics (€21 million in funding, alongside TU Berlin). The DFG Funding Atlas is published every three years and provides comprehensive metrics on public research funding in Germany. The current edition covers the period from 2020 to 2022. [de]

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1450 "inSight – Multiscale imaging of organ-specific inflammation" at the University of Münster, which has been running since January 2021, will receive approximately 13 million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The second funding period of four years will start in January 2025. Our researchers Prof. Dr. Christian Engwer and Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth are involved as investigators in this CRC. Other members of Mathematics Münster contribute to several "inSight" projects.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the new Research Training Group "Rigorous Analysis of Complex Random Systems", dedicated to educating mathematicians in the fields of probability theory and applied analysis. The programme will receive more than four million euros in funding for an initial five-year period starting in October 2025. The spokesperson is Prof. Dr. Martin Huesmann.

Dr. Adrian Riekert, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning Best Thesis Award". The prize is presented annually by the DFG-funded Priority Program 2298. Congratulations, Adrian!

Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen, investigator at Mathematics Münster, was awarded the "Top Cited Paper Award North America 2024". This means that the paper "Algorithms for solving high dimensional PDEs: from nonlinear Monte Carlo to machine learning" (joint work with Weinan E and Jiequn Han) is among the top 10 most cited papers in the mathematics category from North America, published with IOP Publishing.

We are delighted that Ralf Schindler, investigator of Mathematics Münster, and David Asperó (University of East Anglia) were awarded the Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations 2024. The jury of the international research prize rewards their work in the foundations of set theory, and in particular their work connecting determinacy principles and so-called strong forcing axioms, both impinging on the nature of the continuum hypothesis.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Dr Arnulf Jentzen from Mathematik Münster, together with together with Jiequn Han and Weinan E, has received the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award for the outstanding publication at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing on 14 July 2024.

Ursula Ludwig and Ralf Schindler are invited as sectional speakers to the upcoming European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) of the European Mathematical Society, which will be held in Seville in 2024. The ECM is a major international event held every four years that brings together mathematicians from across Europe and around the world.

Great news for Mathematics Münster: The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has approved the extension of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) "Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity". The researchers will receive a funding of 8.5 million euros for another four years in order to further develop geometry both as a discipline in its own right and and as a tool for other mathematical areas.

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) has awarded Dr. Andreas Lietz the Sacks Prize for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic in 2023. He is currently a postdoc at TU Wien. He received his PhD in 2023 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler at Mathematics Münster. Congratulations, Andreas!

Congratulations! Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann, investigator at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the most highly endowed German research prize. "The prize is a great honour for me," she says. She has found an "ideal research environment" at the University of Münster, in mathematics in general and in her research group for arithmetic geometry. "The prize makes these good conditions even more perfect."

Our member Dr. Rudolf Zeidler has been awarded an "ERC Starting Grant". The grant of 1.4 million euros will enable him to set up his own research group in the field of scalar curvature. He has also been accepted by the DFG to the Heisenberg Programme. Congratulations, Rudi!

Our investigator Arnulf Jentzen has been accepted into the "Lamarr Fellow Network", funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science North Rhine-Westphalia. The programme aims to foster research on artificial intelligence.

Congratulations to our Mathematics Münster researchers Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus and Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler: Together with co-authors, they received Frontiers of Science Awards for their outstanding papers at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing on 16 July 2023.

Prof Arnulf Jentzen has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician who carries out research at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster is working on the mathematical fundamentals of deep learning. For his ERC project, starting in July, he will be receiving around 1.4 million euros for the next five years.

Dr. Stephan Rave, member of Mathematics Münster, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Weinhart (University of Twente) have been awarded with the so-called "Collaboration Grant" - an intern funding instrument of the universities of Münster and Twente in order to finance existing research collaborations between Münster and Twente. The project named "Model Order Reduction for Discrete Particle Systems" which should simulate the behavior of granular materials, gains 80,000 euros.

 

We are delighted that the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has accepted Franziska Jahnke, MATHRIX professor at Mathematics Münster, as a new Henriette Herz Scout. She has now the opportunity to recommend three postdocs from abroad for a renowned Humboldt Research Fellowship which can be granted directly.

Combining mathematical depth with biological impact: A research team from Münster, led by Cluster investigator Benedikt Wirth, has just been awarded the IMA Mathematical Medicine & Biology Best Paper Prize 2021. A belated but no less beautiful honor!

The Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster has established special professorships for mathematicians who bring together a variety of fields in their research – such as Prof. Hendrik Weber. Recently, Hendrik Weber, an expert on stochastic analysis, moved from the University of Bath to Münster. He brought with him an ERC Consolidator Grant, approved in 2022.

Congratulations to Mathematics Münster's postdoc Dr. Lucas Mann! He was awarded the Hausdorff Memorial Award for the best dissertation 2021/2022 in mathematics at the University of Bonn. In his PhD thesis, he proves a Poicaré duality in the case of p-adic geometry. His supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze was highly impressed by the technical level and the importance beyond the statement to be proved: "This PhD thesis is an extraordinary contribution to p-adic geometry, and it will take some years to digest the statements from this thesis."

We are delighted that the European Research Council has awarded Prof. Dr. Giles Gardam, investigator of Mathematics Münster, an "ERC Starting Grant". With the help of this EU funding of 1.2 million euros over the next five years, the scientist plans to carry out his research project "Satisfiability and group rings" (SATURN). The research grant is among the most prestigious awards of its kind in Europe.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing around 1.2 million euros of funding for mathematician Dr. Leonard Kreutz under the Emmy Noether Programme. Leonard Kreutz – who has been working as a postdoc at Mathematics Münster in the last years – will use the money to set up his own research group at the Technical University (TU) Munich to work on "Variational Methods in Materials Sciences".

Congratulations! The 5th Hausdorff Medal was awarded to Prof. David Asperó (University of East Anglia) and Prof. Ralf Schindler (Mathematics Münster) at the European Set Theory Conference in Turin. The prize is awarded every two years for the most influential work in set theory published in the five years preceding the medal.

Every year, the "Universitätsgesellschaft Münster" honors young scientists at the WWU for their excellent research achievements with the "Förderpreis". This year, the award goes to the mathematician Dr. Giles Gardam and the physician Dr. Maximilian Kückelhaus. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Dr. Giles Gardam, postdoc at Mathematics Münster, convinced the German Research Foundation (DFG) with his project: The DFG is providing funding from the Emmy Noether Programme of just over one million euros for the mathematician. This means that he can build up his own research group at the Mathematical Institute in the coming six years. The aim of the Emmy Noether Programme is to offer outstanding junior researchers scientific independence and qualify them for a university professorship.

Congratulations to Prof Arnulf Jentzen! He is the winner of the 2022 Joseph F. Traub Prize. This annual prize is given by the Journal of Complexity for outstanding contributions to information-based complexity.

We are very happy to announce that our Cluster member Burkhard Wilking has been awarded the Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize 2022 for his outstanding work in the field of theoretical mathematics. The Scientific Commission of the Society of Mathematical Research emphasised not only his contribution to the construction of metrics of non-negative sectional curvature, as well as to rigidity theorems for manifolds of positive curvature, but also his creative use of the Ricci flow.

++ Update 26.02.2022: The Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has decided that the ICM 2022 will take place as a fully virtual event, hosted outside Russia. ++

Prof Gustav Holzegel and Prof Thomas Nikolaus, both members of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, have been invited to talk about their research at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The ICM takes place every four years and is the oldest, largest and – scientifically speaking – most important event in the field of mathematics.

Congratulations, Franziska Jahnke! The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts has accepted her as a new member of the "Junges Kolleg" for young uprising scientists. She is a junior professor at the Mathematical Institute and the Institute for Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research and a member of our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster. [de]

The members of the "Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz" (Joint Science Conference) have been convinced by the innovative concept for the research building "Centre of Mathematics Münster". After the "Wissenschaftsrat" (Science Council) recommended funding in April, it is now assured. The federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will support the project with around 31 million euros. Construction work will begin in spring 2022. [de]
 

Eva Viehmann is awarded a great honour: the National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, has recently appointed her as a new member. In doing so, the Academy acknowledges her outstanding scientific achievements.

To be world chess champion – that was the plan when he was just eight years old. Although Gustav Holzegel did not achieve his aim, he can still be satisfied. The mathematician is a recognised expert in the field of General Relativity and has undertaken research at leading international institutes. Since November he has been a professor at the University of Münster supported by a recently awarded a Humboldt professorship, the most valuable research award in Germany.

Congratulations, Eugen Hellmann! He has been awarded the WWU Research Prize 2020 for his outstanding achievements. The mathematician, investigator at Mathematics Münter, is one of the world’s leading specialists in the field of arithmetic geometry. The eulogy and can be seen in the recording of the digital New Year's reception [de] on YouTube, as can find a video [de] with insights into Eugen Hellmann's research.
 

In the research project “inSight – Multiscale imaging of organ-specific inflammation” that receives approximately ten million euros in funding, scientists focus on the question of how the body regulates inflammation in different organs and, to this end, develop a specific imaging methodology. Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth, investigator of Mathematics Münster, is involved as principal investigator.

Prof. Gustav Holzegel, one of the world’s leading experts on the General Theory of Relativity, is appointed to a prestigious Humboldt professorship. The renowned research prize includes funding of 3.5 million euros for five years. At the beginning of November the scientist moved from Imperial College London to our Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing 6.5 million euros to fund a new Collaborative Research Centre at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. The large-scale project, “Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity”, aims to develop geometry both as a subject in its own right and as a tool for other mathematical fields. The Centre has been funded for four years and will open on 1 July.

Every four years, the European Mathematical Society (EMS) awards ten EMS Prizes, the Felix Klein Prize and the Otto Neugebauer Prize. The Felix Klein Prize 2020 is awarded to Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen. Congratulations!
 

Great honour for Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilking: The Academia Europaea has admitted the mathematician as a new member. The Academia Europaea recognises individuals who have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence" through their membership.

A great distinction for a mathematician from the University of Münster: the European Research Council (ERC) awards an Advanced Grant to Prof. Wilhelm Winter. The grant is one of the most important in Europe awarded for research purposes.

Prof Gustav Holzegel, at the time at Imperial College in London, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician who carries out research at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster is working on the "Black hole stability problem and the analysis of asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes". For his ERC project, starting in November, he will be receiving around 2 million euros for the next five years.

A decision has been reached in the first funding line, “Cluster of Excellence”, in the Excellence Strategy being pursued by the national and state governments in Germany. In the competition, the University of Münster was successful with two of the three Cluster applications it submitted. The following Clusters of Excellence will receive funding for a period of seven years, with effect from 1 January 2019: “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” and “Mathematics Münster. Dynamics – Geometry – Structure”.

Artur Bartels, Eva Viehmann (Technical University of Munich), and Wilhelm Winter, members of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, have been invited to present their research at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro. The ICM takes place every four years and is the oldest, largest, and most significant event in mathematics.

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts has admitted mathematician Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilking as a member. Academy President Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Löwer presented the membership certificates at the annual celebration on 16 May in the presence of North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister-President Armin Laschet and the NRW Minister for Culture and Science, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen.

Professor Eva Viehmann, at the time Technical University of Munich, receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician, who conducts research at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, is focusing on "Newton Strata - Geometry and Representations." For her ERC project, which starts in June, she will receive approximately 1.2 million euros over the next five years.