Faculty of Mathematics

Dr. Alfons Skirde, long-time custodian of the Faculty of Mathematics, passed away on 31.05.25 at the age of 82.

The 2025 elections for the Faculty Councils and the Senate for the student group will take place from June 23 to June 25, 2025.

Sophie Langer has been Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since April 2025 and is primarily concerned with the statistical theory of neural networks, one of the central methods for developing artificial intelligence.

The Faculty of Mathematics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum invites applications for the position of a Professor W3 (m/f/d) in Mathematical Statistics and Data Science commencing at the earliest possible date (early succession to Prof. Holger Dette).

Prof. Dr. Andreas Bernig will speak on May 14 on the topic “Hodge-Riemann relations in convex geometry”. The lecture starts at 14:15.

Prof. Sophie Langer has been appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics. Our warmest congratulations.

Christian Stump and Alexander Ivanov contributed several questions to Humanity's Last Exam, three were selected among the 550 top-rated questions.

Dr. Jörg Härterich receives the Ars Legendi Faculty Award 2025 from the Stifterverband for mathematics and and is the DMV's "Mathemacher" of March and April 2025.

The Faculty of Mathematics supports female Master's students in mathematics with a scholarship as part of the Lore Agnes program.

Together with the team of principal developers of the mathematical software deal.II, Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler was awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.

At school, students learn the Gaussian method for solving linear systems of equations. Since very large systems have to be dealt with in meteorology and other engineering problems, much faster methods, so-called multigrid methods, have been used for such systems.

The junior professor at Ruhr-Universität recently received two dissertation prizes in her native France.

On Saturday, 18.01.2025, 70 mathematically talented and interested pupils from all over North Rhine-Westphalia visited the Ruhr University Bochum.

Ms. Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg was appointed Junior Professor of Combinatorics at the Faculty of Mathematics at RUB on 1.12.2024.

On December 12, 2024, the Christmas Colloquium of the Faculty of Mathematics took place. With the exciting lecture “Kanonen auf Spatzen”, the renowned speaker Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, President of the FU Berlin, took both advanced mathematicians and guests of the faculty on a journey from everyday problems to advanced mathematical solutions.

Prof. Dr. Christian Lehn will speak on January 8 on “A Hodge-theoretic journey from geometry to arithmetic via representation theory” and Prof. Dr. Claudius Zibrowius on “Khovanov-Homology and the Gordian distance”.

At the sight of waves gently lapping against the beach, most people certainly think of vacation. Karin Baur sometimes does too. But sometimes the Swiss native also thinks of algebra when she sees them.

Prof. Dr. Martina Juhnke will speak about cosmological polytopes on November 6 at 2:15 pm.

Ms Cécile Gachet will be appointed Junior Professor of Algebraic Geometry at the Faculty of Mathematics at RUB on 1 October 2024.

Toronto, Istanbul, Singapore, Bochum: every four years they come together for the Stochastics World Congress. This year, the researchers met for the first time in Germany - at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

The 2024 World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be held from Monday, 12 August 2024, until Friday, 16 August 2024, on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum.

The 36th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics took place in Bochum from July 22-26, 2024.

Here you can find the election results for the 2024 Faculty Council elections for the student group.

The newly appointed professor in topology deals with the description of mathematical knots. You can see this in his office at first glance.

TU Dortmund University and Ruhr- University Bochum will receive a joint new Collaborative Research Center/Transregio. The aim of the network is to develop statistical methodologies to model and forecast data on the energy and mobility transition.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler will speak on June 12th on the topic of “Faster Computing: Modern Mathematics on Supercomputers” and Prof. Dr. Axel Bücher “On Correlations, Copulas and the Formula from Hell”. Starts at 2:00 p.m.

Hier finden Sie die Wahlvorschläge für die Wahl zu den Fakultätsräten für die Gruppe der Studierenden.

The mathematician is honored together with his doctoral student Alexander Rosenstock

Mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum scores very well in the CHE Ranking 2024/25. It is among the top group in 11 of 16 evaluated categories.

“Math was never a scary subject,” says Karin Baur, who was enthusiastic about mathematical puzzles as a child. As a professor of pure mathematics, she now researches the big questions in algebra.

The climate is changing. Because it is constantly changing over the years, it is difficult to calculate what used to be the norm - and how the present deviates from it. Special statistical tricks help here.

Girls' and Boys' Day 2024 will take place on April 25, 2024. There are exciting offers for students at the faculty.

Ms. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Werner will speak about Lp-Brunn-Minkowski theory on April 17th at 2:15 p.m.

Ms. Prof. Dr. Karin Baur was appointed W3 Professor of Pure Mathematics. We warmly congratulate you.

The newly appointed professor works in high-dimensional space - and finds the Ruhr area particularly well suited for this.

Ms. Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou has been appointed W2 Professor of Geometry and Representation Theory. We warmly congratulate you.

The newly appointed professor optimizes algorithms for various applications from medicine to mechanical engineering. Interdisciplinarity is emphasized by Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler with capital letters. It is precisely in exchange with other departments that the questions in which the Professor of Applied Numerics is most interested arise.

The newly appointed professor of mathematical statistics cooperates with, among others, the German Weather Service. For example, this involves assessing the effects of climate change.

Welcome event
Join us in welcoming all Women and Gender Minorities of the Math Faculty, as we kick off the Winter Semester at RUB.

The annual summer festival of the Faculty of Mathematics took place on Wednesday, August 16, 2023.

Until June 2027, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the new Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1597 "Small Data" at the University of Freiburg, in which the Chair of Stochastics of the Faculty of Mathematics is represented with a sub-project.

Here you can find the results of the Faculty Council elections 2023 for the Faculty of Mathematics.

Fundamental research in mathematics is changing due to the analysis and processing of ever larger combinatorial data sets from computer experiments.

Two former RUB students receive funding for their practice-oriented master’s theses.

Dr. Sercombe has received a two year Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to conduct independent research at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Aeneas Rooch presents his current book „Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit“ at the invitation of the Faculty of Mathematics on October 19, 2022 at 4:15 p.m. in HZO 30.

The RUB graduate wrote the best state examination paper in mathematics in Germany.

The workshop on "Limit theorems for spatial random structure" took place from 7.-9. September 2022 as part of the DFG priority program "Spatial random systems" at our faculty.

In mathematics, algorithms have discovered connections that experts had previously remained hidden. No reason to put your feet up and stop researching, says Christian Stump.