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Look beyond your own subject and discover interdisciplinary synergy effects: This is made possible by the optional area of RUB. Since May 2020, Professor Dr. Herold Dehling has been the deputy dean of studies here, working alongside Professor Dr. Sebastian Susteck from the Department of German Studies.

Under the keyword Cryptoleaks, media have uncovered a decades-long interception practice by intelligence agencies.

On October 10, 2019, the Professional School of Education (PSE) and the Employers' Associations Ruhr/Westphalia awarded the Teacher Education Promotion Prize to teachers and students of the University Alliance Ruhr. From the Faculty of Mathematics were awarded: Prof. Dr. Katrin Rolka and Sebastian Geisler, teaching concept "Teaching and Research in the Student Lab".

IT experts at the RUB are developing new processes in a worldwide competition - with great success so far.

Statistical methods should help to optimize material properties more easily and quickly. The microstructure of metals influences properties such as the durability and formability of materials. Grain boundaries, where material regions of different spatial orientation adjoin each other, play a special role. By mathematically modeling the processes at these grain boundaries, a research team at RUB aims to help optimize materials more quickly.

Base Analytics: Michael Senske and Patrick Balzerowski calculate how valuable a soccer player is to his team using methods they actually need for their doctorate in the Cluster of Excellence "Ruhr Explores Solvation". With their algorithm, they can determine the most valuable players in a league in about an hour - information that is useful as a pre-filter for scouting.

Just because a counterfeit medicine contains the same active ingredient as the original does not necessarily mean it is just as effective. Current control mechanisms have weaknesses. In the future, it should be possible to verify whether a generic drug actually works in the same way as the original drug using improved statistical methods. The team from the Chair of Stochastics at the RUB is developing new mathematical methods for this purpose, together with colleagues from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale in Paris. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is funding the project with around 800,000 U.S. dollars for two years.

Modern medical technology makes it possible to detect tiny tumors. Sometimes, however, there are false alarms. This is how mathematicians want to improve the procedure.

Sophisticated security mechanisms are at work to prevent fraud with digital currencies like Bitcoin. However, they still eat up immense amounts of electricity.

Controlling the heating while on the move or locking the door wirelessly - networked devices offer fascinating possibilities, but must be protected against hacker attacks.

Patient records could contain clues on how to detect diseases at an early stage. But how can the collected data be analyzed without violating patients' privacy? This is where mathematics can help.

The recently published book by Professor Dr. Thomas Püttmann (RUB) and Dirk Fox (Karlsruhe) presents the development history of 16 milestones of technology with numerous illustrations. It is illustrated and made comprehensible by more than 60 functional models. Of course, the book contains many references to mathematics.