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Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematics

The University of Bonn is known for its excellent teaching and research record in mathematics. National rankings recommend Bonn as the best place in Germany to study mathematics.

Many talented young people come to Bonn to study mathematics for a bachelor, master or a PhD degree. It is the place of choice for winners of mathematics competitions or for students supported by the prestigious "Studienstiftung", which awards scholarships to less than one per cent of the best students at German universities. --- No other department in Germany attracts as many students from this group.

For PhD students, education through research at the highest level is the driving force of our efforts. Lecture courses at a high academic level, seminars on advanced levels, guest lecturers from all over the world, summer and winter schools, and workshops on recent developments create a challenging scientific atmosphere.

We can offer these demanding courses and seminars because there is a large population of intellectually ambitious and enthusiastic students with ambition and endurance.

We currently have about 100 PhD students in mathematics, whose dissertation projects derive from all areas of mathematics. Their supervisors are the professors of the 4 institutes forming the department of mathematics, and from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.

BIGS, founded in 2001,

• gives the PhD program a transparent structure,
• recruits and selects PhD candidates,
• invites guest lectures,
• supports PhD students travelling to conferences,
• organizes special events like the Plücker Lectures, or a poster session, or social activities for PhD students.

In particular, BIGS helps foreign students in all administrative matters inside and outside the university.

BIGS screens the funding possibilities for new PhD candidates.

BIGS is now a part of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics founded in October 2006 and sponsored by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) within the German government’s Excellence Initiative.

There are:

• 30 doctoral grants (Hausdorff scholarships), and
• 8 qualifying grants (Hausdorff qualifying scholarships)
• 10 two-year qualifying grants

available.
For details, see under application.

Apart from the Hausdorff scholarships mentioned above, there is a variety of funding possibilities for PhD students. See under funding possibilities.

NEW! For Master und PhD students Basic Notions Seminar