Prof. Günter M. Ziegler New Chair of BERLIN MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL
Rotational Change of BMS Chair as of July 1, 2016
№ 241/2016 from Jul 01, 2016
Professor Günter M. Ziegler, a professor of mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin, is the new chair of Berlin Mathematical School (BMS). He took up his post on July 1, 2016, in accordance with the rotating chairmanship, and succeeds Jürg Kramer of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. An assembly of BMS faculty members unanimously elected Ziegler as the new chair and paid tribute to his predecessor, who will remain BMS deputy chair alongside Professor Jürg Kramer of Technische Universität Berlin. BMS is a joint graduate school of the mathematics departments of the three major Berlin universities, Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität, and Technische Universität. BMS obtains funding as a Graduate School in the framework of the German Initiative for Excellence and can look back at ten successful years.
The BMS chairmanship rotates every two years between the three participating universities. In 2006, Ziegler was the first chair of the BMS, followed by Kramer, Polthier, Sullivan, and then Kramer once again.
Ziegler completed his PhD at MIT in 1987. After four years in Augsburg and a winter in Stockholm, he came to Berlin in 1992, where he worked at ZIB Berlin and completed the habilitation process for teaching at German universities at Technische Universität Berlin, where he was a professor of mathematics from January 1995 to February 2011. Since March 2011 he has been employed by Freie Universität Berlin, where he teaches and conducts research as a MATHEON professor.
BMS actively pursues the goals of internationality, gender equality, and diversity: Of 200 graduate students, about half come from outside Germany. BMS is one of the few graduate schools funded by the German Excellence Initiative that accepts graduate students directly after they have completed a bachelor's degree and rapidly prepares them for a doctorate through a structured course program. The diverse range of courses in mathematics is augmented by mentoring, soft skill seminars, summer schools, travel to conferences abroad, and special support for students who are parents.
Further Information
- Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, PhD, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Mathematics, Arnimallee 2, 14195 Berlin, Tel.: +49 30 838 75668, Email: ziegler@math.fu-berlin.de
- Dr. Forough Sodoudi, Berlin Mathematical School, TU Berlin, MA 2-2, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Tel.: +49 30 314 78651, Fax +49 30 314 78647, Email: office@math-berlin.de