Mathematics Professor Günter M. Ziegler elected president of Freie Universität Berlin

News from May 02, 2018

Girls Day – Discrete Geometry

News from Apr 30, 2018

Einstein Workshop Discrete Geometry and Topology in March 2018

News from Dec 21, 2017

Geometrical Christmas in Dahlem

The participants of the Mathematische Schülergesellschaft Leonhard Euler crafted geometrical christmas tree decorations. Together with the mathematicians from the Dircrete Geometry group the seventh graders cut out polyhedral nets and glued them into threedimensional bodies. Each of the polyhedra with nine vertices has a unique combinatorial type.

News from Dec 15, 2017

Mathe im Advent

News from Dec 01, 2017

Tibertius Price to Moritz Firsching

News from Nov 30, 2017

Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler to Receive 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

The 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition will be awarded to Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler of the Freie Universität Berlin, for Proofs from THE BOOK.

News from Nov 15, 2017

Günter M. Ziegler receives Berliner Wissenschaftspreis 2017

News from Nov 07, 2017

Prof. Günter M. Ziegler reelected for DFG Senate

News from Jul 05, 2017

Günter M. Ziegler Becomes Honorary Professor at TU Berlin

Faculty II is proud to announce that Günter M. Ziegler was made Honorary Professor at Faculty II of TU Berlin. Read more.

News from May 31, 2017

Coffee into Theorems

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems". This is how Paul Erdős quotes Alfréd Rényi. (Yes, that's a bit complicated, this is why people assign this quote directly to Erdős.) In this spirit, we try to turn as much coffee into theorems, as possible. 50,000 cups of coffee is sufficient proof that at least the intake of the machines is working.

News from May 29, 2017

Digital Future Conference

May 12th 2017: The Digital Future conference opened today at Kosmos Berlin. It started with honoring computational biologist Chris Sander as a new member of the Hall of Fame of the Digital Age and his keynote. Chris Sanders studied mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin with Prof. Karl Peter Grotemeyer. He is on stage with Christof Schütte of Zuse Institute and bioinformatics group at Freie Universität Berlin. The conference is supported by Tagesspiegel, Zuse Institute and others.

News from May 12, 2017

Girls Day 2017

For this years Girls Day on April 27th 2017 many girls visited Freie Universität. There were some exciting Mathematics workshops to choose from. We had one workshop from our group focusing on Schlegel diagrams held by Anna Maria Hartkopf, Giulia Codenotti, Nevena Palic and Hannah Sjöberg.

News from Apr 27, 2017