Outreach page of Stefan Maubach

Follow a Jacobs mathematics student for a day

Are you struggling with one of the following questions?

Why should I study mathematics?
Why should I study mathematics at Jacobs University?
What does daily life of a mathematics student at Jacobs look like?

Then we have the perfect opportunity for you to get a partial answer to this: follow a Jacobs mathematics student for a day! Below, we give an example of such a day, and how it will look like in practice.
The goal of this activity is to give you the right information to make the right decision for you personally, whichever way it goes!
Contact information:
Send an email to dr. Stefan Maubach,
s.maubach.REPLACE THE CAPITAL LETTERS BY AN AT-SIGN. jacobs-university.de

A typical schedule:
10.30 - 11.00 meet in the office of a professor, together with two first-year Jacobs mathematics students
11.15 - 12.30 Go to class (like "Linear Algebra")
12.30 - 14.30 Have lunch like the students have daily, together with students and professor(s)
14.30 - 15.45 Go to class (like "Perspectives of mathematics")
15.45: end

Optionally, if you come from far (like abroad), we can arrange for you to stay on campus the night before and/or after.

An impression of a visit
In fall 2011, Nina from Germany visited Jacobs University.

She met up with two Jacobs Students: Carmela from Venezuela and Timo from Germany, in an office filled with coffee and mathematics books and papers!

Also, she met dr. Maubach, whom she could ask all kinds of questions to (who is the source of the paper mess in the previous pictures)

But Nina (left) met others along the way, like Emil-Alexandru from Romania (middle), and Sentao from China (right)

Then it was on to class, where she met some of the other mathematics students

Then it was on to having lunch, (no picture unfortunately) Another class, and then off to home!

During the day, Nina had loads of opportunities to ask questions to students about how it is, being a student at Jacobs, which she did as much as she wanted - and at the end of the day, she had a REALISTIC impression of life as a student at Jacobs university!