2016

• 10th Nordic String Theory Meeting at Jacobs University, March 14-15, 2016

2015 Our Bachelor Program scores highly in the 2015/2016 CHE Ranking John H. Conway Receives Honorary Doctorate from Jacobs University Dynamical Developments: a conference in Complex Dynamics and Teichmüller theory, August 17-21, 2015 A conference in honor of the 70th birthday of John H. Hubbard. NoKo 2015 – 36th Northern German Colloquium on Applied Analysis and Numerical Mathematics, April 24-25, 2015. Mathematics Summer Camp for Pre-College Students, June 25 – July 5, 2015; Download Program Flyer (PDF, 800KB). Modern Mathematics – International Summer School for Students, July 4-14, 2015.

John H. Conway

2014

• The 2014 Modern Mathematics - International Summer School for Students takes place in Lyon, France, August 20-29, 2014, continuing the 2013 event at Jacobs University.
• The 6th International Tournament of Young Mathematicians (ITYM) takes place at Jacobs University July 13-19, 2014
• Conference on Hodge theory and unitary representations of reductive Lie groups, June 16-18, 2014

2013

• Eighth Transformation Groups Seminar, November 15-16, 2013
• Jacobs Mathematics second year undergraduates Sentao Miao, Stefan Timiras, and Mengyuan Zhang are Meritorious Winners at the 2013 Mathematical Contest in Modeling with their paper on "Baking Brownies: a win-win of quality and quantity".
• SampTA 2013, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, July 1-5, 2013
• Modern Mathematics - International Summer School for Students, July 2-12, 2013.
• For prospective students: follow a Jacobs mathematics student for a day

2012

• The 2012 International Summer School of Mathematics for Young Students takes place in Lyon, France, August 20-29, 2012, continuing the 2011 event at Jacobs University.
• Intersession course on Complex algebraic and analytic geometry by Alan Huckleberry begins Monday, January 21, 2013 and lasts for two weeks with two lectures per day (9:30 and 15:45) in West Hall 4.

2011

• Jacobs undergraduates Alexandru Babeanu (Physics), Radu Cimpeanu (Applied and Computational Mathematics), and Andrada Ianus (Physics) are Finalist Winners at the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling with their paper on "A Key Performance Variable Approach to Evaluating Efficient Halfpipe Geometry". As finalist winners, their work was considered among the best 29 out of 2775 international teams and the best placement of a Jacobs team at the MCM ever.
• Colloquium in Honor of Peter Oswald's 60th Birthday on Thursday, November 24, 2011, 15:00-18:30 at Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen
• Official opening of the Howard Resnikoff Mathematics Common Room on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 18:30
• International Mathematical Summer School for Students, July 2-12, 2011

2010 Jacobs students Kęstutis Česnavičius and Jessica Fintzen scored a first and Philipp Weiss a second prize at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students 2010, with Kęstutis ranking 11th out of 329 participants. In the university ranking, the Jacobs team came out 13th out of 98 teams, ahead of all other German teams. Mathematics freshmen Vaidotas Kurlianskas and Vardan Verdiyan together with ACM sophomore Radu Frunza were awarded the "Meritorious Winner" designation for their paper "Time and Location Scaling Approach to Geographical Profiling" (of a serial killer) in the 2010 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Jacobs undergraduate Jessica Fintzen scored a sixth place out of 83 contestants in the 20th Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition. Todor Bilarev and Philipp Weiss were among the top 12, and Vardan Verdiyan on rank 18 (all in category I - first and second year students). Third year students Kęstutis Česnavičius ranked 14 and Goran Drazic ranked 25 out of 80 contestants in category II.

The 2010 IMC Team

International Mathematical Olympiad 2009

The city of Bremen hosted the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad, July 10-22, 2009. During this time, the Jacobs campus was home to almost 600 of the most talented young mathematicians from 104 countries. The 50th International Mathematical Olympiad Anniversary Celebration in featured special guests Béla Bollobás, Timothy Gowers, Lászlo Lovász, Stanislav Smirnov, Terence Tao, and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz. IMO 2009 daily news coverage.

2009

• Symposium in Honor of Vadim Kaimanovich Saturday, November 28, 2009, 9:00-17:00 at Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen. With lectures by Anatoly Vershik, Wolfgang Woess, Ursula Hamenstädt, Mark Pollicott, Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, and Alexander Bufetov.
• Jacobs second year undergraduate Kęstutis Česnavičius scored a third prize in the 19th Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition. Other highly ranked Jacobs participants were second year students Eugenia Rosu and Valentin Buciumas tied on rank 12 (all in category I of the competition, no other team of any university has their top three participants ranked as highly) and third year student Alexandru Sava on rank 16 (in category II).
• Jacobs University Open House, Saturday, April 25, 2009

2008

• Jacobs students Alex Sava, Vitalie Patrinica, and Alin Iacob scored highly in the 2008 Group Mathematics Olympiad.
• Jacobs students Simon Schmitt, Viviana Petrescu, and Momchil Minkov received an Honorable Mention at the 2008 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
• November 22, 2008: The Bremen Finale of the Year of Mathematics 2008 at the Haus der Wissenschaft. Highlights: 17:15-18:00 public general lecture by Wolfgang Lück (Münster, recipient of the Leibniz prize 2008 and incumbent president of the German Mathematical Society), followed by short lectures on three of the Clay Millennium Prize problems by Michael Stoll (Bayreuth), Eva-Maria Feichtner (Bremen) and Sönke Hansen (Paderborn).