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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.
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.
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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).
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