Mathematics is one of the driving forces in the development of many modern key technologies and in their implementation and use in practice. This concerns areas such as biotechnology, medicine, traffic planning, finance and insurance industries, material science, production and energy, chemical engineering, information and optical technologies. These areas form a basis for economic success. Their development is characterized by two tendencies: while the innovation cycles are getting shorter and shorter, their complexity is getting higher and higher. Mathematics, properly developed and applied, can significantly contribute to success in the highly competitive race for technological advancement.
Mathematics delivers the formal apparatus for precise modeling, the theoretical tools for structural analysis of the problems and it develops algorithms for the efficient solution and optimization. Mathematics is itself a key technology.
The high speed of scientific development and the interest of industry to transfer this quickly into new products, however, is threatening to use up the "reservoir of available mathematics" in many areas. It is more and more necessary to develop new mathematics in a focussed way in parallel to the development of new technologies.
The aim of the research center is to develop new mathematical methods for the modeling, simulation and optimization of complex systems, as they arise in modern key technologies. This requires a high coordination between the applied sciences and the mathematics but also within mathematics, since most applications do not fit to the classical mathematical areas or require the creation of new mathematical fields. This basic interdisciplinary approach that we follow will also lead to a long-lasting change in the mathematics curricula and is expected to change the awareness for mathematics in society.
DFG Programme
DFG Research Centres
Projects
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Central Administration
(Project Head
Mehrmann, Volker
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Education
(Project Head
Kramer, Jürg
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Electronic and photonic devices
(Project Heads
Mehrmann, Volker
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Mielke, Alexander
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Schmidt, Frank
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Finance
(Project Heads
Becherer, Dirk
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Imkeller, Peter
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Life sciences
(Project Heads
Bockmayr, Alexander
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Deuflhard, Peter J.
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Schütte, Christof
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Networks
(Project Heads
Grötschel, Martin
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Möhring, Rolf H.
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Skutella, Martin
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Production
(Project Heads
Carstensen, Carsten
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Hömberg, Dietmar
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Tröltzsch, Fredi
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Visualization
(Project Heads
Polthier, Konrad
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Sullivan, Ph.D., John M.
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Ziegler, Günter M.
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