Dive into Research @ Bochum University

       

Apply to this 5-weeks program and dive into your first research experience in Mathematics!

• The program takes place for 5 weeks August 25 to September 26, 2025.
• All Bachelor and Master students in Germany and Europe are invited to apply for participation.
• There will be multiple short courses, hands-on research sessions and discussions, and many more research activities.
• The course languages will be English and German.

We do not expect partiticpants to have any previous research experience!

What is a Dive Into Research ?

We have compiled a document with a general program description.

Research projects

The three research topics will lie in the areas of

• Lattice Polytopes and Cyclic Sieving (lead by Prof. Drew Armstrong)
• Combinatorics in Representation Theory (lead by Prof.'in Karin Baur)
• Polyhedral Geometry (lead by JProf.'in Marie Brandenburg)
• Matroid Invariants in Algebraic Combinatorics (lead by Prof. Christian Stump)

Applications

The deadline for applications has passed.

Funding & Accommodation

Funding: All accepted participants

• will be provided accommodation for the 5 weeks of the program free of charge,
• will have their travel expenses to the course reimbursed (one ticket each direction), and
• will receive a research stipend of 200€ per week.

Accommodation: We have reserved small furnished studios between the city center of Bochum and the university campus for all non-local participants.