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Awards for outstanding achievements

Within the graduation ceremony of the TUM Department of Mathematics prizes for faculty and TopMath members are regularly awarded. In this term a number of TopMath students and graduates were once again distinguished: with the TopMath award for outstanding research achievements, with the prize of the Hurwitz Society for the best graduates and with the Women for Math Science Achievement Award.

TopMath Award 2019 for Johannes Bäumler

The TopMath Award is a prize for students or doctorate students within the TopMath Program, for noticeable and outstanding research achievements. The prize is endowed with 500€ and is awarded once a year within the graduation ceremony of the TUM Department of Mathematics. For 2019, Johannes Bäumler was awarded the prize. He was distinguished for innovative results in the area of probability theory, which have been recognized by the international maths community: the results of his Bachelor thesis, with the title “Uniqueness and Non Uniqueness for Spin-Glass Ground States on Trees”, completed in autumn 2018, were published in the Electronic Journal of Probability in 2019. 

To the publication of Johannes Bäumler

Hurwitz Prize for six TopMath graduates

Each semester, the Hurwitz Society, the alumni organization of the TUM Department of Mathematics, honors the best Masters graduates, as well as those, who have completed their PhD studies with distinction (summa cum laude), with book prizes. This semester, Prof. Jürgen Scheurle, Chairman of the Hurwitz Society, presented the Hurwitz Prize to all four TopMath students, who have completed their Masters degrees since July 2019, as well as to two of the most recent Top Math PhD graduates: Luca Arcidiacono, Matthias Caro – who also had he honor of holding the speech of the graduates within the ceremony – Maximilian Fiedler, David Wiedemann, Dr. Stefan Junk and Dr. Daniel Walter. 

Women for Math Science Achievement Award

Women for Math Science Achievement Award

With the Women for Math Science Achievement Award the program “Global Challenges for Women in Math Science” supports particularly talented female maths students during their studies. The best female bachelor and masters students of each academic year are awarded prizes to further their mathematical education: books, software, software courses and the participation fees for international summer schools, workshops or conferences. One of the best Bachelor degrees in this year was attained by Vera Pazukhina, who began her studies within the Elite Graduate Program "TopMath" in October 2019. She was distinguished in the category “Bachelor Graduate” for her excellent achievements.

Text: Katja Kröss, Elite Graduate Program "TopMath“