Funding Doctoral Students in Mathematics

DFG extends joint research training group at Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The joint Research Training Group "Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces" (RTG 2229), sponsored by mathematicians at Heidelberg University together with colleagues from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, is continuing its work in a second funding period. After successful reviews, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is granting the research training group that deals with specific research issues in geometry around 5,1 million euros in funding for another four and a half years. The doctoral students of the RTG will investigate invariants of continuous and discrete spaces, which describe their geometry at infinity. The spokespersons are Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe) and Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg). The issue at the heart of the work of the research training group - according to the researchers nationally and internationally the first systematic and institutionalised doctoral training in this field - is asymptotic geometry. That involves research into macroscopic properties of geometric spaces.