Profiles of our TopMath students
19. TopMath Year (starting summer semester 2022 and winter semester 2022/23)

Mentor: Prof. J. Esparza
Chair: Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Student representative
Mentor: Prof. A. Wiese
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master


Mentor: PD R. Brandenberg
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master


Mentor: Prof. O. Junge
Chair:Scientific Computing, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Status: Elite Master
18. TopMath Year (starting summer semester 2021 and winter semester 2021/22)

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiese
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. N. Gantert
Chair: Chair of Probability, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. F. Krahmer
Chair: Applied and Numerical Analysis and Optimization and Data Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. O. Junge
Chair: Scientific Computing, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. N. Gantert
Chair: Chair of Probability, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Variations on Reinforced Random Walks (2022)
Status: Alumnus



Mentor: Prof. B. Horvath
Chair:Mathematical Finance, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. J. Richter-Gebert
Chair:Geometry and Topology, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: PD R. Brandenberg
Chair:Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. C. Czado
Chair: Mathematical Statistics, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master
17. TopMath Year (starting summer semester 2020 and winter semester 2020/21)


Mentor: Prof. T. Harks
Chair: Discrete Mathematics, Optimization and Operations Research, University of Augsburg
Status: Doctoral phase

Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. U. Bauer
Chair: Geometry and Topology, Technical University of Munich
Mentor: Prof. Ch. Liedtke
Chair: Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. M. Scherer
Chair: Mathematical Finance, Technical University of Munich
Status: Elite Master

Mentor: Prof. E. Viehmann
Chair: Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Closure Relations of Newton Strata in Iwahori Double Cosets (2021)
Status: Alumna

Mentor: Prof. C. Kühn
Chair: Dynamics, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Stability Analysis of Stochastic Spiral Waves (2021)
Status: Alumnus
16. TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2019/20)

Status: Alumnus

Student representative
Mentor: Prof. F. Brandt
Chair: Decision Sciences & Systems, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Local Rationalizability and Choice Consistency (2021)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: B. Hanke
Chair: Differentialgeometrie, University of Augsburg
Master's Thesis: Skalarkrümmung auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit nicht-kompaktem Rand (2022)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. J. Esparza
Chair: Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis:Decision Power of Weak Asynchronous Models of Distributed Computing (paper 2021, co-authors: J. Esparza, P. Czerner, M. Helfrich)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. J. Müller
Chair: Mathematische Modelle biologischer Systeme, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Exact and approximate formulas for contact tracing on random trees (paper 2020, co-author: J. Müller)
Dissertation: Contact tracing on stochastic graphs (2022)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. D. Matthes
Chair: Dynamics, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Waiting Times and Convergence of a Spatially Discrete Thin Film Equation (2021)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. R. Zagst
Chair:Mathematical Finance, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Expected utility theory on general affine GARCH models (paper 2021, co-authors: R. Zagst, M. Escobar-Anel)
Status: Doctoral phase
15. TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2018/19)

Mentor: Prof. G. Friesecke
Chair: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Comparison of Exchange Functionals for the Free Electron Gas in a Box (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. C. Kühn
Chair: Dynamics, Technical University of Munich
Mentor: Prof. Ch. Kuttler
Chair: Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Reduced models of cardiomyocytes excitability: comparing Karma and FitzHugh-Nagumo (paper 2020, co-authors: C. Kühn, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. S. Warzel
Chair: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Phase Diagram of the Quantum Random Energy Model (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. U. Bauer
Chair: Geometry and Topology, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Variations of the Nerve Theorem (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. S. Weltge
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Master's Thesis: Upper and Lower Bounds on the Flatness Constant in Small Dimensions (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase
14th TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2017/18)

Mentor: PD R. Brandenberg
Chair:Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: The Feasibility Set of the 1-Center Problem (2019)
Master's Thesis: A Study of the Geometric k-Center Problem from the Perspective of Polyhedral Combinatorics (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. N. Berger Steiger
Chair: Probability, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Uniqueness and Non Uniqueness for Spin-Glass Ground States on Trees (2018; paper 2019)
Master's Thesis: Convergence in Rough-Path Topology of Processes in Random Environments (2021)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. J. Richter- Gebert
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Enumeration of Planar Graph Embeddings Representing Immersions of the Unit Interval (2018)
Status: Alumna

Mentor: Prof. Ch. Kühn
Chair: Dynamics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: A PDE Theory Based Investigation of Properties and Dynamics of Complex Networks (2018)
Master's Thesis: Multi-Population Phase Oscillator Networks with Higher-Order Interactions (paper 2020, co-authors: C. Bick, C. Kühn)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. O. Junge
Chair:Scientific Computing, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: On a Generalized Combinatorial Representation of Parameter Space for Switching Systems (2018)
Master's Thesis: Combinatorial Models for Cycling in Dynamical Systems (2021)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. M. Wolf
Chair: Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Universality and the Efficiency of Quantum Compilers (2018)
Master's Thesis: On the Length of Algebra Generating Sets (2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. R. Zagst
Chair:Mathematical Finance, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Dynamic Portfolio Optimization Methods: A Comparison (2019)
Master's Thesis: Portfolio Optimization: Not Necessarily Concave Utility and Constraints on Wealth and Allocation (paper 2020, co-authors: R. Zagst, M. Escobar-Anel)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. D. Matthes
Chair: Dynamics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Derivation of a Discrete Quantum Drift-Diffusion Model (2018)
Master's Thesis: Gradient Flow Structure of a Multidimensional Nonlinear Sixth Order Quantum-Diffusion Equation (paper 2020, co-author: D. Matthes)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. C. Liedtke
Chair:Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: The Étale Fundamental Group (2019)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. S. Warzel
Chair:Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Entanglement Entropy of Bosonic Systems (2018)
Status: Alumnus


Mentor: Prof. T. Hoffmann
Chair: Geometry and Visualization, Technical University Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Two Discretizations of Koenigs Nets and their Connection (2018)
Master's Thesis: On Discrete Conjugate Semi-geodesic Nets (paper 2020, co-authors: T. Hoffmann, W. K. Schief)
Status: Doctoral phase
13th TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2016/17)

Luca Arcidiacono
Mentor: Prof. Ch. Kühn
Chair: Advanced Mathematics and Analytical Mechanics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Singularities in Discrete- Time Fast- Slow- Systems (2017)
Master's Thesis: Discretized Fast-Slow Systems near Pitchfork Singularities (paper 2019, co-authors: M. Engel, Ch. Kühn)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. F. Krahmer
Chair: Applied and Numerical Analysis and Optimization and Data Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: On Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Embeddings (2017)
Master's Thesis:Optimal Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Embeddings for Large Data Sets (paper 2020, co-autor: F. Krahmer)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. M. Cicalese
Chair: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: On the Variational Analysis of a Chirality Transition Model in R2 (2017)
Master's Thesis: Discrete-to-Continuum Gamma-Limit of a Planar Chirality Model (2018)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. O. Junge
Chair: Scientific Computing, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Discretisation of Transfer Operators by Sparse Spectral Methods (2017)
Master's Thesis: Fast and Robust Computation of Coherent Lagrangian Vortices on Very Large Two-Dimensional Domains (paper 2020, co-author: D. Karrasch)
Dissertation:
Characterization and efficient computation of Lagrangian coherent structures (2021)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. K. Cieliebak
Chair: Analysis und Geometry, University of Augsburg
Bachelorarbeit: Open Books and Contact Structures (2017)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. Ch. Liedtke
Chair: Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis:Deformations and Resolutions of Rational Double Points (2018)
Master's Thesis: Which rational double points occur on del Pezzo surfaces? (paper 2020)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor. Prof. B. Wohmuth
Chair: Numerische Mathematik, Technical University of Munich
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. M. Peter
Chair:Applied Analysis, University of Augsburg
Bachelor's Thesis: Homogenisierung eines Reaktions-Diffusions-Problems mit veränderlicher Mikrostruktur (2017)
Master's Thesis: Homogenization of Stokes Flow with Evolving Microstructure (2019)
Status: Doctoral phase
12th TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2015/16)

Mentor: Prof. M. Wolf
Chair: Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Infinitesimal divisible Quantum Channels (2016)
Master's Thesis: Quantum Learning Linear Functions (2019)
Dissertation: Quantum Learning Theory (2022)
Status: Alumnus
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Mentor: Prof. R. Werner
Chair: Rechnerorientierte Statistik und Datenanalyse, University of Augsburg
Master's Thesis: Efficient Computation of the Prokhorov Metric for Discrete Distributions (2017)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. P. Gritzmann
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Data Transformation in Clustering and Classification (2017)
Master's Thesis: Coresets and Sketches for Balanced Clustering (2019)
Status: Doctoral phase


Mentor: Prof. A. S. Schulz
Chair: Operations Research, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Online Scheduling-Probleme im Random Order- Modell (2017)
Master's Thesis: Full Truckload Routing in the Logistics Industry (2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. N. Gantert
Chair: Chair of Probability, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Sampling q-colorings on graphs: convergence and cutoff (2016)
Master's Thesis: Exclusion Dynamics in Random Environment (2018)
Dissertation: Mixing times and limit theorems for exclusion processes (2021)
Status: Alumnus
11th TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2014/15)


Mentor: Prof. B. Vexler
Chair:Optimal Control, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Optimal Control of Differential Equations Using BV-Functions (2015)
Master's Thesis: Regularization and Discretization of a BV-Controlled, Elliptic Problem: A Completely Adaptive Approach (2017)
Dissertation: Optimal Control of Parabolic Obstacle Problems (2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. M. Nieper-Wißkirchen
Chair: Algebra und Zahlentheorie, University of Augsburg
Bachelor's Thesis: Ein topostheoretisches Modell der reellen Zahlen (2015)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. P. Gritzmann
Chair: Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: On the volume of convex bodies: Complexity and algorithms (2015)
Master's Thesis: Clustering and Tomography for Data Analysis: Foundations and a New Data Transformation (2018)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. D. Matthes
Chair:Advanced Mathematics and Analytical Mechanics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Stability Analysis of Relative Equilibria in Swarming Models (2015)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. G. Kemper
Chair:Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Bounds for syzygies of invariants (2015)
Master's Thesis: Invariants of Irreducible Reflection Groups over Rings of Algebraic Integers (2017)
Dissertation: Arithmetic Invariant Rings of Finite Groups (2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Wohmuth
Chair: Numerische Mathematik, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Simulation of a Phase-Field Model in Fracture Mechanics (2015)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. C. Klüppelberg
Chair: Mathematical Statistics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Lévy-driven tempo-spatial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes (2015)
Master's Thesis: Volterra-type Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes in space and time (paper 2016, co-author: C. Chong)
Dissertation: Stochastic modeling in space and time with Lévy-driven random fields (2019)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. M. Wolf
Chair: Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Quantum Extensions of Classical Markov Chains (2015)
Status: Elite Master
10th TopMath Year (starting winter semester 2013/14)

Mentor: Prof. G. Friesecke
Forschungsgruppe: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelorarbeit: Multi-Marginal Optimal Transportation and Many-Electron Systems (2014)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. M. Brokate
Forschungsgruppe: Mathematical Modelling, Technische Universität München
Bachelorarbeit: Variational Methods in Quantum Chemistry and Materials Science (2014)
Masterarbeit: Minimal Solutions to Generalized Lambda-Semiflows and Gradient Flows in Metric Spaces (2017)
Status: Promotionsphase

Mentor: Prof. M. Hien
Chair: Algebra und Zahlentheorie, University of Augsburg
Bachelor's Thesis: Sheaves on the subanalytic site and tempered solutions of D-modules on curves (2014)
Master's Thesis: Enhanced Solutions of Exponential D-Modules (2016)
Dissertation: D-Modules of Pure Gaussian Type from the Viewpoint of Enhanced Ind-Sheaves (2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. Ch. Liedtke
Forschungsgruppe: Algebra, Technische Universität München
Bachelorarbeit: Automorphisms of Curves (2014)
Masterarbeit: On Extremal Enriques Surfaces (2016)
Dissertation: Automorphisms of Enriques Surfaces (2017)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Hanke
Chair: Differentialgeometrie, University of Augsburg
Bachelor's Thesis: Das Geschlecht algebraischer Kurven (2014)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Wohlmuth
Chair: Numerische Mathematik, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Comparism of Multigrid Methods for the Stokes Equation (2014)
Status: Alumna

Mentor: Prof. J. Richter-Gebert
Chair: Geometrie und Visualisierung, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Interactive Image Sequences Converging to Fractals (2014)
Master's Thesis: CindyGL: Authoring GPU-Based Interactive Mathematical Content (paper 2016, co-author: J. Richter-Gebert)
Dissertation: Domain Parallel Machines (2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Hanke
Chair: Differentialgeometrie, University of Augsburg
Master's Thesis: Homological Invariance of Infinitenes of K-Area (2016)
Dissertation: Asymptotically flat Fredholm bundles and the Novikov Conjecture(2020)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. S. Warzel
Chair: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Ground state transition in certain models of finite rank perturbations of random potentials (2014)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. Ch. Liedtke
Chair: Algebra, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Quotientensingularitäten (2014)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. G. Friesecke
Chair: Analysis, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Generalization of Kantorovich Duality to multi-marginal optimal transportation and applications in economics (2014)
Master's Thesis: Breaking the curse of dimension in multi-marginal Kantorovich optimal transport on finite state spaces (paper 2017, co-author: G. Friesecke)
Status: Doctoral phase

Mentor: Prof. F. Bornemann
Chair: Scientific Computing, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Circle packings with tangential boundary circles for numerical conformal mapping (2014)
Master's Thesis: A Discrete Hilbert Transform with Circle Packings (2017)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Vexler
Chair: Optimal Control, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Optimal Design of Experiments for Linear Elliptic PDEs (2014)
Master's Thesis: Gradient Based Optimization Algorithms for Sensor Placement Problems with Sparsity (2016)
Dissertation: On sparse sensor placement for parameter identification problems with partial differential equations (2018)
Status: Alumnus

Mentor: Prof. B. Vexler
Chair: Optimal Control, Technical University of Munich
Bachelor's Thesis: Petrov-Galerkin-Finite-Element-Methods for Time-Discretization of Parabolic Partial Differential
Equations (2014)
Master's Thesis: Efficient Numerical Realization of Higher Order Dual Petrov-Galerkin-Methods for Time-Discretization of Parabolic Optimal Control Problems
Status: Alumnus
Former TopMath Years
9th TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2012/13)
Dr. Felix Dietrich
Dr. Daniel Stilck Franca
Dr. Sebastian Garreis
Justin Gassner
Sebastian Greiner
Marcus Kaiser
Dr. Leonard Kreutz
Dr. Anna-Laura Sattelberger
Dr. Alexander Schindler
8th TopMath year
(starting winter semester 2011/12)
Dr. Carsten Chong
Dr. Benedict Dingfelder
Dr. Julia Ehrenmüller
Dr. Elisabeth Finhold
Dr. Philipp Hoffmann
Dr. Stefan Junk
Dr. Johannes Keller
Armin Krupp
Dr. Stefan Toman
Julia Wenzel
Dr. Tobias Windisch
Dr. Linus Wunderlich
7th TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2010/11)
Dr. Julian Braun
Dr. Philipp Düren
Simon Eberle
Jan-Christian Hütter
Wolfgang Riedl
Dr. Paul Stursberg
Dr. Thomas Weiß
6th TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2009/10)
Dr. Alexander Engel
Michael Fauser
Dr. Manuel Friedrich
Carl Georg Heise
Dr. Bernhard Kiniger
Sarina Krämer
Matthias Ohst
Dr. Fabian Reffel
Dr. Tina Schmidt
Dr. Emanuel Schnalzger
Dr. Jacob Stöber
Dr. Carina Willbold
Katharina Zahnweh
5th TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2008/09)
Dr. Susanne Apel
Stephan Bogendörfer
Dr. Felix Früchtl
Dr. Christoph Gietl
Dr. Andreas Käufl
Harald Kümmerle
Christoph Lorenz
Lorenz Pfeifroth
Dr. Christian Reinhard
Markus Reiter
Jann Spiess
Dr. Julia Wagner
4th TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2007/08)
Dr. Maximilan Butz
Prof. Dr. Holger Fink
Dr. Peter Henig
Jonas Hisch
Dr. Stefan Kahler
Michael Kratzer
Dr. Thomas Roche
Tim Wartewig
Dr. Rasmus Wißmann
3rd TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2006/07)
Dr. Yuen Au Yeung
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Häupler
Dr. Stefan Holzer
Thorsten Knott
Dr. Stephan Ritscher
Dr. Sina Straub
Yuriy Svyrydov
Dr. Florian Zuleger
2nd TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2005/06)
Florian Block
Dr. Markus Brill
Stefan Jerg
Dr. Peter Koltai
Prof. Dr. Christian Möller
Prof. Dr. Stefan Neukamm
Dr. Philipp Stelzig
Dr. Tobias Wichtrey
1st TopMath Year
(starting winter semester 2004/05 and
summer semster 2005)
Dr. Anna Binder
Dr. Ayoub Hmaidi
Dr. Tobias Kamke
Dr. Michael Kieweg
Prof. Dr. Carolin Kreisbeck (Klust)
Dr. Thomas Preu
Florian Quiring
Dr. Bernhard Vesenmayer
Dr. Christoph Weiß