Information for Students
For Prospective Students
Our group is always looking for motivated bachelor's or master's students interested in writing a thesis with us.
As a thesis student in our group, you will be advised by the head of the group or potentially one of our postdocs.
Usually, you will have a graduate student mentor, who is supporting you and who is available to answer open questions.
The process begins with agreeing on a topic and, if necessary, gaining necessary, missing background knowledge.
Then the thesis project is officially submitted to the Prüfungsamt, and you begin writing the thesis, and regularly meet with your advisor and your student mentor during the months of thesis writing.
A student working with us will give two talks in our research seminar: one general talk before officially starting the thesis, and one at the end presenting your results.
To better understand the kind of research our group conducts, please visit our research and publications pages.
In general, we offer a thesis project to you according to your interests, and usually we have a collection of projects available that we would like to hand out to motivated students.
You can, however, also propose a topic to us that you are excited about and that is within our realm of expertise.
If you are interested in conducting a thesis project with us or if you have any questions, feel free to contact us or speak to a group member in person.
We are very open and happy to pursue thesis topics that are interdisciplinary (i.e., co-advised with a faculty member from another subject outside of mathematics), or industry collaborations, and have supervised several thesis of this kind.
However, if you are interested in such a type of thesis, please consult us before a thesis topic is determined.
This holds in particular for industry collaborations.
It is perfectly fine that you suggest the company, and you/the company suggests the broader realm of the topic, but:
- The academic tasks and details for a thesis have to be determined joint with us to guarantee academic quality of a thesis project.
- If pre-determined research questions are brought to us (independent whether it is in conjunction with a thesis or not), it falls under contract research (Auftragsforschung). We are happy to engage in this (and have successfully done so in the past), but might have to charge the company for it.
Letters or Recommendation
Letters of recommendation are necessary for various parts of academic life: job applications, scholarships, tenure evaluations, recommendation for awards, etc.. Writing letters is an essential academic task, and we are happy to provide them for proper candidates. However, writing a letter is a task that requires sufficient time and proper planing. Frank Sottile has summarized the key points on letters, which also apply to us.
Students who have worked with us
Current Masters students
- Leif Niehe - "Solution Recovery in Sparse Polynomial Optimization"
Past Masters students
- Hemant Sirsat - "Voronoi Diagrams for Multi-Leak Detection in Composite Manufacturing" - ""; in cooperation with C. Brauer (DLR) (Feb 2025)
- Bhupender Bindal - "Microscopic Image Super-Resolution for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Samples" - ; in cooperation with C. Brauer (DLR) (July 2024)
- Hannes Drobek - "Pattern Mining in medical time series" - (Feb. 2024)
- Jonas Naumann - "Robust Detection and Explanation of Cracks in Microscopic Images" - ; in cooperation with C. Brauer (DLR) (Jan. 2024)
- Sophie-Theresa Kleinke - "Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials and Optimal Circuit Decompositions" - (Jan. 2023)
- Lina Elz - "Analyse und Anwendung von Logic Tensor Networks auf das Schätzen von Fahrspuren im Kontext des autonomen Fahrens (Analysis and Application of Logic Tensor Networks on Lane Estimation in the Context of Autonomous Driving)" - ; in cooperation with J. Fricke (Volkswagen AG) (Dec. 2022)
- Marie Rümmler - "Die Topologie von Amöben, deren Träger einen Circuit bildet (The Topology of Amoebas Supported on Circuits)" - (Sep. 2021)
- Lorenza Buogo - "Lasserre's Hierarchie für obere Schranken für Nichtnegativitätsprobleme (Lasserre's Hierarchy for Upper Bounds for Nonnegativity Problems)" - (Jan. 2021)
- Olivia Röhrig - "Initial Steps In The Classification Of Maximal Mediated Sets" - Supervised jointly with M. Joswig; Joint work started at TU Berlin, then supervised remotely from TU Braunschweig . (Summer 2020)
- Sascha Timme - "Fast Computation of Amoebas, Coamoebas, and Imaginary Projections in Low Dimensions" - (TU Berlin); "Dies Mathematicus" award for the best master thesis in mathematics at TU Berlin in 2018 (tied with two other students) (Mar. 2018)
Current Bachelors Students
- Alva-Marthe Holtz - - Bachelor thesis
- Benjamin Schöne - - Bachelor thesis
Past Bachelors Students
- Lukas Lojewski - "Modulformen und die $j$-Invariante elliptischer Kurven (Modular forms and the $j$-Invariant of Elliptic Curves)" - Bachelor thesis - (Jan. 2024)
- Leif Niehe - "Effective Bounds on Pólya's Theorem" - Bachelor thesis - (Apr. 2023)
- Lisa Mertinaschk - "Voronoi Diagramme und der Sweepline Algorithmus (Voronoi Diagrams and the Sweepline Algorithm)" - Bachelor thesis - (Nov. 2021)
- Anastasiia Grigoricheva - "Tropical Geometry of Deep Neural Networks" - Bachelor thesis - (Aug. 2021)
- Matthis Heimberg - "Der
NN-Crust
Algorithmus zur Kurvenrekonstruktion (TheNN-Crust
Algorithm for Curve Reconstruction)" - Bachelor thesis - (July 2021) - Marius Koch - "Grovers Quantenalgorithmus für Suchanfragen in Datenbanken (Grover's Quantum Algorithm for database search)" - Bachelor thesis - supervised jointly with S. Stiller (Feb 2021)
- Helena Müller - "Minima of Polynomials via SONC Decompositions" - Bachelor thesis - TU Berlin (Oct. 2018)
Past Student Research
- Hemant Sirsat - "AI-Based Prediction of Energy Consumption in Dry Fiber Placement Processes (working title)" - Student Research Thesis - ; supervised jointly with C. Brauer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Dec. 2024)
- Sreerag V. Naveenachandran - "Data-based Leakage Detection and Uncertainty Quantification in the Manufacturing of Large-Scale CFRP Components" - Student Research Thesis - supervised jointly with C. Brauer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Oct. 2023)
- Bhupender Bindal - "Multi view classification of chloroplast cells" - Student Research Thesis - (Aug. 2023)