Applied Algebra Group
TU Braunschweig

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, it is crucial that you 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 jointly with us to guarantee academic quality of a thesis project.

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

Past Masters students

Current Bachelor Thesis Students

Past Bachelor Thesis Students

Past Research Thesis Students