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The Department of Mathematics has awarded the 2017 Heinz Hopf Prize to the American mathematician Richard Schoen.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Siddhartha Mishra will be an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro.

Evaluating more than 1000 mathematical problems in 4 days - that was one of the main tasks of the annual country delegates’ meeting of the Association Kangourou sans Frontières (AKSF) from 11 to 15 October in Lucerne.

Paloma Bengoechea has received a Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project entitled: "Modular forms and diophantine approximation".

170 Mathe-Lehrer aus verschiedenen Ländern haben sich an der Kanti Luzern getroffen. Ihr Ziel: mit einem Wettbewerb das Interesse am eher unbeliebten Schulfach wecken.