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1851, Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) received his PhD by Gauss in Göttingen and there became the follower of Dirichlet. To this day, the famous "Riemann hypothesis" remains unsolved, so there are many subjects of a doctoral dissertation in the surrounding field of this hypothesis possible.

PhD program

• Exam
• List of the doctoral dissertations since 1998
• Disputation dates

• Instruction for mentoring and the exam (pdf)
• Form to register for the entry into GAUSS and for the central student office (pdf)
• Check list (doc)

PhD program in mathematics at the university of Göttingen

There are many wide-ranging doctoral graduation possibilities for mathematics in Göttingen. If you like to gain a PhD in mathematics after your bachelor/master studies, your first step is to contact a possible advisor. You can find information about the different areas of research and their agents in the category research. For your support, at least one other person holding a doctoral degree comes along, and you regularly report your advancements to the so-built "thesis committee" during your PhD studies.

The PhD studies normally take three years and take place within the framework of the structured "Promotionsprogramm Mathematik" (english: PhD School of Mathematical Sciences).
During the whole time of the PhD studies, the PhD students have to be enrolled at the university of Göttingen.

The PhD program helps you to work on your doctoral dissertation and is composed as follows.

• Familiarization phase in the first year:
  Here, you systematically introduce yourself to the chosen area of the dissertation and, if required, you participate in suitable seminars and lectures, which are provided by the master program (cf. university calendar).
• Start-up phase in the second year
  Here, you participate in seminars or lectures that are more specialized for your dissertation topic.
• Specialization phase in the third year
  Here, you specifically participate in special courses that are valuable to complete your dissertation.

During the PhD studies, you have to gain achievements covering 21 credit points ("credits", abbreviated C), which you have to account for your doctoral examination, cf. attachment 6 "Fachspezifische Bestimmungen für das Grundprogramm Mathematik" letter C of the doctorate regulations.

You can find third-party funds support in particular in two DFG research training groups

• GK 1493: Mathematical structures in the modern quantum physics (spokesperson: D.Bahns)
• GK 1023: Identification in mathematical models: synergy of stochastical and numerical methods (spokesman: T.Hohage)

In addition, the Centre for Statistics (ZfS) provides an interdisciplinary research training group Scaling problems in statistics and an interdisciplinary PhD program "Applied statistics and empirical methods".

A successfully terminated doctoral graduation in mathematics leads to obtaining the doctoral degree "Dr.rer.nat.". The PhD School of Mathematical Sciences is part of the Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS).