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At the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Chemistry, you can start a Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma thesis at any time. The topics are based on current research fields of the working groups.

You can find the diploma and doctoral theses written at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Chemistry here.

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Master and diploma theses, dissertations, habilitations.

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Doctoral studies at HHU

There are several ways to earn a doctorate depending on the faculties, the individual research fields as well as on the type of doctorate. It can be completed within a structured programme or quite independently under the supervision of a professor. Over a period of about three to four years, doctoral students conduct independent research, write a dissertation and usually defend it through an oral examination. The starting date is not bound to the university semesters, but rather depends on the available funding options for the individual research projects.

At HHU, doctoral candidates are individually supervised and supported in order to advance their careers. The following applies to all faculties of HHU:

• the regulations for doctoral studies stipulate that doctoral theses must be overseen by two supervisors; i.e. a second supervisor may be added to the PhD advisory committee
• the course "Good Scientific Practice" is mandatory for all doctoral candidates
• the doctoral research is conducted within a structured doctoral programme or, alternatively, can be completed within the framework of a structured curriculum at the respective faculties' graduate academies
• international junior researchers receive advice and support from the Junior Scientist and International Research Center (JUNO) regarding their stay in Germany and at HHU
• the faculties' graduate academies offer a broad qualification programme for doctoral students and a comprehensive counseling service
• the  Heine Research Academies and the graduate academies of the  Faculty of Medicine (MedRSD) , the  Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (iGRAD)  and the  Faculty of Arts and Humanities (PhilGRAD) provide a common framework of support and structured education for all doctoral researchers.

In Germany and at HHU, the most common PhD track is completing an individual doctorate under the supervision of a professor and thereby conducting research largely independently on one's own research topic. This offers a great deal of flexibility but also demands a high degree of personal initiative and responsibility. To start such a doctoral project, you first need to find a supervisor at HHU. The supervision of a doctoral thesis is an individual agreement between the doctoral researcher and the supervisor. In some faculties at HHU (e.g. Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences) an additional supervising professor is mandatory. 

Doctoral students conducting an indivual doctorate may be employed by the supervisor's institute, which often requires them to work on a specific project or to participate in the teaching requirements of the institute. Vacancies for this path to a doctorate are often advertised on the research institute's website or can be found at the HeRA job portal . Doctoral researchers who are not employed by the institute are advised to organise funding for their dissertation project , for example by a scholarship.

How long it takes to complete an individual doctorate depends mainly on one's own time schedule. Three to four years are within in the normal range.

Find further information on how to apply for an individual doctorate here .

In structured doctoral programmes, doctoral students and their research topics are integrated into a larger scientific framework in which the students work on a common research focus or methodology. These programmes are often interdisciplinary and/or have a strong international orientation with English as the team language. In general, they offer a subject-specific curriculum as well as opportunities to acquire transferable skills and additional qualifications. Doctoral students are generally supervised by a thesis advisory committee, i.e. in teams of several professors participating in the programme. 

At HHU you have a broad spectrum of structured doctoral programmes in research training groups and graduate schools funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Excellence Initiative, the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and HHU itself. Sometimes they include collaborations with other universities, non-university research institutes such as the Helmholtz Association or the International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) as well as other international partners.

Programme specific scholarships or job offers for doctoral candidates usually provide funding for at least three years. Find further information on available scholarships or job offers at the graduate programmes' websites or and the HeRA job portal . Click here  for details on how to apply for a graduate programme.

Steps to a doctorate

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Are you interested in writing your Bachelor's or Master's thesis at the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Financial Services?

Our chair participates together with the other chairs of business administration of the faculty in a central procedure for the allocation of final theses (bachelor and master theses). If you would like to write a thesis at our chair in the coming semester, please follow the further instructions on this website:

https://www.bachelorbwl.hhu.de/zentrale-anmeldung-abschlussarbeiten

Please note:

• On the page linked above, registration is possible for both bachelor's and master's theses for students of all courses of our faculty, if you would like to write your thesis with us or another chair of business administration.

Students of economics, business chemistry and financial and actuarial mathematics are exempt from this regulation. Students of these subjects can, provided they have taken elective modules at our chair, request to write their thesis at our chair at any time.

If you have received a place at our chair, you can submit a request to write your thesis at any time during the semester. To do so, please first fill out the request in ILIAS in our LS Financial Services learning room. Afterwards, you will be assigned a supervisor who will consider your topic request as a basis to fix a binding topic for your thesis together with you. For your individual choice of topic, please refer to the following list of courses offered by the chair, as well as to the topic exposés published in ILIAS:

• Asset-Management
• Sustainable Finance und alternative Investments
• Behavioral Finance
• Insurance Economics
• Asset Management
• Econometrics of Financial Markets
• Digitalisation of the Financial Sector
• Bank Regulation
• Portfolio and Capital Market Theory
• Risk Management
• Capital Market Theory and Capital Market Abnormalities
• Digitalization and Transformation in the Financial Industry
• Bank Accounting
• Sustainable Finance
• Artificial Intelligence

Please consider the formal guidelines for scientific papers when you are writing your thesis.

In order to comply with the applicable data protection regulations, students writing a thesis in which personal data is collected must complete the following steps before the data is collected. Corresponding data protection notices in accordance with Article 13 DS-GVO and Article 14 DS-GVO, which legally define the information requirements for the collection of personal data, can be found below:

1. data protection training

A corresponding data protection training can be found in ILIAS at the Math.-Nat. faculty (ILIAS > Magazine > Math.-Nat. faculty > Learning room > Data protection training for psychology). Direct access is possible under the following link: direct access for data protection training

2. data protection provisions

Furthermore, you must confirm that you have read the document "Handreichung Datenschutz WiWi" and agree to the agreements and obligations formulated there.

The document can be viewed and downloaded in our learning room in ILIAS. It contains the "Annex 1: Agreement on data protection" and "Annex 2: Commitment to comply with data protection requirements according to the General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO)". Please read these documents carefully.

Important note: Please note that by registering, you are giving your binding consent to the assumption of data protection in the context of your thesis.

With this data protection notice, the chair of Business Administration, esp. Financial Services at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf fulfills its obligation to provide information in accordance with Articles 13, 14 of the EU Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) for the above-mentioned processing of personal data

Supplementary information can be found in the data protection declaration of the HHU ( https://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/footer/datenschutz.html ).

With regard to the other terms used, "personal data", "processing", "responsible person", "third party", etc., reference is made to the definitions in Article 4 of the DS-GVO.

1. Contact details

Responsible for the processing is the chair of business administration, esp. Financial Services at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, a legal entity under public law supported by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is represented by the Rector Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck.

1.1 Contact details of the responsible person

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf  Universitätsstraße 1 40255 Düsseldorf Phone: 0211 81-10000 Web: https://www.hhu.de/en/

1.2 Contact details of the contact person  

1.3 Contact details of the data protection officer

You can contact the data protection officer by post at the address of the person responsible or as follows:

Data protection officer E-Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@hhu.de phone: +49 211 81-13060  Web.: https://www.hhu.de/en/about-hhu/organisation-and-bodies/self-government-and-representation-of-interests/commissioned-persons/data-protection-officer

2. Information on the personal data processed and the purposes of the processing

In the context of project work and final theses at HHU, the following personal data will be collected from you

• surname, first name
• matriculation number, course of study, current grade point average
• E-Mail address

will be processed for the following purposes:

• Contact purposes
• Legitimate registration of the work
• Planning & organization of project and thesis work

We obtain your personal data through their registration on the HHU website and form generator.

3. legal basis of the processing

Your personal data will be processed on the basis of the provisions of the DS-GVO and the State Data Protection Act and, if applicable, other relevant laws. This is done only for the purposes stated in section 2.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data for the purposes of contacting you, lawful registration of work and planning and organization of project and final work is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e. DS-GVO. The processing is carried out within the scope of fulfilling the tasks of the university in accordance with § 8 of the Higher Education Act of North Rhine-Westphalia, if necessary in connection with a special law, e.g. Higher Education Statistics Act, State Civil Servants Act, Staff Representation Act, Equal Opportunities Act, or the university's regulations.

4. transmission of personal data

As a matter of principle, we do not transfer your personal data, which is processed by HHU for the purposes mentioned in section 2, to third parties. However, we would like to point out that the IT departments or a service provider may have access in the context of care and maintenance work.

5. Duration of processing/data deletion

Personal data will be deleted 6 months after completion of the project/final work or as long as it is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes according to section 2, for the fulfillment of contractual obligations or legally prescribed obligations. After that, these data will be deleted.

6. your rights as a data subject

As a data subject, you may assert the rights granted to you by the GDPR at any time:

• The right to information as to whether and which of your data is being processed (Art. 15 DS-GVO). The restrictions according to § 12 DSG NRW apply;
• the right to request that the data concerning you be corrected or completed (Art. 16 DS-GVO);
• the right to have the data concerning you deleted in accordance with Art. 17 DS-GVO. The restrictions according to § 10 DSG NRW apply;
• the right to demand restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with Art. 18 DS-GVO;
• the right to object to future processing of the data concerning you in accordance with Art. 21 DS-GVO;
• the right to revoke a given consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation (Art. 7 (3) DS-GVO).

You are welcome to contact marius.wehner@hhu.de if you wish to exercise any of your rights.

In addition to the aforementioned rights, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority (Art. 77 DS-GVO). The supervisory authority responsible for HHU is the

However, we would be grateful if you would contact our data protection officer -before taking your concern to the supervisory authority. We will try to do justice to your concern.

7. Validity of this data protection notice

We reserve the right to amend this data protection notice in order to adapt it to changes in relevant laws or regulations or to better meet your needs. This data protection notice applies in the version last published by HHU.

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Dissertations and habilitations

Depending on the applicable doctoral regulations, you may be required to submit print copies of your dissertation to ULB or to publish your dissertation online via ULB’s document server. After submitting the required number of copies or uploading the corresponding file, we perform a formal check and issue confirmation of receipt.

The procedure for submitting habilitations is the same.

The procedure for publishing work online is explained step by step on the document server. Please contact University Publications Office (Hochschulschriften- und Tauschstelle) in case of questions about submitting your dissertation or habilitation.

Please submit your documents to the following address:

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On this page, you will find all the important information about bachelor, master and project theses at our chair.

If you are interested in writing a thesis at our chair, you should start selecting a topic in time and contact us.

Please send an e-mail to the person responsible for the topic (see below) with

• matriculation number
• course of study and semester
• the successfully completed courses of your study program (e.g. Transcript of Records)
• your desired topic (see below) OR a topic proposal for one at our research areas

In advance, the general requirements for theses must be fulfilled or be fulfilled shortly. Additional requirement to be able to write a project and/or master thesis at our chair is that at least one of our modules has been attended or is currently being attended.

The topic is within the research areas of the chair. You can choose from one of our suggested topics or propose your own topic. 

The following topics are available for selection (responsible for the topic area):

•    Digital Innovation and Business Models •    Digital Entrepreneurship             •    Digital User Experience (UX) •    Design and management of cybersecurity •    Consequences of Digital Health (Joris van Bohemen)

The topic is further narrowed down in an initial meeting with the supervisor. Based on this, you will prepare a two- to three-page research proposal. This contains the motivation of the topic, a first short literature review, the preliminary research question and the intended study design. The research proposal should facilitate a common understanding of the topic.

After your supervisor has agreed to the research proposal and a second examiner has been found, you can register your thesis in the student portal under exam registration. You will then receive a confirmation of your registration by e-mail.

Please note that after successful registration you have three months to complete a Bachelor's thesis and six months for a Master's thesis.

Below you will find links to the examination regulations of the courses of study that are eligible to write a thesis at our chair.

Please discuss further details about the form and length of the thesis with your supervisor.

• Bachelor of Business Administration
• Bachelor Computer Science
• Master Business Administration 
• Master Computer Science
• Master Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

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We are an innovative international team that strives for highest research quality in conjunction with optimum student and early career researcher experience. Our research is co-funded, amongst others, by the European Research Council through the NeXource project, and we aim at top level research outputs from PhD on. Previous PhD and early career Postdocs in the group have been awarded with various prizes for their work, such as the Cockcroft Institute Early Career Research Excellence award, the DESY best PhD thesis award, or the SUPA Saltire Emerging Researcher award. We cherish the intelligence, innovativeness and productivity or our staff, and our group offers fertile grounds to develop your research career. We're hiring! If you are an excellent PhD or Postdoc candidate please get in touch to discuss opportunities.

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Aktuelles Detailansicht

Igem2024: hhu-projekt klothy bakterien und hefen produzieren nachhaltige textilstoffe.

Zum neunten Mal geht ein studentisches Team der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf bei iGEM an den Start, dem internationalen studentischen Wettbewerb der synthetischen Biologie. In den kommenden sechs Monaten werden die diesjährigen Teammitglieder ein synthetisches Textilgewebe entwickeln, mithilfe einer Ko-Kultur aus Bakterien und Hefen. Das vorrangige Ziel der Studierenden ist, eine nachhaltige und gleichwertige Alternative zu Textilien aus konventioneller Textilproduktion zu erzeugen.

Mitglieder des iGEM2024-Teams der HHU (v.l.): Hintere Reihe: Said Laibacher, Malte Hüter, Robin Schüren, Tim Velden, David Fettinger, Melanie Schreiber, Justin Böhm, Noah Ben Bulawa. Vordere Reihe: Sofie Rüffer, Annika Maß, Meggie Weber, Bianca Eickhorst, Deniz Öztürk, Zio Kim, Darrel Narta. Darüber hinaus gehören (nicht im Bild) Esma Sare Onat, Leon Vonscheidt, Luisa Tenter und Violetta Eva Antczak zum Team. (Foto: HHU / Noah Ben Bulawa)

Textilien bilden einen festen Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens. Der Anbau von Rohstoffen wie Baumwolle, Leinen und Hanf ist fester Teil der Textilindustrie, ebenso wie heutzutage die Herstellung synthetischer Fasern wie Nylon und Polyester. Insbesondere angesichts des zunehmenden Konsums von Fast-Fashion-Produkten steht die Textilindustrie jedoch vor zahlreichen ökologischen Herausforderungen: Sowohl bei natürlichen als auch bei synthetischen Fasern benötigen die nachgelagerten Verarbeitungsschritte schädliche Chemikalien wie Bleichmittel, Farbstoffe und Weichmacher.

„Die Herstellung synthetischer Textilfasern erfolgt auf Basis fossiler, nicht-erneuerbarer Ressourcen wie Erdgas oder -öl. Sowohl bei der Produktion als auch der Entsorgung fallen Treibhausgase und Mikroplastik an“, erklärt Teammitglied Sofie Rüffer.

Zudem verbraucht der landwirtschaftliche Anbau von Textilrohstoffen noch verfügbare, ökologisch relevante Flächen und konkurriert mit dem Nahrungsmittelanbau. Darüber hinaus werden enorme Mengen begrenzter Wasserressourcen verbraucht, auch gelangen chemische Pestizide in die Böden und Gewässer. „Die Textilproduktion belastet also das gesamte Ökosystem“, so Rüffer.

Hier setzt das iGEM-Team2024 der HHU mit ihrem Projekt „KlothY“ an. Sie wollen den Herausforderungen der Textilindustrie mit der Entwicklung umweltverträglicher Produktionsverfahren begegnen. Der Name KlothY spielt an auf das Bakterium Komagataeibacter xylinus (kurz K. xylinus) sowie auf die beiden englischen Begriffe „Cloth“ (für das Textilgewebe) und „Yeast“ für die Hefe S. cerevisiae, den zweiten verwendeten Organismus.

Für die strukturelle Basis des Textilgewebes nutzen die jungen Forschenden die natürliche Fähigkeit des Bakteriums K. xylinus, reine bakterielle Cellulose (BC) zu produzieren – ein sogenanntes Glucosepolymer, welches mit über 90 Prozent auch in Baumwolle vorkommt. Das BC wird modifiziert durch zwei weitere Stoffe: Hemicellulose (HC) und Chromoproteine; durch sie werden die Eigenschaften der Cellulose regulierbar, so dass KlothY für vielfältige Anwendungen angepasst werden kann.

„Wir möchten mit KlothY nicht nur eine weitere nachhaltige Alternative zu herkömmlichen Textilien bieten, sondern auch einen Ausblick auf die Textilien der Zukunft geben. Unser Projektziel ist, dass K. xylinus eine Art Leinwand in Form einer reinen Cellulosematte produziert, die unseren Ausgangsstoff für Kleidung bildet“, erläutert Teammitglied Noah Ben Bulawa. „Und dann kommt die Ko-Kultur ins Spiel: S. cerevisiae verleiht unserem Stoff die so wichtige Struktur und Farbe. Die Hefe synthetisiert verzweigte Fasern aus HC, sodass die darauf wachsenden BC-Stränge miteinander quervernetzt werden.“ Außerdem trägt sie ein zuvor transformiertes bakterielles Plasmid – also der DNA-Ring, in dem Bakterien unter anderem ihre genetische Information speichern –, welches Gene für drei farberzeugende Chromoproteine enthält.

Auf diese Weise „wächst“ ein Textilstoff entsprechend spezifischer Anforderungen – wie Stabilität, Elastizität, Farbe und Wasserbeständigkeit – direkt in der Petrischale heran. Das resultierende Produkt bedarf keiner weiteren Verarbeitungsschritte der klassischen Textilveredelung, zu denen das Entkernen, Spinnen, Weben, Bleichen und Färben gehören.

„Selbst Textilien aus biologischem Anbau müssen veredelt werden, was nicht nur enorme Mengen Wasser verbraucht, sondern auch Farbstoffe und Chemikalien freisetzen kann. Ebenso ist die Logistik – von der Produktion im Ausland bis in die Läden – mit hohen CO2-Emissionen verbunden“, beschreibt Teammitglied Bianca Eickhorst den Hintergrund des diesjährigen Projekts. „Mit KlothY werden wir weniger abhängig von spezifischen Anbauorten, wodurch weite Transportwege vermieden werden können. Wir haben uns für ein Projekt entschieden, das eine nachhaltigere Textilproduktion auf vielfältige Weise angeht.”

Team KlothY

Das Team setzt sich aus 18 Mitgliedern unterschiedlicher Semester und Studienschwerpunkte zusammen: Neben angehenden Biologinnen und Biologen sind auch Studierende aus der Biochemie und der Quantitativen Biologie vertreten. Unterstützt werden sie von zwölf erfahrenen Mitgliedern der vorherigen iGEM-Teams, die als sogenannte Advisors fungieren. Mit ihnen erörtern die Studierenden in wöchentlichen Meetings ihre Fortschritte und Entwürfe für Strategien in der Projektplanung. Des Weiteren wird das Team in sämtlichen fachlichen Fragen durch „Principal Investigators (PIs)“ betreut: Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann vom Institut für Zell- und Interaktionsbiologie, Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly vom Institut für pflanzliche Zellbiologie und Biotechnologie, Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge vom Institut für Mikrobiologie, Prof. Dr. Matias Zurbriggen vom Institut für Synthetische Biologie und Dr. St. Elmo Wilken vom Institut für Quantitative und Theoretische Biologie.

iGEM-Wettbewerb

Vor über 20 Jahren startete iGEM (die Abkürzung steht für „international Genetically Engineered Machine“) am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in den USA. Seitdem fördert der internationale Wettbewerb den interdisziplinären Austausch zwischen Teams aus dutzenden Ländern und bietet jungen Forschenden eine innovative Plattform, um die Möglichkeiten der synthetischen Biologie miteinander weiterzuentwickeln. Als Folge hat sich iGEM im Laufe der Jahre zu einer globalen Bewegung entwickelt, die jährlich ungefähr 400 Teams aus aller Welt versammelt. Über die Forschungsschwerpunkte hinaus fördert der iGEM-Wettbewerb zudem vielfältige Projekterfahrungen. Teams der HHU sind seit 2016 dabei, 2024 zum neunten Mal.

„Die Möglichkeit als junge Studierende in dieser Form selbstständig und unabhängig ein Projekt zu planen und auch wirklich durchzuführen ist einmalig und ein großes Privileg. Nicht nur der iGEM-Wettbewerb, sondern vor allem all die Menschen, die dies an der Universität ermöglichen und uns unterstützen, schaffen großartige Möglichkeiten, um echte Erfahrungen zu sammeln“, berichtet Robin Schüren, einer der studentischen Leiter des Projekts.

Im kommenden halben Jahr wird das iGEM-Team der HHU die Arbeiten im Labor fortführen, um Ende Oktober 2024 sein Projekt auf der Grand Jamboree genannten Abschlussveranstaltung in Paris vor den Juroren und anderen Teams zu präsentieren.

Das iGEM2024-Team bei der Laborarbeit. (Fotos: HHU / Joëlle Boecker und Robin Schüren)

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Dr. rer. nat. Dip.-Ing. Ahmad  Reza Cheraghi started as a PhD student at the University of Heinrich Heine in Duesseldorf/Germany at the "Technology of Social Networks" Lab in the Institute of Computer Science in 2014. His research area was nature-inspired algorithms for mobile, communicating, and sensing robot swarms. 

He has a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld/Germany and has a solid working experience as international commissioning engineer for automation systems of steel plants, as well as in entrepreneurship for technology-based startups in Germany.

His research interests were at the beginning for delay tolerant-, opportunistic- and mobile ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer, internet of everything, security and operating systems. Later, his research interests changes to nature-inspired algorithms for mobile, communicating, and sensing robot swarms.

He successful finished his PhD with the total grade of "Magna Cum Laude" on July the 5th, 2022.

Dissertation Abstract:

Imagine a world full of robots created to do mundane or dangerous tasks, for example cleaning, carrying heavy objects, protecting us, or searching for survivors in dangerous places. These are examples for the future. But, the complexity of developing these robots should not be underestimated. The hardware and software need to be designed, developed, and tested. Each robot needs to have artificial intelligence. Additionally, the collaboration and communication among robots must work seemlessly.

In this dissertation, we deal with robot swarm, based on three problem statements including 11 research questions. Robot swarms are groups of robots that accomplish tasks that are either impossible to solve by one robot or time-consuming. It is an emerging scientific field.

We design, develop, and evaluate a simulator and seven nature-inspired algorithms for robot swarms. Before doing so, however, we conducted research on robot swarms and summarized 217 publications. The result is an overview of robot swarms' past, present, and future. In addition, a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art network simulators has been prepared. This survey compares 25 simulation tools for peer-to-peer, opportunistic, and mobile ad-hoc networks.

We built a new simulator for robot swarms called Swarm-Sim based on the gained insights. Swarm-Sim is easy to understand as it is written in Python. It has an API that is easy to learn, allowing the implementation of a scenario and solutions for various robot swarm tasks. It has an advanced GUI, which displays the animation of the simulation either in 2D or 3D, and allows for changes to the environment ad-hoc. Therefore, Swarm-Sim is a simple to learn and easy to apply simulator to develop and evaluate robot swarm algorithms.

This dissertation's central and essential contribution is the nature-inspired robot swarm algorithms. We implemented and evaluated seven algorithms on the Swarm-Sim and categorized them into three application areas. The first application task is the swarm coating. With swarm coating, the robot swarm is to enclose an arbitrarily shaped object from all sides. We have developed two algorithms for this purpose. Swarm communication is the second application area. We deal with how robots can communicate with each other within the swarm. Both indirect and the direct communication is considered. Last but not least, we deal with swarm movement. We present two algorithms for coordinated movement within the swarm and how to motivate the robot swarm to move in different directions.

As a result, this dissertation provides three modules with ten contribution, presented with summaries from ten papers. The summaries contain two surveys about robot swarms and network simulators, one article about the Swarm-Sim simulator, and seven nature-inspired algorithms for robot swarms. We hope that with this dissertation we have made an important contribution to the scientific community and to the further development of robot swarms.

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Mathematik an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

Die Mathematik ist seit Tausenden von Jahren eine der großen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Die Erkenntnisse, die sie gewonnen hat, und die Strukturen, die sie untersucht, sind abstrakt-gedanklicher Natur, stellen aber dennoch ein wesentliches Hilfsmittel zur Beschreibung und zum Verständnis der realen Welt dar. Ihre Bedeutung für die Natur-, Ingenieur- und Lebenswissenschaften ist fundamental und wächst ständig. Dazu spielt sie eine wichtige Rolle in Informatik sowie Wirtschafts- und Finanzwissenschaft.

"International Women in Mathematics Day" am 12. Mai 2024

ab 16:30 Uhr im Metropol Kino (Brunnenstraße 20, 40223 Düsseldorf)

"Tag der Mathematik 2024" bei der R+V

Die R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG veranstaltet am 15. Juni 2024 den "Tag der Mathematik 2024" in Wiesbaden.

Absolvierenden-Feier der Math.-Nat-Fakultät am 26. April 2024

Für alle, die ihr Studium an der HHU erfolgreich mit dem Bachelor, Master, Diplom oder Staatsexamen abgeschlossen haben.

Girls' Day an der HHU am 25. April 2024

Für den Girls’ Day an der HHU hatte Dr. Nadja Valentin vom Mathematischen Institut ein tolles Programm vorbereitet: Wer weiß z.B., wie Mathematik beim Kartenspielen "mitmischt"?

MINT@hhu - Frauen in MINT-Berufen

MINT steht für Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik - das neue Projekt MINT@hhu unterstützt Studentinnen und Absolventinnen durch gleichstellungsfördernde Maßnahmen und Aktivitäten.

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Personen, die gerne in Fragen rund ums Studium weiterhelfen.

Forschungsaktivitäten

Die dfg-forschungsgruppe „strukturerhaltende numerische methoden für volumen- und übergangskopplung von heterogenen modellen“.

widmet sich der Modellierung und Simulation gekoppelter Systeme zur Beschreibung von magnetisierten Plasmen, komplexen Fluiden und elektrochemischen Prozessen. Frau Prof. Helzel ist seit 2023 mit 2 Projekten beteiligt.

Dortmunder und Düsseldorfer Wissenschaftler/innen kooperieren im GRK 2624

Die DFG fördert ab April 2021 das GRK 2624 " Biostatistische Methoden für hochdimensionale Daten in der Toxikologie " an der TU Dortmund, an dem auch Holger Schwender vom Mathematischen Institut beteiligt ist.

DFG-Graduiertenkolleg verlängert

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft hat für das Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2240 Algebro-Geometric Methods in Algebra, Arithmetic and Topology die zweite Förderperiode bewilligt. Diese läuft von Dezember 2022 bis Mai 2027.

Dissertations

Most Harvard PhD dissertations from 2012 forward are available online in DASH , Harvard’s central open-access repository and are linked below. Many older dissertations can be found on ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Search which many university libraries subscribe to.

• | Intranet
• | Portals
• | ULB Catalogue

Absolvierendenfeier der Math.-Nat.-Fakultät im April 2024

Unsere nächste Absolvierendenfeier findet am 26. April 2024 statt.

Update: die Anmeldefrist ist abgelaufen.

Liebe Absolventin, lieber Absolvent,

Sie haben Ihr Studium erfolgreich mit dem Bachelor, Master, Diplom oder Staatsexamen abgeschlossen. Das ist für Sie und die Fakultät ( http://www.math-nat-fak.hhu.de ) ein Grund zum Feiern! Darum laden wir Sie ganz herzlich zur

16. Absolventenfeier der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät 

am 26. April 2024

Um 16:30 Uhr in Hörsaal 3A ein.

Wir möchten Ihre Leistung im Rahmen einer akademischen Feier und eines anschließenden Umtrunks würdigen und noch einmal mit Ihnen, Ihrer Begleitung und Dozierenden auf dem Campus gemeinsam feiern. Wir möchten Sie bitten, uns die Planung mit einer verbindlichen Anmeldung bis spätestens zum 19. April 2024 zu erleichtern.

Gerne können Sie bis zu zwei Gäste mit anmelden, allerdings können wir Ihnen momentan noch keine Plätze für Ihre Gäste garantieren. Sofern ausreichend Plätze vorhanden sind, werden wir Ihnen daher die Anmeldung Ihrer Gäste nach Ablauf der Anmeldefrist bestätigen.

Sollten Sie sich bereits angemeldet haben, ignorieren Sie bitte diese Einladung.

Im Auftrag des Studiendekans und mit freundlichen Grüßen

S. Wilhelm und M. Speldrich

Studiendekanat der Math.-Nat. Fakultät

Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf