The Institute for Experimental Mathematics (IEM) was founded, with the support of the

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Foundation, as a central scientific facility of the former University of Essen, now

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

in 1989. With the addition of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Chair on 1 January 1999, the Institute was expanded in the area of Computer Networking Technology. A.J. Han Vinck is currently the Institute's managing director. The primary objective of the Institute is to foster interactions between the fields of mathematics, computer science and the engineering sciences. Mathematicians, computer experts and telecommunications engineers are engaged in trans-disciplinary collaboration under one roof. The main areas of research are

discrete mathematics Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that can be considered "discrete" (in a way analogous to discrete variables, having a bijection with the set of natural numbers) rather than "continuous" (analogously to continuous f ...

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

digital communication Data transmission and data reception or, more broadly, data communication or digital communications is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point or ...

, and computer networking technology.

Staff members

*Prof. Dr. Massimo Bertolini *Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.

Gerhard Frey Gerhard Frey (; born 1 June 1944) is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of Hellegouarch, he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic curve from a pur ...

*Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lempken *Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erwin P. Rathgeb *Prof. Dr. Trung van Tran *Prof. Dr. ir. Han Vinck *Prof. Dr. Helmut Völklein

External staff members

*Prof. Dr. Gebhard Böckle, Universität Duisburg-Essen *Prof. Dr.

Hélène Esnault Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Biography Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singular ...

, Universität Duisburg-Essen *Prof. Dr.

Eckart Viehweg Eckart Viehweg (born 30 December 1948 in Zwickau, died 29 January 2010) was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2003 he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with his wife, ...

, Universität Duisburg-Essen *Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kees Schouhamer Immink, Turing Machines, Netherlands *Prof. Dr. Gabor Wiese

External links

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