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Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics

Welcome at ZGSM

The Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics is a joint venture of the department of mathematics at ETH (D-MATH) and the Institute of Mathematics at University Zurich (I-MATH). Collaborating closely in research fields and programs in the past, the departments founded the Graduate School in 2003 to offer a common and internationally recognized PhD-education in all major areas of mathematics and hence extend and enrich the sense of community.

At this time we are working on a structured PhD-program including existing activities such as the Zurich Graduate Colloquium in Mathematics, several International Research Training Groups as well as graduate courses, research seminars, lectures, workshops, summer schools and conferences. The close cooperation with the FIM (Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik) and further special events will provide an international and challenging atmosphere. A broad spectrum of scholary activities completes the program.

You find on this website various informations about our Graduate School such as its academic programm and the online application form.

All of us in the Graduate School wish you good fortune as you pursue your advanced degree, and we hope you will contact us if we can help you along the way. Graduate study is exhilarating and life-changing.

Sincerely, Prof. Thomas Kappeler, Prof. Michael Struwe Directors of the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics

The Graduate Campus of the University of Zurich has been established to support PhD students and Postdocs in their scientific career. The Campus offers funding for interdisciplinary activities, access to a large network of junior researchers and organizes courses, e.g. on transferable skills.

In a joint effort of the research groups at the Department of Mathematics at ETH (D-MATH) and the Institute of Mathematics at University Zurich (I-MATH) we offer an intensive, broad and internationally recognized graduate education in mathematics.

The program consists of a wide range of graduate courses and research seminars and is complemented by the program of the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik. Moreover, special programs are launched that include block-courses and sequences of lectures focussing on recent developments. It offers a broad spectrum of scholarly activity and a challenging and stimulating atmosphere so as to provide young researchers with an excellent base for a career in mathematical research.

In collaboration with the Institute of Mathematics at Humboldt University Berlin the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics is participating in an International Graduate College, thus providing the students with an international framework for exchanging ideas and experiences in research and instruction.

Our Graduate School consists of faculty, graduate students, a number of postdocs and some affiliated members. It is within the obligations of all these members of the Graduate School to contribute to its scientific life and to regularly participate in the various seminars, colloquia and courses offered within the program of the school.

• Directors and Board
• Students and Postdocs

Publications

Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics (ZLAM, grown out of Lectures in Mathematics)

(In cooperation with FIM.)

Edited by: Erwin Bolthausen (Managing Editor), Freddy Delbaen, Thomas Kappeler (Managing Editor), Christoph Schwab, Michael Struwe, Gisbert Wüstholz

Mathematics in Zurich has a long and distinguished tradition, in which the writing of lecture notes volumes and research monographs play a prominent part. The “Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics” series aims to make some of these publications better known to a wider audience. The series has three main constituents: lecture notes on advanced topics given by internationally renowned experts, graduate text books designed for the joint graduate program in Mathematics of the ETH and the University of Zurich, as well as contributions from researchers in residence at the mathematics research institute, FIM-ETH. Moderately priced, concise and lively in style, the volumes of this series will appeal to researchers and students alike, who seek an informed introduction to important areas of current research.

Publishing house of the European Mathematical Society (Series: Zurich Lectures in advanced Mathematics)

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Open positions

PhD positions

We offer a number of PhD-positions to excellent students each year. Beyond a number of grants for graduate students is given. Please find further details as well as the online application form

Impressions from Switzerland

Wintertime in Guarda (Unterengadin) Greifensee near Zurich “Centro Stefano Francini - Monte Verita” in Ascona-Lago Maggiore

PhD-Program

The Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics covers a broad spectrum of research fields in mathematics.

Research areas:

• Applied Mathematics
• Discrete Mathematics
• Insurance Mathematics
• Mathematical Finance
• Mathematical Physics
• Number Theory
• Numerical Analysis
• Operations Research
• Probability Theory
• Scientific Computing

Course List for Doctoral Students

As PhD student you should fill in the “Course List for Doctoral Students”.

This course list provides proof of the courses you have successfully completed during your doctoral studies and of the credit units you have earned. Every course that you have attended has to be signed by the instructor of the course. The complete course list has to be signed by your advisor.

Additional requirements for students enrolled at ETH: After the signature of the advisor the course list finally has to be signed by the chair of the doctoral committee. For this signature you should hand in the course list at the secretariat of D-Math at ETH main building, room HG G 33.4 (phone +41 44 632 3737). You should hand in the course list together with the form “Registration for doctoral examination” which you find here. Please don’t contact the chair of the doctoral committee directly.

Please remember to fill in the course list timely to be sure that the course instructor is available for the signature.

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is Switzerland’s leading provider of scientific research funding. Actually the SNSF is supporting several projects of the ZGSM.

Learning German

Most of the PhD fellowships of the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics are teaching fellowships. Typically graduate students teach exercise classes for undergraduates in German. We expect that PhD students from abroad acqire within the first year of their studies adequate proficiency in German for teaching math classes.

As a courtesy ZGSM offers German language program for their members specially designed to aquire the needed skills in German within their first two years of study. The courses cover the international standards A1, A2 and B1. As a special feature the course at level B1 includes practice classes for teaching mathematics in German. By the end of the first respectively second year students have the possibility of taking the exam of the certificate for the level A2 respectively B1 of the Goethe Institut.

To a large extent, the courses are financially supported by the ZGSM. However we ask each participant for a financial contribution.

Our course program is a two-year program. The first year program is intensive but leaves ample time for reasearch, graduate course work and research seminars. Our aim is to enable all members of the ZGSM in relatively short time to communicate in German in daily life, thus making life in Zurich much more enjoyable.

Courses, Seminars, Events

Graduate courses fs 16.

Di, 15.00-16.45 Y27H12 Fr, 13.00-14.45 Y27H12 Ashkan Nikeghbali | | MAT941.1 | Algebraic Geometry | Di, 15.15-17.00 ETH HG E 1.2 Do, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.5 Rahul Pandharipande | 401-3146-12V | | 2 Algebraic Topology II | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.5 Fr, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG G 26.5 Paul Biran | 401-3002-12G | | 3 Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus | Di, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG E 1.1 Mi, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG E 1.1 Pierre Nolin | 401-3642-00V | | 2 Classical Mechanics for Mathematicians | Di, 13.00-14.45 Y27H12 Mi, 10.15-12.00 Y36K08 Do, 10.15-12.00 Y27H12 Marcello Porta | | MAT629.1 | Combinatorial Optimization | Do, 16.15-18.00 ETH HG G 26.1 Rico Zenklusen | 401-4904-00V | | 2 Combinatorics of integer partitions | Di, 13.00-14.45 Y27H25 Bis 8.4. jeweils am Freitag, 10:15-11:00, im Raum 27-H-28 Ab 13.4. jeweils am Mittwoch, 12:15-13:00, im Raum 27-H-28 Jehanne Dousse | | MAT648.1 | 2 Computational Methods for Quantitative Finance: PDE Methods | Mi, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG D 1.2 Fr, 13.15-14.00 ETH HG D 1.2 Christoph Schwab | 401-4658-00V | | 3 Computational Quantum Physics | Di, 09.45-11.30 ETH HIT H 42 Sebastian Huber | 402-0810-00V | | 2 Convex Optimization | Do, 15.00-17.00 Y35F32 Michel Baes | | MAT932.1 | 2 Differential Geometry II | Mo, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG D 3.2 Mi, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG E 1.2 Marc Burger | 401-3532-00V | | 3 Diffusion Processes | Mo, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG E 33.1 Ron Rosenthal | 401-4614-16V | | 2 Enumerative combinatorics | Di, 08.00-09.45 Y27H12 Mi, 10.15-12.00 Y27H25 Valentin Féray | | MAT969.1 | 2 Functional Analysis II | Mo, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 5 Do, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG G 5 Dietmar Salamon | 401-3462-00V | | 3 General Relativity for Mathematicians | Do, 15.00-17.00 Y27H25 Michele Schiavina | | MAT751.1 | 2 Geometric and Topological Aspects of Coxeter Groups and Buildings | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 43 Anne Thomas | 401-5004-16V | | 2 Geometric Integer Programming | Do, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG G 26.3 Fr, 09.15-10.00 ETH HG G 26.3 Robert Weismantel | 401-3903-11V | | 2 Graph Theory | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG E 1.1 Do, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG E 1.1 Benjamin Sudakov | 401-3052-05V | | 2 Harmonic Analysis: Theory and Applications in Advanced Signal Processing | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH ETZ E 7 Do, 10.15-12.00 ETH ETZ E 7 Helmut Bölcskei | 227-0434-00V | | 2 High Dimensional Expanders | Di, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 43 Alexander Lubotzky | 401-5002-16V | | 2 Interest Rate Modeling in Discrete Time | Do, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG D 7.1 Mario Valentin Wüthrich | 401-3953-00V | | 2 Introduction to Harmonic Analysis | Mi, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG F 26.5 Vedran Sohinger | 401-3422-15V | | 1 Introduction to optimal transport and applications | Do, 10.15-12.00 Y27H46 Maria Colombo | | MAT647.1 | 2 Introduction to String Theory | Di, 08.45-10.30 ETH HIT F 32 Christoph Andreas Keller | 402-0897-00V | | 2 Introduction to the Regularity Theory in Free Boundary Problems | Mo, 13.00-14.45 Y27H26 Karen Yeressian Negarchi | | MAT651.1 | 2 Inverse Problems | Di, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG G 5 Fr, 10.15-11.00 ETH HG E 33.5 Rima Alaifari | 401-4653-63G | | 2 Market-Consistent Actuarial Valuation | Mo, 16.15-18.00 ETH HG D 1.1 Mario Valentin Wüthrich | 401-4920-00V | | 1 Mathematics of Super-Resolution Biomedical Imaging | Mo, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG E 22 Do, 13.15-15.00 ETH HG E 22 Habib Ammari | 401-4788-16G | | 3 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos II | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH NO D 11 Do, 16.15-17.00 ETH ML J 34.3 George Haller | 151-0530-00G | | 2 Numerical Analysis of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations | Mi, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.3 Do, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.3 Arnulf Jentzen | 401-4606-00G | | 3 Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs | Di, 08.15-10.00 Y27H46 Mi, 08.15-10.00 Y27H46 Mi, 10.15-12.00 Y27H46 Rémi Abgrall | | MAT827.1 | 3 Quantitative Risk Management | Do, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 3 Paul Embrechts | 401-3629-00V | | 2 Quantum Field Theory II | Di, 12.45-13.30 ETH HCI J 3 Fr, 08.45-10.30 ETH HCI J 7 Gino Isidori | 402-0844-00V | | 3 Selected Topics in Probability | Fr, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.1 Alain-Sol Sznitman | 401-4605-16V | | 2 Spatial Statistics | Blockkurs vom 6.6. - 10.6.2016, 9:00 - 17:00, 27-H-46 Emilio Porcu | | STA651.1 | 1 Stochastic Loss Reserving Methods | Mi, 16.15-18.00 ETH ML E 12 René Dahms | 401-3917-00V | | 1 Survival Analysis | Di, 09.00-11.00 Y13L11/13 Di, 11.15-12.00 Y13L11/13 Torsten Hothorn | | STA425.1 | Topics in Automorphic Forms | Do, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG G 26.1 Paul D. Nelson | 401-3108-16V | | 2 Topics in Mathematical and Computational Fluid Dynamics | Di, 15.15-17.00 ETH HG G 26.3 Siddhartha Mishra | 401-4766-16V | | 2 Topics in Number Theory | Do, 10.15-12.00 Y27H25 Nahid Walji | | MAT550.1 | 2 Unitary Representations of Lie Groups and Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups | Mi, 08.15-10.00 ETH HG G 26.5 Fr, 10.15-12.00 ETH HG G 26.5 Manfred Einsiedler | 401-3226-01G | | 3 Variational Approach to SPDEs and Corresponding Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov Equations | Do, 14.15-16.00 ETH HG G 19.2 Michael Röckner | 401-5006-16V | | 2

Colloquia FS 16

Kolloquium über anwendungsorientierte statistik thu, 16.00-18.00 y27h46.

P. Bühlmann R. Furrer L. Held T. Hothorn M. Kalisch H.R. Künsch M. Maathuis M. Mächler L. Meier N. Meinshausen M. D. Robinson C. Strobl S. Van de Geer STA671.1

Zurich Colloquium in Applied and Computational Mathematics Wed, 15.30-17.00 Y27H25

R. Abgrall M. Chipot P. Grohs R. Hiptmair A. Jentzen S. Mishra S. Sauter C. Schwab MAT870.1

Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics Tue, 17.15-18.30 KO2F150

R. Abgrall J. Ayoub P. Bühlmann M. Burger C. De Lellis H. Knörrer S. Mishra R. Pandharipande W. Werner MAT070.1

Zurich Graduate Colloquium Tue, 17.15-18.30 KO2F150

C. De la Cruz Mengual M. Hempel A. Iozzi J. Oesinghaus M. Schiavina V. Schlegel J. Schmitt MAT075.1

Arbeitsgemeinschaften + Research Seminars

Advanced students seminars.

Seminar: Selected Topics in Representation Theory Fri, 10.15-12.00 Y27H46 R. Fonseca Gomes de Campos MAT595.1 Additional Courses: see semester program of ETH and UZH

Weekly bulletin of FIM

Weekly bulletin of FIM: current information about lectures, colloquia and further events.

International Cooperation

By collaborations with other graduate schools the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics provides an international framework for exchanging ideas and experiences in research and instruction.

Regulations

• Course List for Doctoral Students (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich)
• Ordinance on Doctoral Studies and Rector’s Implementation Provisions (English)
• Doktoratsverordnung (German)
• Detailed Regulations of D-MATH Concerning Doctoral Studies (English)
• Detailbestimmungen des D-MATH zum Doktoratsstudium (German)

University of Zurich

• Ordinance for Obtaining a PhD Degree and Ordinance of the Doctoral Program in Mathematics (German)

Doing a PhD in Zurich

• Doctoral Studies ETH
• Doctoral administration of ETH
• Information for PhD Candidates UZH
• Doctoral Studies UZH
• PHD Survival guide

Associations for PhD students

• European Council of doctoral candidates and young researchers

Other useful links

Finding Accomodation

• Housing Office of University and ETH Zurich
• Stiftung für Studentisches Wohnen Zürich
• wg-zimmer.ch (flat sharing)
• students.ch
• Marktplatz Uni Zürich
• Wimdu - private accommodations
• Youthhostel
• city-backpacker.ch
• Alle-immobilien.ch
• Immoscout24
• map.search.ch

For members of UZH and ETH

• Various organisations of UZH
• Various organisations of ETH

Mathematics

• Departement of Mathematics at ETH Zürich
• Institute of Mathematics at University Zürich
• Swiss Mathematical Society
• Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung
• European Mathematical Society (EMS)
• International Mathematical Union
• Mathematics on the web (by ams)
• Polycareer - Recruiting platform of ETH
• AcademicKeys’ e-Flier for Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• Jobs for mathematicians

Life in Zurich

• Official Website of Zuerich
• Willkommen in Zürich
• The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation
• Hallo Schweiz
• Kulturinfo Zürich
• Zuerich einfach
• Tourenguide
• VBZ (Public Transport)

We appreciate that you are interested in admission to the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics. In order to cultivate and broaden our truly diverse population and a lively international research atmosphere we offer a number of PhD-positions to excellent students each year.

The Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics only accepts online applications. Please refrain from sending paper based applications.

Admission process

The application process of the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics is devided into two phases:

Online application. Only electronic documents are required here.

Registration and enrollment at University or ETH. Certified copies and / or original documents are required.

PHASE 1: Online application

Required degrees

For admission to the 3 year doctoral program a the candidates should have a Master or Diploma degree in mathematics equivalent to the degrees of the ETH Zurich respectively of the University of Zurich. Specific requirements such as examinations can be necessary.

Submission of the online application

In phase 1 only online applications are accepted. Applicants should fill in the online application form completely and send the supplemental electronic documents by the dates of the current application period.

Our application deadlines are announced on this site. However, applicants are invited to send their applications at any time. Only complete applications, including also the letters of recommendation (sent by mail) can be regarded.

Supplement electronic documents: Transcripts and letters of recommendation

In addition to the online application we require electronic versions of your transcripts and, if available, a certificate of the master degree or equivalent. After you will have submitted the application you will receive automatically a mail with an address where you can upload electronic copies of your documents especially transcripts and degrees. Only pdf-documents are accepted. (To convert a paper document into an electronic file you can use a scanner or a fax machine and a free e-fax account.) The upload function will only be valid for seven days after submission of the application. After this you can still see the status of your application and of the incoming letters of recommendation.

Furthermore we require three letters of recommendation as an e-mail, preferably including one of the master thesis advisor. The letters shall be send by the recommenders to [email protected] soon after the application has been sent. Applicants are supposed to ask their recommenders for the letter. To guarantee the correct assignment of the letters applicants have to give the recommenders names and email addresses in the application form.

Please refrain from sending any hard copies or additional documents in this phase of the application process. Additional documents you submit unasked are not accepted and they will not be considered for your application.

Special Requirements of ETH and University of Zurich

In the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics the departments of mathematics of ETH and University decide in common about graduate applicants (phase 1). Specific requirements for the admission to the Graduate School will be necessary in the second phase.

Decisions of the admission committee and information to the applicants

The admission committee of the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics will decide about the applications. All applicants will be informed by mail about the results.

In case your application will pass the first selection you will be invited to send further information (e.g. attestations, language tests, certified transcripts, original letters of recommendation).

In some cases questionable candidates might be invited to the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics to have some enquiry talks with the professors.

PHASE 2: Requirements and procedure or enrollment at ETH or University of Zurich

ETH and University - some differences

After being accepted by the graduate school you have to enroll at ETH or University of Zurich, depending to the departement the supervising professor belongs to. The enrollment procedures of ETH and University differ. Specific requirements such as examinations can be necessary. For detailed information see the regulations of ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

www.doktorat.ethz.ch www.rektorat.ethz.ch/ueber_uns/organisation/zulassungsstelle www.rektorat.ethz.ch/dienste/dienst_dokt

• Student Administration
• Faculty of Science, Office of the Dean of Studies
• Recognition for non-swiss degrees or diplomas
• Registration for PhD studies (Download form here)

Information Leaflet for Postgraduate Students: Admission for Doctorate Studies Scheme: enrollment and registration (german only) Further leaflets and Information for postgraduate students at the faculty of science

Employment (More information are following soon.)

Scholarship (More information are following soon.)

Online Application

How to apply to the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics

To apply for the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics fill out this form completely. This application form has to be submitted prior to submitting supporting documents. Fields with an * have to be filled in. After submitting your application you will automatically receive an e-mail with an address to which you can upload electronic files of necessary supporting documents, especially transcripts and degrees.

For further details please read carefully the instructions (see admission process).

Are there any application deadlines?

Our application deadlines are April 30, September 30, and December 30. The current period is announced here. However, applications are accepted at all times. The applicant should necessarily arrange that his recommenders mentioned in the application form send their recommendations shortly after the application.

Which degrees are required?

The requirements for an admission to our Graduate School are a masters degree or a diploma. Only excellent and outstanding applicants can be affiliated by way of an exception.

I studied a math-related subject. Can I apply for a PhD-position at ZGSM nevertheless?

Candidates for the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics should have a degree in mathematics. Degrees in math-related subjects can be accepted if the candidates`fields of studies fit into our program.

How can I transmit the application documents: as file or as hard copy?

In the first phase of the admission process the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics only admits electronic documents. They can be uploaded in addition to the online application. In particular transcripts and, if available, a certificate of the master degree or equivalent are required. The letters of recommendation are supposed to be sent via email to [email protected] (see also in the application form). Applicants are supposed to give the recommenders email addresses in the application form.

In this phase of the application process no hard copies or additional documents that are submitted unasked will be considered.

How is the procedure of enrollment at ETH and University?

After being accepted by the graduate school you have to enroll at ETH or University of Zurich, depending to the department the supervising professor belongs to. The enrollment procedures of ETH and University differ. Specific requirements such as examinations can be necessary. For detailed information see the regulations of ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

ETH: www.doktorat.ethz.ch www.rektorat.ethz.ch/ueber_uns/organisation/zulassungsstelle www.doktorat.ethz.ch/de/studsek/anmeldeverf.html (application) www.doktorat.ethz.ch/de/Infodok/bewerbdok.html (application) www.rektorat.ethz.ch/dienste/dienst_dokt (enrollment)

Universität www.mnf.unizh.ch/administration/reglemente/promoneu.html www.mnf.unizh.ch/administration/studiendekanat/

I do not speak German. Can I apply nevertheless?

The language of the lectures is English and German, in particular many of the more advanced classes are offered in English. However, to take part in our PhD-Program as well as for daily life in Zurich it is necessary to speak a little German at least.

The Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics offers intensive German language courses for foreigners specially designed for graduate students who want to acquire sufficient german language skills.

Information about further German courses: www.unizh.ch/studium/zulassung/aubild/dkurse.html www.sprachenzentrum.unizh.ch/index.php www.mobilitaet.ethz.ch/incomings/studium/sprache www.ethbib.ethz.ch/bildarchiv/sprachkurse.html cornelia.siteware.ch/sprachkurse/index.html

I already know who I wish to be my advisor. Where do I have to apply?

If you specify in your application names of potential or desired supervisors, your application details will be passed on to those persons. If you know the professors you want to be supervised by it makes sense to contact them, too. Nevertheless, please address your application to the secretary of the Graduate School.

Do I get any funding?

Students with an offer to the graduate program are generally awarded a teaching assistantship, which is renewed after one year for students making satisfactory progress towards their degree. The type of support may sometimes vary. For those applicants who do not speak enough German or English the Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics offers a small number of scholarships. These scholarships last up to one year and are meant to begin the research work as well as to learn German. During this time the candidates do not have any teaching duty. The decision is made when the admission committee considers the application.

You will find here some information about the costs of living in Zurich:

www.mobilitaet.ethz.ch/incomings/leben/index_EN

www.rektorat.ethz.ch/dienste/dienst_stud_new/dienst_verz/sd_studienkosten_info

Are there any tuition-fees?

ETH: Before beginning a PhD-program there is an application fee of 110,- CHF. The examination fee at the end is 380,-. The tuition fees are singular 1200,-CHF, they are payed at the end of the program.

University: Ph.D. students have to pay a tuition-fee of Fr. 282.– CHF per semester.

I am interested in pursuing a Masters Degree in in Mathematics. Where do I get information?

www.study.ethz.ch www.studentoffice.unizh.ch/index.html

How can I find accommodation?

For some helpful addresses see: www.ethz.ch/prospectives/phd/housing www.mobilitaet.ethz.ch/incomings/leben/unterkunft/index_EN www.study.ethz.ch/faq/accomodation www.marktplatz.ethz.ch/index.cgi www.unizh.ch/leben/wohnen/

The Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics offes several PhD positions each year. Applicants are invited to send their application online.

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Polyterrasse ETH Zurich

Application & Admission

ZGSM is an international graduate school in mathematics. Each year 10-20 doctoral positions for international students are offered on a competitive basis. Mathematicians with the necessary qualifications are welcome to apply within any of the two application periods.   

Online application  is required.  

Information on the admission process can be found under the header 'Admission & Enrollment'.  

Announcement:

WE HAVE NEW DEADLINES: April 05 and December 05

Deadlines of the two application periods

April 05,       December 05,       

The review of the applications received in a given application period starts right after the deadline has passed.  

© 2024 ZGSM Feb 5, 2024 Contact:   [email protected]

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Department of Management, Technology, and Economics

Application and admission.

On this page you will find general information about how to apply for a doctorate at D-MTEC.

Who can apply?  

How do i apply  .

In order to become a doctoral candidate at D-MTEC, you must find a professor willing to supervise your thesis. Applications are to be made directly to this professor. The doctorate usually involves employment at the chair of your supervising professor.

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How do I register for a doctorate?  

Signing an employment contract does not automatically mean that you are registered as a doctoral candidate. As a doctoral candidate you have to register with the ETH Doctoral Administration.

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Department of Computer Science

Application and admission.

Students holding a Master's degree in computer science or a related field are cordially invited to apply for doctoral studies in Computer Science.

Application and admission are possible at any time; there are no deadlines.

Applicants need a Master's degree with a strong background in computer science or a closely related field. Also, applicants need to be proficient both in written and spoken English. Language tests are not required. However, if you have documental proof, please include it in your application. Typically, personal interviews are conducted with candidates considered for admission. GRE tests are not mandatory. However, if proof of results is available, please include it in your application.  

Applications are always accepted in one of two ways:

Option 1 : You can contact a professor in an area of your interest to find out whether they have openings and may be interested in supervising you as a doctoral student.

List of professors and research groups: Research Groups

Once you have found a supervisor, you must submit your application via eApply. Details and further information you will find here .

Option 2 : You can submit your application online via our central application system . This way, your application will automatically be available to and reviewed by our entire faculty. The application is free of charge.

The online application is exclusively electronic. Please provide the following documents:

• Scans of diplomas of completed degrees
• Scans of grade records for all attended universities
• Statement of objective (text only in English)
• Contact information of three references providing recommendations

Note that all uploaded files should be unprotected PDFs each not exceeding 2 MB in size.

Once your application is submitted, it will remain active for four months. In this period, you may be contacted by any interested faculty member. Otherwise, you will receive a notification at the end of this period.

Doctoral students are employees and students. Therefore, upon admission, they receive an employment contract and a confirmation of provisional admission. Only after having passed the aptitude colloquium, which must take place after twelve months at the latest, doctoral students are admitted definitively.

Enrolment in myStudies at the beginning of every semester is compulsory right up to the decision on conferral of the doctoral degree.

In addition to conducting research, doctoral students are also teaching assistants and supervise student projects from the bachelor's and master's programmes. Open positions for teaching assistants are to be found here .  

Doctoral students generally have an employment contract. At D-INFK, the salary rates for doctoral students are Rate 4 or Rate 5, which enables them to cover their living expenses  comfortably in Switzerland.

Additional information on admission costs, tuition and semester fees, and living costs can be found here .  

Open positions at ETH Zurich

About 30’000 people from more than 120 countries study, carry out research and work at ETH Zurich. Find out about our current open positions here. Available professorships are advertised here:

Available professorships are advertised on the website Office for Faculty Affairs call_made

97 open positions

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Claudia Wiehler, PhD candidate at the Center for Security Studies, shares about what she learned during her time teaching in Nigeria through an ETH4D Faculty Exchange grant. 

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Claudia, you are a PhD candidate at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich. Can you tell us a little bit about your research and the types of questions you engage with on a daily basis?

I research armed conflicts from the perspective of political science. This means I am interested in the question of why armed conflicts emerge and how we can understand their dynamics – that is, their escalation and de-escalation, their spatial variation, etc. In my PhD project, I investigate how civil wars are interlinked with other, more localized types of collective violence, for example between different livelihood or religious communities. I use social network analysis to theorize and empirically assess these interlinkages. Doing so, I focus on the armed conflicts in Nigeria. Nigeria has been affected by the highly violent Boko Haram conflict between violent extremists and the government, but also by conflicts between farmers and herders, banditry, and ethno-religiious tensions.

Can you tell us about the external page Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN) call_made , and how your relationship came to be?

CORN is a knowledge platform and academic community for conflict researchers in West Africa, and particularly Nigeria. They conduct workshops and conferences and publish working papers, among other things. I had followed their activities on social media, which always sounded super interesting. I had also briefly been in touch with their Director, Tarila Marclint Ebiede, when planning my own research stay in Nigeria two years before.

The idea for the workshop came up when I saw that CORN is conducting a workshop to train early career researchers in the quantitative analysis of the same dataset I am using in my work (called Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, ACLED). I reached out to them, offering to teach a session on social network analysis as part of the course. After some discussions, we decided that it would be more useful to have a separate workshop on social network analysis, not least because of the complexity of the approach. Luckily, this was possible with the financial support by ETH4D.

What made you decide to conduct a Teaching Stay at CORN? What was the experience like?

I had thought about the possibility of teaching in Nigeria before, also considering organizing a workshop on my own. Looking back, I am very glad I decided to do it with CORN, as this made things much easier and allowed me to expand my own network. On the one hand, CORN did an amazing job in recruiting the participants and organizing the logistics, including for myself. This way, I could focus on the content of the course and did not have to worry about anything else. This was also a great relief in terms of workload during my last year of the PhD.

On the other hand, the connection to CORN was super valuable for me to get in touch with Nigerian researchers and learn more about their work. We had planned the workshop as a pre-event for a conference on social protection organized by CORN, which meant that many researchers from other regions had come to the capital Abuja. This was super useful for me and also allowed some of the workshop participants to stay for the conference.

Do you have a sense of what your students took away from your stay? What did you learn from them?

A three-day workshop was an ambitious timeframe to introduce the participants to a new theoretical perspective, analytical method, and software. The main goal of the workshop was thus to provide a basic introduction, which would allow the scholars to deepen their understanding independently after the workshop. Based on the feedback questionnaire, which we sent around after the workshop, most participants felt that they are now able to do this. I also hope that the basic introduction to the programming language R was useful for them, since they can use R, even if they will not work with network analysis in the future. In addition, my impression was that the workshop participants built good rapport with each other. For example, I really appreciated how they supported each other throughout the course. Most of them knew each other because they had participated in another workshop together and I wish that they continue to maintain these relationships and the resulting research community across Nigerian institutions. For me, it was super helpful to work on the Nigeria data together with them and learn about their interpretation of the results. I also used the opportunity to get the perspective of some of them on my own project. But beyond the “academic usefulness” of the workshop for my own research, I just very much enjoyed working with the group, which was very dedicated, smart, and funny. I always liked teaching and the workshop reminded me why. What would you say to other ETH researchers who are interested in conducting a teaching stay through an ETH4D Faculty Exchange grant? I would encourage other ETH researchers to seize this opportunity to connect with researchers and institutions in the respective country and to exchange knowledge with them. I experienced it as a privilege that I could return to Nigeria after my first stay in 2021, expand my research network, and share some of the tools I learned throughout the PhD. At the same time, ETH researchers should also consider the grant from the perspective of research ethics and decolonizing academia. At least in the social sciences, there is a tendency that scholars travel to low-income countries to conduct their own research, extract knowledge, and then develop their own careers “back home.” From this perspective, grants like the ETH4D Faculty Exchange grant, but also those grants enabling South-North mobility, are critical to actively foster knowledge transfer and provide resources to strengthen the research communities in the respective country. I would further recommend collaborating with a local partner institution. If this institution can help with the logistics and design of the course – to make sure it meets the needs of the participants – such a workshop is not even that much work. I, at least, was positively surprised how easy and smooth the whole process went – thanks to the excellent work of CORN. It was also a great help that the ETH4D is very supportive and tries to make the administrative part of the process as easy as possible.

The ETH4D Teaching Stay grant offers funding for ETH researchers across all disciplines to conduct a short teaching stay in with a partner organization or institution in a low- or middle-income country. The call is open twice annually, closing on 30 March and 15 October. 

You can find out more about the opportunity here . 

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The Texas A&M University Graduate and Professional School held its inaugural spring awards ceremony on April 16 at Rudder Theatre. The program included presentations of Distinguished Dissertation Awards, Montgomery Awards, Outstanding Mentoring Awards and GRAD Aggies Certificates. The ceremony was followed by a reception in Rudder Exhibit Hall.

“Graduate and professional students and faculty teach and mentor our more than 60,000 undergraduates, conduct ground-breaking research, and lead campus initiatives and organizations,” said Dr. Fuhui Tong, interim associate provost and dean of the Graduate and Professional School. “They enrich our campus community and our growing Aggie Network and make the world better. Presenting our awards at a single event broadens our recognition and celebration of exceptional and well-deserving awardees,” Tong said.

The Montgomery Awards are sponsored by the Jeff ’41 and Leonora Montgomery Family Endowment. Distinguished Dissertation Awards are sponsored by the George W. Kunze Endowment, the Carol J. Cantrell Endowment, and the Mobil Aggies Graduate Endowment.

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The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light, new paper suggests

With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos.

Could the cosmos be dominated by particles that move faster than the speed of light ? This model of the universe agrees surprisingly well with observations, a pair of physicists has discovered.

In a new paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed, the physicists propose that our universe is dominated by tachyons — a hypothetical kind of particle that always moves faster than light. Tachyons almost certainly don't exist; going faster than light violates everything we know about the causal flow of time from past to future. But the hypothetical particles are still interesting to physicists because of the small chance that even our most closely held notions, like causality, might be wrong.

The researchers suggest that tachyons might be the true identity of dark matter , the mysterious form of matter that makes up most of the mass of almost every single galaxy in the universe, outweighing normal matter 5 to 1. Astronomers and physicists alike currently do not know what dark matter is made of, so they are free to cook up all manner of ideas —– because, after all, sometimes a far-out idea is right, and even if it's wrong, it can help us on the path to a better understanding.

The researchers calculate that an expanding universe filled with tachyons can initially slow down in its expansion before reaccelerating. Our universe is currently in an accelerating phase, driven by a phenomenon known as dark energy , so this tachyon cosmological model can potentially explain both dark energy and dark matter at the same time.

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To test this idea, the physicists applied their model to observations of Type Ia supernovae, a kind of stellar explosion that allows cosmologists to build a relationship between distance and the expansion rate of the universe . It was through Type Ia supernovae that astronomers in the late 1990s first discovered that the universe's expansion rate is accelerating.

The physicists found that a tachyon cosmological model was just as good at explaining the supernova data as the standard cosmological model involving dark matter and dark energy. That itself is a surprise, given how unorthodox this idea is.

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However, that's only the beginning. We now have access to a wealth of data about the large-scale universe, like the cosmic microwave background (remnant radiation released just after the Big Bang) and the arrangement of galaxies at the very largest scales. The next step is to continue testing this idea against those additional observations.

— Millions of invisible 'mirror stars' could exist in the Milky Way, and astronomers know how to find them

— 1st images from the Euclid 'dark universe' telescope are here — and they're jaw-dropping

— Large Hadron Collider could be generating dark matter in its particle jets

The tachyon cosmological model is unlikely to pass those rigorous experimental tests, given the unlikely nature of tachyons. But continuing to push in new, even unorthodox, directions is important in cosmology ; we never know when we might get a breakthrough. Scientists have been attempting to understand dark matter for 50 years and dark energy for a quarter century, without any conclusive results. The solutions to these conundrums are likely to come from unexpected directions.

The team's research was published to the preprint database arXiv in March.

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at  SUNY Stony Brook University and the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He regularly appears on TV and podcasts, including  "Ask a Spaceman." He is the author of two books, "Your Place in the Universe" and "How to Die in Space," and is a regular contributor to Space.com, Live Science, and more. Paul received his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011, and spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, followed by a research fellowship in Trieste, Italy. 

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• William. walker39 Could it be possible that the tachyons needed to explain Dark Matter can be explained by Superluminal Nearfield Electromagnetic and or Gravitational fields! It is now well known that Gravity and Electromagnetic fields propagate instantaneously in the nearfield and reduce to the speed of light in the farfield, after propagating about 1 wavelength from the source. Both theoretical and experimental evidence is presented and has been confirmed by many independent researchers over the past 20 years. This result is incompatible with Relativity theory and analysis shows that the Special Relativistic effects on time and space are an optical illusion. The same is true for General Relativity since it is based on Special Relativity. It is proposed that Galilean Relativity and Gravitoelectromagnetism theory of gravity are better theories for Relativity and Gravity, where time and space are absolute, and only the present exists. Since Gravitoelectromagnetism assumes gravity is a propagating field, it can be quantized (graviton), enabling the unification of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics. The Pilot Wave interpretation of Quantum Mechanics now becomes the preferred interpretation of Quantum Mechanics because it is completely compatible with Galilean Relativity, and instantaneous propagating fields. *YouTube presentation of above argument: sePdJ7vSQvQ:0 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePdJ7vSQvQ&t=0s *Paper this presentation is based on: William D. Walker and Dag Stranneby, New Interpretation of Relativity, 2023 http://vixra.org/abs/2309.0145 *New experiment paper: https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.170862178.82175798/v1 Dr William Walker, Physicist, PhD ETH Zurich 1997 Reply
• tcny2023 Re: Tachyons almost certainly don't exist; going faster than light violates everything we know about the causal flow of time from past to future. It's been my amateur understanding that Einstein's theory doesn't forbid faster than light travel, but rather states that objects with mass cannot be accelerated to the speed of light. Because in order to do so it would require an infinite amount of energy since mass moves off towards infinity as an object's speed approaches light speed. But if an object were somehow already moving at light speed it wouldn't be a violation. Am I wrong? Reply

tcny2023 said: Re: Tachyons almost certainly don't exist; going faster than light violates everything we know about the causal flow of time from past to future. It's been my amateur understanding that Einstein's theory doesn't forbid faster than light travel, but rather states that objects with mass cannot be accelerated to the speed of light. Because in order to do so it would require an infinite amount of energy since mass moves off towards infinity as an object's speed approaches light speed. But if an object were somehow already moving at light speed it wouldn't be a violation. Am I wrong?

William. walker39 said: Could it be possible that the tachyons needed to explain Dark Matter can be explained by Superluminal Nearfield Electromagnetic and or Gravitational fields! . . . It is now well known that Gravity and Electromagnetic fields propagate instantaneously in the nearfield and reduce to the speed of light in the farfield, after propagating about *YouTube presentation of above argument: *Paper this presentation is based on: William D. Walker and Dag Stranneby, New Interpretation of Relativity, 2023 http://vixra.org/abs/2309.0145 *New experiment paper: https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.170862178.82175798/v1 Dr William Walker, Physicist, PhD ETH Zurich 1997

admin said: With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos. The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light, new paper suggests : Read more

danr2222 said: Non-causality is a feature , not a bug, in this theory. Causality-breaking is offensive to logic/philosophy buffs, but not to (many) theoretical physicists.

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Sean Grate will present "Bootstrapping Computations in Topological Data Analysis" at COSAM Graduate Student Research Forum (GSRF) on April 17.

Published: 04/17/2024

Sean Grate  will present "Bootstrapping Computations in Topological Data Analysis" at COSAM Graduate Student Research Forum (GSRF) on April 17 th  at 5 PM in CASIC Building Room 109/110 (559 Devall Drive AU Research Park).

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Pharmacy lab assistant accepted to M.D./Ph.D. program

Since the time she conducted her first research experiment as a student at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics, Darby Porter was hooked on research.

While completing her undergraduate studies in chemistry and neuroscience at the University of South Carolina Honors College, Porter joined the lab of Jun Zhu , Ph.D., in the College of Pharmacy. After graduating in 2023, Porter continued as Zhu’s lab assistant and has now been accepted into the Medical Science Training Program to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Porter joined Zhu’s lab after searching through the university’s research registry.

“I typed in drug discovery and drug design, and while I didn’t understand what much of it meant, I thought Dr. Zhu’s research was a good option because I knew what the main keywords were – dopamine and HIV,” she says.

Turns out, it was the perfect fit for Porter’s ambition to conduct research and do benchwork.

“I love conducting experiments and analyzing results,” she notes. “I love connecting the results from one experiment or set of experiments to a broader issue that is affecting people’s health. Being able to tie in what is happening at the molecular level with patients who are experiencing a disorder is a nice blend that I want to incorporate into my career.”

I love connecting the results from one experiment or set of experiments to a broader issue that is affecting people’s health.

Porter developed an interest in serving patients alongside her research while working at CAN Community Health, an HIV- clinic providing care to underserved health populations in the Columbia area.

Zhu noted Porter’s dedication to successfully conducting experiments as well as drafting manuscripts and grant applications.

“What distinguishes Darby from other students is her deep interest and passion about her work and the potential implications it may have on human health,” Zhu adds. “She is an example to students who want to develop their career in the field of biomedical science. For faculty, it is our responsibility to not only provide research training opportunities but also guide students for future career development.”

Porter will begin the arduous eight-year process of earning her M.D./Ph.D. in June, where she will begin her studies in translational research before starting her medical school studies in the fall.

“I think I want to eventually do clinical research,” she says, “The advantage of having an M.D. and a Ph.D. is that you can identify a therapeutic target on the bench and then develop some level of treatment while working with patients. I like the idea of working on one project and seeing it to completion.”

Topics: Research , Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences

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