Faculty 3 - Mathematics and Computer Science

The joint team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) won the World Championship in robot soccer in Incheon, South Korea. With a new robot platform, B-Human continues its winning streak.

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Are you a student looking to gain insights into academic fields, network, find your own path—or simply have someone to discuss questions and ideas with? Then our mentoring program is just right for you.

Marvin Wright has been a professor of machine learning in statistics since February 2026.

the “Bremen Big Data Challenge“ (BBDC) is going to launch on March 1st, 2026! As in the past years. the BBDC is a programming challenge and focuses on data analysis. This year we have again an exciting new challenge.

The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), in collaboration with the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center and the University of Bremen, invite robotics developers, researchers, and industry professionals to a two-day, hands-on workshop on mobile robot navigation.

As part of an international team of five researchers, Tanja Schultz, Professor of Cognitive Systems within the Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science, has published an article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases – the world’s leading journal on research into infectious diseases.

Frieder Nake, a professor emeritus in computer graphics and interactive systems, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his life’s work. He received the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.

A team of European researchers has outlined an innovative mission concept in the prestigious Science Robotics journal. It features three robots that operate together autonomously to efficiently explore and map extreme environments.

Researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen have now developed a modular construction kit that allows robotic systems to be flexibly adapted to different mission scenarios. The system represents a paradigm shift in space robotics.

There is a change in leadership at the Center for Computing Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen: Professor Gabriel Zachmann has been elected as the new director by the members.

Robots can also play soccer – this was demonstrated in recent days at the RoboCup World Cup in Salvador, Brazil. Team B-Human from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) won the world championship title for the twelfth time.

The University of Bremen in Germany cordially invites to the 17th International Summer University for Women in Engineering. It will be on place in Bremen from August 20 to September 4, 2025.

The University of Bremen in Germany cordially invites to the 28th Informatica Feminale –International Summer University for Women in Computer Science/Informatics.

The University of Bremen’s Center of Excellence for Women in Science and Technology invites female school students in grades 10 through 13 to participate in an orientation program from July 7 to 9, 2025.

Autonomous driving meets intelligent control center technology: At the Bremen Technology Park, modernized traffic lights are communicating directly with autonomous shuttles for the first time.

For whom? ▪ Female students in a Master’s program or Bachelor 5th semester onwards

What? ▪ Individual meetings with mentor (1-2 times per semester) ▪ Exchange of experiences and networking within the group of mentees ▪ Workshops or talks on particular topics (approx. once per semester) ▪ Begins in…

Since May 1st, 2025, Thorsten Dickhaus serves as the European Executive Editor for the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (JSPI). JSPI has a very good reputation amongst scholars of mathematical statistics around the world.

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Generative AI – producing novel outputs based on extensive digital data and human training – is changing public communication profoundly.

The first school class took part in the new “Industrial Mathematics” research day.

Preparations for the Career Camp 2025 are in full swing.

The Cognitive Systems Lab at the University of Bremen invites you to the tenth Bremen Big Data Challenge. University members and employees of partner companies can solve data analysis tasks until March 31. There are cash prizes worth 1,500 euros as well as non-cash prizes to be won.

Martin Mundt has been a professor of lifelong machine learning within the Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science at the University of Bremen since January 2025.

The Mehrzweckhochhaus, MZH, celebrated its topping-out ceremony on March 6, 1974 and was opened a year later, in 1975. Since then, it has been an integral part of the University of Bremen and it is impossible to imagine life without it.

#MOIN wants to get creative with you to develop new, innovative formats for the transfer of (industrial) mathematics and industry, business, schools and society.

Prof. Dr. Christine Knipping invites you to a public discussion on the importance of reasonable and logical arguments in mathematics education in a time of global, emotional and manipulative rhetoric. March 13 at the Haus der Wissenschaft

The 2024 Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching has been awarded to three teaching staff members. Sociologist Sabine Ritter impressed the jury in the Excellence in Teaching category. The Student Prize goes to psychologist Barbara Cludius and mathematician Hendrik Vogt.

The regional round of the Mathematical Olympiad has been completed. Almost 1,400 papers came together on the correction day to be reviewed by around 90 volunteers (former MO participants, students (including from the University of Bremen), active teachers and retirees).

The initiative aims to connect researchers from Bremen and Hamburg working in the fields of algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, providing an inclusive platform for exchanging ideas, exploring new developments, and discussing interesting open problems in these fields.

Nicole Megow, Daniel Schmand, and Sebastian Siebertz are organizing a workshop on combinatorial reconfiguration as part of the MMM project “How robots learn to use structure”.

On November 8 and 9, the federal math conference took place at the Helmut-Schmidt-Schule in Überseestadt. As a prelude, the first five schools in Bremen were presented with their certification certificates.

On November 26, Rudolf Sträßer will be a guest at the mathematical colloquium and will give a lecture on mathematics education and mathematics didactics under National Socialism.

Daniel Leidner joined the University of Bremen as a cooperation professor in cognitive robotics manipulation in October 2024. He is also head of the Autonomy and Teleoperations Department at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR).

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schill is Senator of the Helmholtz Association for the Research Field "Earth and Environment" and Professor for Cognitive Neuroinformatics at the University of Bremen.

On October 29, 2024, the University of Bremen and the Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation honored pupils from the region for their outstanding pre-scientific papers. The Dr. Hans Riegel Awards are endowed with a total of 5,000 euros.

A total of 11 papers by students from the following schools were honored:…

This year for the first time, the night of November 15 will be all about biosignals: the Night of Biosignals will take place simultaneously from 6 p.m. to midnight at 12 locations throughout Germany.

For the first time, the University of Bremen has awarded its “Outreach Award.” It was bestowed upon the “DENCAI – DENgue CAse Investigation” project led by computer scientist Dr. Thomas Barkowsky. In collaboration with students, he devised a software for the mitigation of dengue outbreaks.

From the 11th to the 15th of November, the EASE Fall School offers an opportunity to delve into the exciting field of cognition-enabled everyday activity robotics.

There is an orientation week (O-week for short) especially for all first-year students before the start of their studies. However, introductory events also take place before the O-week.

Peter Haddawy’s work incorporates both computer science and medicine, and connects Germany with Thailand

The 6th MINT Day in Bremen and Bremerhaven will take place on November 13th

Die Besten im Nordwesten: Transferinitiative #MOIN Modellregion Industriemathematik gewinnt den NordWest Award der Metropolregion Nordwest

The 3rd International Robotics and Software Engineering Meeting will take place in Bremen from September 2 to 5, 2024. This year's event is being organized by the Software Engineering for Cognitive Robots and Systems (SECORO) working group.

The members of the newly elected DFG Review Board 4.43 Computer Science have chosen Professor Dr. Nicole Megow, Chair of the Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics Group at the University of Bremen, as their spokesperson.

The Forum Industrial Mathematics is entering its 3rd round! We - the Model Region Industrial Mathematics #MOIN, the Optimization & Optimal Control working group at the Center for Industrial Mathematics at the University of Bremen and TOPAS Industriemathematik gGmbH - cordially inviteyou to join us.

From September 20 to 22, 2024, AI enthusiasts will meet, form teams and work on the development of prototypes and concepts within 48 hours.

The "16th International Workshop on Boolean Problems" will take place in Bremen from September 19 to 20, 2024. This year's event is being organized by the University of Bremen and the Cyber-Physical Systems research department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

We are continuing the series and this year's focus is on the interface of AI in medical and industrial applications. We are thus offering students the opportunity to gain exciting insights into mathematics and to engage in a personal exchange with the speakers.

Informatica Feminale and the International Summer University for Women in Engineering are offering around 60 classes from August 14 to 29. Female students of all subjects, female researchers, and other women interested in further training are invited to attend.

Robots can also play soccer – this was demonstrated in recent days at the RoboCup World Cup in Eindhoven. Team B-Human from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) won the world championship title for the eleventh time.

Student Zhuoyu Du, who will be in Year 10 at Herman-Böse-Gymnasium after the summer vacation, has been nominated for the German team in the "Baltic Way" mathematics competition. The challenging competition, in which countries bordering the Baltic Sea and several other Nordic countries take part,…

Under the leadership of Nicole Megow and Maike Vollstedt, the Women's Representative Collective has developed a mentoring program for female Master's and advanced Bachelor's students*.

The IdeenExpo 2024 took place in Hanover from June 8-16, 2024. It is Europe's largest youth event for technology and science and takes place every two years in Hanover.

Rolf Drechsler, Professor of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and has thus received the international association's most prestigious honor.

Every year, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science invites its graduates to a festive graduation ceremony.

On July 1, the Robotics Institute Germany will be established. Its work will strengthen Germany as an international hub for robotics, while fostering talent and accelerating the transfer of innovative technologies to industry and society.

At this year's "Information Day for Prospective Students" (ISI for short) at the University of Bremen, Faculty 3 was also represented with an information stand and information events on the degree programs.

The Mathematical Olympiad is a competition for pupils who can demonstrate their mathematical abilities and skills in four rounds of competition each year.

The conference “XLIV Dynamics Days Europe” will take place from July 29 to August 2, 2024 in Bremen. This conference is one of the largest events for researchers in dynamical systems, and discusses topics relevant to both theoretical and practical applications of dynamics, such as machine learning,…

In the latest university ranking by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), student satisfaction at the University of Bremen is above the national average. Faculty 3 Mathematics and Computer Science performs very well.

In a thrilling final, B-Human, the team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), defeated the HTWK robots from Leipzig, continuing the ten-time world champion’s unprecedented run of success in the RoboCup Standard Platform League.

In a joint research project, the Center for Computing Technologies at the University of Bremen and the start-up Skinuvita are developing new AI-based image analysis methods. The goal is to provide a system to treat skin conditions at home using phototherapy.

Professor Iris Pigeot, director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, and Professor Tanja Schultz, head of the Cognitive Systems Lab at the University of Bremen, have been appointed to the Federal Chancellery's new Expert Council on Health and Resilience.

Nicole Megow was elected to the “Computer Science” review board in the subject area “Theoretical Computer Science.” She is a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and heads the Combinatorial Optimization and Logisticsresearch group.

In the 2023/24 winter semester, several lecture series at the University of Bremen address interdisciplinary approaches to a sustainable future – from virtual reality for a sustainable development in mathematics to global challenges in cultural and educational sciences.

At the beginning of this week, the award ceremony at the Haus der Wissenschaft concluded the Bremen-related part of the Mathematical Olympiad. A good 200 students and parents accepted the invitation. Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dickhaus, Vice Dean of the Faculty 3 Mathematics and Computer Science, was thus…

The Cognitive Systems Lab invites you to participate in the ninth Bremen Big Data Challenge (BBDC). Participants can compete against each other until March 31, 2024. In this data analysis competition, there are cash prizes worth a total of 1,500 Euro as well as attractive non-cash prizes to be won.

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On this year's International Women's Day, March 8, 2024, we want to celebrate women in mathematics and recognize their contributions and achievements with a special focus on female mathematicians in our department!

As part of a workshop, female mathematicians from FB3 will give…

In the “Biosignals HUB: Biosignal Sensors for Human-Centered AI @ University of Bremen” project, computer scientists led by Professor Tanja Schultz are working on devices that collect and interpret biosignal data such as eye movements or brain activity.

The University of Bremen is inviting children to the 2024 Kids' University from March 12 to 21. Children between the ages of 8 and 12 can take part. Registration is now open.

On January 30, 2024, Professor Frieder Nake goes into well-deserved retirement. Well-deserved is not just a saying at this point, but a fact: the current semester was his 103rd at the University of Bremen.

In 2013, Kamalika Datta made her first journey from India to Germany to participate in a project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Bremen.

Researchers from Bremen, Bielefeld, and Paderborn are using a new virtual building to share insights about their work

Pouring tea water, pouring off pasta water, or filling a glass with cola – pouring liquids is a frequent task in everyday life. Therefore, robots have to master this if they are to help us in the household in the future.

Nico Hochgeschwender joined the University of Bremen for the winter semester 2023/24 as professor for software engineering for cognitive robotics and cognitive systems.

The Informatica Feminale – International Summer University for Women in Computer Science was awarded the prize for outstanding gender equality work by the German Council of University Faculties in Computer Science. The prize was awarded this year for the first time.

The University of Bremen, in close collaboration with the U Bremen Research Alliance and other partners, is establishing a data competence center for the entire region. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is supporting the establishment of the center with over 3.5 million euros.

The universities of Bremen, Bielefeld, and Paderborn have joined forces to develop AI systems that can provide humans with targeted support in performing tasks.

On June 23 and 24, the University of Bremen invites you to OPEN CAMPUS. After an open-air concert on Friday evening, a full program of lectures, guided tours, and a poetry slam will follow on Saturday afternoon. In the evening, a live show with headliner Gentleman will conclude the event.

Making the remarkable civil commitment of Bremen citizens to science and education visible and honoring it - that is the goal of the University of Bremen Foundation with its “MACHT SINN!” exhibition. It will be on display on the university campus from April 13, 2023, onwards.

Swen Rengers talks about training to become an IT specialist in his second apprenticeship year.

Exploring Mars can be best achieved when robots with different capabilities work together – ideally autonomously. Important prerequisites for this are being created as part of the VaMEx-3 project, in which three working groups from the University of Bremen are playing a key role.

AI achieves impressive results, however it still lacks the ability to plan actions predictively. Professor Michael Beetz from the Institute for Artificial Intelligence is working on the foundations for this and has received the ERC Advanced Grant, which is endowed with 2.5 million euros.

Professor Björn Niehaves and his team from the University of Bremen are aiming to prepare potential first-aiders for possible accident scenarios as realistically as possible in the ARRIVE project. To this end, they develop first-aid scenarios in virtual reality.

Lots of entertaining science in an entertaining 30 minutes. Would you like some exciting insights into unknown worlds?

“Cohesion” is the motto of the 16th BRIDGE StartUp Lounge, which will take place for the first time in the Digital Hub Industry on December 7. BRIDGE is the central contact point for students and members of Bremen higher education institutions (HEIs) on the subject of business start-ups.

As part of a project with automotive supplier Continental, the Cognitive Neuroinformatics working group has contributed important research findings to the development of advanced driver assistance systems. Artificial intelligence makes it easier to identify complex traffic situations.

On November 2022, it will finally be time: the University of Bremen Foundation will be presenting its exhibition “MACHT SINN! Stiften für die Wissenschaft” in the Wallsaal of the Bremen public library. It summarizes the campaign MACHT SINN!, with which the Foundation participated in the universisity

On November 2, 2022, the University of Bremen and the Dr. Hans Riegel-Stiftung honored students from the region for their particularly good prescientific work. The Dr. Hans Riegel specialist prizes are endowed with a total of 6,800 euros.

Professor of Information Systems Niehaves assumes the endowed professorship “Digital Transformation of Public Services” at the University of Bremen, financed by the Bremen Finance Department and the IT service provider Dataport. It is located in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

On behalf of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), researchers from the University of Bremen and employees of the Bremen-based company team neusta investigated the possibilities of using artificial intelligence in code analysis. The study is available free of charge from the BSI.

The Institute for Artificial Intelligence equipped a new research laboratory with a kitchen and furniture. The aim is to support people with physical disabilities by improving the suitability of robots for undertaking everyday activities. There is also a “digital twin” for international researchers

How much (industrial) mathematics is part of our everyday lives? What do we know about it and how can society and industry benefit? This is what the “#MOIN! – MOdellregion INdustriemathematik” innovation and transfer project is all about. The BMBF is funding it with approximately 6 million euros.

CAMPUS CITY – Experience the University in the City

For 25 years, the international summer university Informatica Feminale at the University of Bremen has offered women a diverse range of science- and practice-oriented courses in computer science. It enables new impulses, creates networks, and demands gender justice.

Bremen will be hosting the prestigious International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2026. Thanks to the successful application made by the U Bremen Research Alliance and the Section for Artificial Intelligence at the German Informatics Society the conference will be held in Germany.

The start-up Ubica Robotics, founded as a spin-off of the University of Bremen, makes robotics and artificial intelligence retail friendly. Together with the university and dmTECH GmbH, it has now received the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2022.

As part of its strategic funding initiative on artificial intelligence (AI), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation – DFG] is establishing eight new research groups. One is coming to Bremen – “Lifespan AI: From Longitudinal Data to Lifespan Inference in Health”.

The EASE Fall School is the possibility to get into the exciting field of cognition-enabled everyday activity robotics. In order to gain an insight into Everyday Activity Science and Engineering, our Fall school gives doctoral students the chance to learn more about AI and robotics.

Prospective students can learn everything they need to know about studying at the University of Bremen on Wednesday, May 18. After two years of pandemic, the Information Day for Prospective Students (isi) will once again take place on campus.

The possibility of a partial university relocation to the former Sparkasse Bank building is being discussed and the science authority has ordered a feasibility study. The matter is something that students have considered. The "3D Modeling with FabLab Technologies" class invites you to an exhibition.

The universities in Bremen State will introduce themselves and provide information on their degree offers and application processes at a joint online event, which will take place twice. Namely on March 17 and on May 31, 2022, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst Karl Hahn, has been appointed full professor of “Digital Medicine” at the University of Bremen, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, effective February 1, 2022.

The University of Bremen is coordinating the regional “meerMINT” cluster, which is being financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The activities on offer span from district scavenger hunts to robot programing and jam sessions. Children between the ages of 10 and 16 can take part.

What makes our brain so flexible? What mechanisms allow us to so seemingly effortlessly process the vast amounts of sensory information that pours into us every second? How do you establish efficient and adaptive communication between man and machine?

Four teaching staff members from the University of Bremen have received the Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The prizes were awarded in the categories “Participative Teaching” and “Students’ Prize” and are each endowed with 2,000 euros.

Praise for the university in the current CHE Ranking: Master’s degrees in mathematics, computer science, and physics receive great marks. Additionally, students praised the university’s management for information management during the corona crisis.

Frieder Nake is not entirely sure if he really is the longest serving teaching staff member at the University of Bremen. Probably. After all, his 100th semester will begin in April. After nearly 50 years of teaching, the 82-year-old computer science professor has a few stories to tell.

The construction noise during the pandemic already made people sit up and take notice that they were actively working on level 6. Now the renovation work has come to an end. Last Monday, November 1st, 2021, Faculty 3 inaugurated it as part of a small opening ceremony.

The 34th workshop on Test Methods and Reliability of Circuits and Systems is the most significant German forum to discuss trends, results and current problems in the area of test, diagnosis and reliability of digital, analog, mixed-signal and high-frequency circuits and systems.

The autumn series starts on October 14th. and ends on November 18th, 2021!

A joint project of the universities of Bremen and Gießen and the RoFlexs company is researching and developing a pasture fence that uses AI to detect and deter wolves. The system is designed to better protect grazing livestock and promote coexistence among people, livestock, and wolves.

Dissertation award for Franziska Eberle (Scheduling and Packing Under Uncertainty, University of Bremen, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nicole Megow)

On Friday, September 10, 2021, the Mathematics Day will take place at the University of Bremen from 9:00 a.m.

Where mathematicians work and research - the technical progress that determines our daily life is inconceivable without mathematics. Even so, many people are unaware that math plays a role almost everywhere.

Renewable energies are some of the most important sources of electricity. The “SmartFarm2” project from the university and its partners helps in optimizing private energy consumption with renewable energies. Interested parties near to Osterholz and in the Allgäu region can take part in the project.

They remain unbeatable: For the eighth time, B-Human – the team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – were able to win the world championship in robot football. The tournament took place digitally due to the pandemic.

For the second time, the University of Bremen has honored outstanding PhD supervision. Two first prizes were awarded to the political scholar Heiko Pleines and the computer scientist Rolf Drechsler. The Alumni Network of the University of Bremen donated the prize money of 2,000 euros per person.

The government and state initiative “Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education” is supporting two University of Bremen projects. By doing so, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is strengthening Bremen’s position as a scientific location in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

On November 12th 2020 our colleague Christian Freksa passed away with the age of 70.

This funding provides an extremely large amount of freedom to work innovatively in the field of science: The German Research Foundation (DFG) has once again approved a Reinhart Koselleck project for Prof. Rolf Drechsler. The funding will amount to more than 1.5 million over a period of five years.

Scientists at the University of Bremen have reconstructed 40 square kilometers of Mars landscape in virtual reality. The test environment enables the realistic simulation of robot missions and radio networks under the conditions on the planet.

Auch in diesem Jahr haben Studierende aus Bremen und umzu an der Bremen Big Data Challenge (BBDC) teilgenommen, die vom Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL) des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik der Universität Bremen seit 2016 veranstaltet wird.

The central aim of the mini-workshop was to tackle open problems which seem to be accessible to an interdisciplinary approach from certain areas of frame theory, real algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry and combinatorics.

Dr. Benjamin Tannert from Prof. Johannes Schöning's HCI working group would like to make the journey from A to B even easier for wheelchair users.

Every field of science faces serious questions at some point about the positive and negative effects of its further development.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Saarland University awards Peter Maaß an honorary doctorate on June 29, 2018.

The smile project offers insights into cutting-edge IT research for schoolgirls from the 5th grade to university entry. The BMBF-funded workshops of the University of Bremen have set themselves the goal of presenting the attractiveness and diversity of IT professions to schoolgirls.

Press Release of the University of Bremen/ 11.02.2019 Stefanie Möller Computer Science Professor Michael Beetz has received an honorary doctorate from the Swedish University of Örebro for his outstanding achievements in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

Over the next three years, the DFG will provide around 300,000 euros in funding for a project that will make it possible to manufacture computer chips that can simultaneously store and process data. The research project is headed by Professor Rolf Drechsler of the Computer Architecture Working Group