General Information

Below are the English lectures offered by our group in the winter term 2025/2026.

If you would like to attend a seminar or reading course during the winter semester, please contact the respective supervisor by e-mail. Appointments are then determined in consultation with the participants.

If you would like to write a thesis in our working group, simply contact the desired supervisor directly.
 

Content

  • Mandatory content:
    • Affine and projective varieties (especially: dimension, morphisms, smooth and singular points, blow-ups of points, applications and examples),
    • Sheaves and sheaf cohomology with applications (Riemann-Roch's theorem for curves, projective embedding of curves).
  • It also covers a selection of the following topics:
    • Schemes,
    • Differential forms,
    • other aspects of algebraic geometry.

Contact Time

4 SWS lecture
2 SWS example class

Requirements

Module "Commutative Algebra".

Knowledge from the course "Plane Algebraic Curves" is desirable and helpful, but not necessarily required.

Frequency

The lecture is offered every year in the winter semester.

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Algebraic Geometry (Lecture)

Algebraic Geometry (Example Class)

 

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Content

  • LLL algorithm,
  • Number fields, ring of integers, units, class group,
  • Decomposition behavior of primes,
  • Algorithmic calculation of these quantities.

Contact Time

4 SWS lecture
2 SWS example class

Requirements

Courses "Algebraic Structures" and "Introduction: Algebra";

In addition, basic properties of Dedekind rings from the course "Commutative Algebra" are used. Knowledge from the "Quadratic Number Fields" module is desirable and helpful.

Frequency

The lecture takes place irregularly.

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Lecture Algorithmic Number Theory

Example Class Algorithmic Number Theory

 

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Content

  • Rings, modules, localization, lemma of Nakayama,
  • Noether / Artin rings and modules,
  • Primary decomposition,
  • Krull's Principal Ideal Theorem, dimension theory
  • Integral ring extensions, going-up, going-down, normalization,
  • Noether normalization, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz,
  • Dedekind rings, invertible ideals.

Contact Time

4 SWS lecture
2 SWS example class

Requirements

Lecture "Algebraische Strukturen".

The lecture "Introduction: Algebra" is nice to have, but not necessary.

Frequency

The lecture is offered every year in the winter semester.

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Commutative Algebra (Lecture)

Commutative Algebra (Example Class)

 

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Content

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography methods:
    • code based methods,
    • lattice based methods,
    • hash based methods,
    • multivariate methods,
  • both public key encryption and signatures,
  • quantum attacks like Shor or Grover,
  • worst case, average case reduction, complexity analysis,
  • fully homomorphic encryption schemes.

Contact Time

2 SWS lecture
 

Requirements

Fundamentals of Mathematics and Cryptography

Frequency

The lecture is offered irregularly.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (Lecture)

 

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Content

Modules over rings and algebras:

  • the theorems of Wedderburn, Jordan-Hölder and Krull-Schmidt.

Modules via group algebras:

  • Induction and restriction,
  • the Mackey formula,
  • Clifford theory,
  • projective representations,
  • Blocks.

Representation theory of symmetric groups.

Contact Time

4 SWS lecture
2 SWS example class

Requirements

Fundamentals of Mathematics, Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Structures, Introduction to Algebra

Frequency

The lecture is offered irregularly.

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Representation Theory (Lecture)

Representation Theory  (Example Class)

 

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