€16.5m for Münster University research projects: Twofold success

A great success at the University of Münster: The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing 6.5 million euros to fund the new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. The existing CRC 1009 “Breaking Barriers - Immune cells and pathogens at cell/matrix barriers” will continue to receive funding from the DFG, amounting to more than 10 million euros. The new funding period for both projects will begin in July this year and run for the next four years.

The CRC “Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity ” aims to develop geometry both as a subject in its own right and as a tool for other mathematical fields. ...