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ECTS - Information Pa kage

Contents

1 Introdu tion 1
1.1 Why ECTS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Main Chara teristi s of ECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.3 Transparen y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 The ECTS-Grading S ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5 Further Studies Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 The Institution 4
2.1 The University of Kaiserslautern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 A ademi Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 Admission and Registration Pro edure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3 General Pra ti al Information 6

3.1 Host Country Formalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.1 Entering Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.2 Registration in Kaiserslautern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 Getting to Kaiserslautern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.1 Arrival in Kl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.2 Overnight a ommodation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 Cost of living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4 Tuition Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5 A ommodation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6 Insuran e and the German Health Servi e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.6.1 Health Insuran e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.6.2 Do tors and Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6.3 Emergen y servi es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6.4 Pharma y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6.5 A ident Insuran e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.7 Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.8 The A ademi Foreign OÆ e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.9 Other Pra ti al Information Extra-mural and
Leisure A tivities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.9.1 City of Kaiserslautern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.9.2 Re reation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4 The Department of Mathemati s 16

4.1 ECTS Coordinator of the Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2 About the Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.3 Stru ture of the Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4 Curri ula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5 Le tures oered at the Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5.1 Le tures oered during the winter semester . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5.2 Le tures oered during the summer semester . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5.3 Le tures oered o asionally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.6 Lo al Credit point system and Grading s hema . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1 Introdu tion

1.1 Why ECTS?

The European Community promotes inter university ooperation as a means of im-
proving the quality of edu ation for the benet of students and higher edu ation
institutions, and student mobility is a pre-dominant element of that inter university
ooperation. The Erasmus programme learly demonstrates that studying abroad
an be a parti ularly valuable experien e as it is not only the best way to learn
about other ountries, ideas, languages and ultures; in reasingly it is also an im-
portant element in a ademi and professional areer development.

The re ognition of studies and diplomas is a prerequisite for the reation of an open
European area of edu ation and training where students and tea hers an move
without obsta les. That is why the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
was developed in a pilot s heme established within the Erasmus programme as a
means of improving a ademi re ognition for study abroad. The external evaluation
of ECTS has demonstrated the potential of the system and the European Commis-
sion has de ided to in lude ECTS in its proposal for the So rates programme, in
parti ular in hapter 1 on higher edu ation (Erasmus). The ECTS system is now
moving from its restri ted pilot stage towards a mu h wider use as an element of
the European dimension in higher edu ation.

ECTS provides an instrument to reate transparen y, to build bridges between

institutions and to widen the hoi es available to students. The system makes it
easier for institutions to re ognize the learning a hievements of students through
the use of ommonly understood measurements - redits and grades - and it also
provides a means to interpret national systems of higher edu ation. The ECTS
system is based on three ore elements:
 information - on study programmes and student a hievement,
 mutual agreement - between the partner institutions and the student and
 ECTS redits - to indi ate student workload.
1.2 Main Chara teristi s of ECTS
As stated in the introdu tion above, the ECTS system is based on three ore ele-
ments namely information, mutual agreement and the use of ECTS redits. These
three ore elements are made operational through the use of three key do u-
ments: the information pa kage, the appli ation form and the trans ript of re ords.
Most of all, ECTS is made operational by students, tea hers and institutions who
want to make study abroad an integral part of the edu ational experien e. In
itself, ECTS in no way regulates the ontent, stru ture or equivalen e of study pro-
grammes. These are issues of quality whi h have to be determined by the higher
edu ational institutions themselves when establishing a satisfa tory basis for oop-
eration agreement bilaterally or multi-laterally. The ode of good pra ti e alled
ECTS provides those a tors with tools to reate transparen y and to fa ilitate
a ademi re ognition.
2 1.3 Transparen y

Full a ademi re ognition is a prerequisite for student mobility in the framework

of the Erasmus and So rates programmes. Full a ademi re ognition means that
the study period abroad (in luding examinations or other forms of assessment) re-
pla es a omparable period of study at the home university (in luding examinations
or other forms of assessment), though the ontent of the agreed study programme
may dier.

The use of ECTS is voluntary and is based on mutual trust and onden e in
the a ademi performan e of partner institutions. Ea h institution sele ts its own
partner(s).

1.3 Transparen y
ECTS provides transparen y through the following means:
 ECTS redits, whi h are numeri al values allo ated to ourse units to de-
s ribe the student workload required to omplete them. They re e t the
quantity of work ea h ourse unit requires in relation to the total quantity
of work ne essary to omplete a full year of a ademi study at the institution,
that is, le tures, pra ti al work, seminars, tutorials, eldwork, private study
- in the library or at home and examinations or other assessment a tivities.
ECTS is thus based on a full student workload and not limited to onta t
hours only. In ECTS, 60 redits represent the workload of an a ademi year,
30 redits for a semester and 20 redits for a term.
 The ECTS information pa kage whi h supplies written information to
students and sta on institutions, departments/fa ulties, the organization and
stru ture of studies and ourse units.
 The ECTS learning agreement overing the programme of study to be
taken and the ECTS redits to be awarded for their satisfa tory ompletion,
ommitting the student to undertake study abroad as an integral part of
his/her higher edu ation, the home institution to guaranteeing full a ademi
re ognition of the redits gained abroad and the host institution to providing
the agreed ourse units, subje t to the s hedule.
 The ECTS trans ript of re ords whi h shows students' learning a hieve-
ments in a way whi h is omprehensive, ommonly understood and easily
transferable from one institution to another.
Good ommuni ation and exibility are also needed to fa ilitate the a ademi
re ognition of studies ompleted or taken abroad. In this respe t the ECTS o-
ordinators have an important role to play as their main task is to deal with the
a ademi and administrative aspe ts of ECTS.

The full range of ourse units of the department/fa ulty using ECTS should
in prin iple be made available to the mobile student, in luding taught do torate
ourse units. Students should be able to follow regular ourse units - and not
ourses spe i ally designed for them - and should not be pre luded from the possi-
bility of fullling the host institution's requirements for a degree or diploma. ECTS
redits ensure that the programme will be reasonable in terms of workload for
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the period of study abroad, for example, a student whose hoi e of ourse units
totals 120 ECTS redits for an a ademi year, would have to work twi e as mu h
as an average lo al student at the re eiving institution, and a student whose pro-
gramme totals 30 ECTS redits for a whole a ademi year would be undertaking
mu h less work than an average lo al student, therefore be studying part-time.

1.4 The ECTS-Grading S ale

The ECTS grading s ale has thus been developed in order to help institutions
translate the grades awarded by host institutions to ECTS students. It provides
information on the student's performan e additional to that provided by the insti-
tution's grades; it does not repla e the lo al grade. Higher edu ation institutions
make their own de isions on how to apply the ECTS grading s ale to their own
system.

Per entage of
ECTS grade su essful students Denition
normally a hieving
the grade
A 10 EXCELLENT - outstanding perfor-
man e with only minor errors
B 25 VERY GOOD - above the average
standard but with some errors
C 30 GOOD - generally sound work with
a number of notable errors
D 25 SATISFACTORY - fair but with sig-
ni ant short omings
E 10 SUFFICIENT - performan e meets
the minimum riteria
FX - FAIL - some more work required be-
fore the redit an be awarded
F - FAIL - onsiderable further work is
required

The number of grades on the ECTS grading s ale is a ompromise. Fewer grades
would transfer too little information; more grades would imply a level of a ura y
that does not exist and would entail a great deal more me hani al work in awarding
the grades. The denitions of the ve pass grades have been hosen to maximize
the signi an e of grades \A" and \E".

1.5 Further Studies Abroad

ECTS also enables further studies abroad. With ECTS, a student will not
ne essarily go ba k to the home institution after the study period abroad; he/she
may prefer to stay at the host institution - possibly to gain a degree - or even
move to a third institution. The institutions themselves de ide whether or not
this is a eptable and what onditions the student must fulll to obtain a diploma
or transfer registration. The trans ript of re ords is parti ularly useful in this
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ontext as it provides a history of students' a ademi a hievements, whi h will help

institutions to make these de isions.

2 The Institution

2.1 The University of Kaiserslautern

In July 1969, the Rhine land-Palatinate regional government - under the leader-
ship of former Minister President Helmut Kohl - de ided to establish a university in
Kaiserslautern. As early as in the winter semester 1970/71 the University of Kaiser-
slautern - as a twin of the University of Trier - took up operations with 191 students.
In 1975, it was dismissed into independen e and has sin e then been the only nat-
ural s ien es and te hnology-oriented university in Rhine land-Palatinate. After
this modest start, the following years have been hara terized by steady growth.
During this time, nine fa ulties have developed and still exist until the present day.
They are: Mathemati s, Physi s, Chemistry, Biology, Computer S ien es, Me han-
i al and Pro ess Engineering, Ele tri al Engineering and Information Te hnology,
Ar hite ture/Town and Environmental Planning/Civil Engineering, So ial S ien es
and E onomi s. The ever in reasing portion in resear h proje ts with industry led
to the foundation of the third-party funding park on the ampus in the se ond half
of the 80s. After the number of students had risen to more than 10,000 in the
early 90s, in re ent years it has leveled out at approximately 8,000. The \Center for
distant studies and ontinuing edu ation" whi h has meanwhile be ome the se ond-
largest fa ility of its kind at German universities holds a onsiderable share in this
number.

Future-oriented ourses of studies, lose-to-praxis edu ation and state-of-the-art in-

frastru ture - this is the framework students nd at the University of Kaiserslautern.
Studies at Kaiserslautern University oer engineers and s ientists an ideal prepara-
tion for their future professional areer. Industrial internship and stays abroad are
the warranty for an a ademi edu ation losely linked to the professional praxis.
On top of that, the students prot from the numerous renowned resear h fa ilities
lo ated dire tly on the ampus who o-operate losely with the University. The
German resear h enter for Arti ial Intelligen e, Institute for Composite Materi-
als, Fraunhofer-Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering and for Industrial
Mathemati s respe tively are just some of them.

The ex ellent s ienti reputation and praxis-oriented edu ation at Kaiserslautern

University are the warranties for its graduates for ex ellent opportunities on the
national and international job market. The numerous interdis iplinary ourses of
studies also ontribute to this su ess by ombining engineering and business man-
agement know-how in an ideal way.

However, also the other onditions for studies at Kaiserslautern University are ex-
traordinary. With approximately 8,000 students at present, the University has a
survey-able size thus guaranteeing ex ellent tutoring relations for students and a
lose onta t to the professors. In addition, it oers state-of-the-art equipment and
an ex ellent infrastru ture starting out with the libraries via the laboratories to
the omputing enter. The ampus of the university, lo ated idylli ally at the edge
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of the \Pfalzer Wald" has a lot to oer to young people that goes beyond expert
quali ation. University sports represents an important module in the leisure time
a tivities of the University oering a broad range of dierent sports and attra tive
ex ursions every semester. Con erts, theaters, lms and exhibitions give the am-
pus a ultural life in the evenings too. In numerous student teams - from astronomy
via photography to sto k market games - young people an live their hobbies. Many
festivities, su h as the summer ball, the wel ome party for new omers, or the sum-
mer party meanwhile well-known in the town round up the leisure time oer of the
University ideally. To know more about our university onta t us at the following
address or visit our web-site. For more detailed information and guidan e, onta t
the ECTS oordinator at our university.
 University of Kaiserslautern  ECTS Institutional Coordinator
P. O. Box 3049 Mr. Mar Frey
D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany A ademi Foreign OÆ e, Building 47
Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-0 P. O. Box 3049
Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3200 D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Email: studsekverw.uni-kl.de Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2233
Internet: http://www.uni-kl.de Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3599

2.2 A ademi Calendar

Studies at the University of Kaiserslautern is divided into two semesters per year,
a winter semester - 1st O tober to 31st Mar h and a summer semester - 1st April
to 30th September. Le tures are held from the end of O tober until the end of
February during the winter semester and from the end of April until the end of July
during the summer semester.

2.3 Admission and Registration Pro edure

Students wanting to study at the University of Kaiserslautern are re ommended to
onta t the department oordinator, the a ademi foreign oÆ e or the university
administration. With the help of the oordinator the student will be guided through
the admission and registration pro edure.

Deadline for appli ation to admission

The admission forms for the winter semester must be submitted by the 15th of July
and for the summer semester by the 15th of January.
Attention: The appli ation deadline for housing may dier from the deadline for
the admission!

Students applying for admission into higher terms

Appli ants applying for admission into higher terms an only get admitted as far
as they were or are admitted to an university in the Federal Republi of Germany
for this ourse of studies. Appli ants from other ourses of studies and appli ants,
who have studied abroad, an only be admitted if the responsible examining board
of the University of Kaiserslautern has a knowledged the a ademi re ord furnished
so far. A ademi re ords and the erti ation of admission spe ifying the ourse of
study and the aimed degree (e.g. Ba helor, Master, Diploma, Tea hing profession)
of the former university have to be submitted along with the admission form.
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Proof of knowledge of the German language

 Foreign students studying in an international ourse of studies and foreign
PhD students:
Foreign students who are admitted to the University of Kaiserslautern to an
international ourse of studies, and foreign PhD students, must prove suÆ-
ient German language knowledge not later than one year after admission.
Therefore they have to pass the \German language examination for students
in an international ourse of study and foreign PhD students" (DSI). Stu-
dents who study for a limited period of time and do not strive for any kind
of graduation (Ba helor, Master, Magister, Diplom, et .) at the University of
Kaiserslautern are exempted from the DSI examination.
 Foreign students studying a ourse oered in German, need a erti ate from
the departmental le turer ertifying suÆ ient German language pro ien y.

3 General Pra ti al Information

3.1 Host Country Formalities

Before departure students should ask the German Consulate or Diplomati agen y
about the formalities for entry into the Federal Republi of Germany. The noti a-
tion of admission from the University of Kaiserslautern is to be submitted thereby.
You should not apply for a \tourist visa", sin e the German authorities do
not onvert this visa into a visa for the purpose of studies.

Germany has stri t immigration regulations, like most ountries. On e a student

has formally been a epted at a university and has suÆ ient funds (or proof of
funds) to support him-/herself in this ountry, he/she is usually able to obtain entry
learan e without mu h diÆ ulty. European Union Nationals as well as nationals
from the US and Switzerland are free to enter Germany without entry learan e,
but they may still be asked to show eviden e of funding. Non-EU nationals should
onta t the Entry Clearan e OÆ er at the German Embassy in the home ountry
and apply for entry learan e. Appli ation forms and information are free of harge
in all German Embassies and Consulates. Several nationals are allowed to enter
Germany as tourists without visas but they need visas for the purpose of study.
This visa appli ation has to be done in the home ountry. It is re ommended that
ea h student onsult the German Embassy in every ase.

3.1.1 Entering Germany

To enter Germany, there are several things to pay attention to:
1. On arrival in Germany, everyone must pass through immigration ontrol.
There is one queue/line for European Union Nationals (EU) and a se ond
queue for everyone else.
2. Your arry-on/hand baggage should in lude enough personal arti les to last
for your rst night in Germany ( lean underwear, warm ja ket, toothbrush,
personal medi ines, et ). This is just in ase your luggage is delayed or lost
in transit.
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3. Make sure that your luggage is learly labelled in German or English.

4. Make sure to have following items with you:
 Valid passport and a visa for the purpose of studying, not a tourist visa.
 Certi ation of admission to the university.
 SuÆ ient funds or proof of funds.
 Translated (if the language is not in English or German) and ertied
opies of your erti ates.
 E 128 or E 111 health insuran e forms for EU Nationals.
 Passport sized photographs (at least six).

3.1.2 Registration in Kaiserslautern

In addition to registration at the university, there are two formalities whi h you
have to take are of in order to stay in Kaiserslautern. The sta of the Graduate
S hool will assist the students with the registration.
 Residents Registration OÆ e (Burger Center, Einwohnermeldeamt)
During the rst ten days of your stay, you have to register at the relevant Res-
idents Registration OÆ e (Einwohnermeldeamt) for whi h you will need your
passport and your rent ontra t. If you do not have a permanent address you
will possibly have to give the address of the hotel. Then, as soon as you have
a permanent residen e you have to inform the Residents Registration OÆ e
of your new address within a week. You should observe this deadline or you
may be required to pay a ne. If you move within the same town during your
stay you have to re-register with the Residents Registration OÆ e within a
week. If you move somewhere else you have to give noti e of your departure
in your previous area and produ e the noti ation of end of residen e (Ab-
meldebes heinigung) at the Residents Registration OÆ e in your new pla e
of residen e.
Rathaus
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 OÆ e hours:
67653 Kaiserslautern Mo - Wed : 7:30 - 16:00
Tel: 0631-365 2457 Th : 7:30 - 18:00
Fax: 0631-365 2772 Fr : 7:30 - 13:00
http://www.kaiserslautern.de/buergerservi e/index.html
 Foreign Registration Authority
Anyone who does not have a passport from an EU ountry and intends to
spend more than 3 months in Germany has to apply for a residen e permit at
the Foreign Registration Authority responsible for his/her pla e of residen e.
A visa is merely a \temporary residen e permit" (vorlauge Aufenthalts-
genehmigung). If you enter Germany without a visa (U.S. and Switzerland
itizens) you will also need a \temporary residen e permit". Your appli a-
tion will only be onsidered when you an produ e the resident's registration
do ument (Anmeldebestatigung) from the Residents Registration OÆ e. You
will need your passport, 2 passport photographs, and either the erti ate of
registration, the noti ation of admission, or the onrmation of appli ation
8 3.2 Getting to Kaiserslautern

from the institution of higher edu ation to whi h you have applied. Also, you
must present proof of adequate nan ial resour es showing that you will be
able to support yourself nan ially during your stay in Germany; this might
be the letter of award from a s holarship ommittee or another kind of proof,
for example, a sponsorship letter from your parents.
Stadtverwaltung Kaiserslautern Tel: 0631-365 2245
Auslanderbehorde Fax: 0631-365 1329
Am Altenhof 11-13 OÆ e hours:
67657 Kaiserslautern Mo - Fr: 8:00 - 12:00

3.2 Getting to Kaiserslautern

3.2.1 Arrival in Kl
 When to arrive
Students are advised to ome to Kaiserslautern at the beginning of August so
that they an take are of the ne essary formalities and get settled before the
semester starts in O tober. Before the le tures begin, there is an Introdu tory
Week oered by the Department of Mathemati s and then the German lan-
guage ourse whi h students should attend to help them to know more about
Kaiserslautern and the University of Kaiserslautern. Above all, the German
language ourse helps students to learn to ommuni ate in everyday life.
 Whi h airport
Students should y into Frankfurt airport if possible. (However, the airports
in Stuttgart and Saarbru ken are also lose to Kaiserslautern). For those who
have never been abroad, there are some formalities in the airport whi h must
be taken are of:
1. On arrival at the immigration ontrol present your passport and all ne -
essary visa do umentation.
2. Colle t your baggage from the baggage laim area, sorted a ording to
ight number. Free luggage arts/trolleys are available for bags.
3. Clear ustoms: If you enter from a member state of the EU or do not
arry more than what is allowed (in gifts, al ohol, money, et .), then you
have nothing to de lare and should go through the appropriate hannel
(line), the green hannel. If you have something to de lare, go through
the red hannel and announ e the goods to the ustoms oÆ er.
 From Frankfurt airport to Kaiserslautern
To travel by train from Frankfurt airport to Kaiserslautern is usually pre-
ferred. There are two possibilities to rea h Kaiserslautern Main Railway Sta-
tion (Kaiserslautern Hbf.) from Frankfurt by train, either via Mannheim or
via Bad Munster am Stein. The train fare is about e 20,- with Regional Ex-
press (RE) and Regional Bahn (RB), and about e 30,- with Inter City Express
(ICE) and Regional Express (RE). If arriving on the weekend, a spe ial week-
end ti ket (Wo henende-Ti ket) whi h is valid for up-to ve persons is also
available. For more information regarding the latest fares and fa ilities of the
German Railways (Deuts he Bahn) take a look at http://www.db.de.
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A bus stop is lo ated in front of the Kaiserslautern Hbf. To get to the uni-
versity, you take bus number 5 in the dire tion of \Uni Wohngebiet" whi h
departs every 30 minutes during the day and every hour in the evening. How-
ever it is not available late at night. The bus will pass by the university bus
station \Uni-Ost" where you an stop. You an nd the s hedules for all buses
at http://www.twk-kl.de/verkehr/index.htm.

If a bus is not available and no arrangements have been made to be pi ked up

at the station, taxis are also available. However, be aware that no one is on
ampus after 18:00.

3.2.2 Overnight a ommodation

An overnight stay might be ne essary when the student arrives at night in Kaiser-
slautern. There are several reasonable hotels whi h are lose to the railway station:
 Pommer's her Hof  Pension Blum
Stahlstrasse 12 Rudolph-Breits heid Str. 7
67665 Kaiserslautern 67665 Kaiserslautern
Tel: ++49-(0)631-40180 Tel: ++49-(0)631-3115656
Fax: ++49-(0)631-3405081 Fax: ++49-(0)631-24542
Single room - e 22 - 34,- Single room - e 23 - 37,-
Double room - e 45 - 50,- Double room - e 41 - 57,-

 Hotel Zepp  Hotel zum Dt. Mi hel

Pariserstrasse 4-6
hard-Wagner Str. 47
67665 Kaiserslautern
Tel: ++49-(0)631-710040
Fax: ++49-(0)631-7100421
Single room - e 22 - 48,-
Double room - e 44 - 77,-
Ri
67665 Kaiserslautern
Tel: ++49-(0)631-63321
Fax: ++49-(0)631-63321
Single room - e 18 - 26,-
Double room - e 41,-

3.3 Cost of living

The ost of living for students is estimated to be approximately e 450 - 500,- per
month. In luded in this amount are the osts for housing, food and leisure a tivities.
A afeteria (Mensa) is lo ated on ampus and oers three meal hoi es at a pri e
range between e 1,70 - 2,20 at lun htime and also oers a meal in the evening
between 17:30 and 18:30 for e 1,95 during the semester.

 Major items of expenditure

Here are a few points that students should onsider while planning their bud-
get. You annot make signi ant redu tions or savings on these gures. Do
not plan on managing on gures mu h lower than these. It is not possible
to manage if drasti e onomies dieren es are en ountered. If at all possible,
bring about 10 per ent more than estimated expenditure in ase of unex-
pe ted osts and in reases in German pri es. Life is more expensive at the
beginning for many items (warm lothing, books, items for rooms et .) are
needed almost immediately upon arrival. Besides that, a deposit for housing
and registration fee have to be paid.
10 3.4 Tuition Fees

 Bringing money to Germany

{ Money for the rst days
1. You will need ash and travellers heques for travel, food and other
expenses immediately on arrival in Germany.
2. Bring about e 500 - 1000 in ash/travellers heques to over imme-
diate needs.
3. Remember to arry travellers heque re eipts separately from the
heques themselves.
4. It is not advisable to bring larger amount of ash.
5. Take all sensible pre autions with money, travellers heques and do -
uments. Beware of loss or theft. Ex hanging foreign urren y is
possible in nearly every bank.

3.4 Tuition Fees

Tuition fees will not be harged. Only a \so ial fee" whi h in ludes ertain insur-
an es and publi transportation in and around Kaiserslautern has to be paid ea h
semester urrently e 109,-.

3.5 A ommodation
UKL Graduate S hool will assist students in nding a ommodation and will re-
serve housing quarters of appropriate standard and with onvenient onne tion to
the University. The Graduate S hool is working together with the Studentenwerk
(Student's union oÆ e) on ampus to help the students with the a ommodation.
Due to the large number of students, the Studentenwerk an not provide apartments
for all interested students. Several students will be assisted to have a ommodation
in privately owned apartments. Students who try to nd an apartment should on-
sider that not all rooms are furnished, parti ularly the ones from private landlords.
At the moment, the average rent amounts to between e 150 - 240,- for a room in a
dormitory or for a single apartment.

There are several important things whi h students should remember about the
rent ontra t. All ontra ts are legally binding. Read throughly and make sure you
understand before signing a housing ontra t. Do not sign a ontra t for housing
you annot aord. Students who need short-term single housing while seeking fam-
ily a ommodation should he k if there are any va an ies. Here are the addresses
of some potential student a ommodations/ student dormitories, number of rooms,
its size, rent, et ,.

Address To Uni Bus # rooms Area in m2 Rent

Forellenstrasse 3 km  98 20 - 22 1 2 e 195 - 200,-
19/25
Meisenweg 6-10 2,2 km 195 19 1 2 e 180 - 200,-
G-Hauptmann- 800m  270 18 1 2 e 206 - 215,-
Str. 24
Trippstadter 800m  166 15,5 - 22,8 1 2 e 150 - 170,-
Str. 121
3 GENERAL PRACTICAL INFORMATION 11

Am Judenhbel 10 km 64 26 - 33,3 1 2 e 150 -165,-

15
Student Hostel 50m  20 14 - 29 1 2 3 e 140 - 155,-
ESA
Haus Park- 2 km  13 12 - 24 1 e 150 - 180,-
strasse 20
K-S huma her 200m  200 14 1 e 155,-
Str. 8-22

More information onta t:

 Studentenwerk Kaiserslautern
Universitat Kaiserslautern
Building 30, Room 296
67663 Kaiserslautern
Phone:++49-(0)631-205-2575
Internet:http://www.uni-kl.de/Studentenwerk/
Email:  steigerrhrk.uni-kl.de (hostels)
 paustianrhrk.uni-kl.de (private apartments)
 korots hrhrk.uni-kl.de (hostels)
We must point out that landlords may not speak English.

3.6 Insuran e and the German Health Servi e

The Federal Republi of Germany has a well-developed and so ially supported
health servi e. Medi ally, it is one of the best provided ountries in the world.
Everyone insured is free to hoose their own do tor or dentist from amongst the
registered health servi e pra titioners. Those who are privately insured an go to
a do tor of their hoi e. The health insuran e s heme pays the osts for treatment
by a do tor or dentist, for medi ines, medi ation, and medi al aids as well as for
hospital treatment and many other kinds of treatment and preventive measures. In
the statutory health insuran e s heme patients have to pay a ertain small fee for
medi ines and other items themselves if they are not exempt from this obligatory
additional payment. There are, however, ertain osts whi h are not overed, eg.,
osts for denture work, in luding rown, and orthodonti work, et ,.

3.6.1 Health Insuran e

It is obligatory to have adequate health insuran e over for yourself and also family
members a ompanying you. As a student your are eligible for statutory insuran e
at the lowest urrent monthly rate whi h amounts to about e 52,-.

Students who have spent more than 14 semesters studying any one subje t and who
are over the age of 30 are not eligible for the Statutory Student Health Insuran e
S heme (SKV). Students from ountries whi h have on luded so ial agreements
with Germany, in luding an insuran e lause, an ontinue to be insured in their
1 furnished
2 free internet onne tion
3 ommon kit hen and bathroom
12 3.6 Insuran e and the German Health Servi e

own ountries. In order to do this a erti ate onrming adequate insuran e over
and an appli ation form (E111 or E128 for the EU) must be presented to a lo al
statutory health insuran e like AOK or TKK. It will then exempt you from statu-
tory insuran e and enables you to onsult German do tors free of harge.

Students from the European Union, who are no longer overed by statutory in-
suran e, an hoose to be ome a member of the AOK/TKK providing that they
an prove they had previous insuran e either overing 2 years within the past 5 years
or one year prior to registering with the German insuran e s heme. The urrent
minimum ontribution for voluntary insuran e at the AOK/TKK is about e 100.
The only other alternative is private health insuran e.

3.6.2 Do tors and Hospital

Apart from general medi al pra titioners, there are also spe ialists. You do not
have to go to a general pra titioner rst in order to be transferred to a spe ialist
- you an onsult the respe tive spe ialist dire tly. In most ases, though not all,
you will have to make an appointment in advan e. Espe ially with dentists and
spe ialists this may take several weeks. If you are in a ute pain or have had an
a ident you have to be treated immediately or at least get an appointment on the
same day. You will nd the names of do tors a ording to the eld of spe ialization
in the telephone dire tory or the Yellow Pages. But rather than sti king in a pin,
it is advi eable to ask friends and a quaintan es whi h do tors they re ommend.

In Germany, there are state, non-prot making (denominational) and private hos-
pitals. In every large town, there is a hospital where you an be treated as an
out-patient, too. Out-patient lini s are, however, not as ommon in Germany as
in some other ountries. Hospitals are divided into various spe ialist lini s, su h as
Dermatology, Dental Clini , Psy hiatri Clini , et ,. If you are sent to hospital the
health insuran e s heme will over the osts of a ommodation, are and examina-
tions, although you will have to ontribute a small amount during the rst fourteen
days if you are not exempt from additional payments. You will be a ommodated
in a double room or small wards with three or more beds; single rooms and private
telephones ost extra. If you need urgent medi al treatment during the weekend you
an either all the emergen y servi es or go to a hospital out-patients' department.

3.6.3 Emergen y servi es

If you urgently need a do tor during the night, during the weekends or on publi
holidays the emergen y medi al servi es will assist you. You an nd the addresses
of the do tors on all in the daily newspaper under the heading \Emergen y Medi al

Servi e" (Arztli her 
Notdienst or Arztli her Bereits haftsdienst). Alternatively you
an also all or go in person to the German Red Cross (Deuts hes Rotes Kreuz).
Here there is a do tor present around the lo k. For any medi al emergen y all
Tel. 19222 for 24 hour servi e and for an emergen y do tor all Tel. 8009314.

Under the heading Apothekennotdienst you an dis over where you an get medi ines
in an emergen y outside normal hours. There is one whi h is open pharma y whi h
is open 24 hours a day. The name of this pharma y is on the list whi h an be
found on the door of every pharma y. This list keeps hanging every week.
3 GENERAL PRACTICAL INFORMATION 13

Emergen y all: In ase of a idents or sudden illness where a patient annot

be transported by ar you should ring the emergen y number 112 for an ambu-
lan e. If you are on the highway or a major road follow the arrows on the white
kilometer-stones or posts to the next emergen y all box.

3.6.4 Pharma y
In Germany you an get medi ines only at a pharma y. Unlike many other ountries
the Apotheke is not a hemist's shop or a drugstore - that is a Drogerie and only
sells vitamin tablets or perhaps simple ough mixtures.

There are three ategories of medi ines: on pres ription only, only for sale at dis-
pensing hemists', freely-available. Medi ines whi h are on pres ription will literally
only be given to you if you bring the pres ription from the do tor. Depending on the
ost you will have to pay a ontribution of up to e 5,- for medi ines and 10% of the
osts of other remedies if you are not exempt from additional payments. Initially,
private patients have to pay for their medi ines themselves and then submit the re-
eipts to the health insuran e s heme for refund. The German Medi al Preparations
A t is very stri t and therefore, some medi ines whi h might be freely-available in
your ountry (antibioti s, for example) always have to be pres ribed by a do tor
here.

Pharma ies are open from 8:30 to 18:30 in general, some of them also lose for
lun h. On Wednesday afternoons some pharma ies remain losed. However, there
are pharma ies in all towns open day and night for emergen ies. In smaller om-
munities you might have to travel to the next village or town to nd a pharma y
on emergen y duty. If you are suering from an insigni ant pain, a old, or a
heada he you do not ne essarily need to go to a do tor; you an ask for advi e from
the highly-qualied personnel at the pharma y. But in ases of serious illness it is
no substitute for the do tor's diagnosis and treatment.

3.6.5 A ident Insuran e

As a student your are overed by the statutory a ident insuran e within the insti-
tution of higher edu ation and on your way there to and from home. You an nd
out about additional a ident insuran e, oering further over, from the Foreign
Student OÆ e.

3.7 Libraries
 There are several libraries at the University of Kaiserslautern. The entral
library is the University Library. Besides the University Library, ea h de-
partment has its own library where you an nd literature, books, important
journals, and le ture notes in English and other languages of that parti ular
department. All students have free a ess to the libraries within the univer-
sity ampus. New users have to ll in a registration form and present a valid
student ard or passport. Books may only be borrowed overnight/over the
weekend within the departmental libraries. Whereas books may be borrowed
for weeks in the main library. Books and magazines, whi h are not available
14 3.8 The A ademi Foreign OÆ e

at the library an be obtained from other libraries.

Central library: Mo - Fr: 8:00 - 18:00
Department library: Mo - Fr: 8:00 - 18:00
Internet: http://www.ub.uni-kl.de/
 The muni ipal library of Kaiserslautern oers besides te hni al literature also
numerous novels. A good sele tion of English and Fren h books are also
available.
 The Pfalzbibliothek oers detailed literature about the history of the Palati-
nate.

3.8 The A ademi Foreign OÆ e

In addition to assistan e to foreign students and s ientists, the advi e on studies
abroad for German students is part of the servi e of the Akademis hes Auslandsamt
(A ademi Foreign oÆ e). In the range of assistan e to foreign students theater vis-
its and ex ursions within Germany are also oered. For more information take a look
at http://www.verw.uni-kl.de/hauptabteilung 4/abteilung 44/index.htm.
 Akademis hes Auslandsamt
Building 47, Rooms 425 - 432 Tel: ++49-0631-205-4379
P. O. Box 3049 Fax: ++49-0631-205-3599
67663 Kaiserslautern Email: s hoenverw.uni-kl.de

3.9 Other Pra ti al Information Extra-mural and

Leisure A tivities
3.9.1 City of Kaiserslautern
To some extent hospitality has an imperial tradition in Kaiserslautern. The Staufer
Emperor Barbarossa liked the ity so mu h that he built a fortied residen e here
in the year 1160. Johann Casimir, the Count Palatine, built a astle east of this
residen e, whi h was destroyed in 1703. Parts of both onstru tions remain as ru-
ins. At the initiative of Emperor Barbarossa, who had founded a monastery with
the hospital run by Premonstraterians (also alled White Canons or Norbertines),
the Kaiserslautern Stiftskir he (Charitable Convent Chur h) was built. The su -
essive building ranks among the most important Gothi buildings in the Palatinate.

The ity re eived imperial status in 1276, but due to the Thirty Years' War and the
following war of the Palatinate Su ession it regressed in its development. During
the 18th entury, however, the ity experien ed e onomi growth. Yet the destru -
tion aused by the Se ond World War and the resulting demolishing of buildings
has redu ed ethos stru tures emanating from before the 19th entury to only a few
examples.

The 84-meter high aspiring Rathaus (City Hall), built between 1963 and 1968
presents a symbol of a totally dierent, but future-oriented age. From the afe
and the roof terra e one an experien e a wonderful view of Kaiserslautern and its
surrounding area, the woods, the highway in the north and the university ampus
situated in the south.
3 GENERAL PRACTICAL INFORMATION 15

Kaiserslautern has developed into a lo ation of learning with a steady in rease

in ultural oerings. As the home of the Red Devils (Die Roten Teufel) so er
team and as an attra tive ongress enter, Kaiserslautern presents its visitors with
a variety of possibilities to ensure an enjoyable stay.

The Palatinate Forest, the largest ontinuous forest area of Germany, is ontiguous
to the gates of Kaiserslautern. It is a re reational paradise for hikers, mountain-
bikers and limbers. Always nearby are interesting ar hite tural attra tions su h
as the former abbey hur hes in Otterberg and Enkenba h, numerous fortress ruins
su h as Beilstein, Frankenstein, Hohene ken, Nanstein, Wilenstein, and the resident
astle in Trippstadt. Witnesses of industrial development are, among others, the
Kammgarn Spinnery, now used as a ultural enter and ollege, and buildings of
the former hammer smith works at the entran e to Karlstal.

Art in general, and the performing arts parti ularly in Kaiserslautern, are worth
seeing and hearing, regardless of whether it is a play, an opera, operetta, a ballet,
or musi al. The Pfalz Theater has a hieved a notably high reputation in its stage
produ tions. In addition, Kaiserslautern is home to the Southwest Radio Or hestra
(Sudwest-Rundfunk Or hester). In the Fru hthalle one an attend regular sym-
phony and hamber on erts performed by internationally renowned artists and
or hestras. Highly a laimed are the jazz on erts and the abaret programs in
the Cultural Center Kammgarn. Movie theaters with urrent lm programmes are
available for inema lovers.

The Pfalz Gallery and the Theodor Zink Museum have made names for themselves
with their presentations of works by well-known artists and permanent ultural-
histori al exhibitions. The Pfalz Gallery owns large olle tions of prints, paintings,
and s ulptures from the 19th and 20th enturies. The Theodor Zink Museum, a
histori al monument, is a former stage- oa h postal stop that houses do umentation
and exhibitions on erning the ity's history and folklore.

Kaiserslautern elebrates the year round. Festivities that are parti ularly enjoyed
by the ity's residents are the May Market and O tober Market, the largest of their
kind in the Western Palatinate. The Old City Festival in July and the Christmas
Market at the histori al Stiftskir he are unrivaled attra tions.

3.9.2 Re reation
Kaiserslautern oers a wide range of ultural a tivities, beginning with on erts,
theater, libraries and museums. Here are a some of them:
 Pfalz theater (plays, opera, ballet)
 Fru hthalle ( lassi al on erts, balls)
 Jugend-Zentrum Steinstrasse (ro k and pop on erts, live bands)
 Kammgarn Kulturzentrum ( abaret, live bands, dis o, small performan es)
 Pfalzgalerie, Wadgasser Hof (exhibitions of paintings)
 Theodor-Zink Museum (history of the ity of Kaiserslautern)
16

Various inemas in and around Kaiserslautern oer, in addition to urrent movies,

also lassi al movies and ultural movies; some are also oered in English. For more
ultural information, see http://www.kaiserslautern.de

Kaiserslautern and its surrounding areas are suitable for walking and hiking tours,
ity tours and other spare-time a tivities. The weekend ti ket of the Deuts he Bahn
(German Railway) oers a low pri ed travel ti ket. This is espe ially worthwhile for
day trips to Heidelberg, Speyer, Frankfurt, Trier (the oldest German ity), Mainz,
et . In addition, lo al travel organizations oer very reasonable pri es for bus trips
to Paris or Strassburg in Fran e.

About 30 dierent sports are oered at the University. These range from ball
sports, hang-gliding, sailing and diving to martial arts and limbing. With the ex-
eption of a few events, the parti ipation is free of harge. For the latest information
and semester a tivities see http://www.uni-kl.de/HSSP/)

4 The Department of Mathemati s

Department of Mathemati s
P. O. Box 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2251
Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-2048
Email: mathintmathematik.uni-kl.de
Internet: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de

All the a tivities of the department are integrated into the Graduate S hool \Math-
emati s as a Key Te hnology"
Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-3246
Email: mathintmathematik.uni-kl.de
Internet: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/grad s hool

4.1 ECTS Coordinator of the Department

Dr. Falk Triebs h
Department of Mathemati s Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-3927
P. O. Box 3049 Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-2048
67653 Kaiserslautern Email: mathintmathematik.uni-kl.de

4.2 About the Department

Resear h and tea hing at the Department of Mathemati s oers an interesting and
diverse spe trum of appli ation-oriented mathemati s and mathemati s resolving
theoreti al problems. Through the resear h elds of Algebra, Algebrai Geometry,
Geometry, Probability Theory and Statisti s, Fun tional Analysis, Complex Anal-
ysis, Partial Dierential Equations, Systems and Control Theory, and Numeri al
Mathemati s and Optimization, whi h are established at the department, a large
area of urrent mathemati al resear h is overed. Up to date there are about 715
4 THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 17

students studying in the department.

The diversity of the mathemati al resear h is re e ted in the variety of urri u-

lum. In addition to the ourses of studies aimed at future tea hers and the Diploma
ourses, the department, sin e 1980, has been oering the urri ula of Industrial
and Management Mathemati s to those students who see mathemati s as a means
of resolving pra ti al problems.

The ourses of Industrial and Management Mathemati s are part of the edu a-
tional network of the European Consortium for Mathemati s in Industry
(ECMI), in whi h several universities from ten European ountries parti ipate.

A substantial ontribution to this diversity has been made by the \Zentrum f

ur
Computeralgebra" (Center for Computer Algebra) whi h was jointly established
in 1993 by the Department of Mathemati s, the Department for Computer S ien es
and the Department of Ele tri al Engineering, as well as by the Fraunhofer Insti-
tute fur Te hno- und Wirts haftsmathematik (ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute
for Industrial Mathemati s).

A graduate ourse of studies in \Te hno-Mathemati s" was established in the

winter term of 1991/1992 oering s holarships. In this ourse of studies, PhD stu-
dents nd the opportunity to prepare their PhD within the range of a systemati
studies programme and to work on their dissertation, in lose onta t to resear h.
Naturally all other bran hes of mathemati s oer PhD programmes as well.

4.3 Stru ture of the Department

The department of Mathemati s at the University of Kaiserslautern has eleven
working groups spe ializing in the elds of General, Industrial and Management
Mathemati s. The following table summarizes the area of resear h of the various
professors at the department.

Prof. Dr. Ulri h Demwol Algebra, Dis rete Stru tures, Number
Theory and Cryptography
Prof. Dr. Jungen Franke Applied Mathemati al Statisti s
Prof. Dr. Willi Freeden Geomathemati s
Prof. Dr. Gert-Martin Greuel Singularity Theory
Prof. Dr. Horst Hama her Optimization
Prof. Dr. Ralf Korn Sto hasti Control and Finan ial Mathe-
mati s
Prof. Dr. Helmut Neunzert Dierential Equations: Mathemati al
Modelling and S ienti Computing
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pster Computer Algebra
Prof. Dr. Dieter Praetzel-Wolters Mathemati al Control Theory
Prof. Dr. Gunter Trautmann Algebrai Geometry
Prof. Dr. Heinri h v. Weizsa ker Probability Theory and Real Analysis
18 4.4 Curri ula

4.4 Curri ula

The degree ourses oered an be lassied into:
1. Diploma in Mathemati s (Dip.-Math. )
2. Diploma in Te hno mathemati s (Dip.-Math. te h. )
3. Diploma in Management Mathemati s (Dip.-Math. oe )
4. Tea hing Edu ation for se ondary s hool, middle s hool and for vo ational
s hool
5. Ba helor (\Mathemati s International")
6. Master (\Mathemati s International")
7. Sandwi h PhD. Programme \Industrial Mathemati s"
8. PhD. (Dr. rer. nat. )
In general, the urri ulum of graduation is divided into two stages:
1. Vordiplom/Ba helor (4 terms basi studies/6 terms) and
2. Master/Diplom (4/5 terms advan ed studies, respe tively). PhD. Programmes
are resear h oriented and have a duration of 3 years.

4.5 Le tures oered at the Department

The following tables will help you get an idea of the kind of le tures oered at the
department. There are le tures whi h are oered only during the winter or the
summer semester and some of the le tures are oered o asionally, either during
the winter or the summer semester.

There are also ompa t ourses (for about a week) whi h are oered by visiting
professors or fa ulty at the department. Information regarding the same will be
posted in the net appropriately.

4.5.1 Le tures oered during the winter semester

Algebrai Geometry I
AÆne rings and aÆne algebrai sets; Noetherian rings; Hilbert's Nullstellensatz; algebrai
varieties; graded rings and proje tive algebrai varieties; lo al rings and WS singularities;
Weierstra preparation theorem; dimension theory and primary de omposition; omplex an-
alyti sets; omputational aspe ts of all on epts
Commutative Geometry
Rings; modules; Noetherian rings and modules; primary de omposition; Noether normaliza-
tion; dimension theory.
Algebrai Topology
Homologi al algebra; homology; homotopy invarian e of homology; ex ision; Mayer-Vietoris-
sequen e; Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms; Lefs hetz xed point theorem; Kunneth theorem; o-
homology; orientation; produ ts; duality on manifolds (oered every se ond year)
Introdu tion to Mathemati al Statisti s
Basi statisti al models for data, estimation of model parameters, maximum likelihood prin-
iple, onden e regions, hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio tests, good-ness-of-t tests, on-
tingen y tables
4 THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 19

Linear Statisti al Models

Linear regression models, parametri urve tting, data-adaptive model sele tion, generalized
linear models (GLIM), analysis of varian e (ANOVA), experimental design
Non-parametri Regression and Classi ation
Kernel and nearest-neighbor estimators for fun tions, orthogonal series expansions, wavelet
regression, smoothing splines, ross validation, lassi ation and regression trees (CART),
neural networks for estimation and lassi ation
Finan ial Mathemati s II: In omplete Markets and Interest Rate Models
Fixed in ome produ ts, short rate models, HJM-framework, in omplete markets, super-
hedging, mean-varian e hedging, sto hasti volatility, risk minimization
Probability Theory
Measure Theory: measure extension theorem, measurable fun tions, produ t spa es, integra-
tion, onvolutions. Convergen e of random variables, law of large numbers. Weak onver-
gen e of measures. Chara teristi fun tions, entral limit theorem, sto hasti pro esses with
independent in rements, Brownian motion. Conditional expe tation, Martingales
Introdu tion to Sto hasti Cal ulus
Sto hasti Integrals with respe t to ontinuous martingales, in parti ular Brownian motion.
It? formula, Brownian motion and harmoni fun tions, It? pro esses, lo al times, Girsanov
formula, representation of martingales by sto hasti integrals
Sto hasti Dierential Equations
Linear SDEs, sto hasti Pi ard-Lindelof theorem, weak uniqueness, stability of solutions,
invariant measures and reversibility, Feynman-Ka formula
Fra tal Geometry
Self-similarity, dynami s on self-similar sets, Hausdor measure and dimension, te hniques
for al ulating the dimension, dimensions of various deterministi and random fra tals, di-
mension formulae, fundamental notions of geometri measure theory
Fun tional Analysis 1
Bana h spa es, bounded linear operators, the prin iples of Fun tional Analysis: Baire's at-
egory theorem, Open Mapping Theorem, Closed Graph Theorem, Uniform Boundedness
Prin iple, Hahn-Bana h Extension Theorem; weak topologies, re exivity, spe tral theory,
ompa t operators, Riesz-S hauder Theory, spe tral theory of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert
spa es.
Nonlinear Fun tional Analysis and Inverse Problem
Analysis in Bana h spa es, impli it fun tion theorem, xed point theorems of Bana h and
of S hauder; Measure of non- ompa tness, ondensing mappings, xed point theorem of
Sadovski and Darbo, degree theory, bifur ation theory; stable methods for the solution of
inverse problems
Constru tive Approximation
Legendre polynomials, spheri al harmoni s, Beltrami operator, addition theorem for spher-
i al harmoni s, losure and ompleteness of the spheri al harmoni s, Funk-He ke formula,
Fourier transform, reprodu ing kernels, spline bases, spheri al onvolutions, s aling fun tions,
wavelets, multi resolution, numeri al methods (pyramid s hemes), and multi s ale denoising
of data.
Theoreti al Seismology
Analysis of stress, prin ipal stresses, prin ipal planes, maximum shearing stresses, Mohr's
diagram, equations of deformation and strain, strain in terms of displa ement, stress strain
relations, generalized Hooke's law, dierent types of symmetry, density fun tion, Solution
of two-dimensional problems of elasti ity in Cartesian oordinates, Airy's stress fun tion,
wave propagation in unbounded elasti medium, study of surfa e waves in isotropi and
anisotropi medium, re e tion and refra tion of waves in isotropi and anisotropi media,
wave propagation in irregular medium.
Spe ial Fun tions
Ellipti integrals, Bessel fun tions of dierent kinds, integral representation of Bessel's fun -
tions, equation redu ible to Bessel's equation, orthogonality of Bessel's fun tion, modied
Bessel's fun tion, modied Bessel's fun tion for small and large arguments, Legendre polyno-
mials, Rodriguez's polynomial, orthogonality of Legendre polynomials, Laguerre polynomials,
Hermite polynomials, hyper geometri fun tions and their integral representation, on uent
hyper geometri fun tion.
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Dynami al Systems: Theory and Numeri s

Existen e and uniqueness of Solutions of ODE's, systems of ODE's, introdu tion to stabil-
ity, phase spa e analysis, Ljapunov methods, asymptoti methods for singularly perturbed
equations, boundary value problems, one- and multi-step methods, Runge-Kutta methods,
onsisten y, onvergen e and stability, sti dierential equations, impli it methods for sti
problems, shooting methods for boundary value problems
Partial Dierential Equations II: Numeri al Methods
Finite Dieren e Methods for Paraboli problems, Finite Volume Methods for Hyperboli
problems, Finite Element Methods for Ellipti problems
Distributions and Fourier Transformation
Test fun tions, generalized derivatives, onvolutions, tensor produ ts, ompa tly supported
and tempered distributions,Fourier transformation, appli ation to linear ODEs and PDEs
Optimization II: Integer Programming
Theory and solution methods of integer programs, formulations, relaxations, well solvable
problems, dynami programming, bran h and bound method, polyhedral ombinatori s, La-
grangean duality, olumn generation
Dis rete Optimization
Polyhedra, integer polyhedrons, total unimodularity, total dual integrality, fa ets, bran h &
ut algorithms, heuristi s, spe ial integer programs
Introdu tion to Mathemati al Statisti s
Basi statisti al models for data, estimation of model parameters, maximum likelihood prin-
iple, onden e regions, hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio tests, goodness-of-t tests, on-
tingen y tables, linear regression models, parametri urve tting, data-adaptive model sele -
tion, generalized linear models (GLIM), analysis of varian e (ANOVA), experimental design

4.5.2 Le tures oered during the summer semester

Algebrai Geometry II
Sheaves; ringed spa es; oherent and quasi oherent sheaves; s hemes and its properties; om-
plex spa es; singularities; sheaf ohomology; urves; theorem of Riemann-Ro h; appli ations;
omputational aspe ts of all on epts
Computer Algebra
Multivariate fra torization of polynomials; standard bases; hara teristi sets; algorithms on
primary de omposition; syzygies; normalization
Time Series Analysis
Stationary sto hasti pro esses, autoregressions and ARMA-pro esses, parameter estima-
tion and model sele tion for time series, trend and seasonality, fore asting by exponential
smoothing and the Box-Jenkins method, linear lters
Finan ial Mathemati s I: Complete Markets
Diusion-type models for sto k pri es, geometri Brownian motion, It- al ulus, omplete
markets, option pri ing, Bla k-S holes formula, optimal portfolios, exoti options, tree meth-
ods, pde methods
Finan ial Time Series
Dis rete-time models for sto k pri es, foreign ex hange rates and other nan ial time series:
ARCH, GARCH, GARCH-in-mean, autoregression-in-varian e, CHARN, ointegration, pa-
rameter estimation, fore asting and option pri ing
Point Pro esses
Random sets and measures, Poisson pro esses in general spa es and on the line, Campbell's
theorem, marked Poisson pro esses, Cox pro esses, basi sto hasti geometry.
Fun tional Analysis 2
Operator Ideals, weakly ompa t operators, nu lear operators, s-numbers, eigenvalue distri-
bution, integral operators; integral equations; Dunford integral, spe tral theory in Bana h
spa es, perturbation theory
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Geomathemati s
Introdu tion into the fundamentals of the tools and the problems in geomathemati s, e.g.
tools: s alar and ve tor spheri al harmoni s, losure and ompleteness, addition theorem;
problems: modelling and analysis of the gravitational and the magneti eld (Lapla e equa-
tion, Maxwell equations), o ean ir ulation and wind eld modelling (Navier-Stokes equa-
tion), inverse problems (e.g., Fredholm integral equation of rst kind), modelling of sesmi
waves and os illations (Cau hy-Navier equation, Helmholtz equation, wave equation)
Partial Dierential Equations: Analyti al Methods
Hyperboli systems of PDE, systems of onservation laws, method of hara teristi s, sho k
waves, weak solutions, entropy onditions, ellipti equations, Green fun tion, Diri hlet prin-
iple, Maximum prin iple, paraboli problems
Introdu tion to Systems and Control Theory
Continuous and dis rete time ontrol systems, stability, ontrollability, observability, state
spa e des ription, observers, feedba k and dynami ompensators, realization theory, transfer
fun tions, behaviours
Linear Programming
Simplex method, duality, omplementary sla kness, lemma of Farkas, geometri properties,
Karmarkar algorithm
Optimization I: Linear and Network Optimization
Basi s of graph theory, shortest path algorithms, spanning trees, network ows, network
simplex, assignment problem, mat hings
Optimization III: Nonlinear Programming
Un onstrained optimization: line sear h, trust regions, onjugate gradients, Newton and
quasi-Newton methods, approximate and automati dierentiation; Constrained optimiza-
tion: Lagrange multipliers, optimality onditions, quadrati programming, penalty barrier
and augmented Lagrangian methods, sequential quadrati programming
Time Series Analysis
Stationary sto hasti pro esses, autoregressions and ARMA-pro esses, parameter estima-
tion and model sele tion for time series, trend and seasonality, fore asting by exponential
smoothing and the Box-Jenkins method, linear lters
Nonparametri Regression and Classi ation
Kernel and nearest-neighbour estimators for fun tions, orthogonal series expansions, wavelet
regression, smoothing splines, ross validation, lassi ation and regression trees (CART),
neural networks for estimation and lassi ation

4.5.3 Le tures oered o asionally

Complex Dierential Geometry

Complex manifolds; almost omplex stru tures; omplex sumanifolds and analyti sets; om-
ples tori; proje tive algebrai manifolds; dierentiable and holomorphi ve tor bundles; Dol-
beault homology; Kodaira's vanishing theorem; Serre duality; Kahler manifolds; Hodge
de omposition; Chern lasses; dierential operators; Hermite-Einstein ve tor bundles; intro-
du tion to variation of Hodge stru tures
Algebrai Surfa es
Interse tion theory for surfa es; Pi ard group; Riemann-Ro h; birational maps; ruled sur-
fa es; rational surfa es; Castelnuovo's theorem; Kodaira dimension; lassi ation of surfa es
Singularity Theory
Singularities of hypersurfa es; nite determina y; lassi ation of simple singularities; nite
mapping theorem; invariants of urve and surfa e singularities; omputational aspe ts of all
on epts
Moduli Spa es
A tions of algebrai groups; aÆne quotients and Hilbert's fourteenth problem; linearisation of
algebrai group a tions; stability and proje tive quotients; geometri invariant theory; hange
of polarisation and ips; oarse and ne moduli spa es; moduli spa es of ve tor bundles and
oherent sheaves; sele ted examples of moduli spa es; holomorphi onstru tions of moduli
spa es
Algebrai Curves
Ramied overings; the Riemann-Hurwitz formula; the genus formula; Abels theorem; linear
systems on urves; the Riemann-Ro h formula; the Pl ker formulas; ellipti urves
22 4.5 Le tures oered at the Department

Deformation Theory
Deformations of hypersurfa es and omplete interse tions; abstra t deformation theory of
maps and spa es; relations between lo al and global deformations; relations between defor-
mation and representation properties; moduli questions; omputational aspe ts of all on-
epts
Interse tion Theory
Varieties and s hemes; morphisms; Grassmann and ag varieties; aÆne and proje tive bun-
dles; rational equivalen e; divisors; Segre and Chern lasses; ones; interse tion produ ts;
interse tion multipli ities; Chow rings; Riemann-Ro h theorem; sele ted examples
Complex Surfa es
Cohomology of surfa es; urves on surfa es; Riemann-Ro h; Kodaira dimension; Khler sur-
fa es; Hodge theory; GAGA theorems and proje tivity
Complex Analysis
Holomorphi fun tions of several variables; omplex manifolds; sheaves and ohomology;
ringed spa es; analyti sets; Stein spa es
Dierential Topology
An introdu tion to the basi ideas and methods of dierential topology, to be illustrated by
their appli ation to the lassi ation of ompa t surfa es. Topi s in lude ODEs on dierential
manifolds, tubular neighbourhoods and ollars, onne ted sum of manifolds, Morse fun tions,
and omplex line bundles on surfa es and their Euler number
Algebrai Groups
Algebrai varieties and s hemes; ag varieties; aÆne algebrai groups; lassi al groups; a -
tions of algebrai groups; Lie algebras of algebrai groups; adjoint representation; homoge-
neous spa es; Jordan-Chevalley de omposition; diagonalizable groups; solvable groups; Borel
subgroups; paraboli subgroups; root systems; redu tive groups; semi-simple groups; intro-
du tion to representation theory; Borel-Bott-Weil theory
Homologi al Algebra (Seminar)
Complexes; resolutions; ohomology; derived fun tors; double omplexes; spe tral sequen es;
Leray spe tral sequen e; Grothendie k spe tral sequen e; appli ations
Invariant Theory
Redu tive groups; ategorial, geometri and good quotients; the nitness theorem; stability
and semistability; examples and appli ations to moduli problems
Symmetri Spa es
The aim of this ourse is to explain the lassi ation of symmetri spa es. It will, to some
extent, build upon the previous one (Dierential Geometry) but will independently present
the ne essary ba kground from Lie theory
Morse Theory
Criti al points; Morse fun tions; homotopy type in terms of riti al values; the Morse in-
equalities; appli ations to algebrai varieties: Lefs hetz theorem on hyperplane se tions
Introdu tion to Non-Life Insuran e Mathemati s
Models based on sto hasti pro esses, whi h are important for insuran e ompanies; quanti-
fying of risks; estimation of probabilities for extreme events
Finan ial Mathemati s III: Transa tion osts
Lelands's option pri ing model, super-repli ation, Davis-Panas-Zariphopoulou approa h, op-
timal portfolios under transa tion osts, optimal stopping and impulse ontrol
Applied Sto hasti Pro esses
Finite Markov Chains, Countable Markov Chains, Bran hing Pro ess, A rst glan e of Pois-
son Pro ess, Birth and Death Pro esses, Optimal Stopping, Renewal Pro esses, Markov
Chain Algorithms
Monotone Operators
Ordered Bana h spa es, positive linear operators, positive matri es, Krein-Rutman theorem,
xed points of monotone operators, xed points in oni al shells
Fourier Analysis
Fourier series, onvergen e of Fourier series, Fourier integrals, tempered distributions,
Sobolev spa es, Fourier transforms in the omplex domain
Convex Analysis
Convex fun tions, onvex sets, subdierentials of nite onvex fun tions, onjuga y in onvex
analysis, duality theory, geometri al interpretations and examples
Optimal Dis retization of Operator Equations
Dis retization of operator equations and information based omputational omplexity
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Analysis of Geosatellite Data

Development of appropriate fun tion systems (inner, outer, and spheri al harmoni s; anhar-
moni fun tions), singular value representation of the involved operators, ill-posedness of the
inverse problems, regularization by trun ated singular value de omposition versus wavelets,
numeri al aspe ts.
Mathemati al Methods in Fluid Dynami s
Derivation of the equation of Motions: Euler and Navier Stokes; in ompressible Euler ow,
potential ow, vortex formulation; ompressible Euler, weak solutions, entropy, Riemann
problems; in ompressible Navier-Stokes, Approximations: Stokes, boundary layer, turbulen e
modelling
Computational Fluid Dynami s
(In) ompressible Euler- and Navier-Stokes equations,nite dieren e s hemes, nite volume
s hemes, nite element te hniques in CFD, onve tion dominated problems, boundary layer
ow, software pa kages
Asymptoti Analysis
Asymptoti expansions, perturbation of eigenvalues, Watson Lemma, method of onstant
and of stationary phase, regular perturbations of dierential equations, diusion and hy-
drodynami limits, boundary layer, mat hing, slender body theory, van der Pol os illator,
multiple s ales, homogenization, WKBJ approximation, averaging methods
Flow in Porous Media and Multiphase Flow
Linear diusion; Stefan problems: theory and front tra king algorithms; homogenization,
Dar y's and Binkmans law; saturated ompressible and insaturated in ompressible ows
in porous media, nite speed propagation; multiphase ow, level set methods. Pra ti al
examples are in luded
Methods in Image Pro essing
Multis ale analysis of images: pyramides, wavelets, anisotropi diusion; data redu tion:
fra tal image ompression, lters; segmentation: thresholds and optimizing of energy fun -
tionals; sto hasti geometry, statisti al des ription: Markov random elds, sto hasti gram-
mars, in orporation of semanti s
Parti le Methods
Approximation of fun tions by parti le sets - theoreti al and algorithmi aspe ts; parti le
methods for kineti equations; parti le methods for ma ros opi uid equations (PIC and
similar methods, SPH, kineti s hemes)
Finite Element Methods
Variational Problems, existen e, uniqueness, onformal FE, non onformal FE, mixed and
hybrid FE, h- and p-adaptivity; onjugate gradient methods, multi grid; appli ations with
ANSYS from heat ondu tion, stru tural me hani s and ele tromagneti s
Hoo -Control
Stability and performan e of feedba k systems, model redu tion by balan ed trun ation, Han-
kel norm approximation, model un ertainty and robustness, linear fra tional transformations,
algebrai Ri ati equations, Hoo- ontroller design
Mathemati al Theory of Neural Networks
Per eptrons, apa ity, learning rules, ba kpropagation, Hopeld-nets, RBF-nets, Kohonen
maps. approximation properties, neural gas algorithms
Algebrai Systems Theory
Modules over prin ipal ideal domains, polynomial models, anoni al forms and invariants,
realization theory, feedba k, metri al and topologi al aspe ts, identi ation O asionally
oered in WS
Adaptive Control
Stability, self tuning regulators, model referen e adaptive ontrol, tra king, robust adaptive
ontrol, positive real systems, high gain adaptive ontrol, universal adaptive stabilizers
Multidimensional System Theory
2D lters, ausality, stability, z-transform, bivariate transfer fun tions, partial dieren e
equations, lo al state spa e models, observability, multidimensional behaviors, Grabner bases
Introdu tion to Network Theory
Mathemati al theory of ele tri al networks, graphs and their homology; valuation maps,
boundary operator, walks and onne tion, spanning trees and fundamental y les, Kir hho's
laws; linear networks: (modied) nodal analysis, network elements, RCL networks and their
properties, realization problems
Mathemati al Methods in Elasti ity
24 4.6 Lo al Credit point system and Grading s hema

Basi equations of elasti ity, numeri al methods: boundary and nite element method, Runge
approximation by Cau hy-Navier splines and wavelets; vis oelasti ity
Topi s in Systems and Control
Geometri ontrol; general rstorder representations of linear systems (des riptor systems
et .); behaviours; multidimensional systems; nonlinear systems; Hoo ontrol, robust ontrol
Robust Control Theory
Hardy spa es H2 and Hoo, stability and performan e of feedba k systems, model un ertainty
and robustness, parametrization of stabilizing ontrollers, Hoo- ontroller design
Nonlinear Optimization
Convex fun tions and sets, uni-variate optimization, sear h methods, multi-variate optimiza-
tion, quadrati programs, barrier and penalty methods, Kuhn-Tu ker onditions
Planar Lo ation Theory
Median and enter problems in the plane, one and multi fa ility problems, restri ted prob-
lems, multi riteria problems, relation of lo ation problems and linear/network optimization
Network Lo ation Theory
Median and enter problems in networks, one and multi fa ility problems, multi riteria prob-
lems, un apa itated fa ility lo ation and integer programs, overing problems
S heduling Theory
1-ma hine problems, omplexity theory, polynomially solvable M-ma hine problems, dynami
programming, heuristi s, resour e onstraint problems
Multi riteria Optimization
Theory and methodology of optimization problems with ve tor-valued obje tive fun tions,
preferen e orders and domination stru tures, generating eÆ ient solutions, solving multi ri-
teria de ision-making problems, nonintera tive and intera tive methods with appli ations
Online Algorithms and Competitive Analysis
Polyhedral Theory
Polyhedra and dimension, fa es and fa ets, extreme points and rays, polyhedral ties between
linear programming an polyhedral theory, valid inequalities, fa et generating inequalities,
ombinatorial properties of polyhedra.
Dis rete Lo ation Theory: Models and Methods
Sele t a new lo ation among a nite set of given points: Un apa itated fa ility lo ation;
apa itated fa ility lo ation; p-median problem; p- enter problem, hub lo ation problems;
motivated by potential appli ations
Graph theori al Methods in Optimization
Graph theori al algorithms in Operations Resear h; network optimization; mat hings; olour-
ing problems; planar graphs; travelling-salesman-problem;polynomial omplexity; heuristi al
methods
Convex Optimization
subgradient, bundle, ellipsoid, interior point methods
Mathemati al Methods in Logisti s Management
mathemati al models and solution methods for problems arising in global and in-house lo-
gisti s, distribution network onguration, warehouse management
Optimization Models for Real-World Problems
an er treatment, eva uation planning, hospital management, traÆ planning, tele ommu-
ni ation, in-house logisti s (in parti ular, online optimization), global logisti s (supply hain
design and sales area planning)
Global Optimization
results and methods for the lass of on ave minimization, D.C. Programming problems,
general optimization problems, outer approximation, on avity uts, bran h and bound

4.6 Lo al Credit point system and Grading s hema

The department of mathemati s at the University of Kaiserslautern uses redits
whi h are omparable to ECTS. In general, a le ture with 90 minutes tea hing,
twi e a week and an additional 90 minutes tutorial is said to yield 10 redits on
su essfully learing the examinations. A seminar yields 5 redits.

The following table gives the orrelation between the examination grades awarded
by the mathemati s department and the ECTS grades.
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Lo al Grades ECTS Grades

1.0, 1.3 A - Ex ellent
1.7, 2.0 B - Very Good
2.3, 2.7, 3.0 C - Good
3.3 D - Satisfa tory
3.7, 4.0 E - SuÆ ient
5.0 F - Fail

 The ECTS grade \FX" (fail, some more work required before redit an be awarded) is not used.