List of Courses

As a participant in the Excellence Track, you benefit from an extended range of courses, as you can attend Algebra classes at all four partner universities.
A list of all eligible past and present Excellence Track in Algebra courses offered by the partner universities can be found here.

The GAUS AGs are part of the Collaborative Research Center GAUS and are intended for more advanced participants.

Each term certain courses will be featured with recordings accessible for later viewing or in a hybrid format.
This term these are Seminar on Characteristic classes by Milnor-Stasheff (Darmstadt) and tba.

Summer Term 2026

Darmstadt

Topology/ Timo Richarz/ Fridays, 9:50-11:30 (lecture) and bi-weekly exercise/ English
Higher Algebra/ Chirantan Chowdhury/ Thursday, 9:50- 11:30, English
Seminar on Characteristic classes by Milnor-Stasheff/ Sabrina Pauli/ Monday 13:30-15:10/ English, hybrid

Frankfurt

Riemann Surfaces 2 (Abelian varieties)/ Martin Möller/ Wednesday 12:00-14:00 (lecture), Tuesday 14:00-16:00 (exercise)/ English upon request

Heidelberg

Algebraische Zahlentheorie 2/ Alexander Schmidt/ Wednesday 9:00-11:00 and Friday 9:00-11:00 (lectures)/ German
Étale cohomology II/ Alberto Merici/ Tuesday 11:00 – 13:00 and Thursday 11:00 – 13:00/ English

Mainz

Perfectoid Spaces/ Georg Tamme/ Tuesday and Friday 10:00-12:00

Winter Term 2025/ 2026

Darmstadt

Algebraic Geometry II / Timo Richarz/ Tuesday 9:50-11:30 (lecture) and bi-weekly Friday 9:50-11:30 (exercise)/ English, hybrid/ recordings
Tame Local Langlands (GAUS AG-advanced)/ Timo Richarz and Torsten Wedhorn/ Tuesday 14:00 – 15:30 (seminar), English, hybrid
Algebraic Topology/ Sabrina Pauli/ Monday 15:20-17:00, Wednesday 08:00-09:40 (lectures) and Friday 13:30-15:10 (exercise)/ English

Frankfurt

Riemannsche Flächen/ Martin Möller/ Monday 12:00-14:00 and Thursday 12:00-14:00 (lectures), Tuesday 14:00-16:00 (exercise), German
Algebraische Geometrie 1/ Alex Küronya/ Wednesday 12:00-14:00 and Thursday 14:00-16:00 (lectures), Tuesday 12:00-14:00 (exercise), German
Scientific Talks/ Katharina Hübner/ Monday 10:15-12:00 (seminar), English
p-adic Simpson correspondence (GAUS AG-advanced)/ Magnus Carlson and Ruth Wild/ Frankfurt
Noether-Lefschetz loci in A_g and modularity (GAUS AG-advanced)/ Jan Brunier, Martin Möller, Riccardo Zuffetti/ Monday 15:15-17:45, alternating between Frankfurt, Darmstadt

Heidelberg

Non-Archimedean Geometry/ Judith Ludwig and Alireza Shavali Tuesday 9:00-11:00, Thursday 9:00-11:00 (lectures), Wednesday 16:00-18:00 (exercises)/ English
Modular Forms and Sphere Packings/ Junyan Xu/ Tuesday 14:00- 16:00 (seminar)/ English
Algebraische Zahlentheorie 1/ Alexander Schmidt/ Wednesday 9:15-10:45 and Friday 9:15-10:45 (lectures), Wednesday 14:00-16:00 (exercise)/ German
Étale cohomology I/ Alberto Merici/ Tuesday 11:00 – 13:00 and Thursday 11:00 – 13:00/ English
Higher algebra (GAUS AG-advanced)/ Rustam Steingart and Marvin Schneider/ Thursday 11:15/ hybrid
Konstruktion von Galoisüberlagerungen mithilfe starr-analytischer Verklebung (GAUS AG)/ Alexander Schmidt/ Friday 13:30-15:00

Mainz

Algebraic Number Theory III/ Georg Tamme/ Tuesday and Friday 10:00-12:00
Serre’s problem on projective modules/ Georg Tamme/ Tuesday 14:00-16:00 (seminar)
Theory of Schemes/ Lorenzo Mantovani/ Monday and Wednesday 14:00-16:00/ English

Summer Term 2025