"Mathematics Münster" tackles fundamentally important mathematical problems and views mathematics as an organic whole with countless interactions. The research comprises three major approaches: focusing on the underlying structure of a given problem, taking the geometric viewpoint and studying the relevant dynamics of group or semigroup actions.

Spokespersons: Prof Dr Thomas Nikolaus and Prof Dr Mario Ohlberger (FB 10)
Participating institutes: Institute for Analysis and Numerics, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Institute for Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Mathematical Institute
 

The Cluster of Excellence has been investigating the complex relationship between religion and politics across eras and cultures since 2007. As of 2019, some 140 researchers from 20 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been focusing their efforts on the “dynamics of tradition and innovation”. In the context of transepochal studies ranging from antiquity to the present day, they analyse the conditions and factors that make religion an engine of political and social change, with particular focus on the paradox that religions often develop their innovative potential precisely by drawing on their traditions.

Spokepersons: Prof Dr Michael Seewald (FB 2) and Prof Dr Ines Michalowski (FB 6)
Participating disciplines: history, law, political studies, sociology of religion, religious studies, Catholic, Protestant, orthodox and Islamic theology, classical and modern philology, philosophy, art history, Arabic studies, ethnology, ancient Middle Eastern studies, archaeology, Egyptology, Jewish studies, Byzantine studies, musicology and book studies of the University of Münster