Professor Stefan Glock
"I've always been interested in mathematics. The longer a problem has resisted a solution, the more appealing I find it to deal with it. You usually realize relatively quickly why it is so difficult. But sometimes you have an idea that nobody has had before, and then it gets exciting! Of course, even more important than solving a specific problem are the new methods that you have to develop for it, which can then have far-reaching effects on the entire field of research."
More on his Research
The core areas of Prof. Dr. Stefan Glock's research are Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Ramsey Theory. The highlights of his research to date include the solution of several long-standing open mathematical problems, in particular
- the existence problem of Steiner systems posed by the geometer Jakob Steiner in 1853 (second proof)
- the "Oberwolfach problem" by Ringel from 1967
- a conjecture by Erdős and Lovász from 1973 about the intersection properties of hypergraphs
- a problem from the 80s about the largest "hole" in random graphs
- a conjecture by Chung, Diaconis and Graham from 1989 about Euler tours
To the publications of Professor Stefan Glock.
This text was machine-translated from German.
