Paderborn University
Paderborn University (German: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the wintersemester 2016/2017. It offers 62 different degree programmes.
The university has several winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and ERC grant recipients of the European Research Council. Furthermore, in 2002, the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu proved the Catalan conjecture, a number-theoretical conjecture, formulated by the French and Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, which had stood unresolved for 158 years.
Further , The University Continues to build on its reputation as a strong research ground for Computer Science and Mathematics as one of the Top Tier in Germany and all of Europe and World. Proof to this statement is the recent World record at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn where "Optical data transmission at 128 gigabits per second" was Achieved.
