General conditions:

• The BMS offers a limited number of office spaces with lockable desks to its students. If you would like to have an office, contact the BMS Office!

• If you want to get an office and there is no free one, you will be put on a waiting list until one becomes free (e.g. when one office holder proceeds to Phase II and leaves his/her office). Feel free to ask the BMS Office regularly if there is any development with the waiting list.

• Note: offices often become free during the semester, not only in the summer breaks! Typically, there are not enough offices for every Phase I student from the beginning, but by the end of first year almost everybody who wants an office will have one.

• Phase II students usually have their offices at the research group of their supervisor. These offices are mainly for Phase I students. Phase I students can also have offices. Independently of where you are enrolled, you may also get an office at the BMS lounge of another university.

• The responsible staff member is the BMS Liaison Officer of your university. Not only for the offices but for everything else related to the corresponding university.

• Independently of having an office or not, all BMS students can use the BMS Lounges at all three universities and meet other BMS members there, when the lounges are open (see below).

• Request of the BMS Office: In the shared kitchens there is no cleaning staff. Please wash your plates, cups and cutlery after yourself, and put them back to the cupboard! :)

Location of the offices, opening hours of the lounges

• TU:

  • There are several shared offices with lockable desks for 3-5 people, cupboard and blackboard. Usually students from different generations of the BMS share an office. Located on the third floor of the math building, on the same site of the building as the BMS Office but one floor above

  • BMS Lounge: Directly next to the BMS office in the second floor. There are also computers available for all BMS students. There is a tea kitchen with a microwave. The BMS Lounge is open on weekdays (apart from public holidays) according to the working hours of the BMS Office. Printing is also possible at BMS, copying is not. Scanning is allowed for free at the library, on the 1st floor of the building.

  • If you have an office space at TU or you are a TU student, the doormen will let you enter the TU math building also apart from the opening hours, after 10pm on weekdays and during the whole weekend. So if you have an office, you can also enter the BMS lounge and your office.

  • If you have neither an office at TU nor a TU student ID, it may happen that they don't let you in outside the opening hours.

• HU: in the BMS lounge in the math building Rudower Chausse 25.

  • These are cca. 10 single offices with personal computers.

  • The BMS lounge is open for all BMS students. Printing is possible similarly to TU, and there is a proper kitchen. But outside the working hours of the BMS Office (Shirley), it may be closed if no students are working there. During the semester on weekdays it is mostly open.

  • If you have an office, you can enter the building late in the evenings and on the weekends.

• FU: The use of the BMS Lounge on the groundfloor of Building Pi (Arnimallee 3) is limited.

  • In principle, the FU BMS lounge is open on weekdays throughout the year. There is a small tea kitchen and some place for studying and discussing.

  • There is a small number of shared offices with lockable desks, and they don't really belong to the BMS but rather to research groups. Some Phase I students who already work together with some research group (e.g. Dynamical Systems) have offices at FU.

  • Nevertheless, FU is a really nice place! :) Several Phase I students enrolled at FU have offices at TU. The travelling time between the two universities is a bit more than 30 minutes.

  • Students representatives also has a joint office at TU where they put stuff required for social activities. However, one student representative fits there to study etc. Who gets that space depends on the mutual decision of the students representatives among themselves.