Prof. Dr. Dierk Schleicher, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
School of
Engineering and Science
Mathematics
Street Address:
Campus Ring 12
28759 Bremen
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Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 750 561
28725 Bremen
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+49 421 200-3213 |
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+49 421 200-3103 |
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dierk(remove-for-spam)@jacobs-university.de |
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Research I, Room 115 |
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Featured as Math Activist of the Month (July 2009) by the
German Mathematical
Society.
Note: Looking for a young graduate student in
Mathematics. Attractive funding for financial support may be
available. Requirements: strong background and interest in
mathematics, commitment to research, Bachelor degree or equivalent
(at least 3 years of strong university education).
University Degrees:
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B.Sc. Computer Science, University Hamburg,
1988
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M.Sc. Physics (Diplom), University Hamburg,
1991
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M.Sc. Mathematics, Cornell University,
1992
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Ph.D. Mathematics, Cornell University,
1994
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Habilitation, Mathematics, Techn. Univ.
München 1999
High School Competitions and Awards:
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Bundessieger, Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik
1983
5. Bundessieger, Bundeswettbewerb Jugend
Forscht 1982
Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes 1984-1994
University Fellow, Siemens AG,
1983-1992
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Research Interests:
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Dynamical Systems, in particular holomorphic
and symbolic dynamics
Conformal Geometry, Fractal
Geometry
Complex Variables
Newton's method as root finder
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Academic Visits and Appointments:
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1998
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Visiting Student, Princeton/NJ
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1990-1994
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Graduate Student, Cornell
University/NY
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1992-1993
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Visiting Scientist, IHES Bures-sur-Yvette
near Paris, France
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1994-1995
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Postdoctoral Scientist, MSRI,
Berkeley/California
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1995-1999
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Asst. Professor (Wissenschaftlicher
Assistent), Techn. Univ. München
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1997
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Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony
Brook/NY
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2000
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Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony
Brook/NY
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2000-2001
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Acting Full Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung),
LMU Univ. München
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2001-today
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Full Professor of Mathematics,
International/Jacobs Univ. Bremen
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2002
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Scientist-in-residence,
Mittag-Leffler-Institute, Djursholm/Stockholm
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2003
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Visiting Professor, Institut Henri Poincare,
Paris/France
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2006
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Senior Scientist, Fields Institute,
Toronto/CA
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Conferences Organized:
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Transcendental Days, Institute
Henri Poincare, Paris, 2003 (with Adrien Douady)
Complex Dynamics, Hyperbolic Geometry,
and Continued Fractions, CIRM Luminy, 2006 (with Adrien
Douady)
Aspects of Transcendental Dynamics,
Bremen, June 2008 (with Walter Bergweiler)
Trends and Developments in Complex
Dynamics, Oberwolfach (with Mikhail Lyubich, Carsten Petersen,
and John Smillie)
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Special Activities:
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Co-Organizer, All-German Mathematical
Olympiad 2003, Bremen
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Selected Academic Publications:
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John Hubbard, Dierk Schleicher and Scott
Sutherland: How to Find All Roots of Complex Polynomials With
Newton's Method, Inventiones Mathematicae 146 (2001),
1-33. Featured Review in MathSciNet
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Dierk Schleicher: External Rays of the
Mandelbrot Set. Astérisque 261 (2000),
409-447.
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Dierk Schleicher and Johannes Zimmer:
Escaping Points of Exponential Maps. Journal of the London
Mathematical Society (2) 67 (2003), 380-400.
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Dierk Schleicher: The dynamical fine
structure of iterated cosine maps and a dimension paradox. Duke
Mathematics Journal 136 2 (2007), 343-356.
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Lasse Rempe and Dierk Schleicher:
Bifurcations in the space of exponential maps. Inventiones
Mathematicae (2009).
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John Hubbard, Dierk Schleicher, and
Mitsuhiro Shishikura: Exponential Thurston maps and limits of
quadratic differentials. Journal of the American Mathematical
Society 22 (2009), 77-117.
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Günter Rottenfußer, Johannes
Rückert, Lasse Rempe, and Dierk Schleicher: Dynamic rays of
bounded-type entire functions. Annals of Mathematics, 173
1 (2011), 77-125.
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Dierk Schleicher: Hausdorff dimension, its
properties, and its surprises. American Mathematical
Monthly, 114 6 (2007), 509-528.
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Henk Bruin, Alexandra Kaffl, and Dierk Schleicher:
Symbolic Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials. Monograph, to
appear (approx. 380 pp.) Old Preprint Version: Institute
Mittag-Leffler Report, Djursholm 7 (2001/02). (128 pp.)
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Dierk Schleicher (ed.): Complex Dynamics:
Friends and Families. Contributors include William Thurston,
Mikhail Lyubich, Mitsuhiro Shishikura, John Milnor, and others.
A.K. Peters (2009), 650pp.
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