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 (for more details see here):
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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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Long-Term 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, and IHES Bures-sur-Yvette
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2006
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Senior Scientist, Fields Institute,
Toronto/CA
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2012
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Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, NY,
and ICERM, Providence, RI
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Conferences Organized (for more details see here):
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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, October 2008 (with Mikhail Lyubich,
Carsten Petersen, and John Smillie)
Dynamical Developments, Bremen,
August 2015 (with Xavier Buff and Sarah Koch)
Ergodic theory and holomorphic
dynamics, ESI Vienna, September 2015 (with Anna Benini, Henk
Bruin, and Sebastian van Strien)
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Building Mathematical Bridges (for more details see here):
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International Mathematical Olympiad IMO
2009 Bremen (with BMBF and Bildung und Begabung; Dieter
Gronau/Rostock and Heiner Langmann/Bonn)
"Modern Mathematics" International
Summer School for Students, 2011 Bremen, 2012 Lyon/France,
2013 Bremen, 2014 Lyon/France, 2015 Bremen (with Etienne Ghys/Lyon,
Victor Kleptsyn/Rennes, Sergei Tabachnikov/Providence)
International Tournament for Young
Mathematicians ITYM 2014 Bremen (with Mikhail Hlushchanka,
Marcel Oliver, and Palina Salanevich)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013, 2014,
2014 Heidelberg (member of Scientific
Committee)
Special Activities:
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Co-Organizer, All-German Mathematical
Olympiad 2003, Bremen
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Selected Academic
Publications (for more details see here):
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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, in preparation (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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Dierk Schleicher and Malte Lackmann (ed.):
An Invitation to Mathematics. Contributors include Bela
Bollobas, Timothy Gowers, Laszlo Lovasz, Stanislav Smirnov, Terence
Tao, Nick Trefethen, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Günter Ziegler
Springer Verlag (2011), 220pp.
German translation: Eine Einladung in die Mathematik.
Springer Verlag (2012), 228pp.
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