Christopher Deninger

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Christopher Deninger (born April 8, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German mathematician who deals with number theory and arithmetic-algebraic geometry .

Deninger in Oberwolfach 2005

Life

He studied from 1976 mathematics at the University of Cologne , where he received his diploma in 1980 and 1982 at Curt Meyer with the dissertation grid point theory of simplices and their connection with Diophantine approximation, generalized Dedekind sums and the holomorphic Lefschetz set doctorate was. 1983 to 1989 he was assistant to Jürgen Neukirch at the University of Regensburg , where he qualified as a professor in 1989. Deninger has been a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster since 1989 . From 1998 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center “Geometric Structures in Mathematics”. Since 2018 he has been the spokesman for the “Dynamics Geometry Structure” cluster of excellence.

He investigated a connection between dynamic systems and analytical number theory, about which he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 , and a possible cohomological interpretation of the explicit formulas of analytical number theory.

In 1992 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize together with Michael Rapoport , Peter Schneider and Thomas Zink . Since 2003 he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

His doctoral students include Annette Huber-Klawitter (Freiburg), Thomas Geisser (University of Southern California), Klaus Künnemann (Regensburg), Niko Naumann (Regensburg), Annette Werner (Frankfurt), Jörg Wildeshaus (University of Paris XIII) and Guido Kings (Regensburg).

Others

Deninger is an avowed fan of metal music and has been organizing free metal concerts in Münster every year since 2012. The motivation for this is not only his passion for the genre of music, but also an improvement in the public image of mathematics and the promotion of unknown bands. The first two concerts took place in the largest lecture hall of the mathematics faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . Due to its great success, the event has been taking place in front of the Münster castle since 2015 under the name "Das Schloss rockst".

Fonts

  • Higher regulators and Hecke -series of imaginary quadratic fields. I in: Invent. Math. , 96, 1989, no. 1, pp. 1-69; II in: Ann. of Math. , (2) 132, 1990, no. 1, pp. 131-158.
  • On the factors attached to motives . In: Invent. Math. , 104, 1991, no. 2, pp. 245-261.
  • Local factors of motives and regularized determinants . In: Invent. Math. , 107, 1992, no. 1, pp. 135-150.
  • Higher order operations in Deligne cohomology . In: Invent. Math. , 120, 1995, no. 2, pp. 289-315.
  • Deligne periods of mixed motives, theory and the entropy of certain actions . In: J. Amer. Math. Soc. , 10, 1997, no. 2, pp. 259-281.
  • Fuglede-Kadison determinants and entropy for actions of discrete amenable groups . In: J. Amer. Math. Soc. , 19, 2006, no. 3, pp. 737-758
  • Deninger: Analogies between analysis on foliated spaces and arithmetic geometry . 2007, arxiv : 0709.2801
  • Deninger: Number theory and dynamical systems on foliated spaces . In: Annual Report DMV 2001, arxiv : math / 0204110

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to biography in the list of new additions to the Leopoldina 2003
  2. ↑ Project details Cluster of Excellence 2044, Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure. German Research Foundation V., May 13, 2019, accessed on May 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Some analogies between analytic number theory and dynamical systems on foliated spaces. International Congress of Mathematicians 1998.
  4. ^ Evidence for cohomological approach to analytic number theory. 1st European Congress of Math. 1992.
  5. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Christopher Deninger: Rock in the lecture hall - A mathematician organizes a concert . Ed .: De Gruyter. January 2013.
  7. ↑ "This is going to be great". Press and Information Office of the University of Münster, June 5, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Deninger, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main