Hans Jürgen Prömel
Hans Jürgen Prömel (born September 16, 1953 in Bienen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German mathematician . From 2007 to 2019 he was President of the Technical University of Darmstadt .
Life
After graduating from high school in Emmerich, Prömel studied mathematics and economics at Bielefeld University from 1974 to 1979 . In 1982, he was in Bielefeld with a dissertation on Induced partition sets at Walter Deuber (1942 to 1999) to Dr. math. PhD . From 1984 to 1985 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1987 he completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a thesis in the field of Operations Research .
In 1988 he received a reputation as a Professor for Discrete Mathematics in Bonn; In 1994 he changed to the chair for algorithms and complexity at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU). His main areas of work are combinatorics, graph theory, probabilistic methods in mathematics and computer science, combinatorial optimization and the application of discrete algorithms in the natural and engineering sciences.
Offices and functions
At the HU he was chairman of the committee for research and young scientists of the academic senate from 1999 to 2000 as well as managing director of the institute for computer science. From 2000 to 2007, Prömel was a full-time Vice President for Research and was involved in the federal and state level excellence initiative . In 2005 he headed the HU as acting president.
In 2007 the university assembly of the TU Darmstadt elected him president. On October 1, 2007, he succeeded Johann-Dietrich Wörner . In 2013 he was confirmed for a second term until 2019. On October 1, 2019, he was replaced by the political scientist Tanja Brühl .
From October 2008 to 2010 he was the speaker of the Conference of the Hessian University Presidia (KHU). From 2008 to 2012 he was Vice President for Governance, Personnel Structures and Organization of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK). From 2011 to 2013 he was Vice President of TU9 . From January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2017, he was TU9 President. In 2013 Prömel was elected spokesman for ARGE TU.
Memberships
From 2001 to 2007, Prömel was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and from 2006 to 2007 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) in Berlin.
From 1999 to 2008 he was a member of the federal jury at the federal youth research competition , most recently as spokesman for the federal jury. He was a member of the Presidium of the German Mathematicians Association from 2002 to 2008. During this time he also chaired the administrative board of the Konrad-Zuse-Institut Berlin and was a member of the scientific council of the DFG research center MATHEON, responsible for the field of "Life Science". From 2001 to 2007 he was the spokesman for the research group “Algorithms, Structure and Chance” of the German Research Foundation DFG ; From 1997 to 2002 he was the spokesman for the specialist group "Discrete Mathematics" in the German Association of Mathematicians.
He has been on the Advisory Board of the Erich Becker Foundation since 2007, a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Science Management (ZWM) since 2007, a member of the University Council of the German-Vietnamese University in Ho Chi Minh City since 2009 and a member of the Society's Board of Trustees since 2010 to promote research transfer (GFFT). Prömel has been a member of the Presidium and Board of Directors of the House of IT since 2011. In the same year he was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) .
From 2010 to 2016 he was a member of the Lower Saxony Scientific Commission.
Since 2015 Prömel has been a member of the President's Advisory Council of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and since 2016 a member of the Board of Directors of Tongji University.
Honors
In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the École Centrale de Lyon .
Fonts
- Ernst Wilhelm Mayr , Hans Jürgen Prömel, Angelika Steger (eds.): Lectures on proof verification and approximation algorithms . Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-64201-3 ( digitized version )
- Bernhard Korte , László Lovász , Hans Jürgen Prömel, Alexander Schrijver (eds.): Paths, flows and VLSI layout . Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-52685-4
- The Steiner tree problem. A tour through graphs, algorithms, and complexity . Vieweg, Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-528-06762-4 , together with Angelika Steger
- Graph theory , Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg 2003 ( digitized version ( memento from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- Random graphs , Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg 2003 ( digitized version ( memento of February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Jürgen Prömel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Hans Jürgen Prömel ( Memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) TU Darmstadt
- “Fans can also die”. In: FAZ.net . July 23, 2007, accessed February 26, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rector Prof. Wolfram Ressel elected as the next President of the TU9 Alliance | Press release | 07/11/2017 | University of Stuttgart. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prömel, Hans Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bees (today: Rees ) |