Tassilo Küpper

Tassilo Georg Klemens Küpper (born April 19, 1947 in Düsseldorf ) is a German mathematician. From 2001 to 2005 he was rector of the University of Cologne .

Life

Küpper studied mathematics and physics at the University of Cologne . In 1974 he became a member of the Catholic student union AV Hansea (Berlin) in Cologne in the CV . Kuepper was founded in 1974 with the work Einschließungsaussagen for linear ordinary differential operators with Johann Schröder doctorate . In 1979 he completed his habilitation. Küpper then taught in 1980 as a visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld and in 1981 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Several years of research followed as a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at various US universities, including a. in Stanford , the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena , the University of Arizona in Tucson and the Mathematic Research Center (MRC) of the University of Wisconsin in Madison .

Since 1982 he has been a full professor of numerical mathematics at the University of Dortmund . In 1986, the reputation of the Department of Applied Analysis at the University of Hanover before 1990 to the University of Cologne as professor returned Applied Mathematics. From 1995 to 1997 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and in 1997 First Vice Rector for Planning and Finance at Cologne University. In 2001 Tassilo Küpper succeeded Jens Peter Meincke as the 48th rector of the University of Cologne. Under his aegis, comprehensive future-oriented measures and restructuring were initiated at the university. In 2002 Küpper was a founding member of the KölnAlumni association. In 2005, Axel Freimuth became his successor.

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The main research areas of Küpper include the theory of branching and dynamic systems ( analysis and numerics ). Long before the China boom of the 2000s, Tassilo Küpper was in close contact with Chinese universities and scientists. In 1988 he became an honorary professor at Jilin University (JLU) in Changchun in northeast China.

For many years Küpper was a member of the state jury for youth research . Küpper is a member of the honorary council of the Cologne city council and is involved in a number of other scientific, economic and social bodies.

Fonts

• With Hans D. Mittelmann, Helmut Weber: Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems , Birkhäuser Basel 1984, ISBN 3764316276
• With Rüdiger U. Seydel, Hans Troger: Bifurcation: Analysis, Algorithms, Applications , Birkhäuser Basel 1998, ISBN 3764317981
• With Kristina Engelhard, Dagmar Herrmann: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Life work effect - memorial to the 200th anniversary of death , Kirsch 2004, ISBN 3933586399
• Demographic change as a source of innovation for business and society , Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation 2005, ISBN 3980920623

Web links

Wikiquote: Tassilo Küpper  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Tassilo Küpper in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Cologne as the flagship of the Rhineland" (taz interview) ( Memento from July 28, 2002 in the Internet Archive )