The Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (EIM) at Paderborn University bid farewell to Prof Dr Michael Dellnitz at a celebratory colloquium. On Friday, 28 March, numerous guests from the worlds of science, research and Paderborn's urban society came together to honour the long-standing dean of the faculty and renowned mathematician.
The event offered a comprehensive review of Prof Dellnitz's impressive academic career. His role as initiator and long-standing chairman of the Paderborn Institute for Industrial Mathematics, which has made a significant contribution to successful cooperation between science and industry over the last two decades, was particularly emphasised. "With the departure of Prof. Dr. Dellnitz from active university service, we are not only losing an outstanding scientist and colleague, but also a personality who has shaped our faculty in a special way," emphasised Prof. Dr. Jürgen Klüners, Dean of the faculty.
Prof. Dr Johannes Blömer, who was still Vice President for Research and Junior Academics at the time, as well as Prof. Dr Balázs Kovács from the Institute of Mathematics and lawyer Dr Andreas Jolmes also gave welcoming speeches. In addition, Prof Dr Oliver Junge from the Technical University of Munich and Prof Dr Christof Schütte from the Free University of Berlin and President of the Zuse Institute Berlin gave lectures on Prof Dellnitz's research topics. They emphasised not only his scientific achievements, but also the important role that Dellnitz has played in the development and promotion of the Department of Applied Mathematics at Paderborn University. The event was accompanied by music from Ulrich Lettermann and Eckard Wiemann from the subject area of music.
About Prof Dr Michael Dellnitz
After completing his doctorate in Hamburg (1989), spending several years as a postdoc in the USA and working as a professor at the University of Bayreuth (from 1995), Prof Dellnitz was appointed to the Chair of Applied Mathematics at Paderborn University in 1998. He was a member of the university's research and ethics committees for several years. From 2006 to 2008, Prof Dellnitz was Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.
The researcher conducts research in the fields of dynamic systems and optimisation. In this context, he was involved in various DFG Collaborative Research Centres and was also the spokesperson for a DFG Research Training Group on the subject of "Scientific Computing". To coordinate such projects, Prof Dellnitz became chairman of the Paderborn Institute for Industrial Mathematics 20 years ago. He was co-editor of several specialist journals, in particular the first Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Journal of Computational Dynamics". He was also a Fellow of the Zuse Institute in Berlin and John von Neumann Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich.
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