Lasse Rempe (born 20 January 1978) is a German mathematician born in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

. His research interests include holomorphic dynamics, function theory, continuum theory and

computational complexity theory In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other. A computational problem is a task solved ...

. He currently holds the position of

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for

Pure Mathematics Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, ...

, and Deputy Head of Department for REF at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. Rempe recorded the voiceover for a BBC feature on the art of mathematics, where he explained how certain pictures have arisen from

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water i ...

Name

From 2012 to 2020, he used the name Lasse Rempe-Gillen.

Early life and education

Rempe earned his Master of Arts degree in mathematics from

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system' ...

in 2000 and his doctorate at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

in Germany.

Awards

In June 2010, Rempe was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical ...

for his work in

complex dynamics Complex dynamics is the study of dynamical systems defined by iteration of functions on complex number spaces. Complex analytic dynamics is the study of the dynamics of specifically analytic functions. Techniques *General **Montel's theorem ** P ...

, in particular his research on the escaping set for

entire function In complex analysis, an entire function, also called an integral function, is a complex-valued function that is holomorphic on the whole complex plane. Typical examples of entire functions are polynomials and the exponential function, and any fin ...

s. In 2012 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of

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s of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meeting ...

"for contributions to complex dynamics and function theory, and for communication of mathematical research to broader audiences".2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS

, retrieved 2016-11-06.

Images

File:An Arnold standard map with two attractors of period 4.png, The dynamical plane of (the complexification of) the circle map, the simplest mathematical model of phase-locking phenomena. File:Exponential Parameter Space.png, This is a plot of parameter space for the complex exponential family, .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rempe, Lasse 1978 births Living people Academics of the University of Liverpool 21st-century German mathematicians Whitehead Prize winners Stony Brook University alumni University of Kiel alumni Scientists from Kiel Fellows of the American Mathematical Society