Bernold Fiedler (born 15 May 1956) is a German mathematician, specializing in nonlinear dynamics.
Fiedler received a Diploma from
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...
in 1980 for his thesis ''Ein Räuber-Beute-System mit zwei time lags'' ("A predator-prey system with two time lags") and his doctorate with his thesis ''Stabilitätswechsel und globale Hopf-Verzweigung'' (Stability transformation and global Hopf bifurcation), written under the direction of
Willi Jäger
Willi Jäger (born 15 August 1940 in Křelovice (Plzeň-North District), Kschellowitz, Bohemia) is a German mathematician.
Education
He completed his PhD in 1966 the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Munich under the direc ...
. Fiedler is a professor at the Institute for Mathematics of the
Free University of Berlin
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[Prof. Dr. Bernold Fiedler, Free University Berlin]
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His research includes, among other topics, global bifurcation, global attractors, and patterning in reaction-diffusion equations (an area of research pioneered by Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer ...
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In 2008, Fiedler gave the Gauss Lecture with a talk titled "Aus Nichts wird nichts? Mathematik der Selbstorganisation". In 2002 he was, with Stefan Liebscher, an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Beijing, with a talk titled "Bifurcations without parameters: some ODE and PDE examples".]
Selected publications
Articles
*with S. B. Angenent: ''The dynamics of rotating waves in scalar reaction diffusion equations'', Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 307 (1988), 545–568
*with Peter Poláčik: "Complicated dynamics of scalar reaction diffusion equations with a nonlocal term." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics 115, no. 1–2 (1990): 167–192.
*with Shui-Nee Chow and Bo Deng: "Homoclinic bifurcation at resonant eigenvalues." Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations 2, no. 2 (1990): 177–244.
*with Carlos Rocha: ''Orbit equivalence of global attractors of semilinear parabolic differential equations'', Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 257–284
*''Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Patterns'', in M. Kirkilionis, S. Krömker, R. Rannacher, F. Tomi (eds.) ''Trends in Nonlinear Analysis, Festschrift dedicated to Willi Jäger for his 60th birthday'', Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 23–152.
*''Romeo und Julia, spontane Musterbildung und Turings Instabilität'', in Martin Aigner
Martin Aigner (28 February 1942 – 11 October 2023) was an Austrian mathematician and professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 1974 with interests in combinatorial mathematics and graph theory.
Biography
Martin Aigner was born on 28 Februar ...
, Ehrhard Behrends (eds.) ''Alles Mathematik. Von Pythagoras zum CD Player'', Vieweg, 3rd edition 2009
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20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Heidelberg University alumni
Free University of Berlin
1956 births
Living people