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

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. His research interests include holomorphic dynamics and function theory. He currently holds the position of

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at the

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. He previously worked at the

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from 2006 to 2024, holding the "Shipowners' Chair" of Pure Mathematics from 2020 to 2024. Rempe recorded the voiceover for a

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feature on the art of mathematics, where he explained how certain pictures have arisen from

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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 university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

in 2000 and his doctorate at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

in Germany.

Awards

In June 2010, Rempe was awarded a

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by the

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for his work in

complex dynamics Complex dynamics, or holomorphic dynamics, is the study of dynamical systems obtained by Iterated function, iterating a complex analytic mapping. This article focuses on the case of algebraic dynamics, where a polynomial or rational function is it ...

, 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 ...

s. In 2012 he was awarded a

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize sche ...

. He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of

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s of the

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"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 Academics of the University of Manchester 21st-century German mathematicians Whitehead Prize winners Stony Brook University alumni University of Kiel alumni Scientists from Kiel Fellows of the American Mathematical Society