Bio
Horst Thieme works in the fields of differential, difference and integral equations and of dynamical systems. Main areas of application are population dynamics and the dynamics of infectious diseases, with an emphasis on conditions for population persistence and extinction. A recent specific interest is the persistence of structured populations with two sexes and its relation to eigenvalues of harmonic maps.
Thieme has authored an undergraduate/graduate text on mathematics in population biology and coauthored an advanced graduate text on population persistence and dynamical systems.
Education
PhD, 1976, University of Heidelberg, Germany
(Doctorate in Natural Sciences at the Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Germany)
The banner in this portfolio shows the Schloss Münster, officially Fürstbischöfliches Schloss Münster, built as the residence of the duke-bishop of Münster, Germany. It was built between 1767 and 1787 in baroque style as a mansion for the last but one prince-bishop Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels. The architect was Johann Conrad Schlaun. Since 1954 it has been the seat and landmark of the Westphalian Wilhelms University. The castle is built from the typical Baumberger sandstone of Münster.
It was in this building, in 1968, that Horst Thieme took his first mathematics course.
Horst Thieme's faculty webpage
Horst Thieme works in the fields of differential, difference and integral equations and of dynamical systems. Main areas of application are population dynamics and the dynamics of infectious diseases, with an emphasis on conditions for population persistence and extinction. A recent specific interest is the persistence of structured populations with two sexes and its relation to eigenvalues of harmonic maps.
Thieme has authored an undergraduate/graduate text on mathematics in population biology and coauthored an advanced graduate text on population persistence and dynamical systems.
Education
PhD, 1976, University of Heidelberg, Germany
(Doctorate in Natural Sciences at the Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Germany)
The banner in this portfolio shows the Schloss Münster, officially Fürstbischöfliches Schloss Münster, built as the residence of the duke-bishop of Münster, Germany. It was built between 1767 and 1787 in baroque style as a mansion for the last but one prince-bishop Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels. The architect was Johann Conrad Schlaun. Since 1954 it has been the seat and landmark of the Westphalian Wilhelms University. The castle is built from the typical Baumberger sandstone of Münster.
It was in this building, in 1968, that Horst Thieme took his first mathematics course.
Horst Thieme's faculty webpage