Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Ruffing

Mailing Address / Dienstanschrift: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Ruffing Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mathematik Zentrum Mathematik Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3, Zi.03.04.061 D-85747 Garching Germany Tel. +49 (89) 289-16826 Fax. +49 (89) 289-16837 zur Fakultät für Informatik der TU München

Email: ruffing@ma.tum.de

Position

• Assistant Professor / Head of the AbiTUMath Program at TUM

Research Areas / Forschungs- und Interessengebiete

• Difference Equations and Functional Analysis
• Spectral Properties of Schrödinger Difference Operators
• Basic Partial Difference Schemes
• Numerical Methods in Discrete Schrödinger Theory
• Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials
• Moment Problems / Birth and Death Processes

Selected Publications and Preprints

Current Research Projects / Forschungsprojekte             Organizer to Intl. Congress 2005

• Basic Partial Difference Equations
• Basic Schrödinger Difference Operators and their Spectral Properties
• Discretization Methods for Schrödinger Operators
• Moment Problems in Context of Birth and Death Processes

Upcoming Events / Present Events

• AMS Mathematics Calendar

Links to Journals / Fachzeitschriften

• Communications in Mathematical Physics (CMP)
• Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM)
• Constructive Approximation (CA)
• Journal of Mathematical Physics (JMP)
• Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA)
• Letters in Mathematical Physics (LMP)
• Journal of Difference Equations
• Progress of Theoretical Physics (PTP)
• Advances in Difference Equations (ADE)
• Dynamics Systems and Applications
• Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems (NPCS)
• Mathematics Journals in General

Teaching / Lehrtätigkeiten             AbiTUMath Program

• Lectures on Symmetry Phenomena of Partial Differential Equations, 2007/2008
• Lectures on Mathematical Foundations in Quantum Mechanics, 2007
• Exercises Analysis 1 for Physicists, 2007/2008
• Seminar on Methods in Functional Analysis, 2007
• Proseminar on Methods in Linear Algebra, 2007
• Exercises Functional Analysis, 2005/2006
• Seminar on String Theory and Geometric Methods in Physics, 2005
• Exercises Analysis 3 for Physicists, 2004/2005
• Visiting Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A., 2004
• Exercises on Partial Differential Equations, 2003
• Exercises on Partial Differential Equations, 2002/2003
• Exercises Analysis 2 for Physicists, 2002
• Easter Academy 2002, AbiTUMath, Abbacy of Novacella, April 2002
• Exercises on Analysis 3, 2001/2002
• Lectures on Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics, 2001
• Exercises on Analysis 4, 2001
• Easter Academy 2001, AbiTUMath, Abbacy of Novacella, April 2001
• Seminar on Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Kleinwalsertal, together with Wilhelm Merz, March 2001
• Organizer of the Christmas Seminar on "General Relativity", Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge/Germany, December 2000
• Exercises on Analysis 3, 2000/2001
• Organizer of the Autumn School on "Basic Concepts in Functional Analysis and Operator Theory", Novacella, Italy, October 2000
• Assistant to "The Summer Academy of TU München and U Erlangen", Val Sarentino, Italy, September 2000
• Organizer of the Easter Seminar on "Elementary Methods in Analysis and Stochastics", Novacella, Italy, April 2000
• Exercises on Analysis 2, 2000
• Exercises on Analysis 1, 1999/2000
• Exercises to Partial Differential Equations, 1998/1999
• An Introduction to Distributions, Tutorial, 1998/1999

• 1992 Diploma at the University of Karlsruhe (mit Auszeichnung)
• 1992 Bernhard Riemann Honor Award by the Town Verbania
• 1992 PhD Student Fellowship of the Max Planck Society (for three years)
• 1993 Research Visit at the University of Amsterdam , The Netherlands (June/July)
• 1996 PhD at Ludwig Maximilians University in München
• 1997 Research Visit at the Schrödinger Institute in Wien, Austria (October)
• 1998 Research Period at Harvard University , Cambridge, U.S.A. (March/May)
• 1998 Assistant Professor at Munich University of Technology
• 1999 Participant in the "Habilitanden-Ausbildungsprogramm Prolehre 1999"
• 2000 Director of the Program AbiTUMath at Munich University of Technology
• 2004 Visiting Professor at Arizona State University
• 2004 Opening of the Habilitation Procedure at Munich University of Technology, Department of Mathematics
• 2006 Habilitation in Mathematics at Munich University of Technology, Department of Mathematics
• 2006 Privatdozent at Munich University of Technology, Department of Mathematics

Some Special Links

• American Mathematical Society
• European Mathematical Society
• International Society on Difference Equations
• SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
• Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)
• Arizona State University, Department of Mathematics
• Harvard University, Department of Mathematics
• Center of Advanced European Studies and Research / CAESAR, Bonn
• Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
• Mathematisches Forschungszentrum, Oberwolfach
• Weierstrass Institute, Berlin
• Carl von Linde-Akademie
• Elite-Studiengang TopMath
• Monastery of Novacella / Italy
• Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Maribor

Privata

• married with Veronika Ruffing since 18th July 1996
• one daughter - Julia - born on 16th January 1999
• one son - Bernhard - born on 23rd November 2000

Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mathematik
der TU München