Wolfgang Kliemann, professor of mathematics at Iowa State University, has been named chair of the Department of Mathematics effective July 1, 2008. He replaces Justin Peters who has completed his term and will return to the faculty.
Kliemann joined the Iowa State mathematics faculty in 1983 after research positions at the University of Bremen, Germany and postdoctoral work both the Mathematics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the Institute for Physics of Fluids in Madrid, Spain.
At Iowa State, Kliemann was promoted to full professor in 1992 and has previously served as the associate chair for graduate students in the Department of Mathematics. He was also an associate dean for research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an associate vice provost for research at Iowa State for four years.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, served as an LAS Master Teacher for large lecture expertise in 1999 and has received both an ISU Teaching Excellence Award and an LAS Award for Excellence in Research.
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests include deterministic and stochastic nonlinear systems theory, in particular dynamical systems, skew product flows, stochastic systems, control systems and their interconnections with applications in engineering and the natural sciences.
He holds a doctorate in mathematics from Universitat Berman in Germany.
Wolfgang Kliemann
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