Prof. Dr. Andreas Schadschneider

Contact

Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 77 D-50937 Köln, Germany Phone: +49-221-470-4312 Fax: +49-221-470-5159 Room: 112a e-mail: as@thp.uni-koeln.de

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Institute of Physics and its Didactics University of Cologne Gronewaldstr. 2 D-50931 Köln, Germany Phone: +49-221-470-1395 Fax: +49-221-470-5962 Room: 212 e-mail: as@thp.uni-koeln.de

News

A. Schadschneider, D. Chowdhury, K. Nishinari: Stochastic Transport in Complex Systems: From Molecules to Vehicles (Elsevier 2010) Table of Contents




W. Klingsch, C. Rogsch, A. Schadschneider, M. Schreckenberg (Eds.): Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008 (Springer 2010) Table of Contents




Andreas Schadschneider, T. Pöschel, R. Kühne, M. Schreckenberg, D.E. Wolf (Eds.): Traffic and Granular Flow '05 (Springer 2007) Table of Contents



• Article in Physics World on evacuations
• TV: Die große Show der Naturwunder (ARD, 5.8.2010, 20:15)
• TV: Q21 (WDR, Tuesday 13.6.06, 21:00) with report about our work on traffic jams and ant traffic
• TV: Hessischer Rundfunk "Alles wissen"
  
• TV: Kopfball (ARD, Sunday 28.5.06, 11:03) with our exciting experiment showing spontaneous jam formation!
• Article from WDR online about our research on ants and traffic flow
• Albertus-Magnus Teaching Award

Research

• Stochastic Processes, Nonequilibrium Systems
• Traffic Flow Theory
• Stochastic Models for Interdisciplinary Problems (Pedestrian Dynamics, Biological Applications, Ants)
• Stochastic Resonance and Ratchet Systems
• Fermion models in Condensed Matter Physics
• Exact Results (Bethe Ansatz, Optimum Ground States)
• Exact Diagonalization and DMRG
• Spin Chains

Research Projects

1. DFG-Project on Jamming in Pedestrian Streams
2. HERMES (Investigation of an evacuation assistant for use in emergencies during large-scale public events)
3. SFB 608 (Complex Transition Metal Compounds with Spin and Charge Degrees of Freedom and Disorder)
4. Interdisciplinary Center for Complex Systems (IZKS)
5. PedNet (Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics NETwork)

Publications

Teaching

Personal information

• Habilitation: February 2000.
• Promotion: October 1991.
• Diplom: October 1988.

• Post-Doc: 1994 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (USA).
• Member of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 341 (1992-2000).
• Scientific Secretary of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 341 (1995-2000).
• Member of the Sonderforschungsbereiches (SFB) 608 (since 2001).

Further Reading

1. Habilitation Thesis:
   Diskrete stochastische Systeme in niedrigen Dimensionen: Die Physik des Straßenverkehrs
2. Doctoral Thesis:
   Über die Spektren exakt lösbarer Modelle korrelierter Fermionen
3. Diploma Thesis:
   Die Invertierungsrelationsmethode: Der Phasenübergang des Potts-Modells und das Spektrum des Hubbard-Modells

Links

• The Bundesliga-Competition of the Institute for Theoretical Physics
• 1. FC Köln
• Major League Baseball
• Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
• Porcupine Tree
• Klaus Schulze
• Radio Massacre International