Prof. Dr. Andreas Schadschneider

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 since 1992.
• Scientific Secretary of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 341 since 1995.
• Member of the Sonderforschungsbereiches (SFB) 608 (since 2001).

Contact

Address: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49-221-470-4312
Fax: +49-221-470-5159
Room: 112a
e-mail: as@thp.uni-koeln.de

News

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

• Albertus-Magnus Teaching Award
• TV: Q21 (WDR, Tuesday 13.6.06, 21:00) with report about our work on traffic jams and ant traffic
• TV: Kopfball (ARD, Sunday 28.5.06, 11:03) with our exciting experiment showing spontaneous jam formation!
• Conference: Traffic and Granular Flow '05
• Article from WDR online about our research on ants and traffic flow

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. SFB 608 (Complex Transition Metal Compounds with Spin and Charge Degrees of Freedom and Disorder)
2. Interdisziplinary Center for Complex Systems (IZKS)
3. PedNet (Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics NETwork)

Publications

Teaching

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