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I grew up in
Uhwiesen[map]
near the rheinfalls[map]
in Switzerland. After a matura of humanistic Type A
(classical language latin) at the
Kantonsschule
in Schaffhausen[map],
I made a Diploma (BA degree) in Mathematics at the ETH Zürich
[map] (Here is a course list). The diploma
theses (= senior theses) "On a linked twist map in the
Stoermer problem" (scan)
was advised by J. Moser.
I made my military duties in the
Swiss army as a M109 tank driver[map] in the artillery and in the cryptology group. During a postgraduate visit at
Technion in Haifa
[map]
with a Uscher-Wolf fellowship I met my wife Ruth.
My theses at the ETH Zürich (born about
at the same time as our son Ben) had
the title
"Spectral, ergodic and cohomological problems in dynamical systems" and
was advised by
O. Lanford III . After three years in Pasadena [map] at Caltech[map] as a Taussky-Todd
instructor, and one year at the University of Arizona
[map]
in Tucson as a Hanno-Rund visiting assistant professor, I was a
Swiss National Science foundation
fellow at the University of Texas[map] in Austin. I prolonged my stay at UT [map] for one more year as a
Research Eng./Sci. assistant at the
Institute for Fusion Studies
before coming to Harvard University[map] as a Preceptor in the Mathematics department.
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