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fax: +49-651-201-3805

email: baum@uni-trier.de

Professor Baum has held the first chair for mathematical computer science at the University of Trier until 2003. His more recent main research and teaching areas have been queueing theory, matrix analytic methods, and performance analysis of computer and communication networks.

Educated in mathematics and theoretical physics at the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin Professor Baum, as a specialist now for queueing theoretical analyses of computer communication networks, has always been interested in both, pure mathematical and computer science related problems. He investigated aspects of network and communication systems performance as well as questions related to convex geometry, special stochastic processes, and the structural stability of dynamical systems. At his beginning in 1966 he joined the Hahn-Meitner-Institute for Nuclear Research in Berlin, where he worked for several years as a scientific staff member being responsible for, among others, the computer networking activities of the HMI. After a one year guest stay in the United States (Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon), he joined the University of Dortmund as a professor for technical computer science (subject  ”computer networks and analytical modelling”). In 1984, he finally accepted a call to the University of Trier, where he teached until retirement.