Michael Kraemer
My name is Michael Kraemer. I am from Karlsruhe in Southern Germany and received my diplome in mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in 1991. For seven years I worked as systems administrator and database programmer for the Gesellschaft fuer integrierte Systemplanung in Weinheim, Germany. My work was in workflow management, document retrieval and access control within a software package used by several large power plants in Germany and Switzerland. In 1997 I followed the invitation of some American friends to enter a Ph.D. program in mathematics at the University of Montana in Missoula, where I worked with mathematical models for epidemiology and forestry. My Ph.D. thesis was about the age dynamics in a forest, modelling competition between trees of different species and age groups. After defending my thesis in 2001, I decided to pursue an old dream of mine to use my math skills in physics, and entered a second Ph.D. venture at Colorado State University. Since January 2002 I am working with the magnetics group here, being interested in instabilities and nonlinear damping for spinwaves with applications to fast switching for magnetic recording purposes. My experimental work in examining solitons in a ferrite thin film with an inductive probe continues the work of Dr. Mark Scott, to whom I am indebted for training me in the use of this delicate and precise equipment. Among my hobbies are long distance running, hiking, basketball and tennis.

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