-- From: "Schlichting, Martina" <Martina.Schlichting(a)wu.ac.at> --
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SERIES OF LECTURES IN MEMORY OF ENGELBERT J. DOCKNER
In April 2017 one of Austria's most renowned economists, Engelbert Dockner, passed
away after a long and serious illness.
In his Ph. D. thesis, Engelbert Dockner derived an elegant stability analysis of two-state
optimal control models. Another of his path-breaking contributions is the 'blue
bible' on `Differential Games in Economics and Management Science' (joint with
Jorgensen, Long and Sorger). For most of his career, he was a professor of finance and
worked on diverse topics such as asset pricing, risk dynamics, and financial market
structures.
In addition to his deep and broad research interests and his intellectual curiosity,
Engelbert Dockner's trademark was his modest and well-balanced personality. He was
highly regarded by his colleagues as an integrative person and arbitrator. After his
diagnosis, he accepted his hard fate with equanimity.
To commemorate Engelbert Dockner's achievements we launch the DOCKNER LECTURES, a
series of events that will take place alternatingly at the three universities in Vienna
with which he was affiliated during his career. The series will start on April 10th, 2019
at 4 pm, in Böcklsaal at the Vienna University of Technology with a lecture by Prof. Ngo
Van Long from McGill University. In 2020 it will be continued with a talk at the
University of Vienna, and in 2021 there will be a lecture at the WU Vienna University of
Business and Economics.
Gustav Feichtinger, Gerhard Sorger, Josef Zechner