Andreas Thom (mathematician)

Andreas Thom, 2013

Andreas Thom (born December 10, 1977 in Dresden ) is a German mathematician who deals with group theory , functional analysis and operator algebras .

Thom studied mathematics at the TU Dresden and the University of Cambridge . He received his doctorate in 2003 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster under Joachim Cuntz on the subject of Connective E-theory and bivariant homology for C * -algebras . From 2007 he was junior professor for geometric aspects of pure mathematics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and from 2009 as professor for theoretical mathematics at the University of Leipzig . Since 2014 he has been Professor of Geometry at the TU Dresden.

He is on the editorial board of the journals Mathematische Annalen , Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics^{( en )} and Documenta Mathematica . His research was funded with an ERC Starting Grant from 2011–2016 and an ERC Consolidator Grant since 2016. Thom has been a member of the Max Planck Society since 2013 and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig. Thom has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and the Society for Mathematical Research since 2016 . V.

Since 2017 he has been one of the scientific directors of the Mathematics Adventure Land of the Dresden Technical Collections . In 2018 he is invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro (Finitary approximations of groups and their applications).

Fonts

L²-cohomology for von Neumann algebras , Geom. Funct. Anal., Vol. 18, (2008), pp. 251-270.
with Guillermo Cortinas: Algebraic Geometry of Topological Spaces I , Acta Math. 209 (2012), no. 1, pp. 83-131.
with Hanfeng Li: Entropy, Determinants, and L²-Torsion , J. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (2014), no. 1, pp. 239–292.
with Jesse Peterson: Group cocycles and the ring of affiliated operators , Inv. Math., Volume 185, Issue 3 (2011), pp. 561-592.