Katrin Wendland

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Katrin Wendland, 2010

Katrin Wendland (born July 18, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German mathematician and mathematical physicist who deals with geometric aspects of string theory.

Life

Wendland received her diploma in mathematics at the University of Bonn under Werner Müller ( Ray-Singer Analytic Torsion, Quillenmetric and Regularized Determinants ) in 1996 and received her doctorate in theoretical physics under Werner Nahm in 2000 ( Moduli spaces of unitary conformal field theories ). As a post-doctoral student , she was with Louise Dolan at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . From 2002 she was a lecturer at the University of Warwick . From 2006 to 2011 she was Professor of Analysis and Geometry at the University of Augsburg , and from 2007 Managing Director of the Mathematics Institute there. In 2011 she moved to the department for pure mathematics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where she works in the working group for mathematical physics.

In her dissertation ( Moduli spaces of unitary conformal field theories ) she dealt with the connection between the modular spaces of unitary conformal field theories and K3 surfaces in algebraic geometry.

In 2018 she gave the Gauss lecture . In 2010 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad ( On the geometry of singularities in quantum field theories ). Since 2009 she has been on the executive committee of the German Mathematicians Association . She is also a member of the London Mathematical Society , a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (2013) and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013). In 2009 she received a Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on the geometry of topological quantum field theories (TQFT) and in 2009 she received the Bavarian European Medal .

Fonts

  • Edited with Ron Y. Donagi: From Hodge theory to integrability and TQFT: tt * -geometry , Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2008 (Workshop Augsburg May 2007)
  • Katrin Wendland, Annette Werner (Ed.): Multifaceted Mathematics. Insights into modern mathematical research for everyone who wants to understand more about mathematics . Vieweg / Teubner, 2011 (in it by Wendland: ADE or the omnipresence of Platonic bodies , pp. 409–432)
  • On superconformal field theories associated with very attractive quartics . In: Pierre Cartier u. a. Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry . Volume 2. Springer Verlag, 2007, arxiv : hep-th / 0307066
  • with Daniel Roggenkamp: Decoding the geometry of conformal field theories . In: Proc. 7. Internat. Workshop Lie theory and its applications to physics , Varna, Bulgaria, 2008, arxiv : 0803.0657
  • Orbifold Constructions of K3: A Link between Conformal Field Theory and Geometry . In: Proc. Workshop Mathematical Aspects of Orbifold String Theory , Madison WI 2001
  • with Werner Nahm: Mirror Symmetry on Kummer Type K3 Surfaces , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 243, 2003, pp. 557-582, arxiv : hep-th / 0106104

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Katrin Wendland
  2. ↑ Nahm, Wendland: A hiker's guide to K3 . In: Comm. Math. Phys. , Volume 216, 2001, p. 85, arxiv : hep-th / 9912067
  3. ↑ Member entry of Katrin Wendland at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wendland, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin