Thomas Kerler

Thomas Kerler (born September 14, 1965 ) is a German mathematician and physicist and professor of mathematics at Ohio State University .

Life

Kerler grew up in Marburg , Hesse , where he graduated from the Elisabeth School in 1983 . In the same year he won second place at the International Physics Olympiad in Bucharest . From 1983 to 1986 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Heidelberg , then mathematics and theoretical physics at the Federal Technical University in Zurich . In 1992 he received his doctorate at the ETH Zurich with the dissertation Quantum Groups, Quantum Categories and Quantum Field Theory .

In 1992, Kerler moved to the United States , where he was an assistant professor of mathematics at Harvard University until 1995 . He has been teaching at Ohio State University since 1996 , first as assistant professor, since 2002 as associate professor and since 2014 as professor.

With Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko: Non-Semisimple Topological Quantum Field Theories for 3-Manifolds with Corners . Springer, Berlin et al. 2001, ISBN 3-540-42416-4 ( Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1765).
With Jürg Fröhlich : Quantum Groups, Quantum Categories and Quantum Field Theory. 2nd pressure. Springer, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-540-56623-6 ( Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1542).

personal data
SURNAME	Kerler, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician and physicist and professor of mathematics
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1965