Thomas Willwacher

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Thomas Hans Willwacher (born April 12, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German mathematician.

biography

Willwacher graduated from high school in the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt in 2001 , studied theoretical physics at ETH Zurich with a diploma under Giovanni Felder in 2007 (Modules in Deformation Quantization) and received his doctorate in mathematics from ETH Zurich under Giovanni Felder in 2009 (cyclic formality). As a post-doctoral student , he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 2010 to 2013 . He has been an assistant professor in mathematics at the University of Zurich since 2013 .

Willwacher deals with homological algebra and operads and their application in (topological) quantum field theory and deformation quantization. He has also published in computer graphics and holds several patents.

In 2016 he received the EMS Prize for his resounding and significant research in a number of mathematical fields: homotopic algebra, geometry, topology and mathematical physics, including in-depth results on Kontsevich 's formality theorem and the connection between Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck -Teichmüller Liealgebra (laudation). He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and received the ETH medal in 2010.

literature

  • Maxim Kontsevich : Derived Grothendieck-Teichmüller group and graph complexes (after T. Willwacher), Séminaire Bourbaki 1126, 2017

Fonts (selection)

  • M. Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck – Teichmüller Lie algebra, Inventiones mathematicae, Volume 200, 2015, pp. 671–760, Arxiv
  • The oriented graph complexes, Comm. Math. Phys., Volume 334, 2015, pp. 1649-1666, Arxiv
  • with Sergei Merkulov: Grothendieck-Teichmüller and Batalin-Vilkovisky, Lett. Math. Phys., Volume 104, 2014, pp. 625-634, Arxiv
  • with Damien Calaque: Formality of cyclic cochains, Advances in Mathematics, Volume 231, 2012, pp. 624–650, Arxiv
  • Formality of cyclic chains, Int. Math. Res. Notices 2011 (17), pp. 3939--3956, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Willwacher in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Laudation: For his striking and important research in a variety of mathematical fields: homotopical algebra, geometry, topology and mathematical physics, including deep results related to Kontsevich's formality theorem and the relation between Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck-Teichmüller Lie algebra . EMS prices at the ECM 2017, Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Willwacher, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willwacher, Thomas Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau