Research
Conferences – Invited speaker and participant
Symplectic Dynamics Beyond Periodic Orbits 2022
Lorentz Center, Leiden, 15.-19.08.2022
Symplectic Dynamics Beyond Periodic Orbits
Lorentz Center, Leiden, 10.-14.08.2020
Conservative dynamics and its interactions
Bernoulli Center - Lausanne, 19.-23.08.2019
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 07.-13.07.2019
Joint Meeting of the KMS and DMV
COEX - Seoul, 03.-06.10.2018
Universität Heidelberg, 09.-13.07.2018
Holomorphic methods in symplectic geometry
Universität Heidelberg, 12.-14.02.2018
Floer homology and contact topology
University of Haifa, 17.-19.09.2017
Hamiltonian and Reeb Dynamics: New Methods and Applications
Lorentz Center - Leiden, 17.-21.07.2017
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 09.-15.07.2017
University of California, Berkeley, 12.-16.06.2017
Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa, 03.-05.04.2017
Symplectic geometry and topology
Edinburgh, 25.-29.07.2016
Mini-Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry
Münster, 08.-09.07.2016
New Methods in Finsler Geometry
Leipzig, 05.-09.07.2016
X Workshop on Symplectic Geometry, Contact Geometry and Interactions
Augsburg, 25.-27.02.2016
Hamburg, 21.-25.09.2015
Symplectic Techniques in Topology and Dynamics 2015
Köln, 24.-28.08.2015
SFT VII "Function Theory on Symplectic Manifolds"
WWU, Münster (Conference co-organized with Peter Albers), 25.-29.08.2014
Rigidity and Flexibility in Symplectic Topology and Dynamics
Lorentz Center, Leiden, 21.-25.07.2014
Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
Leipzig, 07.-11.10.2013, (program)
Periodic Orbits In Contact and Riemannian Geometry
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, 03.-07.09.2012
From Conservative Dynamics to Symplectic and Contact Topology
Lorentz Center, Leiden, 30.07.-03.08.2012
FNRS Contact Group in Differential Geometry
Bruxelles, 12.-13.09.2011
Support
01.01.2017 — 31.12.2020 & 01.01.2021 — 31.12.2024
Collaborative Research Center
Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics
September 2019 — February 2020
Visiting Professor
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
26.02. — 18.03.2015
Research visit
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
08.09. — 03.10.2014
Research visit
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
19.11. — 22.11.2013
Research visit
École normale supérieure de Lyon
17.02. — 02.03.2013
Visit at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
joint with Stefan Suhr
01.01.2013 — 31.12.2015
DFG-Project: ZE 992/1-1
Reeb-Dynamik und holomorphe Kurven
joint with Hansjörg Geiges
01.10.2003 — 30.09.2006
Scholarship at the Research Training Group
Analysis, Geometrie und ihre Verbindung zu den Naturwissenschaften
at the Universität Leipzig
Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Freistaat Sachsen
Supervised theses
Doctoral theses
2019 – Kevin Wiegand
Virtual Reeb flows and odd-symplectic surgery
2018 – Dominic Jänichen
The homotopy type of the space of tight contact structures on the 3-sphere
2016 – Kilian Barth
Homotopy type of fillings of unit stabilized cotangent bundles
2014 – Max Dörner
The space of contact forms adapted to an open book
(joint with H. Geiges)
Master theses
2022 – Dorothea Bergmann
Der Satz von Bieberbach nach Gromov
2020 – Kevin Sporbeck
Algebraic manifolds via symplectic geometry
2018 – Carolin van den Berg
Die Odd-symplektische Kobordismenrelation
2017 – Stephan Beckmann
Dehn–Seidel Twists auf Brieskorn Mannigfaltigkeiten
2017 – Jay Schneider
Geometric bounds on holomorphic discs in contact handles
2016 – Kevin Wiegand
Beispiele virtueller Kontaktstrukturen
Diploma thesis
2012 – Kilian Barth
Coisotropic submanifolds in contact geometry
(joint with H. Geiges)
2011 – Max Dörner
Planar contact structures, Giroux torsion and the Weinstein conjecture
(joint with H. Geiges)
2010 – Daniel Sievering
Kontaktstrukturen und offene Bücher in Dimension 3
(joint with H. Geiges)
Bachelor thesis
2020 – Eileen Kaiser
Die Quadrik symplektisch
2017 – Maximilian Tönies
From open books to symplectic fibrations
2017 – Kevin Sporbeck
Projections and classical invariants of Legendrian knots
2017 – Felix Janssen
Mayer–Vietoris in deRham cohomology