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Professor Katrin Wendland

Professor of Mathematics (2020) (Pure & Applied Mathematics)
      
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Professor Katrin Wendland

Professor of Mathematics (2020) (Pure & Applied Mathematics)

 wendlank@tcd.ie

 


October 1996: Diploma (Mathematics) at the University of Bonn, Germany; supervisor: Werner Müller; topic: regularized determinants, Ray-Singer analytic torsion and Quillenmetric, particularly their dependence on the metric ("Analytic Torsion and Critical Metrics")
September 2000: Ph.D. (Physics) at the University of Bonn, Germany; supervisor: Werner Nahm; title: "Moduli spaces of unitary conformal field theories"
2000-2002: Post Doc in Prof. Louise Dolan's group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill, USA
2002-2005: Lecturer at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick, UK
2005-2006: Senior Lecturer at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick, UK (Aug-Dec 2004: Visiting research scholar in the Math/Physics Research Group of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, PA, USA
2005-2006 on leave from the University of Warwick as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the UNC Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
2006-2011: Full Professor (W3) at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Augsburg, Germany, holding the Chair for Analysis and Geometry
2011-2021: Full Professor (W3) at the Mathematics Institute of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, research group for Mathematical Physics
since 01.01.2022: Full Professor in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ron Donagi, Adrian Langer, Piotr Sułkowski, Katrin Wendland(ed.), String-Math 2022, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 107, American Mathematical Society, 2024, vii+294 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Florian Beck, Ron Donagi, Katrin Wendland, Folding of Hitchin systems and crepant resolutions, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2022, (11), 2022, p8370 - 8419, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland, The Conway Moonshine Module is a Reflected K3 Theory, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 24, (5), 2020, p1247 - 1323, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland, SU(2) channels the cancellation of K3 BPS states, JHEP, 2020, p184 - 215, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Katrin Wendland, Hodge-elliptic genera and how they govern K3 theories, Commun. Math. Phys., 368, 2019, p187 - 221, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland, Not Doomed to Fail, JHEP, 2018, 2018, p62 - 71, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Katrin Wendland, K3 en route From Geometry to Conformal Field Theory, Summer School "Geometric, Algebraic and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory", Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 2013, World Scientific, 2017, pp75 - 110, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Snapshots of Conformal Field Theory in, editor(s)D. Calaque and Th. Strobl , Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theories, Mathematical Physics Studies, Springer, 2015, pp89 - 129, [Katrin Wendland], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland, Symmetry-surfing the moduli space of Kummer K3s, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, String-Math 2012, Bonn, Germany, 2012, 90, 2015, pp129 - 153, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland, A twist in the M24 moonshine story, Confluentes Mathematici, 7, (1), 2015, p83 - 113, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Katrin Wendland, Mathematical Foundations of Conformal Field Theory and Applications, COPROMAPH International School, Cotonou, Benin, Oct 26 - Nov 4, 2012, 2012, Notes: [invited publication], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Boris Dubrovin, Claus Hertling, Ian A.B. Strachan, Katrin Wendland(ed.), Singularity Theory and Integrable Systems, Oberwolfach Reports, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 9, (2), 2012, 1361-1404 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Katrin Wendland, Annette Werner, Facettenreiche Mathematik, Vieweg+Teubner, 2011, 469 pagespp, Book, PUBLISHED
Gavin Brown, Anda Degeratu, Katrin Wendland(ed.), Mini-Workshop: Higher dimensional elliptic fibrations, Oberwolfach Reports, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, 7, (4), 2010, 2651-2680 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Daniel Roggenkamp, Katrin Wendland, Decoding the geometry of conformal field theories, Bulgarian Journal of Physics, Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics VII, Varna, Bulgaria, 35, (s1), 2008, pp139 - 150, Notes: [invited publication], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Katrin Wendland, On Superconformal Field Theories Associated to Very Attractive Quartics, Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry II, edited by Pierre Cartier, Bernard Julia, Pierre Moussa, Piere Vanhoeve , Springer, 2007, pp223 - 244, Notes: [invited contribution], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Katrin Wendland, On degenerating sequences of CFTs and their geometric interpretations, Oberwolfach Report, Geometry and duality in string theory, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 24/2004, 2004, pp1301 - 1302, Notes: [joint work with Daniel Roggenkamp; invited contribution], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Elected as Professorial Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2023
Appointed as Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) 2023
Invited plenary speaker of the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society (DMV), Ilmenau, Germany 2023
Teaching award of the "Fachschaft Mathematik", Freiburg University, with the lecture course "Complex Analysis" (presented via screen-cast) 2020
Scored second in the teaching award of the "Fachschaft Mathematik", Freiburg University, with the lecture course "Complex Analysis" 2018
Invited main speaker for the 2018 "Gauss-Vorlesung" of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) 2018
Portrayed in the exhibition "Women of mathematics throughout Europe" 2016
Elected Full Member of the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz" 2013
Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in Recognition of Distinguished Contributions to the Profession 2013
Invited sectional speaker in Mathematical Physics at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad, India 2010
Awarded the "Medal for Special Merits for Bavaria in a United Europe" (Medaille für besondere Verdienste um Bayern in einem vereinten Europa) by the Bavarian Minister for Federal and European Affairs 2009
Awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant by the European Research Council 2008
Granted title and status of Associate Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, UK 2008
Appointed to Associate Professor with tenure, Mathematics Department, UNC Chapel Hill, USA (declined) 2006