Christoph Schweigert

Service to the community

Juniorprofessor:

JProf. Dr. Christoph Wockel

Postdocs:

Dr. Bas Janssens

Dr. Juan Martin Mombelli

Dr. Alessandro Valentino

Dr. Junya Yagi

PhD students:

Alexander Barvels

Lukas Buhné

Jennifer Maier

Master students:

Adam Olszewski

Kemal Teszgin

Former members:

JProf. Dr. Dorothea Bahns (->Junior research group leader, Göttingen)

Dr. Till Barmeier (-> Siemens, Brande)

Sjuvong Chung, M.Sc. (-> Rutgers University)

Dr. Jens Fjelstad (-> Cardiff University, postdoc)

Katarina Kring (-> Mc Kinsey)

Alexandra Kruppa (external, RWTH Aachen)

Shadi Lemanczyk (-> Lufthansa Technik -> Lehramt)

Thomas Nikolaus (-> University of Regensburg)

Dr. Ingo Runkel (-> Kings College London, permanent)

Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen

Dr. Gor Sarkissian (-> Aarhus University, postdoc)

Linda Sass (-> EBIM Bielefeld)

Dr. Urs Schreiber (-> Utrecht University)

Dr. Daniel Stevenson (-> University of Glasgow, permanent)

Dr. Rafal Suszek (-> University of Warsaw, permanent)

Anke Tiedemann (Lehramt)

Rainer Tobaben

Efrossini Tsouchnika (-> Siemens, München)

Ole Vollertsen (-> Teach first Deutschland)

Dr. Konrad Waldorf (-> UC Berkeley)

Niko Wilbert (-> Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, HU Berlin)

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Special activities

• Workshop ``Matrix factorizations in algebra, geometry and physics'', Oberwolfach, September 1-7, 2013. R. Buchweitz, H. Krause, K. Hori and C. Schweigert organizers.

Past:

• Workshop Workshop on Representation Theoretical and Categorical Structures in Quantum Geometry and Conformal Field Theory Erlangen, November 2011
• Workshop Conformal field theories and tensor categories at the Bejing International Center for Mathematical Research, June 2011 Colloquium on the occasion of Ernst Witt's 100th birthday, Hamburg, June 2011
• Seminar Bremen-Hamburg-Kiel, Hamburg, July 2011
• Workshop Higher Structures in Topology and Geometry V, Hamburg, May 2011
• Workshop ``Geometry, quantum field, and strings: categorical aspects'' (with Peter Bouwknegt and Dan Freed), MFO Oberwolfach, 6.6.-12.6.2010.
• Summer school topological field theories in Almeria, Spain.
• Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics, sattelite conference to the 5th ECM in Brussels (22.-26.7.2008)
• Minisymposium ``Representation Theoretic Methods and Quantization'' at the 5th ECM in Amsterdam (14-18.7.2008)
• Birthday colloquium for Klaus Fredenhagen
• Workshop on the Geometric Langlands program, Hamburg (9.-13.7.2007)
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Oberwolfach on Conformal Field Theory, 1.04-6.04.2007. Program and Schedule
• Colloquium ``Kähler Geometry and Mathematical Physics'', Hamburg 24.-25.11.2006
• Opening colloquium of the Center of Mathematical Physics, Hamburg (20.10.-22.10.2005)
• Oberwolfach-Miniworkshop ``Gerbes, twisted K-theory and conformal field theory'' (14.08-20.08.2005)
• International Workshop: Lessons from low dimensions - the many aspects of Conformal Field Theory 08.-10.04.2005)
• Blockseminar `` Geometric aspects of conformal field theory'' with Christian Bär in February 2005
• Co-organizer of the semester on Tensor categories in mathematics and physics that will be held at the Erwin-Schrödinger-Institute in Vienna in spring 2004.
• Co-organizer of the colloquium in honour of Prof. Peter Slodowy, held in Hamburg on October 17 and 18, 2003.
• Lectures at School ``Advanced topics in string theory''
• Co-organizer of the workshop ``Modularization of premodular categories'' on the Ile Bailleron, France, September 2000
• Co-organizer of the workshop ``Conformal field theory of D-branes'' at DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
• Co-organizer of the workshop ``Verlinde formula and conformal blocks'' at the `Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach', March 1997.

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Third party funding (selection)

• Project leader and member of the steering committe of the Research priority programm Representation theory
• Project leader in the collaborative research center ``Particles, Strings, and the early Universe, the structure of matter and space-time''
• European Superstring Theory Network
• German-Israeli-Foundation (GIF): exchange project with Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, joint with Jan Louis
• Exchange project with University of Zagreb (Croatia), DAAD
• Host of one Humboldt fellow and one Humboldt price winner
• DFG Main Focus Programm " String theory in the context of particle physics, quantum field theory, quantum gravity, cosmology and mathematics" (DFG1096)
• E-Learning consortium Hamburg (ELCH), with Uwe Semmelmann, for webbased methods in exercise sections
• Marie-Curie fellowship (host of Ingo Runkel, 2000-2002)
• Marie-Curie fellowship (host of Giuseppe D'Appollonio, 2002-2004)

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schweigert@math.uni-hamburg.de