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Prof. Dr. Ursula Hamenstädt

E-mail: ursula(at)math.uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 228 73 2914
Homepage: http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/ursula/
Room: 2.007
Location: Mathematics Center
Institute: Mathematical Institute
Research Area: Research Area A3

Academic Career

1986

PhD, University of Bonn

1986 - 1988

Miller Fellow for basic research in science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

1988 - 1990

Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA

1990 - 1991

Professor (C3), University of Bonn

Since 1992

Professor (C4), University of Bonn

Research Projects and Activities

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant “Geometry of moduli spaces and mapping class groups”

Series of Oberwolfach Workshops on “Differentialgeometrie im Großen”,
organizer, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021

DFG Cluster of Excellence “Hausdorff Center for Mathematics”,
Principal Investigator

MSRI semester program on “Random and arithmetic structures in topology“,
fall 2020, organizer

Selected Publications

[1] Ursula Hamenstädt
Incompressible surfaces in rank one locally symmetric spaces
Geom. Funct. Anal. , 25: (3): 815--859
2015
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-015-0330-y
[2] Ursula Hamenstädt, Sebastian Hensel
Spheres and projections for Out($F_{n}$)
J. Topol. , 8: (1): 65--92
2015
DOI: 10.1112/jtopol/jtu015
[3] Ursula Hamenstädt
Lines of minima in outer space
Duke Math. J. , 163: (4): 733--776
2014
DOI: 10.1215/00127094-2429807
[4] Ursula Hamenstädt
Bowen's construction for the Teichmüller flow
J. Mod. Dyn. , 7: (4): 489--526
2013
DOI: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.489
[5] Ursula Hamenstädt, Sebastian Hensel
Isoperimetric inequalities for the handlebody groups
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. , 365: (10): 5313--5327
2013
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05808-9
[6] Ursula Hamenstädt
Isometry groups of proper CAT(0)-spaces of rank one
Groups Geom. Dyn. , 6: (3): 579--618
2012
DOI: 10.4171/GGD/166
[7] Ursula Hamenstädt
Isometry groups of proper hyperbolic spaces
Geom. Funct. Anal. , 19: (1): 170--205
2009
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-009-0719-6
[8] Ursula Hamenstädt
Invariant Radon measures on measured lamination space
Invent. Math. , 176: (2): 223--273
2009
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-008-0163-5
[9] Ursula Hamenstädt
Geometry of the mapping class groups. I. Boundary amenability
Invent. Math. , 175: (3): 545--609
2009
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-008-0158-2
[10] Ursula Hamenstädt
Bounded cohomology and isometry groups of hyperbolic spaces
J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) , 10: (2): 315--349
2008
DOI: 10.4171/JEMS/112

Publication List

MathSciNet Publication List (external link)

Editorships

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Journal de l'École Polytechnique

Journal of the AMS
Analysis and PDE
Journal of Topology and Analysis

Awards

2012

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant

2012

Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2012

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Selected Invited Lectures

2010

International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India

Offers

1991

University of Zürich, Switzerland

1991

University of Göttingen

2004

University of Bern, Switzerland

2007

University of Pennsylvania, USA

2010

Yale University, CT, USA

Selected PhD students

Juan Souto (2001): “Geometric Structures on 3-Manifolds and their Deformations”,
now Research Director, CNRS, University of Rennes 1, France


Sebastian Hensel, "Metric distortion of subgroups of mapping class groups"
(2011), now Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian Univ. München

Supervised Theses

  • Master theses: 13, currently 2
  • Diplom theses: 42
  • PhD theses: 16, currently 3
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