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Prof. Dr. Catharina Stroppel

Associate Director of Graduate Studies

E-mail: stroppel(at)math.uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 228 73 6838
Fax: +49 228 73 7916
Homepage: http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/ag/stroppel/
Room: 4.007
Office hours: Wednesdays, 12-14
Location: Mathematics Center
Institute: Mathematical Institute
Research Area: Research Area A2

Academic Career

1991 - 1998

Diploma and school teacher degree Mathematics / Theology, Freiburg

1994 - 2000

Scientific Assistant, University of Freiburg

1998 - 2001

PhD in Mathematics (supervisor: Prof. W. Soergel), University of Freiburg

2000 - 2001

Teaching Assistant, University of Freiburg

2001 - 2003

Research Associate in Pure Mathematics, University of Leicester, England, UK

2003 - 2004

Associate Professor (CAALT Postdoc), University of Aarhus, Denmark

2004 - 2005

Research Associate, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2005 - 2007

Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2007 - 2008

Reader, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2007 - 2008

Von-Neumann Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA

2008 - 2010

Professor (W2), University of Bonn

Since 2010

Professor (W3), University of Bonn

2012 - 2013

Visiting Professor, University of Chicago (USA)

Research Profile

My main area of expertise is in geometric and combinatorial aspects of representation theory in particular in connection with topology and category theory.

My current and recent research is centered around a better and, if possible, an explicit understanding of categories with geometric origin which play important roles in representation theory. One family of examples are Fukaya categories arising from Kleinian singularities or from Springer theory, but also from convolution algebras obtained from moduli spaces of representations of quivers and from quiver flag varieties. Besides an explicit description the focus is on axiomatic definitions and the comparision of structural properties of the resulting categories.

A second focus of my research is on braid group actions on derived categories, in particular for braid groups of affine or hyperbolic type outside type A and their relevance in topology. In particular we expect here a connection with knot invariants in orbifolds which then should have a nice categorification using categories arising naturally in Lie theory. This would generalize Khovanov homology in a nontrivial way. The underlying analogue of a Reshethikin-Turaev theory is hereby one of the main goal.

Another current research interest is the representation theory of super groups (like the orthosyplectic famiies, but also the socalled strange families) and make them accessible to more classical representation theoretic techniques, in particular with the goal to provide a geometric description of the involved categories of representations. These should also provide techniques which are also applicable to the representation theory of algebraic groups in positive characteristics.

Finally I am working on finite and affine Schur algebras and their generalizations, in particular I like to describe them using graded versions arising from Quiver Hecke algebras. Hereby general homological properties as well as decomposition numbers over fields of positive characteristics are important and of interest. The general results will be applied explicitly to the representation theory of the general linear p-adic groups and the local Langlands program as well as to the representation theory of the classical alternating groups over fields in positive characteristics. In both cases a good interplay between geometric and combinatorial tools will be used and hopefully further developed.

Research Projects and Activities

DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm SPP1388 (mit Einzelantrag)
2009 - 2015

Graduiertenkolleg Homotopy and Cohomology 1150
2009 - 2014

DFG Transregio TRR45
Projektleiterin, 2011 - 2019

DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 45 “Periods, moduli spaces and arithmetic of algebraic varieties”
Principal Investigator

Twinned conference ''Geometric Representation Theory'', MPIM Bonn
Organizer, 2020

Series of Oberwolfach Workshops on “Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Non-commutative Algebra”,
Organizer, 2014, 2018

Bonn International Graduate School of Mathematics
Associate Director, since 2017

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

HIM-Junior-Trimester,
Organizer, 2017
Conference “Panorama of Mathematics” (Bonn),
Organizer, 2015

MSRI Program Geometric Representation Theory,
Organizer, 2014

MSRI Program Non-Commutative Geometry,
Organizer, 2013

HIM-Trimester,
Organizer, 2011

Selected Publications

[1] Michael Ehrig, Catharina Stroppel
Diagrammatic description for the categories of perverse sheaves on isotropic Grassmannians
Selecta Math. (N.S.) , 22: (3): 1455--1536
2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00029-015-0215-9
[2] Michael Ehrig, Catharina Stroppel
Koszul gradings on Brauer algebras
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (13): 3970--4011
2016
DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnv267
[3] Igor Frenkel, Catharina Stroppel, Joshua Sussan
Categorifying fractional Euler characteristics, Jones-Wenzl projectors and 3j-symbols
Quantum Topol.
, 3: (2): 181--253
2012
DOI: 10.4171/QT/28
[4] Catharina Stroppel
Parabolic category O, perverse sheaves on Grassmannians, Springer fibres and Khovanov homology
Compos. Math. , 145: (4): 954--992
2009
DOI: 10.1112/S0010437X09004035
[5] Volodymyr Mazorchuk, Catharina Stroppel
Projective-injective modules, Serre functors and symmetric algebras
J. Reine Angew. Math. , 616: : 131--165
2008
DOI: 10.1515/CRELLE.2008.020
[6] Igor Frenkel, Mikhail Khovanov, Catharina Stroppel
A categorification of finite-dimensional irreducible representations of quantum {\germsl_2} and their tensor products
Selecta Math. (N.S.) , 12: (3-4): 379--431
2006
DOI: 10.1007/s00029-007-0031-y
[7] Catharina Stroppel
Categorification of the Temperley-Lieb category, tangles, and cobordisms via projective functors
Duke Math. J. , 126: (3): 547--596
2005
DOI: 10.1215/S0012-7094-04-12634-X
[8] Michael Ehrig, Catharina Stroppel
On the category of finite-dimensional representations of {OSp(r|2n)}: Part I
Representation theory---current trends and perspectives
EMS Ser. Congr. Rep. : 109--170
Publisher: Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich
2017
[9] Jonathan Brundan, Catharina Stroppel
Highest weight categories arising from Khovanov's diagram algebra IV: the general linear supergroup
J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) , 14: (2): 373--419
2012
DOI: 10.4171/JEMS/306
[10] Christian Korff, Catharina Stroppel
The {\widehat{\germsl}(n)_k}-WZNW fusion ring: a combinatorial construction and a realisation as quotient of quantum cohomology
Adv. Math. , 225: (1): 200--268
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2010.02.021

Publication List

MathSciNet Publication List (external link)

Editorships

• Springer Lecture Notes (2011 - 2014)
• Algebra and Representation Theory (since 2016)

Awards

1998

Ferdinand-von-Lindeman Prize for the best diploma thesis at the faculty, University of Freiburg

2007

Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society

2007

Von-Neumann Award, Institute of Advanced Study

2009

Professor Invité, Paris, France

2014 - 2015

“Hirzebruch Professor”, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

2017

Teaching Award, University of Bonn

2018

Member of Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina

Selected Invited Lectures

2010

International Congress of Mathematicians, invited speaker, Hyderabad, India

2011

Lecture series on Lie superalgebras, Cargese, France

2011 and 2013

General meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM)

2012

Lecture series on Springer fibers, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

2012

Lecture series on categorification, Luminy, France

2013

Lecture series on categorified invariants of manifolds, MPI, Bonn

2013

Summer school on Category O, Freiburg

2014

Lecture series on Khovanov algebras, Program Math. Structures and Computations, Lyon, France

2014

Lecture series on categorification, Program on Algebraic Lie Theory, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2016

Lecture series on representation theory of Lie superalgebras and categorification, Workshop, Bonn

2016

Geometric Representation Theory and Beyond, Clay Research Workshop, Oxford, England, UK

2017

Springer Fibers and Fukaya categories, HIM, Bonn

2018

(popular) NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste

2019

(popular) Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Felix Hausdorff Vorlesung (Greifswald)

2021

Uhlenbeck Lectures

Offers

2007

University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA

2009

University of Vienna, Austria

2010

University of Chicago, IL, USA

2013

University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Habilitations

Olaf Schnuerer (2017)

Selected PhD students

Hoel Queffelec (2013): “Sur la catégorification des invariants quantiques sln : étude algébrique et diagrammatique”,
now Chargé de recherche CNRS, Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, University of Montpellier, France

Antonio Sartori (2014): “Categorification of tensor powers of the vector representation of Uq(gl(1|1))”,
now Research Assistant, University of Freiburg

Joanna Meinel (2016): “Affine nilTemperley-Lieb Algebras and Generalized Weyl Algebras”,
now BSI Bonn, part-time research

Arik Wilbert (2017): “Two-row Springer fibres, foams and arc algebras of type D”,
now Tenure Track, South Alabama

Supervised Theses

  • Master theses: 31, currently 10
  • Diplom theses: 7
  • PhD theses: 9, currently 2
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