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My philosophy

"There are two ways to do mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent." - based on a quotation from Raoul Bott.

Upcoming event

Categorification in quantum topology and beyond Click

Useful Links

  • Mathoverflow. Link
  • The n-lab. Link
  • The n-category cafe. Link
  • The Secret Blogging Seminar. Link
  • History of Mathematics archive. Link
  • Mathgen: randomly generated mathematics research papers. Link
  • Database of integer sequences. Link
  • Atlas of Lie groups and representations. Link
  • Theorem of the day. Link
  • ProofWiki. Link
  • Inkscape (for pictures). Link
  • MathJax. (Click for some examples.) Link
  • “Caution! Functor!”. Link
  • “Connections on ArXiv”. Image Original source. Link
  • Periodic table of finite simple groups. Link
  • Map projection transitions. Link
  • The library of babel. Link
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You can meet me

  1. Research visit, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (March 2019). Click
  2. Research visit, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (February/March 2019). Click, Click
  3. Aspects of higher representation theory: quantum groups and categorification, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) & Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium (January 2019). Click
  4. Categorification in quantum topology and beyond, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria (January 2019). Click

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You could have met me

  1. In 2018
    • Research visit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (November 2018). Click
    • Quantum Knot Invariants and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Santa Barbara, California, United States (November/December 2018). Click
    • Colloquium talk, Zürich Graduate Colloquium, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Seminar talk, ETH Zürich: Talks in mathematical physics, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Interactions of low-dimensional topology and (higher) representation theory, Zürich, Switzerland (September 2018). Click (Organizer)
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2018 (Deligne-Lusztig Theory), Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2018). Click
    • Summer School Geometric, Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Modular Representation Theory, Freiburg, Germany (July 2018). Click
    • Categorification and Higher Representation Theory, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden (July 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (June 2018). Click
    • Research related visit, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (June 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (June 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (May 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces (QGM), Aarhus, Denmark (April 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (March 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (February 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (February 2018). Click
    • Algebraic Structures in Topology and Geometry, Riederalp, Switzerland (January 2018). Click
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  2. In 2017
    • Symplectic Geometry and Representation Theory (Junior Hausdorff Trimester Program), Bonn, Germany, October till December 2017. More info (Organizer)
    • Workshop: $A_\infty$-structures in geometry and representation theory, Bonn, Germany (December 2017). More info
    • Workshop: Categorification, representation theory and symplectic geometry, Bonn, Germany (November/December 2017). More info (Organizer)
    • Winter school: Categorification, representation theory and symplectic geometry, Bonn, Germany (November 2017). More info (Organizer)
    • Workshop: Quantum geometric and algebraic representation theory, Bonn, Germany (October 2017). More info
    • Seminar on Representation Theory and Related Areas: 6th Workshop, Faro, Portugal (September 2017).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (August/September 2017).
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2017 (Symplectic duality (the Abelian case)), Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2017).
    • A conference on geometric representation theory, and related topics, Glasgow, Scotland (July 2017).
    • Workshop Quantum topology and categorified representation theory, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom (June 2017). Stupid me: I am not on the conference photo!
    • Arbeitstagung 2017 on Physical Mathematics in honor of Yuri Manin's contributions to the field, Bonn, Germany (June 2017).
    • Hausdorff School Derived Noncommutative Geometry, Bonn, Germany (May/June 2017).
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (May 2017).
    • Research visit, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (April 2017).
    • Research visit, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (April 2017).
    • $2$-representation theory workshop, Uppsala, Sweden (April 2017).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (February 2017).
    • Research visit, Columbia University, New York City, United States (February 2017).
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  3. In 2016
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (October 2016).
    • Research visit, Université de Montpelliere, Montpellier, France (October 2016).
    • $1{}^1/{}_2$ day(s) for $2$-categories and $3$-manifolds, Montpellier, France (September 2016).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (September 2016).
    • Lie Theory and Representation Theory Workshop 2016, Köln, Germany (August 2016).
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2016 (Knot homologies, Hilbert schemes, and Cherednik algebras), Eugene (Oregon), United States (July 2016).
    • Young Women in Representation Theory, Bonn, Germany (June 2016).
    • Workshop: Categorification, Bonn, Germany (May 2016). More info (Organizer)
    • Hausdorff School; Derived categories: dimensions, stability conditions, and enhancements, Bonn, Germany (March/April 2016).
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  4. In 2015
    • Research visit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (November 2015).
    • Panorama of Mathematics - A Conference of the Hausdorff Center, Bonn, Germany (October 2015).
    • Research visit, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands (October 2015).
    • Annual meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV), Hamburg, Germany (September 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (July 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (July 2015).
    • Colloque Solstice, topic: representation theory and knot invariants, Paris, France (June 2015).
    • AMS-EMS-SPM international meeting, Oporto, Portugal (June 2015).
    • Research visit, ESI of the Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria (May 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (April 2015).
    • Research visit, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden (April 2015).
    • Conference on the Interaction of Representation Theory with Geometry and Combinatorics, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, Germany (March 2015). Stupid me: I am not on the conference photo!
    • Introductory Workshop connected to the Representation theory program at the Institute Mittag-Leffler, Uppsala, Sweden (February 2015).
    • Research visit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (February 2015).
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  5. In 2014
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (December 2014).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (December 2014).
    • Research visit, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (November/December 2014).
    • QGM Nielsen Retreat 2014, Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark (October 2014).
    • Oberwolfach Workshop: Topology, Oberwolfach, Germany (September 2014).
    • Algebraic Lie Theory and Representation Theory, LMS-CMI Research School, Glasgow, Scotland (August 2014).
    • ICM Satellite Conference on Representation Theory and Related Topics, Daegu, South Korea (August 2014).
    • Research visit, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (July 2014).
    • Categorification and geometric representation theory, Montréal, Canada (June 2014).
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (May 2014).
    • Conference: Meeting of Mathematicians from India and Denmark, Kerala School of Mathematics (KSOM), Kerala, India (March 2014).
    • Research visit, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (March/April 2014).
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  6. Before 2014
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (October 2013).
    • Workshop quantum Mathematics and computation, Oxford, England (End September/ Begin October 2013).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (End of September 2013).
    • Higher structures in China IV, Lanzhou, China (August 2013).
    • Summer school on category , Freiburg, Germany (August 2013).
    • Representation theory and categorification, Shanghai, China (June 2013).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (End of May - Begin of June 2013).
    • A new look and knot invariants arising from representation theory with a via towards categorification, Bad Boll, Germany (March 2013).
    • Research visit, University Berkeley, Berkeley, United states (December 2012 - 2013).
    • Higher Structures in China III, Changchun, China (August 2012).
    • Oporto Meetings on Geometry, Topology and Physics, Oporto, Portugal (July 2012).
    • Topology and groups, Berlin, Germany (June 2012).
    • Winter braids II, Caen, France (December 2011).
    • Higher Structures in mathematics and physics, Göttingen, Germany (December 2011).
    • Quantum groups, categorification and braids, Strasbourg, France (September 2011).
    • Swiss knots - knot theory and algebra, Thun, Switzerland (May 2011).