Bernd Siebert (born 5 March 1964 in
Berlin-Wilmersdorf) is a German mathematician who researches in
algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...
.
Life
Siebert studied mathematics starting 1984 at the
University of Erlangen. In 1986, he changed to the
University of Bonn
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and in 1987 to the
University of Göttingen
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where he finished his Diplom in 1989 under the supervision of
Hans Grauert with distinction. He became Grauert's PhD student and assistant in
Göttingen
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. He received his PhD in 1992 (''Faserzykelräume, geometrische Plattifikation und meromorphe Äquivalenzrelationen''). A stay at the
Courant Institute followed in 1993–94 after which we went to Bochum. In 1997–98 he spent some time at the
MIT as a visiting scholar before completing his habilitation in Bochum in 1998 (''Gromov–Witten invariants for general symplectic manifolds''). As a DFG-Heisenberg Fellow, he went to the
Universität Paris VI/
Universität Paris VII from 2000 to 2002. From there, he was called to a professorship at the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2002. He moved on to the
Universität Hamburg in 2008, and in 2011, he became the head of the Graduiertenkolleg ''Mathematics Inspired by String Theory and QFT''. In 2018, Siebert joined the faculty of the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
as a professor of mathematics and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics #4.
In his research, Bernd Siebert contributed substantially to the theory of
Gromov–Witten invariants. Around 2002 by his insights in
logarithmic geometry, he entered into an ongoing joint research program with
Mark Gross. This generated a sequence of relevant papers that relate to
mirror symmetry and
tropical geometry.
In 2014, jointly with Mark Gross, he became an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematics in
Seoul
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for the section
complex geometry
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(Local mirror symmetry in the tropics). Both of them were awarded the
Clay Research Award in 2016.
Papers
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References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
21st-century German politicians
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
20th-century German mathematicians
People from Wilmersdorf
University of Bonn alumni
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg alumni
21st-century German mathematicians