Assistant High School

CURRICULUM VITAE

Thomas Willwacher

Cambridge, March 20, 2012

Personal Data

Date of Birth: April 12, 1983

Place of Birth: Freiburg im Brsg., Germany

Citizenship: German

Marital status: Married

Address (o ce): Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,One Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, USA

Address (priv.): 24 Fernald Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

Email: *.**********@*****.***

Research Interests

Interactions of mathematics and physics, in particular of quantum field theory and

homological alge-

bra, deformation quantization, operads, graph complexes.

Education

2007-2009: PhD in Mathematics

ETH Zurich, advisor G. Felder, thesis on \Cyclic Formality"

2002-2007: Diploma in Physics

ETH Zurich, advisor G. Felder, thesis: \Modules in Deformation Quantization"

1993-2001: Highschool degree (Abitur)

Privates Gymnasium der Zisterzensierabtei Marienstatt

Employment

2010-: Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

2007-2010: Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich.

Teaching Experience

2010: Lecturer \Linear Algebra II" for physicists and mathematicians at ETH Zurich.

2007-2009: Teaching Assistant for \Methods of Mathematical Physics I & II" (several

times), \Com-

plex Manifolds" and \Riemann Surfaces" at ETH Zurich.

Awards and Distinctions

Junior Fellowship of the Harvard Society of Fellows, 2010-present

ETH Medal for an outstanding dissertation, 2010

Undergraduate Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation (\Studienstiftung des

Deut-

schen Volkes"), 2003-2007

Participation in the Research Science Institute at MIT 2001, awarded for achievements in

the

German part of the International Physics Olympiad

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Invited Talks

2011: Mathematical Physics Seminar, ETH Zurich, onHomotopy Braces Formality

2011: Higher Structure 2011, Gottingen, onOperadic twisting and Deligne's conjecture

2011: Geometry/Physics Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,Towards a

unification

of deformation quantization

2011: Geometry/Physics Seminar pre-talk, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, on Defor-

mation Quantization

2011: Geometry seminar, Boston University, onChern characters and polyvector fields

2011: The Legacy of Deformations Quantization, Ascona, Switzerland, onChern characters

and

polyvector fields

2011: Talk at V. Drinfeld's seminar in Chicago, IL, onThe Graph Complex

2011: Algebra Seminar, Universit e de Lyon, France, onM. Kontsevich's graph complex

2011: Seminar talk, Universit e de Lille, France, onM. Kontsevich's graph complex

2010: Symplectic Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto, on The graph complex and the

Grothendieck-Teichmuller Lie algebra

2010: Algebra Seminar, Temple University, on The graph complex and the Grothendieck-

Teichmuller Lie algebra

2010: Seminar talk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, onBrace-infinity formality

using

graphs

2010: Higher structures in mathematics and physics 2010, Vienna. Minicourse (4 lectures)

on

M. Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck-Teichmuller Lie algebra

2010: S eminaire \Groupes de Lie et espaces des modules", Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland,

on

Graph cohomology and the Grothendieck-Teichmuller Lie algebra

2010: Minicourse given at ETH Zurich onGraph complexes, the Grothendieck-Teichmuller

group

and their role in Deformation Quantization

2010: Algebra Seminar, Univ. Paris 6, France, onHomotopy Gerstenhaber formality with

graphs

2010: Representation Theory and Quantization 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, on KS-infinity

for-

mality using graphs

2009: Algebra Seminar, Univ. Paris 7, France, on A Drinfeld associator and formality of

the

litle disks operad

2009: S eminaire \Groupes de Lie et espaces des modules", Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland,

on

Homotopy Gerstenhaber formality using graphs

2009: Summer meeting in mathematical physics 2009, ETH Zurich, onFormalities of the

little

disks operad

2009: Algebraic Analysis and Deformation Quantization 2009, Scalea, Italy, on Equivalence

of

formalities of the little disks operad

2009:

Referee Service

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Conference Participations

2011: Conference \The Legacy of Deformation Quantization", Ascona, Switzerland

2011: Spring meeting of the AMS, Worcester, MA, USA

2010: Conference \Representation Theory and Quantization", Zurich, Switzerland

2009: Conference \Algebraic Analysis and Deformation Quantization 2009", Scalea, Italy

2009: Workshop on Quantization and Geometry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2008: Conference \Poisson 2008", EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

2008: Winter Master Class on \Enveloping Algebras and Related Topics", Weizmann

Institute,

Rehovot, Israel

2007: CTQM Masterclass, \Electric-Magnetic Duality and the Geometric Langland's Program-

me" at Aarhus, Denmark

2004: Instructor at a summer school of the \Deutsche Schulerakademie". Course topic:

Building

of a computer from scratch (i.e., from logic gates)

Additional Information

2011: Author of the TikzEdt software, a combined textual and WYSIWYG editor for

the TikZ language. Written in C#, .NET/WPF, ANTLR and TeX, available at

http://code.google.com/p/tikzedt/.

2011: Author of several components and articles on C# and .NET related topics on The Code-

Project.

2008-2010: Martial Arts (\Shin Aiki") assistant instructor at the Academic Sports

Association Zurich

2004: Instructor at a summer school of the \Deutsche Schulerakademie". Course topic:

Building

a computer from scratch (i.e., from logic gates)

2002: Research internship at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA

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(2 months)

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2001-2002: German civil service

2001: Participant of the \Research Science Institute", a summer school at MIT, Cambridge,

MA

2001: Finalist in the German selection run to the international physics olympiad

2000: Participation in a summer school of the \Deutsche Schulerakademie", awarded for out-

standing high school achievements

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