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Past Member

Matthias Schwarz

Funding provided by the National Science Foundation

Affiliation

Mathematics

Field of Study

Symplectic Geometry, Hamiltonian Dynamics
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Matthias Schwarz’s research at IAS deals with phenomena of symplectic rigidity in the context of Hamiltonian dynamical systems. He is studying questions about dynamical properties such as recurrence with methods from symplectic rigidity, such as Floer theory and pseudoholomorphic curves.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Mathematics

Degrees

ETH Zurich
Ph.D.
1995

Honors

2015
Member of the Saxonias Academy of Sciences
1999
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
1996
Medal of the ETH Zurich for PhD thesis

Appointments

Leipzig University
2000
Full Professor
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
1999–2000
Head of Independent Research Group
University of Chicago
1998–1999
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
1996–1998
Szegoe Assistant Professor
Cambridge University
1995–1996
Leibniz Postdoctoral Fellow of the EU