!!Helmut Hofer - Curriculum vitae
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[CV|hofer-cv_0.pdf]
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__Citizenship:__ German and US
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__Education:__ 
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*Fichte-Gymnasium Krefeld (FRG), 1966-74
*Diplom in Mathematics, Univ. of Zürich, 1979
*Ph.D., University of Zürich, 1981
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__Positions:__
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* Asst. in Mathematics, Univ. of Zürich, 1979-81
* Oberassistent, Univ. of Zürich, 1981-82
* Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Univ. of Bath, 1983-85
* Asst. Professor, Rutgers University, 1985-87
* Associate Professor, Rutgers University, 1987-88
* Professor, Rutgers University, 1988-89
* C4-Professor, Bochum, 1989-1993 (Dekan 1992-1993)
* Professor, ETH Zürich, 1993-1997
* Professor, Courant Institute, 1997-2006
* Silver Professor, Courant Institute, 2006{2009
* Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, July 1st, 2009
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__Visiting Positions:__
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* Visiting Associate Professor, Paris Dauphine, Jan.-May 1985
* Visiting Professor, Paris-Dauphine, June 1987
* Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall 1987
* Visiting Member, New York University, Spring 1988
* Visiting Professor, Paris Dauphine, June 1988
* Visiting Member, MSRI, Berkeley, September 1988
* Visiting Member, New York University, Oct.-Nov. 1988
* Visiting Professor, Paris-Dauphine, June 1989
* Visiting Professor, Paris-Dauphine, July 1990
* Visiting Member, New York University, March 1990
* Visiting Professor, Institute Henri Poincare, March-April 1994
* Visiting Member, Isaac Newton Institute, July and September 1994
* Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Fall 2000
* Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2001/2002
and Clay Mathematical Institute Scholar, Fall Semester 2001/2002
* Distinguished Visiting Professor, Penn State, January 2005
* Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall 2005
* Distinguished Visiting Professor, Penn State, January 2006
* Distinguished Visiting Professor, Penn State, January 2007
* Visiting Professor, Stanford, January-June 2008
* Distinguished Visiting Professor, Penn State, January 2009 and March 2009
* Chern Visiting Professor, Berkeley, April 2010
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__Grants__
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* NSF Grant, 1986-1989
* Rutgers University Trustees Research Fellowship Grant, spring 1986 and 1987-88
* DAAD Procope 1991- 1992
* Two projects in the Sonderforschungsbereich 237, 1991-1993
* TH-project (jointly with E. Zehnder), 1994-1996
* TH-project (jointly with E. Zehnder), 1996-1998
* NSF Grant, 1998-2001
* NSF-VIGRE Grant, 1999-2005
* NSF Grant, 2001-2011
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__Special Awards, Prizes etc.__
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* Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1987-1989
* The 1999 Ostrowski Prize
* Member National Academy of Sciences, since 2008
* Member Academia Europaea (Foreign Associate), since 2008
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__Special Invited Lectures:__
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* Invited Speaker International Congress, Kyoto (ICM) 1990
* Plenary Speaker German Mathematical Society, Berlin, September 1992
* Plenary Speaker Joint Meeting AMS/DMV, Heidelberg, October 1993
* Plenary Speaker Annual Meeting of the London Mathematical Society, October 1993
* Invited Speaker Geometries in Interaction, Tel Aviv, December 1993
* The 1995 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lectures in Pure Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, October 1995
* Invited Speaker, TAG Aarhus, Aarhus 1998
* Plenary Speaker International Congress, Berlin (ICM) 1998
* AMS Colloquim Lecturer, San Antonio, AMS Annual Meeting 1999
* Invited Speaker, Visions in Mathematics , Towards 2000, Tel Aviv 1999
* Invited Speaker, Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century, Los Angeles 2000
* Stieltje Colloquim Lecturer, Leiden, September 2000
* Plenary Speaker, Fifth International Joint Meeting AMS and SMM, Morelia 2001
* Plenary Speaker, Georgia Topology Conference, Athens 2001
* Plenary Speaker, 23rd Brazilian Mathematical Colloquium, Rio 2001
* 2003 Hopf-Lectures, Zurich
* Lezioni Leonardesche, Milano 2004
* D'Atri Lectures, Rutgers 2004
* CDM-Lectures, Harvard 2004
* Lecture Series, SFT Workshop, Leipzig 2005
* Distinguished Lecture Series, Madison 2006
* Pacific Institute of Mathematics, 10th Anniversary Lecture, Vancouver 2006
* 2008 Clay Research Conference, May 2008
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__Organisation of Conferences:__
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* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J. Moser and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 1993
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J. Moser and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 1995
* Conference on Symplectic Topology and Three- and Four-Dimensional Topology (jointly with S. Donaldson, M. Gromov and E. Zehnder), Ascona, July 1996
* Conference on Geometry and Variational Problems (jointly with J. Jost), Schloss Ringberg, June 1998
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J.C. Yoccoz and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 1999
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J.C. Yoccoz and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 2001
* Georgia Topology Conference (Scientific Board), Athens, June 2001
* Moser Memorial Conference (jointly with M. Burger), Zürich, June 2001
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J.C. Yoccoz and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 2003
* Workshop on Symplectic Geometry and Mathematical Physics, MSRI (jointly with D. Auroux, D. Freed, G. Tian), March 2004
* Geometry Festival, Courant (jointly with S. Cappell and T. Colding), May 2004
* Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory (jointly with K. Cieliebak, D. MCDuff, K. Mohnke, and M. Schwarz), Leipzig, June 2005.
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with J.C. Yoccoz and E. Zehnder), Oberwolfach, July 2005
* Workshop on Symplectic Geometry (jointly with Y. Eliashberg, J. Milnor and D. Salamon), Banff, December 2005
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with K. Eliasson and J.C. Yoccoz ), Oberwolfach, July 2007
* MSRI Hot-Topic workshop (jointly with M. Hutchings, P. Kronheimer, T. Mrowka and C. Taubes), June 2008
* Conference on Dynamical Systems (jointly with K. Eliasson and J.C. Yoccoz ), Oberwolfach, July 2009
* Symplectic and contact topology and dynamics: puzzles and horizons (jointly with P. Biran, J. Etnyre, D. McDuff, and L. Polterovich), March 2010
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__Other Activities:__
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* Head of the committee for organizing the "Nachdiplomvorlesungen" (ETHZ 1995-1997)
* Member of the committee for organizing the "Wolfgang Pauli Lectures" (ETHZ 1996-1997)
* Member of the "Unterrichtskommission" (ETHZ 1995-1997)
* Evaluation Committee of the Center for Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paliseau France, 1995.
* Evaluation Committee of the Mathematics Departments of the three Universities at Berlin, 1996.
* Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, MIS Leipzig (since 1999).
* Member of the Fields Medal Committee for the ICM 2002, Beijing
* Member of the steering committee of BIRS (Banff International Research Station) (2003-2005)
* Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the MSRI Berkeley (2005-2009; co-chair of the SAC, from March, 2006)
* The Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Priorities at NYU, 2006-2008
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__Former Ph.D. students:__
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* M. Schwarz, ETH Zürich 1995, Cohomology Operations from S%%sup 1/%-Cobodisms in Floer Homology
* K. Cieliebak, ETH Zürich 1996, Symplectic boundaries: Closed characteristics and action spectra
* C. Abbas, ETH Zürich 1997, Asymptotic behaviour of pseudoholomorphic half-planes in symplectisations
* T. Linnemann, ETH Zürich 1997, Generalized fixed points on strictly convex hyper surfaces
* M. Kriener, ETH Zürich 1997, An intersection formula for finite energy half-cylinders
* B. Gratza, ETH Zürich 1998, Piecewise linear approximations in symplectic geometry
* A. Göing, ETH Zürich 1998, Parameter estimation in financial models and numerical analysis in hamiltonian dynamics
* M. Andenmatten, Courant Institute 1998, The Weinstein conjecture and holomorphic curves in higher dimensions
* D. Dragnev, Courant Institute 2003, Fredholm theory and transversality for noncompact pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectizations
* E. Neduv, Columbia University 2003, Symplectic capacities and periodic solutions in Hamiltonian systems
* E. Mora, Courant Institute 2003, Pseudoholomorphic cylinders in symplectisations
* Chris Wendl, Courant Institute 2004, Finite energy foliations and surgery on transverse links
* Richard Siefring, Courant Institute 2005, Intersection Theory of Finite Energy Surfaces
* Sam Lisi, Courant Institute 2005, Applications of Symplectic Geometry to Hamiltonian Mechanics
* Joel Fish, Courant Institute 2007, Compactness Results for Pseudoholomorphic Curves
* Sunil Pinnamaneni, Courant Institute December 2007, A Compendium of Pseudoholomorphic Curves in R x Γ\G
* Umberto Hryniewicz , Courant Institute April 2008, Finite Energy Foliations for Convex Sets in R%%sup 4/%
* Barney Bramham, Courant Institute April 2008, Pseudoholomorphic Foliations for Area Preserving Disc Maps
* Al Momin, Courant Institute September 2008, Intersection Theory in 3-dimensional Linearized Contact Homology
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__Current Ph.D. students:__
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* Dingyu Yang
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__Editorial Activities:__
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* Editorial board of "Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics" since 1997
* Editorial Board of "Inventiones Mathematicae" since 2007, Managing Editor since 2008
* Editorial Board of "Duke Mathematical Journal" till 2007
* Editorial Board of "Journal of the European Mathematical Society" till 2007
* Editorial Board of "Journal of Differential Equations" till 2007
* Editorial Board of "Journal of Symplectic Geometry" till 2007
* Editorial Board of EMS Monographs in Mathematics
* Associate Editor of "Monographs in Mathematics", Birkhäuser
* Editorial Board of "International Mathematical Research Notes" (till 2006)
* Editorial Board of "Geometric and Functional Analysis" (till 2001)
* Editorial Board of "Pacific Journal of Mathematics" (till 2001)
* Editorial Board of "Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications" (till 2001)
* Managing Editor Lectures in Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Birkhauser (till August 1997)
* Editorial Board of "Nonlinearity" (till January 1997)
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__Memberships__
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* American Mathematical Society
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