Dietmar Salamon#

Education:

• 1971 Abitur, Parseval Gymnasium, Bremen.
• 1971-1977 undergraduate studies in Hannover and Bremen
• 1977 Diploma in Mathematics, University of Bremen.
• 1982 PhD in Mathematics, University of Bremen. Supervisor: Diederich Hinrichsen.

Achievements:

• Monographs on Symplectic Topology (with D.McDuff),
• Proof of Atiyah-Floer conjecture for mapping tori (with S.Dostoglou),
• Gluing theory for J-holomorphic curves (with D.McDuff),
• Proof of Arnold conjecture for a class of symplectic manifolds, including
• Calabi-Yau (with H.Hofer),
• Symplectic vortex equations,
• Ring homomorphism from equivariant to quantum cohomology (with R.Gaio),
• Floer theory for 3-manifolds with boundary (with K.Wehrheim),
• Hyperkaehler Floer theory (with S.Hohloch and G.Noetzel).

Selected invited lectures:

• July 1992, 1st ECM, Paris.
• August 1994, ICM, Zurich.
• 27 Apr - 1 May 1998, Andrejewski Lectures, Goettingen.
• July 2000, 3rd ECM, Barcelona.
• 17 Sept 2001, Hauptvortrag OeMG/DMV Jahrestagung, Vienna.
• 7-9 Feb 2005, Andrejewski Lectures, Humboldt, Berlin.
• 29 June-3 July 2009, Xth Lisbon Summer Lectures in Geometry.

Organized Conferences:

• August 1990, Workshop and Conference on Symplectic Geometry, Warwick.
• April and July 1992, two Workshops on Gauge theory, Warwick (with Hitchin, Jones, Rawnsley).
• July-December 1994, Symposium on Symplectic Geometry, Newton Institute (with Donaldson, McDuff, Thomas).
• Sept 1997-July 1998, Symposium on Symplectic Geometry, Warwick (with Rawnsley).
• December 1999, Millenium Eve's Workshop on Symplectic Topology, ETH (with Zehnder).
• November 2000, Workshop on Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics (Edi-Fest), ETH (with Hofer, Schwarz).
• October 2001, Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Floer homology", Oberwolfach (with Schwarz).
• May 2003, Workshop Symplectic Geometry, ETH (with Schlenk, Zehnder).
• December 2005, Recent Advances in Symplectic Geometry (Dusa-Fest), Banff (with Eliashberg, Hofer, Milnor).
• September 2007, Conference on Symplectic Geometry and Physics, ETH (with Felder, Katzarkov).
• November 2010, From Dynamical Systems to Symplectic Topology (Edi-Fest), ETH (with Biran, Eliashberg, Hofer, Schlenk).
• 2001-2008, Member of Beirat des Mathematischen Forschungsinstitutes Oberwolfach.
• 2001- Member of Editorial Board of Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
• 2003- Member of Editorial Boeard of Expositiones Mathematicae
• Spring 2005, Member of "Kommission zur Evaluation von Forschung und Lehrprogrammen an den Fachbereichen fuer Mathematik der Oesterreichischen Universitaeten".

PhD students:

Marcin Pozniak (1994), Thomas Davies (1996), Mohan Bhupal (1998), Joachim Weber (joint with Ruedi Seiler, 1999), Laurent Lazzarini (joint with Pierre Pansu, 1999), Ana Rita Gaio (1999), Meike Akveld (2000), Ralf Gautschi (2002), Katrin Wehrheim (2002), Urs Frauenfelder (2003), Fabian Ziltener (2006), Tom Weinmann (2007), Jan Swoboda (2009), Remi Janner (2010), Andreas Ott (2010).