Hans Werner Ballmann

Hans Werner Ballmann (known as Werner Ballmann; born 11 April 1951) is a German mathematician. His area of research is differential geometry with focus on geodesic flows, spaces of negative curvature as well as spectral theory of Dirac operators

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Ballmann earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1979, under the supervision of Wilhelm Klingenberg.[1] He currently is a professor at the University of Bonn, and the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, since 2007.[2] He has advised 16 doctoral students at Bonn, including Christian Bär and Anna Wienhard.[1]

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2007,[3] and a member of the scientific committee of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach since 2004.

Selected works
  • Lectures on spaces of non positive curvatures (PDF; 818 kB), DMV Seminar, Birkhäuser 1995
  • Spaces of non positive curvature, Jahresbericht DMV, vol. 103, 2001, pp. 52–65
  • Der Satz von Lusternik und Schnirelmann, Bonner Mathematische Schriften, vol. 102, 1978, pp. 1–25
  • Ballmann, Werner; Thorbergsson, Gudlaugur; Ziller, Wolfgang (1982). "Closed geodesics on positively curved manifolds". Annals of Mathematics. 116 (2): 213–247. doi:10.2307/2007062. JSTOR 2007062. MR 0672836.
  • Nonpositively curved manifolds of higher rank, Annals of Mathematics 122 (1985), pp. 597–609
  • with M. Brin: Orbihedra of nonpositive curvature. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS No. 82 (1995), 169–209 (1996).
  • Ballmann, Werner; Światkowski, Jacek (1997). "On -cohomology and property (T) for automorphism groups of polyhedral cell complexes". Geometric and Functional Analysis. 7 (4): 615–645. doi:10.1007/s000390050022. MR 1465598.
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References
  1. Hans Werner Ballmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/Research/People/Scientific+Members/Ballmann%2C+W./
  3. http://www.leopoldina-halle.de/cms/en/academy/organisation/members/list-of-members.html?tx_leomemberlist_pi1%91showUid%93=1212&cHash=919f882c8f%5B%5D


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