Athanase PAPADOPOULOS
Address
Institut de Recherche Mathématique
Avancée,
Université de Strasbourg,
7 rue René
Descartes, F- 67084 Strasbourg, France
email :
papadopoulos@math.u-strasbg.fr
tel 00 33 (0)3 88 75 16 16 (home)
00 33 (0)3 68 85 01 32 (office)
fax 00 3 (0)33 68 85 03 28
Research areas
Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller
spaces, mapping class groups,
hyperbolic geometry,
low-dimensional topology, dynamical systems, hyperbolic groups,
ergodic theory (discrete Laplacian, etc.) and mathematics applied to
music theory.
Publications:
I have about 70 published papers and 3 books. Most of my papers are on
Topology and Geometry, and some of them are on Mathematics and Music.
I blieve that mathematics finds some of its most beautiful applications
in music theory.
Publications on geometry
and topology
Publications
on mathematics and music
Some of my papers are on the French server HAL
Three reviews of My book Metric
Spaces, Convexity and Non-positive Curvature
by S. Semmes in the Bull.
Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 435-438,
by W. Woess in the Internationale
Mathematische Nachrichten Nr. 204 pp. 47-48.
and by T. Foertsch in the Jahresbericht der DMV 108 (2008), 61–62
I am the editor of the "Handbook of Teichmüller Theory", in
several volumes, published by the EMS.
Volume
I
appeared in 2006, Volume
II
appeared in 2008, Volume III will appear in 2010.
In charge of the section "Groupes de difféotopies (mapping
class groups) et espaces de Teichmüller" of the research
program GDR
2105 of CNRS, ``Tresses et topologie de basse dimension".
Organiser of the periodic conference (2 times a year,
in principle June and September) ``Rencontre entre Physiciens
Théoriciens et Mathématiciens" (Encounter between
Theoretical Physicists and Mathematicians), at the University of
Strasbourg. The subject of the conference changes every time. The
topics of the most recent ones were:
Chern-Simons
Invariant
(September 2009)
Representation
Theory (June 2009)
The
Ricci flow
(September 2008)
Brownian
Motion and Random Walks (May 2008)
Finsler
Geometry (September 2007)
The topics of the future ones are:
General
Relativity (June 2010)
Moduli
Spaces (September 2010)
and Lorentz Geometry (June 2011).
Weekly Seminar
I am the
organiser of a weekly
seminar (Mondays at 2 pm) called
Séminaire GT3, a name which has been
coined by Bernard Morin, after Thurston's Notes
on the Geometry and Topology of 3-mainfolds.
Diplomas
1981 Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de
Paris
1983 Doctorat de Troisième cycle, Mathématiques,
Université de
Paris- Sud, centre d'Orsay.
1989 Doctorat d'Etat, Université
de Paris-Sud, centre d'Orsay.
Positions held
1983-84: Assistant associé, Université de Paris-Sud,
centre
d'Orsay
Since October 1984, I work at CNRS. Actual position : Directeur
de Recherche.
Visiting positions
Being a mathematician also means visiting the world. Here is a
list of the visiting positions I held (for at least one month):
Dec 1983 : Université de Genève
June 1983 : University of Florence
Academic year 1984-85: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
April 1985 : MSRI, Berkeley
April-June 1986 : UNAM, Mexico
Novembre & Decembre
1986 : University of Pisa
February to June 1988 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn
February to May 1989 : University of Southern
California, Los Angeles
April to June 1990 : Max-Plank-Institut für
Mathematik, Bonn
February 1991 : University of Florence
Academic year 1993-94 : Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton
July to September 1994 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn
March and April 2003 : University of Florence
March to May 2006 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn
September 2006 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn
April 2007 : CTQM (University of Aarhus),
January and February 2009 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn,
July and August 2009 : Max-Plank
Institut, Bonn,
October 2009: EPFL, Lausanne.
Direction of Ph.D. theses
I had 5 successful Ph.D. students:
M. Coornaert (obtained in 1991)
M. Mesmoudi (obtained in 1994)
J.C. Curtillet (obtained in 1998)
A.
Belkhirat (obtained in 2003)
G. Théret (obtained in 2005)
I have actually two Ph.D. students:
O. Malouf
A. Said.