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Dietmar Salamon

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Dietmar Arno Salamon (born 7 March 1953 in Bremen) is a German mathematician.

Education and career

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Salamon studied mathematics at the Leibniz University Hannover. In 1982 he earned his doctorate at the University of Bremen with dissertation On control and observation of neutral systems.[1][2] He subsequently spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, followed by one year at the Mathematical Research Institute at ETH Zurich. In 1986 he became a lecturer at the University of Warwick, where he was appointed full professor in 1994. The summer semester 1988 he spent as a visiting professor at the University of Bremen and the winter semester 1991 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1998 to 2018 he was a full professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich, retiring as professor emeritus in 2018.[3]

Salamon's field of research is symplectic topology and related fields such as symplectic geometry. Symplectic topology is a relatively new field of mathematics that developed into an important branch of mathematics in the 1990s. Some important new techniques are Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves, Floer homology, and Seiberg-Witten invariants on four-dimensional manifolds.

In 1994 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Lagrangian intersections, 3-manifolds with boundary and the Atiyah-Floer conjecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2017 he received, with Dusa McDuff, the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for the book J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology, which they co-authored.[4] He has been a member of Academia Europaea since 2011.

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Dietmar Salamon: Funktionentheorie. Birkhauser, 2011.
  • Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon: J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology. American Mathematical Society, 2004,[5] 2nd edition 2012.
  • Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon: Introduction to symplectic topology. Oxford University Press, 1998.[6]
  • Dusa McDuff: -holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology. American Mathematical Soc. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8218-0332-5.[7]

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ Salamon, Dietmar (1982). "On control and observation of neutral systems" (PDF). (See control theory.)
  2. ^ Dietmar Arno Salamon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Dietmar Salamon: farewell lecture". Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich. 22 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Dusa McDuff and Dieter Salamon to Receive AMS Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition". American Mathematical Society (AMS). 16 November 2016.
  5. ^ Eliashberg, Yakov (2006). "Book Review: -holomorphic curves and symplectic topology". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 44 (2): 309–316. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01132-3. ISSN 0273-0979.
  6. ^ Jeffrey, Lisa (1997). "Book Review: Introduction to symplectic topology". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 34 (4): 441–446. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00726-X. ISSN 0273-0979.
  7. ^ Lalonde, François (1996). "Book Review: -holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 33 (3): 385–395. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00668-4. ISSN 0273-0979.
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