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Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., 1981 (Mathematics), University of Zurich; Diploma, 1979 (Mathematics), University of Zurich.
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Personal Homepage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~hofer/
Research Interests: Symplectic geometry; dynamical systems; partial differential equations.
Affiliations: American Mathematical Society (AMS); Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig (Germany); Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of th! e Mathematics Science Research Center in Berkeley (MSRI); Managing Editor of Inventiones Mathematicae and Editor of Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Fellowships/Honors: Sloan Fellowship 1987-1989; 1999 Ostrowski Prize; Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto 1990; Plenary Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998; American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer 1999.
Selected Works:
On the topological properties of symplectic maps, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 115 A (1990), 25-38.
Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectisation with applications to the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three, Inv. Math. 114(1993), 515-563.
The Dynamics on Three-Dimensional Strongly Convex Energy Surfaces, (with K. Wysocki and E. Zehnder), Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 148 (1998), 197-289.
Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory, (with Y. Eliashberg and A. Givental), Geometric and Functional Analysis, Special Volume VISION 2002, Part {II}, 560-673
Pseudoholomorphic curves and dynamics in three dimensions,(with K. Wysocki and E. Zehnder) Handbook of dynamical systems, Vol. 1A, 1129--1188, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2002.
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