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Personal Profile of Dr. Ursula Hamenstädt

Biography
Ursula Hamenstädt studied at the Technical University Clausthal Zellerfeld (Germany), the University of Zürich (Switzerland), the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) and the University of Bonn (Germany), where she earned a PhD in 1986. After spending two years in Berkeley as a Miller fellow, she joined the California Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 1988 and moved to Bonn in 1990 as an Associate Professor, being promoted to a Full Professor in 1992. Hamenstädt's main areas of interest are differential geometry, dynamical systems, geometric group theory and Teichmüller theory. She was an invited speaker at the first European Congress in Mathematics in 1992, and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics in 2010 (Section Topology). She is an inaugural Fellow of the AMS and a member of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina. Her work has been continuously supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with individual and group grants. In 2010, she received an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. Throughout her career, Hamenstädt served on various scientific panels and advisory committees. She promotes mathematics for high school students in Germany through the Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik. She was a member of the scientific committee of the Humboldt Foundation, the Mathematisch Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and the advisory board of the Max Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn.
Current/Future Committee Membership
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Board of Trustees Ex-officio, SAC Co-Chair Jul 01, 2021 Jun 30, 2024
Scientific Advisory Committee Co-Chair (7/1/21-6/30/24) Jul 01, 2019 Jun 30, 2024
Steering Committee Ex-officio, SAC Co-Chair Jul 01, 2021 Jun 30, 2024

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  1. Workshop Groups acting on CAT(0) spaces

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    Sep 27, 2016
    Tuesday
    03:30 PM - 04:20 PM
      Hyperbolicity in CAT(0)-spaces
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
  2. Workshop Dynamics on Moduli Spaces

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    Apr 17, 2015
    Friday
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Dynamics and geometry of the Weil Petersson metric
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
  3. Workshop Connections for Women: Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics

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    Jan 29, 2015
    Thursday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      The Weyl chamber flow and applications
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
    Jan 30, 2015
    Friday
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      The Weyl chamber flow and applications
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
  4. Workshop Connections for Women in Quantitative Geometry

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    Aug 18, 2011
    Thursday
    11:10 AM - 12:10 PM
      Metric Distortion in Groups I
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
    Aug 19, 2011
    Friday
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Metric Distortion in Groups II
    Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)