Mathematics:
Jena:
Simon A. King′s Curriculum Vitæ
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Current appointment
Since Oct. 2016: Lecturer at Friedrich Schiller University JenaPrevious employment after PhD
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Lecturer at Cologne University |
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Post Doc (DFG project KI 861/2-1) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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Post Doc (DFG project GR 1585/6-1) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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Post Doc (Marie-Curie Grant MTKD-CT-2006-042685) at National University of Ireland, Galway |
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Post Doc (DFG project GR 1585/4-1) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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Research assistant at University of Technology Darmstadt |
| May 2006 – April 2007 | Assistant to the director at Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach. |
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Research assistant at University of Technology Darmstadt |
Research activities
See publication list. I am the main author of a software package on modular group cohomology.Organising conferences
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Co-organiser, together with Jürgen Müller and Benjamin Sambale, of a workshop on Computations in Groups and Algebras (CoGrAl2015) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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Co-organiser, together with Louis Kauffman, Vassily Manturov and Józef Przytycki, of a workshop on Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology at Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach. |
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Teaching
Currently I am mostly teaching in numerical mathematics, linear algebra, and mathematics for material sciences, geology and chemistry. I have also held lectures on topology and geometry.| Positions / conferences | Teaching | Education / qualifications |
Education and academic qualifications
| 2007 | Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at
University of Technology Darmstadt (Germany)
Habilitationsschrift: (postdoctoral thesis) "Verschiedene Anwendungen kombinatorischer und algebraischer Strukturen in der Topologie" ("Various Applications of Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Topology") |
| 1998 - 2001 | Institut de
Recherche Mathématique Avancée
(" Institute of Advanced Mathematical Research") in Strasbourg (France)
June 2001: Defense of my doctoral thesis entitled "Polytopality of triangulations" Advisor: Prof. Vladimir Turaev |
| Summer 1997 | English course in Broadstairs, UK. |
| 1992/93-1997/98 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
in Frankfurt/Main.
Dec. 1997: Diploma "mit Auszeichnung" (with Distinction) in mathematics and additional subject theoretical physics. Diploma thesis: "Kollabierretrakte und Zustandssummeninvarianten von 3-Mannigfaltigkeiten" ("Spines and state sum invariants of 3-manifolds"). Advisor: Prof. Gerhard Burde. |
| 1983-1992 | Lessing-Gymnasium (High School)
in Frankfurt/Main.
Languages: Latin, French and Ancient Greek. |
Scholarships and Third Party Funded projects
| 2013-2015 | DFG (German Science Foundation) project |
| 2010-2013 | DFG project |
| 2009-2010 | Marie Curie grant |
| 2007-2009 | DFG project number |
| 2004-2007 | Participation in Intas-Projekt ref. 03-51-3663 CalcoMet-GT (Complexity, alorithms, and computer methods in geometric topology). I contributed to the application in 2003. |
| 1998-2001 | Doctoral scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 1993-1997 | Undergraduate scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation). |
I attended several interdisciplinary Summer Schools organised by Studienstiftung.
Music
- 1994-2009 Singing in Figuralchor Frankfurt, then conducted by Prof. Alois Ickstadt.
- 1995-1998 and 2001-2009 singing class of Prof. Gerhard Meier.
- Violin since age of 6 years, 1992-1998 in the violin class of Prof. Alois Kottmann.
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Simon King Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 07737 Jena GERMANY
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