Dr Oldřich Spáčil - Curriculum Vitae
Employment
- 2013 -- 2015: Research Associate
University College London, UK
Mentor: Chris Wendl
Education
- 2009 -- 2013: PhD in Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Supervisor: Jarek Kędra
Thesis title: On the Chern-Weil theory for transformation groups of contact manifolds - 2007 -- 2009: Master's degree in Geometry
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Supervisor: Martin Čadek
Thesis title: Applications of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem - 2004 -- 2007: Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Supervisor: Martin Čadek
Thesis title: Clifford algebras
Research interests
- Topology and geometry of contact and symplectic manifolds and their groups of transformations,
- global analysis and dynamics on manifolds,
- applications of geometry and topology beyond mathematics.
Publications
- (to appear) with Roger Casals, Chern-Weil theory and the group of strict contactomorphisms, accepted for publication in J.Topol. Anal., 2015. (arXiv preprint: arXiv:1409.1913)
- Indices of quaternionic complexes, Diff. Geom. Appl. 28 (2010), no. 4, 395--405, doi:10.1016/j.difgeo.2010.04.002
(arXiv preprint: arXiv:0909.0035)
Recent talks
- Classification of overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions
December 2014 and January 2015, UCL Symplectic Working Group Seminar , London, UK - Homotopy type of the group of contactomorphisms of the 3-sphere
September 2014, 29th British Topology Meeting, Southampton, UK - On the homotopy type of the space of tight contact structures on the three-sphere
October--November 2013, UCL Symplectic Working Group Seminar , London, UK - Contact manifolds and their transformation groups
February 2013, Topology Seminar, University of Aberdeen, UK - On Chern-Weil theory of groups preserving a contact form
January 2013, UK-Japan Mathematical Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Last updated: 8 April 2015, London, UK
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