2010 February 3

Peter Spaeth

School of Mathematics
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
87 Hoegiro, Dongdaemun-gu
Seoul, 130-722
Korea

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), 2006
  Dissertation: Floer Homology and Engulfable Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms
  Advisor: Yong-Geun Oh
  
• B.S. in Mathematics, Penn State University (University Park, PA), 1999

Research Interests

• Symplectic and contact topology, pseudoholomorphic curves and mathematical physics

Positions Held

• Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 2009 -
• Lecturer, Penn State University, 2006 - 2009

Publications and Preprints

• Length Minimizing Paths in the Hamiltonian Diffeomorphism Group, J. Symplectic Geom., Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 159--187, 2008
• The C⁰—contact topology and the group of contact homeomorphisms (with A. Banyaga), submitted, preprint available at arXiv:0812.2461 [SG] - Revision in progress, 2010

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

• NSF VIGRE Fellowship, 2002
• NSF East Asia Summer Institutes 2003

Visiting with my brother in Hong Kong, November 2009.

Seoul skyline

something else to keep me busy