David Cimasoni
Departement Mathematik
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 0449
Office: HG G 28.3
Email: david(dot)cimasoni(at)math(dot)ethz(dot)ch
Short CV
I studied Mathematics at the University of Geneva, where I obtained my Master in 1998. During the four years of my PhD (1998-2002), I was Research Assistant in Geneva. I also spent one semester at Brandeis University with Jerry Levine. My PhD advisor was Claude Weber; the members of the jury were Michel Kervaire, Francoise Michel and Walter Neumann. I then spent one year at the IRMA (Strasbourg) with Vladimir Turaev and at the IMB (Dijon) with Daniel Lines as a Swiss NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. After one more year in Geneva, I obtained another Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Swiss NSF: I spent two years at the Math Department of the University of California, Berkeley. My main interlocutors there were Nicolai Reshetikhin and Peter Teichner. Since Fall 2007, I am Heinz Hopf Lecturer (something close to a non-tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the ETH Zurich.For a longer CV, click here.
Research Interests
My research interests are in low-dimensional topology, mathematical physics and discrete geometry.Here is a list of some of my current active projects:
- Asymptotics of the dimer partition function on higher genus
surfaces
- On the different models of the Conway function for links in homology spheres
- Multivariable signatures and colored tangles
Publications
Research papers
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Discrete
Dirac operators on Riemann surfaces and Kasteleyn matrices
preprint- Dimers on
graphs in non-orientable surfaces
Lett. Math. Phys. 87 (2009), 149-179. - Dimers on
surface graphs and spin
structures. II
(with Nicolai Reshetikhin)
Comm. Math. Phys. 281 (2008), 445-468. - Dimers on
surface graphs and spin
structures. I
(with Nicolai Reshetikhin)
Comm. Math. Phys. 275 (2007), 187-208. - Slicing
Bing doubles
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6 (2006), 2395-2415. - A
generalization of several classical
invariants
of links
(with Vladimir Turaev)
Osaka J. Math. 44 (2007), 1-31. - Generalized
Seifert surfaces and
signatures of
colored links
(with Vincent Florens)
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 1223-1264.
- A
Lagrangian representation of tangles II.
(with Vladimir Turaev)
Fund. Math. 190 (2006), 11-27.
- A
Lagrangian representation of tangles
(with Vladimir Turaev)
Topology 44 (2005), 747-767.
- The Conway
potential function of a splice
Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 48 (2005), 61-73.
- Studying
the multivariable Alexander
polynomial
by means of Seifert surfaces
Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana (3) 10 (2004), Special Issue, 107-115.
- Long Line
Knots
(with Mathieu Baillif)
Arch. Math. 83 (2004), no.1, 70-80.
- The Conway
potential function of a graph
link
Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 136 (2004), no. 3, 557-563. - The
Alexander module of links at infinity
Int. Math. Res. Not. (2004), no. 20, 1023-1036.
- A
geometric construction of the Conway
potential
function
Comment. Math. Helv. 79 (2004), no.1, 124-146.
- L'homologie
de Novikov des entrelacs de
Waldhausen
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math. 333 (2001), no. 10, 939-942.
- Computing
the writhe of a knot
J. Knot Theory Ramifications 10 (2001), no. 3, 387-395.
PhD thesis
- Alexander
invariants of multilinks
Miscellaneous
- Proceedings of the Poulpor Seminar
: held at the University of Geneva between 1998 and 2002 / éd.
M. Baillif, D. Cimasoni
Lists of my papers can also be found on the arXiv and on MathSciNet.
Teaching
Herbstsemester 2009: Algebra I
Siehe die Homepage der Vorlesung.
Frühjahrssemester 2009:
Fall semester 2008: Cohomology and Homotopy Theory
See the class webpage.
Spring semester 2008: Introduction to Knot Theory
See the class webpage.