Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Louis Funar
Degrees:
PhD: University of Paris-Sud, February 1994; PhD advisor: Valentin Poenaru.
MS: University of Bucharest, June 1990.
Professional history:
1994-present: Researcher, Institute Fourier, Grenoble.
1999-2000: Visiting Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
1993-1994: Instructor (ATER), University Paris-Sud.
1990-1994: Junior Researcher, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest.
Recent publications:
(with Rosa Gini) The graded cobordism group of codimension one immersions, G.A.F.A. 12(2002), 1235-1264.
(with Siddhartha Gadgil) On the geometric simple connectivity of open manifolds, I.M.R.N., no.24, 2004, 1193-1248.
(with Christophe Kapoudjian) On a universal mapping class
group of genus zero, G.A.F.A. 14(2004), 965-1012.
(with Christophe Kapoudjian) The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group
is finitely presented, Geom.Topol. 12(2008), 475-530.
(with Christophe Kapoudjian)
An infinite genus mapping class group and stable cohomology,
C.M.P. 287(2009), 787-804.
(with Vlad Sergiescu)
Central extensions of the Ptolemy-Thompson group and quantized Teichmuller theory, J.Topology 3(2010), 29-62.
PhD former and present Students:
Paolo Bellingeri (co-directed by Vlad Sergiescu):
Braids on surfaces and link invariants, 2003.
Daniele Otera (co-directed by Valentin Poenaru):
Asymptotic invariants of discrete groups, 2006.
Maxime Wolff : On the exotic components of the space of
surface groups actions on the hyperbolic plane, 2007.
Frederic Palesi : Dynamics on representations spaces for
non-orientable surfaces, 2009.
Ariadna Fossas (co-directed by Jose Burillo): Geometric and combinatorial aspects of Thompson's group T.
Maxime Nguyen : Mapping class groups and automorphisms of complexes of surfaces of
infinite type.
Julien Korinman : Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds .
Binbin Xu (co-directed by Greg McShane) : Convexity on moduli spaces.