In his PhD thesis "Geometry and derived category of holomorphic symplectic vector fields", supervised by Daniel Huybrechts, Thorsten Beckmann investigates various aspects of hyper-Kähler manifolds and abelian varieties such as their derived categories, sheaves, cycles and topology.
Each section contains interesting, highly original new results in mathematics that could constitute a PhD thesis in algebraic geometry on its own. Taken together, they treat a broad range of problems, that are attacked with a richness of original ideas and impressive technical skills. The results are at the forefront of a rapidly moving field. Many of Beckmann’s contributions build on recent advances of others, and his thesis contains a lot of material that will be the basis or inspiration for many in the field. Thorsten Beckmann was very productive in the four years of his PhD at an exceptionally high level and impressed with nine papers, some of which have already been published in excellent journals and are excellently received. The dissertation consists of six of these papers.
Several awards
This is not the first award that Thorsten Beckmann has received: His Bachelor's thesis "Motivic integration" was already awarded the Bachelor Prize of the Bonn Mathematical Society, and his Master's thesis "Birational geometry of moduli spaces of stable objects on Enriques surfaces" was published in the journal Selecta Mathematica. Both theses were also supervised by Daniel Huybrechts. Thorsten Beckmann now works as a Data Science Consultant at the pharma & life science company Comma Soft AG in Bonn.
The Prize
The Hausdorff Memorial Prize is awarded in honor of Felix Hausdorff each year around the anniversary of his death, January 26, at the Hausdorff Colloquium. The professors and lecturers have the right to nominate candidates. The decision is made by a jury appointed by the Department of Mathematics. The prize consists of 500 euros in prize money and a book prize.