Arthur Bartels (born 12 October 1971 in
Tübingen) is a German mathematician.
After completing his ''
Abitur
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'' in Wiesbaden and then ''Zivildienst'' (alternative civilian service instead of military service), Bartels studied mathematics from 1992 at the
University of Mainz and the
University of Manchester with ''
Diplom
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'' in Mainz in 1997 under
Matthias Kreck with ''Diplom'' thesis ''Morsetheorie und Faserbündel über den Kreis'' (Morse theory and fiber bundles over the circle). Bartels received his PhD in 1999 under the direction of
Peter Teichner
Peter Teichner (born June 30, 1963 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a German mathematician and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. His main areas of work are topology and geometry.
Life
In 1988, Peter Tei ...
at the
University of California, San Diego with doctoral thesis ''Link homotopy in codimension 2''. As a postdoc Bartels was at the
University of Münster, where he habilitated in 2005 and was an assistant. He became in 2007 a
lecturer
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at
Imperial College London and in 2008 a full professor at the University of Münster.
He is concerned with topology, including the
Farrell–Jones conjecture about the algebraic structure of the
K-theory and
L-theory of
group rings, which he proved in special cases with colleagues; specifically, he proved the case of
mapping class groups with
Mladen Bestvina and the cases of
hyperbolic groups and
CAT(0)
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-groups with
Wolfgang Lück and Holger Reich.
In 2018 in
Rio de Janeiro Bartels was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
with talk ''K-theory and actions on Euclidean retracts''.
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20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
Academic staff of the University of Münster
1971 births
Living people