Katrin Wehrheim

Katrin Wehrheim
Wehrheim at Berkeley, California 2013
Born1974
NationalityGerman
Alma materETH Zürich
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisAnti-self-dual instantons with Lagrangian boundary conditions (2002)
Doctoral advisor

Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Wehrheim's research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory, and they are known for work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. With Dusa McDuff, they have challenged the foundational rigor of a classic proof in symplectic geometry.[1]

  1. ^ Hartnett, Kevin (February 9, 2017), "A Fight to Fix Geometry's Foundations: When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry", Quanta.