Nelvis Fornasin


I am a third year PhD student in mathematics in the RTG Cohomological Methods in Geometry at the University of Freiburg, working under the supervision of Sebastian Goette and Katrin Wendland.
I am a graduate student participant in the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics.

Address: Mathematical Institute, University of Freiburg
Ernst-Zermelo-Str. 1, 79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany

e-mail: name.surname (at) mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

Research interests: geometric analysis, index theory, special holonomy

Master's and Bachelor's thesis:

  •   Equivariant Cohomology and Localization, written under the supervision of Oliver Goertsches. (pdf)

  •   Ehrenfest Chains and PoincarĂ©'s Recurrence Theorem, written under the supervision of Valter Moretti. (pdf)

    • Selected talks:

  •   The eta invariant under conic degeneration, in the Research Seminar: Differential Geometry, Mathematical Institute, University of Freiburg, October 2019.

  •   Localization on Generalized Flag Manifolds, in the Research Seminar: Differential Geometry, Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, July 2016.

    • Conferences attended:

  •  Sep 2016, Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy at the SCGP, Stony Brook, NY.

  •  Jan 2017, Collapse, Adiabatic Limits and Special Holonomy at the MFO Imperial College, London.

  •  Jun 2017, Constructions of Compact Exceptional Holonomy Spaces at the Imperial College, London.

  •  Apr 2018, Structure of Collapsed Special Holonomy Spaces at Duke University, Durham, NC.

  •  May 2018, Spectral Estimates on Noncompact Manifolds at the MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.

  •  Jun 2018, Geometric Flows and Special Holonomy at the Imperial College, London.

  •  Sep 2018, Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2018 at the SCGP, Stony Brook, NY.

  •  Jan 2019, Special Holonomy and Algebraic Geometry at the Imperial College, London.

    • As of 24 January 2019