Curriculum vitae -  Dr  Christian Korff


Employment

March 2005 - Present
Royal Society Research Fellow
Centre for Mathematical Science, City University

October 2004 - March 2005
Royal Society Research Fellow
School of Mathematics, University of Edinbugh

October 2002 - September 2004
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow
at the School of Mathematics,  University of Edinburgh
 
October 2000 -September  2002  Postdoctoral Research Associate 
at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
 
January 1998 - September 2000 Research Assistant 
at the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin
DFG Sfb 288 "Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik"
Education

July 2000 Doctorate in Mathematical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
Dissertation: "Lie algebraic structures in integrable models, affine Toda field theory"
 *awarded with Ernst-Reuter-Preis 2001*

Advisor: Dr. Andreas Fring;
Referees: Prof. Dr. R. Schrader, Prof. Dr. D. Olive (FRS), Prof. Dr. E. Corrigan (FRS)
December 1997    
Physik Diplom, Freie Universität Berlin

Diploma thesis "Scattering theory for the two-particle system with braid group statistics"  received prize at a student conference supported by the DPG

1995 - 1996  Fulbright grantee
Academic exchange year at the Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Research Visits

February 2005 Graduate School for Mathematical Science , University of Tokyo

Host: Professor Michio Jimbo
Q-operator identities and correlation functions for the inhomogeneous XXZ chain
February 2004 Centre for Mathematical Science , City University, London

Host: Dr. Andreas Fring

Collaboration on q-deformed Coxeter groups and solvable
potentials of Calogero type

July 2003

Institut für Theoretische Physik , Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Host: Dr. Frank Göhmann, Group Professor Andreas Klümper
Delivered seminar on quantum groups at roots of unity, 
auxiliary matrices and quantum spin-chains  

September 1999

Dep. de Física de Partículas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Host: Dr. L. Miramontes
Seminar on thermodynamic Bethe ansatz;
Collaboration on non-abelian affine Toda models

Teaching Experience

Autumn term 2005
City University
lecturing 3rd year course on Mathematical Methods
(Laplace and Fourier transform, partial differential equations and boundary problems)
Class size: 65 students
September 2004
University of Edinburgh
First stage of the "Professional Certificate for University Teaching"
Winter term 2003  University of Edinburgh
Tutoring course in multivariable calculus and ordinary differential equations and a course in applied linear algebra.
Winter term 1998
Freie Universität Berlin
Taught a laboratory course in mechanics, optics and electromagnetism.

1995-96 
Indiana University, Bloomington
Volunteered at the "physics forum". Helped undergraduate students with their homework problems in various fields of physics.
Seminars and Presentations at Conferences
20 Feb 2006 Invited speaker at the Math Colloquium, Kent University, UK
Talk: "Non-crystallographic reduction of Calogero Moser models"
7 Feb 2006 Invited seminar speaker at the Math Department, Open University, UK
Talk: "Non-crystallographic reduction of Calogero Moser models"
16-17 Dec 2005 Workshop on Sklyanin algebras and beyond, University of Leeds
July 2005
Representation Theory in Mathematical Physics, Bad Honnef, Germany
Talk: Representation theoretic construction of Baxter's Q-operator and the trace functional in correlation functions
April 2005 9th UK meeting on Integrable models, CFT and Related Topics
local organizer
Sep 2004 6th Bologna Workshop on CFT and Integrable Models, Italy
Talk: "Auxiliary matrices for the six-vertex model on both sides of the equator"
July-Aug 2004 Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, Japan
Workshop "Recent Progress in Solvable Lattice Models"
Talk: "The algebraic Bethe ansatz and Baxter' Q-operator"
and
Workshop "Combinatorical Aspects of Integrable Systems"
July 2004 Non-commutative Geometry and Representation Theory in Mathematical Physics,
Karlstad, Sweden
Talk: "The algebraic Bethe ansatz and  Baxter's Q-operator"
May 2004 Universität Bonn and Max-Planck-Institut for Mathematics Bonn,
Physics Department, Universität Augsburg,
Physics Department, Universität Hannover
Seminars on Lie algebras and representation theory in integrable systems
February 2004

Invited speaker at the Math Colloquium, University of Aberdeen, UK
Talk: "Bethe ansatz and representation theory"
July 2003 "Infinite dimensional algebras and quantum integrable systems", Faro, Portugal
Talk: "Auxiliary matrices and representation theory"
April 2003 7th UK meeting on integrable models, CFT & related topics, York, UK
Invited talk on the six-vertex model at roots of 1
March 2003 Recent Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, Annecy, France
Talk: "Auxiliary matrices for the six-vertex model at roots of unity"
October 2002 Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Seminar, Edinburgh, UK
Talk: "Loop algebra symmetry of integrable models at roots of 1"
May 2002 Universität Dortmund and Universität Köln
Invited talks on "Universal ratios and the dilute A model"
September 2001 5th Bologna Workshop on CFT and Integrable Systems, Italy:
Talk on non-abelian symmetries at roots of unity
July 2001 Low dimensional quantum systems, Trieste, Italy
July 2000 XIII. Int'l Congress on Mathematical Physics
Imperial College, London
March 2000 International Sfb 288 conference, Berlin, Germany
December 1999 Quantum field theory workshop, Berlin, Germany
Talk: "Affine Toda field theory"
July 1999 4th Bologna Workshop, Italy:
Poster "The ultraviolet behavior of affine Toda field theory"
March 1999 Annual Sfb 288 conference, Blossin, Germany:
Talk: "Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz and Integrable QFT" 
July 1998 Workshop "QFT-Prospective and Perspective", Les Houches, France
March 1998 Annual Sfb 288 conference, Kienbaum, Germany

Last modified, November 2005