Iv´anContreras Curriculum Vitae

Department of , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1409 W. Green St. , Urbana Il, 61801 USA Tel: +1 (217) 333-3350 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] web site: http://math.illinois.edu/ icontrer/

PERSONAL • Name: Iv´anGuillermo Contreras Palacios DATA • Date of birth: 16th of May, 1985 • Place of birth: Bogot´a,Colombia • Citizenship: Colombian • Marital status: Married, one child • Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent) German, French and Romanian (basic)

POSITIONS • January 2016- : J.L. Doob Postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, mentored Rui L. Fernandes and Eugene Lerman.

• January 2014-December 2015: SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Post- doctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, mentored by Nicolai Reshetikhin.

• July-December 2013: Postdoc, Z¨urich University, in the group of Alberto Cat- taneo.

EDUCATION • PhD studies: Z¨urich University, Z¨urich, Switzerland. September 2009-June 2013 current. PhD student Title: Relational symplectic groupoids and Poisson sigma models with bound- ary Advisor: Prof. Alberto Cattaneo Refereeing committee: Porf. Henrique Bursztyn, Prof. Giovanni Felder, Prof. Marco Gualtieri, Prof. Alan Weinstein

• Master studies: Utrecht University, Utrecht, the . June 2009 Master Class: Aspects on Calabi-Yau geometries, Thesis: Models for formal groupoids Advisor: Prof. Marius Crainic and Dr. Benoit Dherin

• Undergraduate studies: Mathematics, (minor in Economics), Universidad de los Andes, Bogot´a,Colombia, September 2008 Thesis: Estructuras de Dirac y foliaciones en grupos de Lie Advisor: Prof. Alexander Cardona

• High school: Colegio San Carlos, Bogot´a,Colombia. July 2003

SCHOLARSHIPS • J.L. Doob Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, AND January 2016 AWARDS • SNF advanced Postdoc fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, January 2015-Present • SNF early Postdoc fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, January 2014-December 2014 • Forschungskredit grant Z¨urich University, September 2011- July 2012 • MRI scholarship for the Master Class 2008- 2009, Utrecht University • Henry Yerly scholarship for undergraduate students of mathematics, Universi- dad de los Andes, 2004 to 2008 • Second and Third Prize, International Mathematics Competition for university students, 2006 and 2007 • First Place, Colombian Mathematics Olympiad, 2003 • Bronze Medal, International Mathematics Olympiad, 2001 and 2002 • Silver Medal, Rio de la Plata Mathematics Olympiad, 2000 • Bronze Medal , Iberoamerican Olympiad of Mathematics, 2000

RESEARCH • Symplectic and Poisson geometry, Lie theory, differential geometry INTERESTS • Classical and quantum field theories • Deformation quantization • Derived geometry

PUBLICATIONS • Geometric Quantization and Epistemically Restricted Theories , w. A. Duman, arXiv:1603.02189, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference: Quantum Physics and Logic (2016). • Relational symplectic groupoids, with A.S. Cattaneo, arXiv:1401.7319 [math.SG] (2015), in Letters in Mathematical Physics, Volume 105, Issue 5, pp 723-767. • Groupoids, Frobenius algebras and Poisson sigma models, arXiv:1306.4119v1, in Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theories Math- ematical Physical Studies, Springer (2014). • Groupoids and Poisson sigma models with boundary, with A.S. Cattaneo, arXiv:1206.4330v1, in Geometric and Topological Methods in Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, Scientific World (2013). • Models for formal groupoids in Proceedings of the Summer School: Geomet- ric and Topological Methods in Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University Press. Villa de Leyva, Colombia (2013). • Relative Frobenius algebras are groupoids, with C. Heunen and A.S. Cattaneo, in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2012.04.002 (2012).

PREPRINTS • On the geometry of mixed states and the Fisher information tensor, w. E. Ercolessi and M. Schiavina, arXiv:1149529 (2015). • Relational symplectic groupoids and Poisson sigma models with boundary, arXiv:1306.3943v1, PhD thesis (2013).

EDITORIAL • Geometric and topological methods for quantum field theory, Proceedings, WORK: BOOKS with Alexander Cardona and Andr´esReyes-Lega (2013), Cambridge Univer- sity Press, ISBN-13: 9781107026834 • Un recorrido por el Algebra, with Javier Madro˜nero(2007), ed. Universidad Antonio Nari˜noISBN: 978-958-9423-67-7 WORK IN • Split canonical relations, with A. Cattaneo and A. Weinstein. PREPARATION • Integration of Lie algebroids and canonical relations. • Unblurred covering groupoids, with P. Rios and A. Weinstein. • Derived geometry and abelian Chern-Simons theory, with O. Gwilliam. • Poisson sigma model as an extended field theory, with C. Scheimbauer. • Defects in Topological Insulators: An Abelian BF theory with boundaries, with A. Hussain and J. Aytac.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES – As a Postdoctoral fellow at UIUC ∗ Instructor of MATH 416: Abstract Linear Algebra, Spring 2016. – As a Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley ∗ Instructor of MATH 16B: Analytic geometry and Calculus, Summer 2015. ∗ Instructor of MATH 113: Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Fall 2015. ∗ Co-organizer of the Freshman Seminar MATH 24: ”Geometry, Rela- tivity, and the Fourth Dimension”, Spring 2015.

– As a Postdoctoral fellow at Z¨urich University ∗ Instructor of the seminar: The moduli space of flat connections, Fall 2013 – As a graduate assistant at Z¨urich University ∗ Assistant for Linear algebra II (German), Spring 2013 ∗ Assistant for Linear algebra I (German), Fall 2012 ∗ Assistant and guest lecturer for Differentiable manifolds, Spring 2012 ∗ Assistant for Linear algebra for physicists (German), Fall 2011 ∗ Assistant for Analysis II, Spring 2011 ∗ Assistant and guest lecturer for Analysis III (German) Fall 2010 ∗ Differentiable manifolds, Spring 2010 ∗ Linear algebra for physicists, Fall 2009 – At Universidad de los Andes ∗ Instructor for Differential calculus, Spring 2008 ∗ Assistant for Calculus for economics and management, Fall 2007 ∗ Grader for Analysis and Linear Algebra, 2007 – At Olimpiadas Colombianas de Matematicas ∗ Coach for the Colombian and Irish teams for the International Math- ematics Olympiad, the Netherlands, 2011 ∗ Coach of the Colombian team for the XX Annual Vorjtech Jarnik International Mathematics Competition, Czech Republic, 2010 ∗ Instructor for Algebra, 2004-2008 ∗ Instructor for Geometry, 2004-2008 ∗ Coach of the Colombian team for the Mathematics Olympiad: Rio de la Plata, Argentina, 2007 ∗ Coach of the Colombian team for the Centro-American Mathematics Olympiad in Venezuela, 2007 RESEARCH • Symplectic linear algebra and field theories, Gone Fishing Conference, Univer- VISITS AND sity of Colorado, Boulder (2016). SELECTED • Split Canonical relations and TFT, Symplectic and Poisson Geometry Seminar, TALKS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2016). • Abelian BF theory and topological insulators, Representation Theory and Ge- ometry Seminar, UC Berkeley (2015). • Symplectic and Lagrangian structures in field theories with boundary, Sym- plectic Geometry Seminar, UC Berkeley (2015). • Lie theory and topological field theories, Oberseminar, Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Bonn (2015). • AKSZ formulation for two dimensional topological field theories, RTG Seminar, UC Berkeley (2015). • Lagrangian correspondences and Poisson sigma models, Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar, UC Berkeley (2014). • Integration of Poisson manifolds and canonical relations, Gone Fishing Confer- ence, UC Berkeley (2014). • Lagrangian correspondences and extensions for the Poisson sigma models, Talks in Mathematical Physics, ETH, Z¨urich (2014). • Differential forms in derived Artin stacks, Derived (Symplectic) Geometry sem- inar, UC Berkeley (2014). • Structured factorization algebras, Seminar on Factorization Algebras in Quan- tum Field Theory UC Berkeley (2014). • Poisson sigma models, Lie’s third theorem and Lagrangian correspondences,Geometry, Representation theory and Combinatorics seminar, UC Berkeley (2014). • Grupoides simpl´ecticosen Teor´ıasTopol´ogicasde Campos, Colombian Congress of Mathematics (2013). • Relational symplectic groupoids and Poisson sigma models with boundary, Dis- sertation Coloquium (2013). • What is a Lie groupoid? Z¨urich Graduate Colloquium (2013). • The extended symplectic category, Winter school in Mathematical Physics, Les Houges (2013). • 2-dualizable objects, Seimar: Homotopical and Higher algebra, ETHZ, Z¨urich (2012). • Relational symplectic groupoids, Seminar in Knot Theory, Geneva University (2012). • Visit to Athens University, Spring 2012. • Lie algebroids and Poisson sigma models, Athens University (2012). • Groupoids and relative Frobenius algebras, Winter school in Mathematical Physics, Les Houges (2012). • Integration and Poisson sigma models with boundary, Meeting ProDoc Geom- etry, Algebra and Mathematical Physics, ETHZ, Z¨urich (2011). • Morse inequalities, Seminar: Topics in classical and quantum geometry, UZH, Z¨urich (2011). • Self-linking number and integral invariants of 3-folds, Seminar in Quantum Topology, UZH (2011). • Integration of Lie algebroids and Poisson sigma models, XI Summer School, Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory. Universidad de los Andes, Villa de Leyva (2011). • Poisson sigma models with boundary and integration of algebroids, Winter school in Mathematical Physics , Les Diablertes (2011). • Formal symplectic groupoids X Summer School, Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva (2009).

PROFESSIONAL • Referee for Communications in Mathematical Physics and MDPI Mathematics ACTIVITIES • Coordinator (grader) of the LIV International Mathematics Olympiad, Colom- bia, 2013 • Co-organizer of the Graduate Colloquium of Mathematics, UZH-ETH, 2010- 2013