Stephan Tillmann

Education

Employment

Awards and Grants

Synergistic Activities and Service

education

2002: Ph.D. in mathematics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1997: Bachelor of Science (Honours) (First Class), The University of Melbourne, Australia
1996: Zwischenprüfung in Mathematics and Philosophy (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
1992: Abitur (High School diploma), Gymnasium Oppenheim, Germany

languages

English, French, German

employment

2020–: Professor of Geometric Topology, The University of Sydney, Australia
2017–2019: Associate Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia
2014–2016: Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
2011–2013: Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
2009–2011: Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Australia
2006–2009: Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2005–2006: CIRGET Postdoctoral Fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
2003–2005: CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
2002–2003: Tutor and Visiting Researcher, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1992–1994: Zivildienst (Social Services), ABS Mainz, Germany

visiting positions

2022: Visitor (5 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2017: SFB-Gastprofessor (6 months), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2014–2015: Visiting Professor (6 weeks), Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France
2013–2014: Visitor (3 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2011: Visitor (2 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2009: Visitor (1 month), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
2007: Visitor (1 month), Warwick Mathematics Institute, Coventry, England
2006: Visitor (1 month), Yale University, New Haven, USA
2006: Visitor (2 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2002: Lehrbeauftragter (4 months), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2001: Visitor (2 months), Columbia University, New York City, USA
2000: Visitor (6 months), Columbia University, New York City, USA
1998: Research Assistant (3 months), The University of Melbourne, Australia

awards

2021: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2015: Faculty of Science Teaching and Learning Award, University of Sydney
1998–2002: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (awarded by the Commonwealth of Australia)
2001: Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship (awarded by the University of Melbourne)
2001: B.H. Neumann Prize of the Australian Mathematical Society
2000: Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship (awarded by the University of Melbourne)
1997: A place on the Dean's Honours List 1997 for excellence in academic achievement (awarded by the Dean of Science, The University of Melbourne)
1992: The certificate for social engagement of the Minister of Cultural Affairs of the state Rhineland-Palatrine, Germany

research grants

2020: The three-dimensional sphere and its triangulations: Finding the key to the difficulty of computations; Jonathan Spreer, Stephan Tillmann, Baduseb Datta, Biplab Basak; India Development Fund, Office of Global Engagement, The University of Sydney
2019–2021: Trisections, triangulations and the complexity of manifolds; Stephan Tillmann, Hyam Rubinstein and Jonathan Spreer; ARC Discovery Grant DP190102259
2018–2021: Interactions between geometric and topological structures; Stephan Tillmann; ARC Future Fellowship FT170100316
2016–2018: Invariants, geometric and discrete structures on manifolds; Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann; ARC Discovery Grant DP160104502
2014–2016: Moduli spaces of geometric structures; Stephan Tillmann; ARC Discovery Grant DP140100158
2013–2015: Triangulations in dimension 3 and 4: discrete and geometric structures; Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann; ARC Discovery Grant DP130103694
2012–2013: Algorithmic methods in combinatorial topology; Ben Burton, Michael Joswig, Andreas Paffenholz and Stephan Tillmann; Go8 Australia–Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme
2011–2013: Generic complexity in computational topology; Ben Burton, Murray Elder and Stephan Tillmann; ARC Discovery Grant DP110101104
2011: Character varieties of 3-manifolds; Stephan Tillmann; UQ Early Career Research Grant
2010–2012: Triangulations in dimension three: algorithms and geometric structures; Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann; ARC Discovery Grant DP1095760; project web-site

education grants

2020: Symmetry in the Arts and Sciences; Stephan Tillmann; DVC Education/Strategic Education Grant
2020: Reading and Writing Mathematics (Revisited); Oded Yacobi and Stephan Tillmann; DVC Education/Strategic Education Grant
2020: Experiencing mathematical community and creativity: Building a cohort identity; Peter Kim, Milena Radnovic, Eduardo Altmann, Max Davy, Nalini Joshi, Matthew Lim, James Parkinson, Stephan Tillmann, Oded Yacobi; DVC Education/Student Life Grant
2019: Experiencing mathematical community and creativity through mentoring; Peter Kim, Hazel Browne, Nalini Joshi, James Parkinson, Milena Radnovic, Stephan Tillmann, Oded Yacobi; DVC Education/Student Life Grant
2017: Symmetry (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Stephan Tillmann and Mary Myerscough; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2017: Reading and Writing Mathematics (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Oded Yacobi and Stephan Tillmann; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2014: Increasing engaged enquiry by flipping the tutorial in Mathematics and Physics; Mary Myerscough, Stephan Tillmann, Helen Johnston and John O'Byrne; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant

appointments

1/2022–12/2025: Executive Director, Sydney Mathematical Research Institute
2/2021–1/2023: Deputy Director, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
2018–2019: OIST Mathematics Faculty Search Committee
2013–2018: AMSI Summer School Program Committee; AMSI Summer School Standing Committee
2010–2012: Early Career Representative of the Australian Mathematical Society

departmental service

2017–2020: Education committee (Director of Education Strategy and Innovation)
2015–2021: Research committee; Director of Research Program (Pure Mathematics)
2015–2020: Magagement committee
2017: Associate Head (Education Strategy); Faculty of Science Education Committee
2014: Second Year Coordinator

conference and workshop organisation

11–15 November 2024: Geometry and topology in low dimensions: A conference celebrating the mathematics of Craig Hodgson, The University of Melbourne, Australia (with Daniele Celoria, Diarmuid Crowley, Paul Norbury, Jessica Purcell and Marcy Robertson)
23–28 September 2024: MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology: Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation (with Stefan Friedl, Joan Licata and Paula Truöl)
6–11 September 2021: MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop Invariants and Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology (with Stefan Friedl, Jessica Purcell and Arunima Ray)
July 2021: CATS 2021, Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia (with Jonathan Spreer and Kate Turner)
11–13 December 2019: Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces, Sydney, Australia (with Anthony Henderson and Behrouz Taji)
7–18 January 2019: Topology of Manifolds: interactions between high and low dimensions, MATRIX, Creswick, Australia (with Jonathan Bowden, Diarmuid Crowley and Stefan Friedl)
2–6 June 2018: Characters in low-dimensional topology, CRM, Montréal, Canada (with Olivier Collin, Stefan Friedl, Cameron Gordon and Liam Watson)
11–15 December 2017: Computation in geometric topology (with Nathan Dunfield and Saul Schleimer) as part of the 2017-2018 Warwick EPSRC Symposium on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics in Low Dimensions, Warwick, UK.
27 June – 1 July 2017: Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia (with Robert Haraway and Josh Howie)
11–17 October 2015: Oberwolfach Workshop 1542 "Computational Geometric and Algebraic Topology" at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Germany (with Ben Burton, Jeff Erickson and Herbert Edelsbrunner)
2–4 April 2014: Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia
30 September to 3 October 2013: Organisation of the Special Session "Geometry and Topology" at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia (with Joan Licata)
22–23 September 2012: AustMS 2012 Early Career Workshop, Ballarat, Australia (with Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio and Ngamta Thamwattana)
24–25 September 2011: AustMS 2011 Early Career Workshop, Wollongong, Australia (with Bronwyn Hajek and Ngamta Thamwattana)
11–22 July 2011: Conference and graduate winter school Geometry & Topology Down Under, Melbourne, Australia (with James Carlson, Loretta Bartolini, Danny Calegari, Craig Hodgson, William Jaco, Amnon Neeman, Paul Norbury, Arun Ram, Penny Wightwick and Nick Wormald)
6–10 June 2011: Faces of Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups & Singularities, Columbia University, USA (with Jason Behrstock, Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman and Philip Ording)
25–26 September 2010: AustMS 2010 Early Career Workshop, Caloundra, Australia (with Bronwyn Hajek and Anthony Henderson)
20–21 July 2010: AMSI workshop Algorithms, Algebra and Analysis in Four Dimensions, Brisbane, Australia (with Ben Burton and Murray Elder)
14–18 December 2009: AMSI workshop New directions in Geometric Group Theory, Brisbane, Australia (with Murray Elder and Lawrence Reeves)
25–28 September 2007: Organisation of the Special Session "Geometry and Topology" at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Melbourne, Australia (with Ben Andrews and Peter Milley)
1–2 May 2004: Trends in 3-manifolds, Montréal, Canada (with Ben Klaff)

seminar series organisation

2020–present: Australian Geometric Topology Webinar
with Joan Licata (ANU), Dan Mathews (Monash), Jessica Purcell (Monash, until 2022) and Dionne Ibara (Monash, from 2023)
2014–2020: Geometry & Topology seminar at the University of Sydney, Australia
with Robert Haraway (2016), Boris Lishak (2018–2019), Behrouz Taji (2020–2020), Haotian Wu (2016–2020)
2010 and 2011: Mathematics Colloquium at the University of Queensland, Australia
(with Victor Scharaschkin in 2010 and Leonardo Rojas-Nandayapa in 2011)
Semester 2 (2008) and Semester 1 (2009): Algebra-Geometry-Topology seminar at the University of Melbourne, Australia (with Arun Ram)