Welcome to my website!
This semester (winter term 2011), I am teaching Euclidian Geometry and a related computer seminar for teacher students at Saarland University:
- Euklidische Geometrie (in German): Anmeldung zu den Übungen sowie aktuelle Informationen auf der Vorlesungswebseite (passwortgeschützt). Login und Passwort wurden in der Vorlesung bekannt gegeben.
- Computerpraktikum (in German).
Last semester I spent as a visiting professor (in German: Vertretung einer Professur) at Cologne, teaching several seminars on didactics of mathematics.
Current research interests: Didactics of mathematics, in particular: interactions of algebra and geometry, using media such as computers and hands-on-maths in schools and university teaching; geometry and algebra software; applications (e.g., in architecture).
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In July and August 2011, I organized a small IMAGINARY exhibition at Mainz, Germany, as part of the exhibition SPEKTRALE 2011 which was an exhibition on light and color in the arts and in science.
IMAGINARY is an interactive exhibition organized by the Oberwolfach Institute of Mathematics. It started its tour around the world In 2008.
I was mainly involved in this project by producing some of the mathematical content and the concept of the software Surfer used during this exhibition to allow non-mathematicians to experience algebraic surfaces intuitively.
Two of my algebraic surface visualizations which I made for the exhibition and our software Surfer are now permanent exhibits at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.
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Please, feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions,
Oliver Labs
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Recent & Upcoming
- 2012: Talk at the annual MNU meeting at Freiburg, Germany.
- Nov. 10, 2011: Invited Talk at the ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Oct. 11, 2011: Invited Talk at the Maths Institute at Lisbon, Portugal: Parabolas are Useful!
- Sept. 25, 2011: Talk on Zeros and Discriminants of Polynomials during the AkMUI Conference at Soest, Germany.
- Sept. 20, 2011: Workshop on Understanding Chaotic Behaviour using GeoGebra (in German) at the so-called Lehrertag of the annual DMV Meeting. Cologne, Germany. Material
- Sept. 1-4, 2011: Invited Talk at the conference Geometry from an Advanced Point of View at Aveiro, Portugal.
- March - July 2011: Visiting Professor at the university of Cologne (in German: Vertretung einer Professur).
- Nov. 6, 2010: Workshop Algebra in Bildern at the CASIO meeting called Teach and Talk, Nürnberg, Germany. PDF-Download.
- Sept. 27, 2010: Talk at the Oberseminar Südwest, Karlsruhe, Germany: Algebraische Geometrie in der Sekundarstufe I? (in German).
- Sept. 25, 2010: Talk and Workshop at AkMUI 2010, Soest, Germany: Algebraische Geometrie versus Analytische Geometrie in der Schule (in German).
- Sept. 12, 2010: Talk at AkGeo 2010, Marktbreit, Germany: Terme in Bildern in der Sekundarstufe I (in German).
- March 2010: Invited talk at the Saga Workshop 2010, Auron, France: Visualization of Real Algebraic Curves and Surfaces with Singularities.
- February 2010: Talk at the Convex Algebraic Geometry Workshop at Banff, Canada: Visualizing Convex Algebraic Geometry
- July 2009: Talk at the university of Hannover, Germany: Real surfaces with real singularities and applications (in didactics and architecture)
- May 2009: Talk at the architecture department of the technical university at Cottbus, Germany: Algebraic Geometry in Architecture?
- Feb. 18, 2009: Talk at the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium at Saarbrücken (Germany): Von Pythagoras zu aktueller algebraischer Geometrie (PDF)
- Nov. 3 - Nov. 7, 2008: at the Maths Research Institute at Oberwolfach (Germany): Organizer of a teachers' training course on the use of algebraic curves and surfaces in school (in German).
- Oct. 24. - Nov. 16, 2008: Ausstellung IMAGINARY 2008 in der K4-Galerie in Saarbrücken.
- Sept. 2008 at Kassel (Germany): Talk at the AKMUI meeting.
- Sept 2008 at Erlangen (Germany): Talk at the DMV Conference. I am also one of the organizers of a Mini-Symposium there.
- Sept 2008 at Oslo (Norway): Talk at the CMA seminar.
- August 2008 at Saarbrücken: Talk at the Kulturmeilen-Fest: Über die Schönheit der Geometrie(in German). PDF-Download. Mathematische Animationen zum Vortrag: Barth-Fläche, Enriques-Flächen, meine 99-nodale Fläche.
- January 2008: Our paper on surfaces with many solitary points on arxiv.org.
- December 2007 at Paris (France): Invited Talk at MACIS 2007: Visualization Challenges in Real Algebraic Geometry
- 2006, December 1: Together with Hans-Christian Graf von Bothmer, I present an advent calendar of geometrical animations: http://Calendar.AlgebraicSurface.net
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