Thomas Zink

Thomas Zink ( born April 14, 1949 in Berlin) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bielefeld. His area of ​​research is the arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Life and work

Zinc was in 1981 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin doctorate (On the bad reduction of Shimura manifolds ). Then he was at the Weierstrass Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and was after the turn of Professor in Bielefeld. Among other things, he has conducted research at Princeton, Toronto and Bonn.

In professional circles, he was known when he received ( Cologne University ) In 1992, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with Christopher Deninger (Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster ), Michael Rapoport ( University of Wuppertal ) and Peter Schneider. The four researchers, all specialists in the field of algebraic arithmetic geometry, it was possible to transfer modern methods of algebraic geometry to the solution of Diophantine equations.

Specifically, it deals with p- divisible groups and Shimura varieties.

Thomas, zinc is since 2003 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Writings

  • Cartier theory of commutative formal groups, Teubner 1984
  • Etale cohomology and duality in number fields, as an attachment to: Klaus Haberland Galois cohomology of algebraic number fields, German Academic Publishers, Berlin 1978
  • With M. Rapoport: Period spaces for p- divisible groups, Annals of Mathematics Studies 141, Princeton 1996
  • Cartier theory over perfect rings I, II, Karl- Weierstrass - Institute of Mathematics, Berlin 1986
  • H. Reimann: The Dieudonnemodul a polarized abelian variety of CM- type, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 128, 1988, pp. 461-482
  • A Dieudonne theory for p- divisible groups, in: Class Field Theory, Its Centenary and Prospect, Advanced Studies in Pure > Mathematics, Tokyo 2000, pp. 1-22
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