Volker Branding

ORCID: 0000-0002-1535-1474

Contact Information

University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Room 03.130
1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 4277 50780
E-Mail: volker[dot]branding[at]univie[dot]ac[dot]at
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Research interests

My research interests are at the intersection of differential geometry, geometric analysis and mathematical physics. In particular, I am interested in harmonic maps and their higher order generalizations such as biharmonic maps. Moreover, I investigate action functionals that arise in theoretical physics with the tools of the geometric calculus of variations.

Short CV

• 2019: Habilitation at University of Vienna
• since 2017: Senior Postdoc at University of Vienna
• 2013 - 2016: Universitätsassistent at TU Wien
• 2012: PhD at University of Potsdam

Current Research Group

• Christoph Fritz (PhD student, visiting from the University of Brest)
• Adam Lindström (PhD student, supported by FWF)
• Weijia Li (PhD student, visiting from Guangxi University)
• Hui Liu (PhD student, visiting from Fudan University)
• Marko Sobak (Postdoc, supported by FWF)

Publications and Preprints

• All of my publications are freely available on arxiv.
• Publications on Google Scholar
• My Researchgate profile
• A complete list of my publications can be found here.

Projects and Prizes

• P 36862: The standard model as a geometric variational problem
  Stand-alone Project (FWF), Period of funding: 10/2023 - 09/2026
• P 34853: Geometric analysis of biwave maps
  Stand-alone Project (FWF), Period of funding: 04/2022 - 07/2026
• Promotion Award of the City of Vienna 2020
• P 30749: Geometric Variational Problems from String Theory
  Stand-alone Project (FWF), Period of funding: 10/2017 - 03/2021
• I1671-N26: Transformations and Singularities
  Member of the joint Project between Austria (FWF) and Japan (JSPS),
  Period of funding 07/2014 - 03/2018

Activities

I have been involved in the organization of the following workshops:

• Differential Geometry Workshop 2024 in Brest
• Differential Geometry Workshop 2023 in Iasi
• Differential Geometry Workshop 2022 in Vienna
• Online Workshop on Differential Geometry 2021
• Online Workshop on Differential Geometry 2020

Invited talks

Upcoming talks

• 05/2024: On conformal biharmonic maps and hypersurfaces
  The 16th DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY DAY at Lund, Sweden
• 09/2024: tba
  Warsaw meeting in Analysis and PDEs, Poland

Past talks

A list of talks that I have given can be found here.

Teaching

If you are looking for a supervisor for your Bachelor or Master thesis in the field of Analysis or Geometry please feel free to send me an email!
A list of courses that I have taught in the past can be found here.