Faculty of Science and Information Technology

Dr Udo Baumgartner

• German Diplom in Mathematics (1992) 1st class honours
  Thesis title: A generalisation of the structure theorem for groups on trees with fundamental domain to simply connected ordered sets
• Ph.D. (1997),
  Thesis title: Cusps of Lattices in rank 1 groups over local fields.

• Totally disconnected locally compact topological groups
• Lie Groups, Algebraic Groups and their Buildings
• Group Actions on graphs.

• Functional Analysis

• DFG scholarship to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - German science foundation)
• Involved in the writing of the successful ARC discovery project “Geometric characterisation of small rank totally disconnected groups” , with CI Assoc Prof George Willis.

• Co-organiser of AMSI workshop Lie Theory, Lattices, and Dynamics, The University of Newcastle 2005
  
  http://science-it.newcastle.edu.au/~ub563/BLAUBEUREN/Blaubeuren-Home_Page.htm
• Co-organizer of conference `Totally Disconnected Groups, Grpahs and Geometry', Heinrich-Fabri Institute, Germany, 2006.
  
  http://science-it.newcastle.edu.au/~ub563/workshop-LieTheoryLattices+Dynamics.html

• I have successfully taught graduate and honours courses as well as a mathematics course for beginning engineering students.

• I have supervised 10 masters and Staatsexamen theses at the University of Frankfurt
• I have supervised Vacation Scholars in Newcastle

• 2002- present Research Associate the University of Newcastle
• 2000-2002 System Engineer. Satellite Control Centre of the European Space Agency
• 1999 -2000 Research Scholarship to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay from German Science Foundation
• 1992 -1999 Research Associate University of Frankfurt