FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY

FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY Personal data Born: May 1, 1958, Ljubljana, Slovenia Address: Pot v Hrastovec 8 1231 Ljubljana, Slovenia Current position Professor of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia tel: (+386) (1) 4766556, 4766500 e-mail: franc.forstneric@fmf.uni-lj.si http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/ forstneric/ Education B. Sc. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 1980 Ph. D. University of Washington, Seattle, USA 1985 Academic positions Professor University of Ljubljana 2000 Professor University of Wisconsin 1994 2000 Assoc. prof. University of Wisconsin 1991 1994 Assoc. prof. University of Ljubljana 1989 1993 Assist. prof. University of Ljubljana 1985 1989 Teaching assist. University of Washington 1981-1985 Teaching assist. University of Ljubljana 1980-1981 Visiting positions Universitæt Bern Bern, Switzerland two month, 2007 Universitá degli Studi Rome, Italy two months, 2007 Université de Grenoble Grenoble, France one month, 2005 Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France one month, 1999 Université de Lille Lille, France one month, 1994 University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA 1991-1993 Max Planck Institut Bonn, Germany five months, 1990 University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA one month, 1988 Institut Mittag-Leffler Stockholm, Sweden one year, 1987 88 Université de Provence Marseille, France one month, 1986 Awards, grants and fellowships NSF grants, USA, 1985 and 1994 2000 Research grants, Ministry of Science and ARRS, Republic of Slovenia, 1986 present Vilas Associates Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998 2000 NFR Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stockholm, Sweden, 1987 88 Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, USA, 1984 85 Fulbright Scholarship, USA, 1981 85 Date: October 28, 2014. 1

2 FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY Honours Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Washington, 1983 Full member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2005 Associate member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1999 2005 National prize for scientific achievements, Republic of Slovenia, 1988 Ph. D. students Miran Černe, Ph. D., 1994 Dror Varolin, Ph. D., 1997 Jasna Prezelj, M. S., 1998; Ph. D., 2000 Dejan Kolarič, Ph. D., 2007 Tadej Starčič, Ph. D., 2008 Irena Majcen, Ph. D., 2010 Uroš Kuzman, Ph. D., 2013 Kris Stopar, Ph. D., 2014 Professional activities Member of the editorial board,proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 2009 Member of the editorial board, International J. Math., 2004 Member of the editorial board, Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse, 2002 2005 Member of expert panels, National Science Foundation, USA National coordinator for Mathematics, Slovenia, 2000 2005 Committee for scientific prizes, Slovenia, 2000 2004 Referee, Swedish Research Foundation (NFR) Referee, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Referee, CINECA, Italy Member of the scientific committee of internationa conferences and schools Midwest several complex variables seminar, Madison, USA, April 1995 Special session Geometric and analytic methods in several complex variables, AMS regional meeting, Iowa City, USA, March 1996 Seattle Symposium on Complex Analysis, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, March 1998 Conference on Complex Analysis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 16 19 March 2006 A Symposium in Complex Analysis Slovenia 2006, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, 7 10 June 2006 (chair of the scientific and organizing committees) The International Summer School in Several Complex Variables, Szczyrk, Poland, 19 23 June 2006 Several Complex Variables and Connections with PDEs and Geometry, Fribourg, Switzerland, 7 11 July 2008 Member of the Scientific Committee of the series of doctoral schools and conferences KAWA, 2009 present Minisymposium on Complex Analysis, OeMG-Tagung - CSASC 2011, University of Krems, Austria, 25 28 September 2011 Several Complex Variables Ljubljana 2012, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27 29 September 2012 Workshop Geometric and Complex Analysis, Granada, Spain, 22 23 November 2012 Symposium on Several Complex Variables, CSASC Meeting, Primorska University, Koper, Slovenia, 10-12 June 2013

FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 3 Several Complex Variables Symposium, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF), Sanya, China, 12 16 May 2014 International Conference on Complex Geometry and Several Complex Variables, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 11 15 May 2015 Complex Analysis, Geometry and Dynamics School and Workshop, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 21 September 3 October 2015 Invited lectures at international conferences and schools 2014 CR Geometry and PDE s - VI The Hodge conjecture for q-complete manifolds Levico Terme - Trento, Italy, 23 27 June 2014 Gedenkkolloquium für Hans Grauert Plenary lecture: The Oka-Grauert principle: its first 75 years University of Bonn, Germany, 27 June 2014 Partial Differential Equations in Complex Geometry and Singular Spaces Minicourse 3 lectures: Applications of complex analysis to minimal surfaces American University in Beirut, 24 27 November 2014 2013 Komplex Analysis Winter School KAWA4 Minicourse 4 lectures: Oka Manifolds University of Toulouse, France, 21 24 January Complex Analysis and Geometry - XXI The conformal Calabi-Yau problem Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 2 7 June 2013 The Abel Symposium 2013 Complex Geometry Complex analysis and the Calabi-Yau problem Trondheim, Norway, 2 5 July 2013 2012 Summer School: Foliations, pseudoholomorphic curves, applications Minicourse, 4 lectures: Non-singular holomorphic foliations on Stein manifolds Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France, 18 June 6 July 2012 Conference on CR Geometry and PDE s - V Embeddings of infinitely connected planar domains into C 2 Levico Terme, Trento, Italy, 5 8 June 2012 Geometric Methods in Several Complex Variables Every bordered Riemann surface is a complete proper curve in a ball University of Lille, France, 25 26 October 2012 Workshop Geometric and Complex Analysis Null-curves and directed immersions of Riemann surfaces University of Granada, Spain, 22 23 November 2012

4 FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 2011 Southern California Analysis and PDE Conference The Poletsky-Rosay theorem on singular complex spaces Univesity of California, San Diego, California, USA, 28 29 May 2011 Conference on several complex variables (in honour of Józef Siciak) The Poletsky-Rosay theorem on singular complex spaces Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 4 1 July 2011 OeMG-Tagung - CSASC 2011 Plenary lecture: What is an Oka manifold? University of Krems, Austria, 25 28 September 2011 CR Geometry and PDE s - IV Bordered Riemann Surfaces in C 2 Levico Terme - Trento, Italy, 7 11 June 2011 Workshop in several complex variables Two theorems on Riemann surfaces University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12 16 December 2011 2010 Recent Advances in Function Related Operator Theory Recent advances in elliptic complex geometry Rincon, Puerto Rico, USA, 22 26 March 2010 Almost complex geometry and foliations Bordered Riemann Surfaces in C 2 Université de Lille, France, 24 28 May 2010 Summer School: Variétés complexes et feuilletages Minicourse: Noncritical holomorphic functions on Stein manifolds Université de Strasbourg, France, 6 10 June 2010 CR Geometry and PDE s - IV Bordered Riemann Surfaces in C 2 Levico Terme - Trento, Italy, 7 11 June 2010 2009 Workshop on Complex Geometry Keynote address: A survey of the Oka principle and some recent applications University of Adelaide, Australia, 15 19 February 2009 Several Complex Variables and Connections with PDEs and Geometry Oka manifolds Bern, Switzerland, 19 21 March 2009 Workshop in Several Complex Variables New constructions of holomorphic mappings to complex manifolds University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 16 19 April 2009 The -Neumann problem: Analysis, Geometry and Potential Theory Oka manifolds and Oka maps Erwin Schrödinger Institut, Vienna, Austria, 27 October 23 December 2009

FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 5 2008 Several Complex Variables and Connections with PDEs and Geometry The Oka principle for sections of stratified holomorphic fiber bundles Fribourg, Switzerland, 7 11 July 2008 CR Geometry and PDE s - III Proper holomorphic mappings to q-convex manifolds Levico Terme - Trento, Italy, 22 27 June 2008 Complex and CR Geometry, Partial Differential Equations and Invariant Theory (A meeting in honor of Joseph J. Kohn) Bordered Riemann surfaces in C 2 Prague, Chech Republic, 30 June 4 July 2008 Complex Analysis and CR Geometry Embedding open Riemann surfaces in C 2 Padua, Italy, 23 October 2008 The -Neumann Problem Oka manifolds and Oka Maps Erwin Schrödinger Institut, Vienna, Austria, 27 October 23 December 2008 2007 The Nordic Symposium in Complex Analysis Stein domains as subvarieties of complex manifolds Oscarsborg Festning, Drøbak, Norway, 18 20 May 2007 École-colloque en analyse et géométrie complexes Bordered Riemann surfaces in C 2 Luminy, France, 24 28 September 2007 2006 Degenerate Structures in Complex Analysis From the past to the future Gluing holomorphic sprays and applications Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, 22 26 May 2006 The International Summer School in Several Complex Variables Holomorphic curves in complex spaces Szczyrk, Poland, 19 23 June 2006 CR Geometry and PDE s Holomorphic mappings from strongly pseudoconvex domains Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 3 8 September 2006 Géométrie des variétés compléxes II Holomorphic curves in complex spaces CIRM, Luminy, France, 16 20 October 2006 2005 Complex analysis, complex geometry and complex dynamics Deformations of Stein structures and holomorphic mappings NORDAN 2005, Sigtuna, Sweden, 22 24 April 2005 Complex analysis and geometry XVII Stein structures and holomorphic mappings Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 30 May 3 June 2005 Colloque d analyse et géometrie compléxes Deformations of Stein structures and holomorphic mappings CIRM, Luminy, France, 27 June 1 July 2005 Symposium in Complex Analysis Stein structures and holomorphic mappings Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia, 26 30 September 2005

6 FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 2005 Symposium in Complex Analysis Oka properties of complex manifolds Erwin Schrödinger Institut, Vienna, Austria, October 2005 2004 Workshop in Complex Analysis Transversality and algebraic approximation of maps to subelliptic manifolds Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, 19 23 January 2004 Midwest Several Complex Variables Meeting Convex approximation implies Oka s property University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 2 4 April 2004 Strategic University Programme in Pure Mathematics Holomorphic mappings of Stein manifolds; 3 lectures Thorbjørnrud, Norway, 27 28 May 2004 CR Geometry and Partial Differential Equations Stein compacts in Levi-flat hypersurfaces Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 12 17 September 2004 2003 Real methods in complex analysis Holomorphic submersions of Stein manifolds to Euclidean spaces Oberwolfach, Germany, 23 28 February 2003 Quadrature domains and their applications Holomorphic submersions of Stein manifolds to Euclidean spaces UC-Santa Barbara, USA, 27 30 March 2003 Topics in complex and real geometry Noncritical holomorphic functions on Stein manifolds; 4 lectures Centro Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, 21 25 April 2003 Complex analysis and geometry - XVI Holomorphic submersions of Stein manifolds Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 2 6 June 2003 Summer School on Complex Analysis The homotopy principle in complex analysis; six lectures CIRM, Luminy, France, 29 September 10 October 2003 2002 The Korean Several Complex Variables Symposium 6 Noncritical holomorphic functions on Stein manifolds Gyeong-Ju, Korea, 13 18 August 2002 The Gunning/Kohn Conference Noncritical holomorphic functions on Stein manifolds Princeton University, USA, 17 22 September 2002 2001 International conference in complex analysis The Oka principle for multi-valued sections of branched mappings Steklov Mathematical Institut, Moscow, Russia, 25 30 June 2001 Memorial Conference of Kiyoshi Oka s Centennial Birthday The Oka principle for subelliptic submersions RIMS, Kyoto, Japan, 30 October 5 November 2001

FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 7 2000 Complex analysis in higher dimensions Solving the d and -equation in thin tubes and applications AMS Meeting, Notre Dame University, USA, 8 9 April 2000 Scandinavian Congress of Mathematicians AMS-SCAND 2000 Removal of intersections Odense, Denmark, 13 16 June 2000 Symmetries in Geometric Analysis Extending holomorphic mappings Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, 26 30 June 2000 The Hayama Symposium in Complex Analysis 2000 On complete intersections Hayama, Japan, 16 19 December 2000 1999 Reelen Methoden der Komplexen Analysis Oberwolfach, Germany, 28 February 6 March 1999 A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium in Complex Analysis (NORDAN 99) Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 22 25 April 1999 Recent Progress in Complex Analysis CIRM, Luminy, France, 24 28 May 1999 Complex Analysis and Geometry XIV CIRM, Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, 8 12 June 1999 1998 Workshop on C-R geometry Fribourg, Switzerland, 11 14 August 1998 1996 The Regional Meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc. Plenary lecture: Holomorphic automorphisms of compelx Euclidean spaces Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 22 23 March 1996 Second annual midwest dynamics conference Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 20 21 April 1996 1995 Workshop on analytic and PDE methods in several complex variables MSRI, Berkeley, USA, 6 11 November 1995 50 th Anniversary Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society Vancouver, Canada, 9 11 December 1995 1994 Journées Complexes de Sud San Feliu, Spain, 26 29 May 1994 The 3rd Analysis Colloquium Berne, Switzerland, 14 21 August 1994 1993 Complex Analysis and Geometry XI CIRM, Trento, Italy, 1 5 June 1993 Colloque en l honneur de Jean-Pierre Kahane Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 28 June 2 July 1993 1992 Midwest Complex Analysis Seminar University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 22 23 February 1992

8 FRANC FORSTNERIČ: BIOGRAPHY 1991 Complex Analysis and Geometry X CIRM, Trento, Italy, 27 May 1 June 1991 International Symposium on Complex Analysis University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 2 7 June 1991 1990 International Conference on Complex Analysis Wuppertal, Germany, 12 16 February 1990 Complex Analysis and Geometry IX CIRM, Trento, Italy, 29 May 2 June 1990 Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis Oberwolfach, Germany, 17 22 June 1990 1989 Complex Analysis and Geometry VIII CIRM, Trento, Italy, 22 26 May 1989 AMS Summer Research Institut 1989 Santa Cruz, California, USA, 10 30 July 1989 1988 Midwest Complex Analysis Seminar Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 26 27 September 1988 Journées Franco-Algeriennes d Analyse Complexe CIRM, Luminy, France, 2 7 February 1988 1987 International Conference on Complex Analysis and Applications Varna, Bulgaria, 10 16 May 1987 Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis Oberwolfach, Germany, 23 28 August 1987 1986 Geometric and Quantitative Complex Analysis Wuppertal, Germany, 8 12 June 1986 Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis Oberwolfach, Germany, 23 28 August 1986 1985 Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis SUNY at Albany, New York, USA, 16 20 October 1985