Sebastian Durst

Info

I am a postdoc in the working group of Prof. Hansjörg Geiges at the University of Cologne.
My field of research lies within contact and symplectic geometry but recently I also got interested in computational topology and machine learning.

Teaching

Winter 2018	Assistant and tutorial for Analysis I
Summer 2018	Assistant and example classes for Differentialgeometrie
Winter 2017	Assistant and example classes for Geometrische Topologie

A list of my past teaching and of seminars and talks I co-organised can be found here.

Publications and Preprints

• S. Durst, Round handle decompositions of 1-connected 5-manifolds, Expo. Math. 34 (2016), 43--61.
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• S. Durst and M. Kegel, Computing rotation and self-linking numbers in contact surgery diagrams, Acta Math. Hungar. 150 (2016), 524--540;
  Erratum: Acta Math. Hungar. 153 (2017), 537.
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• S. Durst, M. Kegel and M. Klukas, Computing the Thurston-Bennequin invariant in open books, Acta Math. Hungar. 150 (2016), 441--455.
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• S. Durst and M. Kegel, Computing rotation numbers in open books, J. Gökova Geom. Topol. GGT 12 (2018), 71--92.
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• S. Durst, H. Geiges and M. Kegel, Handle homology of manifolds, Topology Appl. 256 (2019), 113--127.
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• S. Durst, H. Geiges, J. Gonzalo Pérez and M. Kegel, Parallelisability of 3-manifolds via surgery, Expo. Math., to appear, arXiv:1808.05072.
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• S. Durst and M. Klukas, Nested open books and the binding sum, submitted, arXiv:1610.07356.
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• S. Durst, M. Kegel and J.E. Licata, Rotation numbers and the Euler class in open books, submitted, arXiv:1812.05886.
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• S. Durst, Contact open books: Classical invariants and the binding sum, Ph.D. thesis, University of Cologne (2017).
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