Curriculum Vitae for Marius Crainic

Organizational activities
• Poisson 2012: I am the chair of the organizing committee for the conference and summer
school “Poisson 2012”, where we expect over 200 participants. Please see
www.math.uu.nl/poisson2012
• Scientific organizer: organized various national or international activities such as:
- The GQT conference “Conference Geometry and Quantum Theory” (together with G.
Heckman and J. Heinlot), marking the end of the GQT cluster (June 2008, Nijmegen).
- The meeting “TopoLogical Workshop”, obtaining the financial support from the MRI
and NWO (April 2008, at the conference center Bergse Bos in Driebergen).
- The workshop “Alan’s day” , in relation with the honorary doctorate awarded by the
University of Utrecht to Alan Weinstein (March 2003, Utrecht).
- Co-organizer of the Oberwolfach meeting “Poisson Geometry and applications” (May
2007) .
- Member of the Scientific Committee for the conference “Poisson 2010”.
- The scientific organizer of the 2006/2007 Master Class entitled “Symplectic geometry
and Beyond”.
- Involved in the scientific organization of the 2003/2004 Master Class entitled “Noncommutative
geometry”.
- Organized/co-organized various local and national seminars on Topology, Poisson Geometry,
Noncommutative Geometry, Mathematical Physics. E.g., in 2007: Floer Homology
Seminar (together with D. Martinez Torres), in September 2008 I started the
“Friday Fish Seminar” (see http://www.math.uu.nl/people/crainic/Poisson/index.html),
etc etc (2000- present).
• Olympiad (2009- ) Various tasks related to the Dutch Mathematical Olympiads for highschool
students. I became more and more interested and involved in such activities. I
have several ideas and plans in this direction, such as establishing long-term connections
between universities and high-schools, creating new opportunities for interactions between
the best high-school teachers, at the national level, etc etc. In particular, we have introduced
the ”Tweede Ronde”, which is a regional round before the ”final”, together with
“training sessions” that are organized by various universities throughout the country. In
this direction, I am in coordinating all the activities for the Utrecht region, such as the
organization each year of the regional round for Utrecht. In July 2011, I was one of the
coordinators at the IMO (international Mathematics Olympiad) that took place in The
Netherlands.
• Master Class (2004- 2009): Coordinator of the “Master Class” programme of the Dutch
Mathematical Research Institute.
The MRI is founded by the universities of Groningen, Nijmegen, Twente and Utrecht. The
Master Class programme aimed at attracting bright students from abroad to come and
study in the Netherlands, to stimulate the interaction between the students (foreign as
well as Dutch), and to offer each year a package of courses that cover an important field
of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics and brings the students to the level of starting
with PhD research.
The role of the coordinator is to supervise the ongoing master classes (schedule, various
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