Helga Baum Explained

Birth Name:	Helga Dlubek
Birth Date:	1954
Birth Place:	German
Occupation:	mathematician, professor
Alma Mater:	Humboldt University of Berlin

Helga Baum (née Dlubek, born 1954) is a German mathematician. She is professor for differential geometry and global analysis in the Institute for Mathematics of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Education

Baum earned a doctorate (Dr. sc. nat.) in mathematics in 1980 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her dissertation, Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über Pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten, was supervised by .

Books

Baum is the author or coauthor of several books, including:

• Conformal differential geometry: Q-curvature and conformal holonomy, with Andreas Juhl, Birkhäuser, 2010
• Eichfeldtheorie: Eine Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie auf Faserbündeln [''Gauge theory: An introduction into differential geometry on fibre bundles''] (Springer, 2009; 2nd ed., 2014)
• Twistor and Killing spinors on Riemannian manifolds, with Thomas Friedrich, Ralf Grunewald, and Ines Kath, Teubner, 1991
• Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten [''Spin structures and Dirac operators on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds''], Teubner, 1981