Thomas Willwacher

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Willwacher is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Algebra and Number Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Willwacher has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Mathematical Physics, 28 papers in Geometry and Topology and 22 papers in Algebra and Number Theory. Recurrent topics in Thomas Willwacher's work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (33 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (24 papers) and Advanced Topics in Algebra (21 papers). Thomas Willwacher is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (33 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (24 papers) and Advanced Topics in Algebra (21 papers). Thomas Willwacher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Thomas Willwacher's co-authors include Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar, Otkrist Gupta, Andreas Velten, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Moungi G. Bawendi, Paul Beardsley, Srinivas Rao, Clifton Forlines and Remo Ziegler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, ACM Transactions on Graphics and International Journal of Computer Vision.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Willwacher

48 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Recovering three-dimensional shape around a corner using ultrafast time-of-flight imaging
    2012 519 citations Andreas Velten, Thomas Willwacher et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Willwacher Switzerland 15 610 506 463 257 211 53 1.4k
Myungjin Cho South Korea 18 611 1.0× 135 0.3× 78 0.2× 77 0.3× 9 0.0× 115 1.2k
Shuming Jiao China 18 531 0.9× 47 0.1× 45 0.1× 261 1.0× 7 0.0× 69 1.1k
Patrick Llull United States 14 482 0.8× 31 0.1× 125 0.3× 137 0.5× 3 0.0× 19 1.1k
Marco Lanzagorta United States 21 302 0.5× 204 0.4× 33 0.1× 45 0.2× 10 0.0× 96 1.4k
Yann Frauel Mexico 14 1.1k 1.7× 33 0.1× 18 0.0× 47 0.2× 30 0.1× 42 1.5k
Ju-Seog Jang South Korea 16 366 0.6× 401 0.8× 71 0.2× 34 0.1× 1 0.0× 45 1.8k
Ayman Alfalou France 22 1.6k 2.6× 13 0.0× 26 0.1× 85 0.3× 49 0.2× 109 2.1k
Yuqi Li China 16 281 0.5× 7 0.0× 25 0.1× 21 0.1× 7 0.0× 82 693
S.K. Nayar United States 9 1.9k 3.2× 54 0.1× 75 0.2× 8 0.0× 11 2.3k
Vaibhav Vaish United States 10 1.4k 2.3× 30 0.1× 115 0.2× 35 0.1× 10 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Weight 2 cohomology of graph complexes of cyclic operads and the handlebody group. Selecta Mathematica. 31(2).
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Real models for the framed little n$n$‐disks operads. Journal of Topology. 18(4).
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Configuration spaces of manifolds with boundary. Astérisque.
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Payne, Sam & Thomas Willwacher. (2024). Weight 2 compactly supported cohomology of moduli spaces of curves. Duke Mathematical Journal. 173(16). 1 indexed citations
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Payne, Sam & Thomas Willwacher. (2024). Weight 11 Compactly Supported Cohomology of Moduli Spaces of Curves. International Mathematics Research Notices. 2024(8). 7060–7098. 2 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A model for configuration spaces of points. Algebraic & Geometric Topology. 23(5). 2029–2106. 4 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Stable cohomology of graph complexes. Selecta Mathematica. 29(2). 1 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Commutative hairy graphs and representations of Out(F<sub>r</sub>). MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 6 indexed citations
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Berest, Yuri, et al.. (2017). Representation homology, Lie algebra cohomology and the derived Harish-Chandra homomorphism. Journal of the European Mathematical Society. 19(9). 2811–2893. 8 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Operadic torsors. Journal of Algebra. 458. 71–86. 3 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Differentials on graph complexes. Advances in Mathematics. 307. 1184–1214. 15 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Multiple edges in M. Kontsevich's graph complexes and computations of the dimensions and Euler characteristics. Advances in Mathematics. 272. 553–578. 9 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas. (2015). Characteristic classes in deformation quantization. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 3 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas, et al.. (2014). RELATIVE (NON-)FORMALITY OF THE LITTLE CUBES OPERADS AND TH E ALGEBRAIC SCHOENFLIES THEOREM. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Willwacher, Thomas. (2014). Cyclic cohomology of the Weyl algebra. Journal of Algebra. 425. 277–312. 3 indexed citations
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Velten, Andreas, Thomas Willwacher, Otkrist Gupta, et al.. (2012). Recovering three-dimensional shape around a corner using ultrafast time-of-flight imaging. Nature Communications. 3(1). 745–745. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cattaneo, Alberto S., Giovanni Felder, & Thomas Willwacher. (2011). The character map in deformation quantization. Advances in Mathematics. 228(4). 1966–1989. 7 indexed citations
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Cattaneo, Alberto S., Giovanni Felder, & Thomas Willwacher. (2009). On L ∞-Morphisms of Cyclic Chains. Letters in Mathematical Physics. 90(1-3). 85–101. 1 indexed citations
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Raskar, Ramesh, Paul Beardsley, Jeroen van Baar, et al.. (2006). RFIG lamps. 11–11.
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Raskar, Ramesh, et al.. (2005). iLamps. 5–5. 16 indexed citations

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