Lina Deschamps

PhD student under the supervision of Peter Albers at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Email ldeschamps [at] mathi [dot] uni-heidelberg [dot] de
lina [dot] deschamps [at] outlook [dot] com

Website https://des-lina.github.io

Research interests

Magnetic geodesic flows, primarily on HyperKähler manifolds. Symplectic and contact geometry and topology. Magnetic and Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Billiard-type systems.

Academic employment and education

Ph.D. Student – ongoing

Under the supervision Prof. Dr. Peter Albers, team Geometry and Dynamics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany).

• Funded from October 2023 to December 2025 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Project ID 281071066 – TRR 191, project A8: Symplectic geometry of representation and quiver varieties.
• Fellow associate of the RTG2229 “Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces”.
• Fellow member of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp).

Master's Degree: Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, major in Algebra and Geometry – 2023 – at Nantes Université and UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Master’s thesis on Surfaces of section on closed surfaces. Supervisor: Vincent Colin.

Master's Degree: Advanced preparation for teaching (PSE) – 2022 – at Nantes Université and UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Optional subject: Modelization and Numerical Analysis.
• Internship in high school Carcouet (Nantes).

Master 1: Fundamental and Applied Mathematics – 2021 – at UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Master’s thesis on the proof of Hilbert’s seventeenth problem (Real Algebra). Supervisor: Jean-Philippe Monnier.

Mediator for Covid-19 prevention – academic year 2020-2021 – at UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Providing practical advice. Reminding barrier gestures and citizen behavior to adopt. Surveillance of dining rooms and common areas.

Reception – academic year 2020-2021 – at UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Welcoming new students within the Faculty of Sciences: guiding them geographically. Sending them to the right contacts concerning their admission procedure and arrival in the city.

Bachelor's Degree: Fundamental Mathematics – 2020 – at UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• Bachelor’s thesis on Complex projective plane cubic curves. Supervisor: Daniel Naie.

Student tutor – academic year 2019-2020 – at UFR Sciences Angers (France).

• for first year students in Mathematics and Physics. Face-to-face and remotely. Joint exercise sessions and review in detail of courses and exam records.

Baccalauréat in Sciences, Optional subject: Biology, Major in Mathematics – 2017 – at Lycée polyvalent Chevrollier, Angers (France).

Preprints

• Topics in Magnetic Geometry: interpolation, intersections and integrability. with Levin Maier and Tom Stalljohann. April 2026.
• The growth rate of closed prime magnetic geodesics on closed contact manifolds. with Levin Maier and Tom Stalljohann. October 2025.
• Open problems in billiards and quantitative symplectic geometry, conference proceedings editor with Ana Chávez Cáliz and Levin Maier. July 2025. To be published in Arnold Mathematical Journal.
• On the contact type conjecture for exact magnetic systems. with Levin Maier and Tom Stalljohann. July 2025.

Research talks

Co-organization

• Workshop: Billiards and quantitative symplectic geometry with Ana Chávez Cáliz and Levin Maier. July 14-18 2025 at Universität Heidelberg.
  See the list of Open problems in billiards and quantitative symplectic geometry, to be published in Arnold Mathematical Journal.
• Topic Seminar: A survey on billiards with Ana Chávez Cáliz. Summer Semester 2025 at Universität Heidelberg. See Ana's detailed notes.

Additional work experience

Private lessons in Mathematics and Physics – 2017 to 2023 – Middle and High school level, Training for engineer and medical school entrance exams.

Import-Export Transportation assistant – Summer 2021 – at Vilmorin SA.

• Logistics: transport management of pea seed supplies in France. Export: international express parcels, EU road couriers, tracking. Various administrative tasks, files, archiving, etc.
• Soft skills: Organization, sense of responsibility, meeting deadlines, stress management, telephone, collaboration, urgency.

Quality control in germination, laboratory technician – Summer 2019, 2020 and 2022 – at Vilmorin SA.

• Choice of the daily trials and preparation of soil containers. Sowing vegetable seeds. Setting up trials in modules and greenhouse. Pictures of seedlings.
• Soft skills: Organization, sense of responsibility, teamwork, observation, responsiveness, meeting deadlines.

Conference and courses attendance