Bernd Sturmfels

Professor of Mathematics
and Computer Science

925 Evans Hall
Dept. of Mathematics
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720



Phone: (510) 642-4687
Fax: (510) 642-8204

Research Interests:
Discrete Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Statistics, Computational Biology


Office Hours (2007-2008):
None during my sabbatical. I'm now at
Technische Universitat Berlin
MA 6-2, Raum MA 620
Strasse des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin, Germany
Tel. (49) 30 314-25748
Fax (49) 30 313-21269

A Different Perspective

Joe Gallian and Ivars Peterson: "Mathematicians Have a Different Perspective: An Interview with Bernd Sturmfels" MAA Focus, Vol 28(1) January 2008, 4-7. Also, I now serve as a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society.

DCG Special Issue for Victor Klee

My doctoral advisor Victor Klee passed away in August 2007. Peter Gritzmann, Gunter Ziegler and I invite submissions to a special issue of Discrete and Computational Geometry in the honor of his memory.

Can Biology Lead To New Theorems?

This is an article written for the Annual Report 2005 of the Clay Mathematics Institute. It argues for an affirmative answer to the question in the title. In future interactions between mathematics and biology, both fields will contribute to each other, and, in particular, research in the life sciences will inspire new theorems. Incidentally, mathematics can lead to new biology as well, as seen by the interest in the new geometric approach with R.Lenski.

Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology

This book, published by Cambridge University Press in October 2005, is based on a graduate seminar held by Lior Pachter and me at UC Berkeley in Fall 2004.

Combinatorial Commutative Algebra

Combinatorial commutative algebra is an active area of research with thriving connections to other fields of pure and applied mathematics. My book with Ezra Miller provides a self-contained introduction to the subject, with an emphasis on combinatorial techniques for multigraded polynomial rings, semigroup algebras, and determinantal rings.