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Biography | Bernd Sturmfels

Bernd Sturmfels received doctoral degrees in Mathematics in 1987 from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. After two postdoctoral years at the Insitute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995, where he is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. His honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. Sturmfels served as von Neumann Professor at TU Munich in Summer 2002, as the Hewlett-Packard Research Professor at MSRI Berkeley in 2003/04, and he was a Clay Senior Scholar in 2004. A leading experimentalist among mathematicians, Sturmfels has authored or edited 13 books and about 150 research articles, in the areas of combinatorics, algebraic geometry, symbolic computation and their applications. He currently works on algebraic methods in statistics and computational biology.

Curriculum Vitae | Bernd Sturmfels

Personal Information:
Born: March 28, 1962, Kassel, Germany

Education:
Diplom TU Darmstadt, Germany, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1985
Dr.rer.nat. TU Darmstadt, Germany, Mathematics, 1987
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle, Mathematics, 1987
 
Positions Held:
1987-1988: Postdoctoral Fellow, IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1988-1989: Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Linz, Austria
1989-1991: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
1992-1996: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
1994-1995: Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute, New York University
1995-2001: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1997-1998: Visiting Professor, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan
2001-2008: Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
2008-: Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Academic Honors:
1983-1985: German National Scholarship Foundation Fellow [Studienstiftung]
1985-1986: German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship [DAAD]
1986-1987: Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1991-1993: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1992-1997: National Young Investigator (NSF)
1992-1997: David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
1999: Lester R. Ford Prize for Expository Writing (MAA)
2000-2001: Miller Research Professorship, UC Berkeley
Summer 2003: John von Neumann Professor, Technical University Munich
2003-2004: Hewlett-Packard Research Professor at MSRI Berkeley
July 2004: Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar
2005-2007: MAA Polya Lecturer
2007-2008: Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, TU Berlin.
2008-2010: Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Research Funding:
1990-today: National Science Foundation, Program in Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics
2005-today: DARPA, "Fundamental Laws in Biology" program

Editorial Board Membership:
Former: ACM SIGSAM Bulletin, Advances in Applied Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing.
Current: Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics (Springer Book Series), Annals of Combinatorics, Applied Mathematics Research EXpress, Beitrage zur Geometrie und Algebra, Collecteana Mathematica, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Duke Mathematical Journal, Experimental Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society, Order.

Conferences and Special Programs Organized (selected):
May 1990: Algebraic Issues in Geometric Computation, DIMACS, Rutgers
July 1992: Computational Algebraic Geometry (Regional Geometry Institute), Amherst
October 1993: US-Italian workshop on Hilbert functions, Cornell
June 1996: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (MEGA 96), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Fall 1998: Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis, MSRI Berkeley
2002-2003: Commutative Algebra, MSRI Berkeley
October 2003: Amoebas and Tropical Geometry, AIM Palo Alto
December 2003: Computational Algebraic Statistics, AIM Palo Alto
July 2004: Geometric Combinatorics, Park City IAS Summer Program
November 2005: Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
2006-2007: Applications of Algebraic Geometry, IMA Minneapolis

Plenary Lectures and Lecture Series (selected):
June 1999: Monomial Ideals, Eight Lectures in the COCOA Summer School, Torino, Italy
July 1999: Grobner Deformations of Hypergeometric Differential Equations, ISSAC 1999, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
September 1999: Grobner Deformations..., Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society, Mainz, Germany
December 1999: Hypergeometric Functions, Ritt Lectures, Columbia University
February 2000: Computational Algebraic Geometry, AAAS Science Exposition, Washington DC
July 2001: Multigraded Hilbert Schemes, Latin-American Algebra Congress, Cordoba, Argentina
May 2002: Ten Lectures on Solving Polynomial Equations, CBMS Conference, Texas A&M
October 2002: The Geometry of Nash Equilibria, Princeton Mathematics Colloquium
December 2002: The Geometry of Nash Equilibria, Colloquium on Information and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge
June 2003: From Phylogenetic Trees to Tropical Algebraic Geometry, MEGA 2003, Kaiserslautern, Germany
September 2003: Tropical Algebraic Geometry, Western Algebraic Geometry Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
March 2004: Algebraic Geometry of Statistical Models, Gergen Memorial Lectures, Mathematics Department, Duke University
May 2004: Tropical Geometry, 2004 Erdos Memorial Lecture, AMS-SMM Joint Meeting, Houston, Texas
June 2004: SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference, Nashville, Tennessee
October 2004: Tropical Geometry of Statistical Models, 42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, Illinois
November 2004: Algebraic Statistics, Two Lectures at the Mid-Atlantic Algebra Conference, George Mason University
January 2005: Algebraic Statistics, MAA-AMS Lecture at Joint Meetings, Atlanta
January 2005: Algebraic Statistics, Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Colloquium
February 2005: Divisional Speaker at Reed College, Portland
February 2005: Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Five lectures at the Latin American School on Polynomial Systems, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
March 2005: Magnus Lectures at Colorado State University, Fort Collins
May 2005: Tropical Geometry, Zurich Mathematical Colloquium, Zurich, Switzerland
June 2005: Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference, Santander, Spain
May 2006: Kuwait Fund lecture, Cambridge University, England
May 2007: MAA Distinguished Lecture, Carriage House Conference Center, Washington DC
November 2007: Lindhard Lecture, Aarhus University, Denmark

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