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)
2010: John von Neumann Lecture (SIAM)
2010: Carl B. Allendorfer Award (MAA)
2012: Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award (UC Berkeley)
2012: Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures (MAA)
2012: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Research Funding:
1990-today: National Science Foundation, Program
in Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics
2005-2009: DARPA, "Fundamental Laws in Biology" program
2011-2012: DARPA, "Deep Learning" 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,
Applied Mathematics Research EXpress, Beitrage zur Geometrie und Algebra,
Duke Mathematical Journal, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society, Order.
Current: Algebra and Number Theory, Annals of Combinatorics, Annals of Mathematics, Collecteana Mathematica, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Experimental Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A,
Portugaliae Mathematica, Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics (Springer Book Series).
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
Fall 2009: Tropical Geometry, MSRI, Berkeley.
Fall 2010: Modern Trends in Optimization, IPAM, UCLA.
Spring 2011: Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Applications,
Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden.
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
November 2008: Clifford Lectures,
Tulane University, New Orleans
May 2009: Di Prima Memorial Lecture, Caltech, Pasadena
July 2009: Plenary Lecture at the
Brazilian Mathematical Colloquium, IMPA, Rio De Janeiro
March 2010: Bullit Lecture, University of Louisville, Kentucky
February 2011: Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences Lecturer
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