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Bernd Sturmfels

Professor of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science

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



Phone messages: 510 642 6550

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


Office Hours
:
Monday 9:00-11:00, Wednesday 11:00-12:00.

Seminars at Berkeley

Please join my Seminar on Computational Algebra in the Spring semester 2012. Of course, there are many other (past and present) wonderful seminars in my areas of interest in the Berkeley Mathematics Department, such as Combinatorics, Computational Biology, Algebraic Statistics, Tropical and Non-Archimedean Geometry, Commutative Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, and Representation Theory etc.

Flying Arrow

My wife Hyungsook just published this terrific novel, set in 19th century Korea.

Applied Algebraic Geometry

I serve on the advisory panel for the SIAM Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry, chaired by Seth Sullivant. Please join. The first conference of this group took place in October 2011 at North Carolina State University.

Convex Algebraic Geometry

Philipp Rostalski and I ran a research seminar on this topic at Berkeley in the Spring of 2010. This seminar was part of a multi-institutional FRG project funded by the National Science Foundation. The other participants were Bill Helton and Jiawang Nie at UC San Diego, Pablo Parrilo at MIT and Rekha Thomas at U of Washington.

Lectures on Algebraic Statistics

This book is based on an Oberwolfach seminar led by Mathias Drton, Seth Sullivant and myself in May 2008. Algebraic statistics is an emerging field, aimed at solving statistical inference problems using concepts from algebraic geometry as well as related computational and combinatorial techniques. This book is an introduction to newcomers from the different camps. It is centered around three observations: many important statistical models correspond to algebraic or semi-algebraic sets of parameters; the geometry of these parameter spaces determines the behavior of statistical inference procedures; algebraic geometry can be used to study statistical models.

A Different Perspective

Joe Gallian and Ivars Peterson: "Mathematicians Have a Different Perspective: An Interview with Bernd Sturmfels" MAA Focus 2008.


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