Maria Angelica Cueto

Email: macueto (at) math (dot) berkeley (dot) edu Office: 810 Evans Hall I am a PhD student in the UC Berkeley Math Department. My research interests are Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra with special focus on Tropical Geometry. I'm also interested in applications of mathematics to phylogenetics.

Fall 08

• Math 239 - Stat 260:Algebraic Statistics (Bernd Sturmfels)
  
• Math261A: Lie Groups (Mark Haiman)
• Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar (organized by Lior Pachter)
• Discrete Mathematics Seminar (organized by Bernd Stumfels)
• Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud)
• RAG Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud and Daniel Erman)
• Student Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Brown, Daniel Erman and Tony Varilly)

Summer 08

• 19 May - 22 May: Three Lectures on Dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks, by Prof. G. Craciun. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• 07 July - 20 July: MSRI Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory of Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and other areas. Berkeley, CA.
• Reading course with Lior Pachter.
• 19 August -21 August: Short Course in Tropical Geometry, by Diane Maclagan.
  
  
• 10 June, 2:00-3:00pm:Tropical mixtures of phylogenetic trees with the same topology. Algebraic Geometry and it's applications. Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Spring 08

• Math 239: Discrete Mathematics for the Life Sciences (Lior Pachter)
• Math 256B: Algebraic Geometry (Martin Olsson)
• Math 290: Toric Varieties (Steven Sam) [Notes]
• Math 250B: Multilinear Algebra (David Eisenbud)
• Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud)
• Tropical Mixtures of Phylogenetic Trees (Math 239): [Report]
  
  
• 12 Apr - 13 Apr: Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference. UC Davis, CA.
• 25 March - 28 March: Tropical Lectures in Barcelona by Bernd Sturmfels.

• 19 Feb, 5:00-6:00: Some results on inhomogeneous discriminants. Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar. 939 Evans. [Notes]

Fall 07

• Math 215A: Algebraic Topology (Michael Hutchings)
• Math 252: Representation Theory (Tsit-Yuen Lam)
• Math 256A: Algebraic Geometry (Martin Olsson)
• Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud)

Publications

• M.A. Cueto, A.Dickenstein, "Some results on inhomogeneous discriminants" e-prints server
  Published at: Actas del XVI Coloquio Latinoamericano de Algebra (Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, agosto 2005), Walter Ferrer Santos, Gerardo González Sprinberg, Alvaro Rittatore, Andrea Solotar (editores), Biblioteca de la Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-611-7907-7.

Past Work

Discriminantal Varieties and multiplicities of base points

• Thesis: (in Spanish) Multiplicidades y variedades discriminantales

Awards

• Chancellor's Fellowship. UC Berkeley. 2007-2009
• Beca Estímulo. UBACYT Programación Científica 2004-2007. Proyecto X042- "Geometría Algebraica y Aplicaciones". Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2005.
  
• Financial support to assist to Abdus Salam ICTP - Summer School on Resolution of Singularities. Trieste, Italy. June 2006.
• Financial support to assist to Abdus Salam ICTP - Summer School & Conference on Commutative Algebra and Interaction with Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics . Trieste, Italy. May 2004.
  
• Competencia Matemática E. Paenza (math contest for teams of two members for several universities in Argentina and Uruguay): 2nd. Prize (2005), 4th Prize (2004), 5th Prize (2003, 2002).
• 5th Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiad: Honor Prize.