Peter Huggins

Contact Info

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Peter Huggins
Department of Mathematics
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

I am finishing my PhD in mathematics, at UC Berkeley. (expected Spring 2008)

Email address is almost fuggins@math.berkeley.edu, but you'll have to change that 'f' to 'ph' first.

Office: 1037 Evans


Publications and Preprints

8.   Towards the human genotope
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 69, Number 8, (2007), p 2723--2725.
(joint work with L. Pachter, B. Sturmfels)

7.   iB4e: A Software Framework for Parametrizing Specialized LP Problems
A Iglesias, N Takayama (Eds.): Mathematical Software - ICMS 2006, Second International Congress on Mathematical Software, Castro Urdiales, Spain, September 1-3, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4151 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-38084-1 (pp. 245-247)

6.   Parametric alignment of Drosophila genomes
PLoS Computational Biology, Volume 2, Number 6 (2006) p e73.
(joint work with C. Dewey, L. Pachter, B. Sturmfels, and K. Woods)

5.   The hyperdeterminant and triangulations of the 4-cube
Mathematics of Computation, in press.
math.CO/0602149.

(joint work with B. Sturmfels, J. Yu, and D. Yuster)

4.   Fairground game computations
Significance, Letters, Volume 2, Issue 2, (June 2005) p92.
(joint with J. B. Kadane and R. Yoshida)

3.   A computational study of integer programming algorithms based on Barvinok's rational functions
Discrete Optimization, Volume 2, Issue 2, 30 June 2005, Pages 135-144
(joint work with J.A. De Loera, D. Haws, R. Hemmecke, and R. Yoshida.)

2.   Three kinds of integer programming algorithms based on Barvinok's rational functions
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 10th International IPCO Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3064, Jan 2004, Pages 244-255
(joint work with J.A. De Loera, D. Haws, R. Hemmecke, and R. Yoshida)

1.   Short rational functions for toric algebra and applications
Journal of Symbolic Computation, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2004, Pages 959-973
(joint work with J.A. De Loera, D. Haws, R. Hemmecke, B. Sturmfels, and R. Yoshida)


Teaching

Math 1b Fall 2006



Software

Click here to see software


Academic BLOG, etc.

Sometimes I scribble something here

Advisors and colleagues

My current advisor, Lior Pachter
My current advisor, Bernd Sturmfels
Previous undergraduate advisor, Jesus De Loera
Dear friend and coauthor, Ruriko Yoshida
The Fellowship of the Prelim, Nick Bray and Lynn Scow
The UC Davis graphics guy I'll want to be my best man some day, Tom Slankard
The other two thirds of the Three Sombreros, Aaron Balog and John Hamilton
Colin Dewey
Dave Haws
Raymond Hemmecke
Jay Kadane
Kevin Woods
Josephine Yu
Debbie Grier







There's always something to believe in; if there weren't, then I could believe in that.