Shuchao Bi's Homepage

Hi, I am Shuchao Bi(±دت÷³¬), a third year math graduate student (Ph.D Candidate) at UC Berkeley.
shuchao@math.berkeley.edu
Office: 941 Evans Hall
Interests and Advisors
Commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, matrix varieties, tropical geometry, algebraic statistics...
My advisor is Olga Holtz, also Bernd Sturmfels helps me a lot, especially as Olga is on leave.
I got my Bachelor's degree at Zhejiang University where my undergraduate advisor was Shiu-chun Wong.
The problems I am working on

Upcoming Activities

Preprints and Write-ups
Tensor Rank, Simultaneously Diagonalization, and Related Matrix Varieties
Applications of Groebner Bases with Examples
How to Apply Serre's Criterion to Prove Primeness
How to Compute Hilbert Polynomials
Ways to Prove Primeness
What Makes a Complex Exact?

My Qual
I passed my Qualifying Exam on March 9th, 2009. Here is the Syllabus
Teaching
This Fall, I am teaching the PDP section of Math 1A.
Previous Teaching
Summer 2009, I taught Math 53(click it for the course webpage), Multivariable Calculus.

Useful Links
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
American Mathematical Society
Institute for Advanced Study
UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University
Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University
TU Berlin Math
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling
Clay Mathematics Institute
Park City Mathematics Institute
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics