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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
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Research Interests:
Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics,
Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Statistics,
Convex Optimization, Computational Biology
Office Hours:
Contact me via e-mail during my Fall 2016 sabbatical.
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Pascal's first paper
My son
Pascal
worked in Lior Pachter's Lab
on The Lair,
a bioinformatics tool
which greatly enhances reproducibility in
RNA sequence analysis.
Find their article on
bioRxiv.org.
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New SIAM Journal
I serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Applied
Algebra and Geometry. Please submit your very best work.
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Honorary Doctorate
On June 29, 2015,
I was awarded an honorary doctorate
by the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
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Antibiotic Treatment Plans
My bio-medical project with Miriam Barlow, Portia Mira and Juan Meza
from UC Merced, and Devin Greene and Kristina Crona
from American University, recevied a lot of press.
Check out this article in the
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Students Going Places
Postdoc updates on two 2016 PhD students:
Elina Robeva goes to MIT,
and
Hwangrae Lee goes to Auburn U.
In 2015, five former students got tenure-track positions:
Melody Chan joined Brown U,
Angelica Cueto joined Ohio State,
Ralph Morrison joined Williams College,
Ngoc Tran joined UT Austin,
and Caroline Uhler joined MIT.
Three others accepted postdoctoral positions:
Felipe Rincon
joined U of Oslo,
Jose Rodriguez joined U Chicago,
and Zvi Rosen joined U Penn.
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Einstein Fellow at TU Berlin
I was awarded an
Einstein Visiting Fellowship, to build
up a research group at TU Berlin.
We start in May 2015 with a
kickoff workshop.
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Interview in Specimen Magazine
Click here
for an interview that appeared in July 2014.
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Introduction to Tropical Geometry
Diane Maclagan and I wrote this textbook. It was
published in 2015 by the American Mathematical Society.
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Waxing Moon
My wife
Hyungsook Kim published this excellent
historic novel, set in 19th century Korea.
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Seminars at Berkeley
There are many wonderful seminars
in the Berkeley Mathematics Department.
In the Spring of 2015, we ran a
Computational Algebraic Geometry Seminar.
In the Spring of 2016, please attend the
Applied Algebra Seminar.
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