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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:
Mondays 3-4:30pm, or by appointment
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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
Good news from the 2015 job market!
Five former PhD students accepted tenure-track positions:
Melody Chan joins Brown U,
Angelica Cueto joins Ohio State,
Ralph Morrison joins Williams College
(after a year in Stockholm),
Ngoc Tran joins UT Austin (after a year in Bonn),
and Caroline Uhler joins MIT.
Three others accepted postdoctoral positions:
Felipe Rincon
joins U of Oslo,
Jose Rodriguez joins U Chicago,
and Zvi Rosen joins U Penn
(after a semester at Penn State).
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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 Fall of 2015, please attend the
Applied Algebra Seminar.
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Applied Algebraic Geometry
I helped to start the
SIAM Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry.
Please join us.
The most recent conference of this group took place in
August 2015 at Deajeon, Korea.
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