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Bernd
Sturmfels
Director of the Max Planck Institute
for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
Professor of Mathematics,
Statistics and
Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley
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Research Interests:
Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics,
Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Statistics,
Convex Optimization, Computational Biology
Office Hours:
by appointment
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Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra
Mateusz Michalek and I are writing this textbook.
We hope you'll find it useful for your teaching or self-study.
Please check it out and send us your feedback.
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What is Algebraic Geometry?
This is a webinar, aimed at a very general audience, in the
NAS series
Mathematical Frontiers.
Mark Green
hosts short presentations by
Ravi Vakil and me.
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Adventures in Mentoring
I wrote this piece for the
Early Career Section of the Notices of the AMS.
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Students Going Places
Here are updates from 2019.
On tenure-track:
Elina Robeva will join the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Kathlén Kohn
has an offer from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden.
On postdocs:
Anna Seigal is at
Oxford before joining the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Nidhi Kaihnsa
will be a Prager Assistant Professor in
Applied Math at Brown University.
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Excellence through Diversity
This article appeared in the
newsletter of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM).
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SIAGA
I serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Applied
Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA). Please submit your very best work.
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Nina and Pascal
My daughter
Nina is a Fashion Designer. She works for
Athleta.
Click
here for a portfolio. My son
Pascal is a
PhD student in Computer Science.
You can find him on
Google Scholar.
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Waxing Moon
My wife
Hyungsook Kim published this excellent
historic novel, set in 19th century Korea.
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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
Scientific American. |
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Einstein Fellow at TU Berlin
I received an
Einstein Visiting Fellowship to build
a research group at TU Berlin.
We started 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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