Bernd Sturmfels

Director at the Max Planck Institute
for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig, Germany




Professor of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Statistics, Convex Optimization, Computational Biology

Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra

Mateusz Michalek and I published this textbook in the Graduate Studies Series of the American Mathematical Society. We hope you'll find it useful for teaching or self-study.

Students Going Places

News from 2023: Yassine El Maazouz is now a postdoc at RWTH Aachen. Maddie Weinstein accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Puget Sound. Chiara Meroni, currently at ICERM, will move to ETH Zürich as an ITS junior fellow. Claudia Fevola and Rida Ait El Manssour are both on route to Paris, to join, respectively, INRIA Saclay (MATHEXP team) and the Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF). Charles Wang will be a postdoc at the University of Michigan as of Fall 2023. Starting in January 2024, Kemal Rose will be a postdoc at KTH Stockholm, and Yulia Alexandr will be a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA. Congratulations to everone!!

What is Algebraic Geometry?

This is a webinar, aimed at a general audience, in the NAS series Mathematical Frontiers. Mark Green hosts short presentations by Ravi Vakil and me.

Adventures in Mentoring

I wrote this piece for the Early Career Section of the Notices of the AMS.

Excellence through Diversity

This article appeared in the newsletter of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM).

Nina and Pascal

My daughter Nina is a Fashion Designer. She works for Athleta. Click here for a article that features her. My son Pascal is a PhD student in Computer Science. You can find him on Google Scholar.

Waxing Moon

My wife Hyungsook Kim published this excellent historic novel, set in 19th century Korea.

Honorary Doctorate

On June 29, 2015, I was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

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.

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.

Interview in Specimen Magazine

Click here for an interview that appeared in July 2014.

Introduction to Tropical Geometry

Diane Maclagan and I wrote this textbook. It was published in 2015 by the American Mathematical Society.