Emma Boniface Email: Office: Evans 1066 Office hours:   Fridays 12-2pm I am a second year math PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Wes Holliday. I apply formal methods and model theory to social decision theory. In the past, I have made contributions to applied algebraic geometry, symbolic computation, and numerical methods.

Research

Tropical toric maximum likelihood estimation (with Karel Devriendt and Serkan Hoşten)

Trinomials and Deterministic Complexity Limits for Real Solving (with J. Maurice Rojas and Weixun Deng)

Activities

June–August 2024: Visit to Topos Institute (Berkeley, California)

June–July 2023: Visit to Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany)

Teaching

Spring 2025: Math 1B
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI). Instructor: Alexander Paulin

Fall 2024: Math 10A
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI). Instructor: Norman Sheu

Spring 2024: Math 1B
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI). Instructor: Alexander Paulin

Fall 2023: Math 1B
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI). Instructor: Norman Sheu

Transit card collection

Outside of math, I am deeply enthusiastic about trains and public transportation. Here is a photo of my transit card collection!

• Esme for the Hong Kong airport express ticket and Taipei EasyCard!
• Brian for the Opus card!
• Gene and Nancy for the NS rail ticket!
• Zoe for the MetroCard and OMNY card!
• Hanson for the Charlie card!
• Zakkai for the Singapore MRT card!
• Elliot for the Paris RER ticket and Tilden steam train ticket!
• Charley for the Istanbul card!
• Hannah for the Leipzig tram musuem ticket, Strasbourg ticket, Compass card, and Dresden ticket!
• Harper for the T-money card and Oyster card!
• Spencer for the Madrid card!
• Alan for the Tap card!
• My grandmother for the Washington metro paper ticket and London Transport travelcard!
• Zechen for the National Rail ticket!
• Ameen for the Ventra card!
• Chris for the BART paper ticket!