Svala Sverrisdóttir

About me

I am a third year graduate student in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley advised by Bernd Sturmfels. I graduated with honors with a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Iceland in spring 2022. I passed my Qualifying Exams on Combinatorics, Metric Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra in November 2023. I plan to graduate from Berkeley in spring 2026 and I will spend my last year of PhD abroad at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig Germany.

My mathematical interests lie in computational algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and combinatorics. I especially like looking problems from other fields such as quantum chemistry and physics from the lense of nonlinear algebra.

You can reach me by my email at svala@math.berkeley.edu and in my office in 869 Evans Hall.

Here is my CV [current as of April 15th 2025].

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