About me
I am a second year graduate student in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley advised by Bernd Sturmfels. I passed my Qualifying Exams in November 2023, in Combinatorics, Metric Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra. I graduated with a B.S. degree in mathematics with honors from the University of Iceland in spring 2022.
My mathematical interests lie in computational algebraic geometry, algebra and combinatorics.
You can reach me by my email at svala@math.berkeley.edu and in my office at 869 Evans Hall.
Research
- Coupled Cluster Degree of the Grassmannian (with Viktoriia Borovik and Bernd Sturmfels), 13pp, submitted to Journal of Symbolic Computation.
- Algebraic Varieties in Quantum Chemistry (with Fabian Faulstich and Bernd Sturmfels), 25pp, submitted to Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
- Four-Dimensional Lie Algebras Revisited (with Laurent Manivel and Bernd Sturmfels), Journal of Lie Theory 33 (2023) 703-712.
Activities
- September - November 2023: Studying for my Qualifying Exams on November 29th. My topics are Combinatorics, Metric Algebraic Geometry and a minor topic Commutative Algeba. Syllabus
- July 4th - July 6th 2023: Visiting University of Osnabrück (Osnabrück, Germany).
- June - July 2023: Visit to Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany).
- May 28th - June 2nd 2023: Oberwolfach Seminar: Metric Algebraic Geometry.
- June - August 2022: Visit to Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany).
Teaching
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Fall 2023: MATH54.
Teaching assistant, Instructor: Zvezdelina Stankova. -
Spring 2023: MATH54.
Teaching assistant, Instructor: Norman Sheu. -
Fall 2021: Honors Linear Algebra.
Teaching assistant, Instructor: Rögnvaldur Möller. -
Spring 2021: Probability and Statistics.
Teaching assistant, Instructor: Hermann Þórisson. -
Fall 2020: Mathematical Analysis I.
Teaching assistant, Instructor: Benedikt Steinar Magnússon.