Bernd Sturmfels

Bernd Sturmfels ( born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, Germany ) is a German mathematician.

Biography

Sturmfels studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Jürgen Bokowski and went after graduating in 1985 at the University of Washington in Seattle to Victor Klee. In 1987 he received his doctorate in Bokowski and clover (oriented matroid and Combinatorial Convex Geometry, Computational Geometry Synthetic ). As a post-doc, he was at the University of Minnesota ( Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, IMA) and 1988/1989 at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation of Bruno Buchberger in Linz. After that, he was an Assistant Professor in 1989 at Cornell University in 1992 and Associate Professor. 1994/1995 he was a visiting scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. From 1995 he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science. 2003/2004 he was a Hewlett Packard Research Professor at MSRI. 1997/1998 he was Visiting Professor at RIMS, 2003 John von Neumann Professor at the Technical University of Munich, and from 2000 to 2001 Miller Research Professor at Berkeley.

Sturmfels deals with algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, but also with convex optimization and discrete geometry, algebraic statistics and applications in biology. He is considered a proponent of experimental mathematics.

He was in the Study Foundation of the German People, Packard and Sloan Fellow and 1992-1997 Young Investigator Fellow of the National Science Foundation. He was 2005-2007 George Pólya Lecturer of the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA) and 2010 John von Neumann Lecturer of SIAM, was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist award, and the 1999 Lester Randolph Ford Award. In 2004, he was a Senior Scholar at the Clay Mathematics Institute. He is vice president of the American Mathematical Society (2009 ) and their Fellow. In 2010 he received the Carl B. Allendorf Award of the MAA.

Writings

  • With Ezra Miller: Combinatorial Commutative Algebra. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, 2004.
  • Mathias Drton, Seth Sullivant: Lectures on Algebraic Statistics. Oberwolfach Seminar, Volume 40 Birkhäuser, Basel, 2009.
  • Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations. Amer. Math Soc., CBMS Regional Conferences Series, Volume 97 Providence, Rhode Iceland, 2002.
  • With Nobuki Takayama, Mutsumi Saito: Gröbner Deformations of Hypergeometric Differential Equations. In: Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics. Volume 6, Springer, Heidelberg, 1999.
  • Gröbner Bases and Convex Polytopes. American Mathematical Society, Univ. Lectures Series, Volume 8, Providence, Rhode Iceland, 1996.
  • Algorithms in Invariant Theory. Springer, 1993.
  • Anders Bjorner, Michel Las Vergnas, Neil White, Günter M. Ziegler: Oriented matroid. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 2nd edition 1999.
  • With Jürgen Bokowski: Computational Synthetic Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol 1355th Springer, 1989.
  • What ' is a Gröbner basis, Notices AMS 2005 ( PDF file, 60 kB)
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