Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in K*el, West Germany) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and is a director of the Max Planck Ins*ute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 2017.
Contents
- 1 Education and career
- 2 Contributions
- 3 Awards and honors
- 4 References
- 5 Further reading
- 6 External links
Education and career
He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. After two postdoctoral years at the Ins*ute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Research Ins*ute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995. His Ph.D. students include Melody Chan, Jesús A. De Loera, Mike Develin, Rekha R. Thomas, and Cynthia Vinzant.
Contributions
Bernd Sturmfels has made contributions to a variety of areas of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, discrete geometry, Gröbner bases, toric varieties, tropical geometry, algebraic statistics, and computational biology. He has written several highly cited papers in algebra with Dave Bayer.
He has aut*d or co-aut*d multiple books including Introduction to tropical geometry with Diane Maclagan.
Awards and honors
Sturmfels' honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. In 1999 he received a Lester R. Ford Award for his expository article Polynomial equations and convex polytopes. He was awarded a Miller Research Professorship at the University of California Berkeley for 2000–2001. In 2018 he was awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
References
Further reading
- Gallian, Joe; Ivars Peterson (January 2008). ""Mathematicians Have a Different Perspective": An Interview with Bernd Sturmfels" (PDF). MAA Focus. Washington, DC: Mathematical *ociation of America. 28 (1): 4–7. ISSN:0731-2040. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
External links
- Homepage at Berkeley
- Bernd Sturmfels at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Bernd Sturmfels publications indexed by Google Scholar