Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Education and career
He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. After two postdoctoral years at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995.
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.
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.[1]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
Selected publications
- Ezra Miller, Bernd Sturmfels, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 227, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-387-22356-8
References
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- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.
Further reading
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External links
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- 1962 births
- German mathematicians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Living people
- University of Washington alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- ISI highly cited researchers
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
