Bernd Sturmfels
Research Interests
- Algebraic Geometry
- Combinatorics
- Commutative Algebra
- Algebraic Statistics
- Convex Optimization
- Computational Biology
Activities
Mentoring
Students going places
News from 2021: Maddie Weinstein will be an NSF postdoc at Stanford University.
Back in 2020, we had these updates: On postdocs: Madeline Brandt will go to Brown University, Lynn Chua will go to Caltech, Paul Görlach will be at TU Chemnitz, Orlando Marigliano will move to KTH Stockholm, and Mahsa Sayyari will join Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Anna Seigal will transition to the Society of Fellows at Harvard. On permanent positions: Jose Rodriguez is settling at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Joe Kileel has signed up with the University of Texas, Austin. Cynthia Vinzant will start in 2021 at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Adventures in Mentoring
I wrote this piece for the Early Career Section of the Notices of the AMS.
Excellence through Diversity
This article appeared in the newsletter of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM).
Current PhD Students & Postdocs
Publications
Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra
Mateusz Michałek and I published this textbook in the Graduate Studies Series of the American Mathematical Society. We hope you'll find it useful for teaching or self-study.
Introduction to Tropical Geometry
Diane Maclagan and I wrote this textbook. It was published in 2015 by the American Mathematical Society.
Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology
Lior Pachter and I edited this textbook. It was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press.
SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry
In 2021 I was Editor-in-Chief for Volume 5 of the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.
Selected Publications
Recent Publications
Teaching
Spring of 2023: Math 270: Metric Algebraic Geometry
This is a webinar, aimed at a general audience, in the NAS series Mathematical Frontiers. Mark Green hosts short presentations by Ravi Vakil and me.
Relevant Content
Biography
Bernd Sturmfels received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1987, and an honorary doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt in 2015. After postdoctoral years in Minneapolis and Linz, he taught at Cornell University before joining UC Berkeley in 1995 as Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Since 2017 he has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig. In 2018 he became an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig. His awards include a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, a Humboldt Senior Research Prize, the SIAM von Neumann Lecturership, the Sarlo Distinguished Mentoring Award, and the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the AMS and SIAM and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2022 he spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Sturmfels has supervised 60 doctoral students and numerous postdoctoral researchers, and he has authored 11 books and 300 research articles in combinatorics, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and their applications in fields such as statistics, optimization, and computational biology.
Family
My wife - Hyungsook Kim
My wife Hyungsook Kim published the excellent historic novel, Waxing Moon, set in 19th century Korea.
My Son - Pascal
My son Pascal is a PhD student in Computer Science. You can find him on Google Scholar.