Angelika Steger (born 1962) is a
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
whose research interests include
graph theory
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,
randomized algorithm
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s, and
approximation algorithm
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s. She is a professor at
ETH Zurich.
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ETHZ, retrieved 2016-07-03.
Education and career
After earlier studies at the
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...
and
Heidelberg University
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, Steger earned a master's degree from
Stony Brook University in 1985.
She completed a doctorate from the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures, and earned her
habilitation
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from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the
University of Kiel
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
, she became a professor at the
University of Duisburg The old University of Duisburg was a university in Duisburg, Germany.
History
Its origins date back to the 1555 decision to create a university for the unified duchies at the Lower Rhine that were later to be merged into Prussia. After the foundati ...
in 1995, moved to the
Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
in 1996, and moved again to ETH Zurich in 2003.
Books
Steger is the author of a German-language textbook on
combinatorics:
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and a monograph on the
Steiner tree problem
In combinatorial mathematics, the Steiner tree problem, or minimum Steiner tree problem, named after Jakob Steiner, is an umbrella term for a class of problems in combinatorial optimization. While Steiner tree problems may be formulated in a ...
:
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Recognition
Steger was elected to the
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...
in 2007.
She was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in 2014.
ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897
, International Mathematical Union
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, retrieved 2016-07-03.
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
Swiss mathematicians
Swiss women mathematicians
German women mathematicians
German computer scientists
Swiss computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Swiss women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Stony Brook University alumni
University of Bonn alumni
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century German women