Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in
Kassel
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,
West Germany
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) is a Professor of Mathematics and
Computer Science
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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and is a director of the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 2017.
Education and career
He received his PhD in 1987 from the
University of Washington
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and the
Technische Universität Darmstadt. After two postdoctoral years at the
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
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Mission
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in
Minneapolis
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, Minnesota, and the
Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in
Linz
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,
Austria
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, he taught at
Cornell University
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, before joining
University of California, Berkeley
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in 1995. His Ph.D. students include
Melody Chan,
Jesús A. De Loera
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Mike Develin
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Early life
Mike Develin was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He moved to the United States with his Korean mother, livin ...
,
Diane Maclagan,
Rekha R. Thomas
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,
Caroline Uhler
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, and
Cynthia Vinzant
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.
Contributions
Bernd Sturmfels has made contributions to a variety of areas of mathematics, including
algebraic geometry,
commutative algebra
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,
discrete geometry
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,
Gröbner bases,
toric varieties,
tropical geometry,
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, and
computational biology
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. He has written several highly cited papers in algebra with
Dave Bayer.
He has authored or co-authored multiple books including ''
Introduction to tropical geometry
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Topics
The tropical semir ...
'' with Diane Maclagan.
Awards and honors
Sturmfels' honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, an
Alfred P. Sloan
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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
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.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-05.
References
Further reading
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External links
Homepage at Berkeley
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1962 births
Living people
Scientists from Kassel
20th-century German mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Washington alumni
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematics popularizers
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Algebraic geometers
Combinatorialists
Sloan Research Fellows
Algebraists
Cornell University faculty
21st-century German mathematicians
Academic staff of Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute directors