Research Interests:
Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics,
Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Statistics,
Convex Optimization, Computational Biology, Theoretical Physics
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Honorary Doctorates
On
December 2, 2023,
I was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bern,
Switzerland. In June 2024, I will be awarded an honorary doctorate
by the
University of Chicago. Many thanks to everyone who supported me.
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Metric Algebraic Geometry
Paul Breiding,
Kathlén Kohn
and I published
this
book in the
Oberwolfach Seminars Series.
We hope you'll find it useful for teaching or self-study.
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Students Going Places
News from 2024:
Madeline Brandt
accepted a tenure-track position at Vanderbilt University.
Kemal Rose starts a postdoc at KTH Stockholm
in February.
Yelena Mandelshtam
won an NSF postdoctoral fellowship, which she will take
at IAS Princeton and the University of Michigan.
Yassine El Maazouz will be a
Harry Bateman Fellow
Caltech starting in January 2025.
Congratulations to everone!!
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Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra
Mateusz Michalek 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.
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What is 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.
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Adventures in Mentoring
I wrote this piece for the
Early Career Section of the Notices of the AMS.
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Excellence through Diversity
This article appeared in the
newsletter of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM).
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Nina and Pascal
My daughter
Nina is a Fashion Designer. She works for
Athleta.
Click
here for a article that features her. My son
Pascal is a
PhD student in Computer Science.
You can find him on
Google Scholar.
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