Maxson Lecture Series 2010

The Maxson Lectures for the year 2010 were delivered by

Bernd Sturmfels received doctoral degrees in Mathematics in 1987 from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. After two postdoctoral years in Minneapolis and Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995, where he is Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. His honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, a Clay Senior Scholarship and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Prize. Presently, he serves as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society. A leading experimentalist among mathematicians, Sturmfels has authored or edited 15 books and 180 research articles, in the areas of combinatorics, algebraic geometry, polyhedral geometry, symbolic computation and their applications. His current research focuses on algebraic methods in optimization, statistics and computational biology.