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J. Maurice Rojas

Professor

e-mail: lastname atsign math.tamu.edu

Office: Milner 206

Phone: (979) 845-2083

Fax: (979) 845-6028

Paper Mail:

Department of Mathematics

Texas A&M University

3368 TAMU

College Station, Texas 77843

USA

Short Vita

Full Vita

Teaching

My Teaching Before Spring 2010...

Editorial Boards

Houston Journal of Mathematics

Conferences Organized

Seminars of Interest

RAA!: the Randomized Algebraic Algorithms Seminar
The Algebraic Geometry Seminar (organized by Zach Teitler)
The Algebra & Combinatorics Seminar (organized by Aaron Lauve)

Research Interests

Computational Algebraic Geometry
Scientific Computation
Geometry of Algorithms

Research Work

You can find my research papers indexed by a full list (including supplemental software) or classified (with overlaps) by theme. The latter description contains a bit of peripheral discussion as to what my papers are about.
Extremal Real Algebraic Geometry!
Find out more about the Smalefest 2000 proceedings volume I co-edited with Felipe Cucker by looking at item #26 on my paper's list.

Grants and Awards

``ASCR: Topology for Statistical Modeling of Petascale Data,'' (TAMU amount $214,795, co-PI: Rojas, PI: P. Pebay of Sandia National Laboratories, and other co-PIs from University of Utah), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (Mathematics for Analysis of Petascale Data), Department of Energy, DE-SC0002505, 9/1/2009-8/31/2012.
``MCS: Randomization in Algorithmic Fewnomial Theory Over Complete Fields,'' ($400,001, PI: Rojas, co-PIs: Martin Avendano, Scott Zrebiec) Mathematics/Computer Science Interface Program, NSF, DMS-0915245, 9/1/2009-8/31/2012.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Visiting Researcher Grant (75000 Swedish Kroner), to visit and work with Mikael Passare and Boris Shapiro at Stockholm University, Sweden (awarded 12/2008, visit will be during Mar.-Jun. 2009)
``TAGS (Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar) 2009,'' (\$8690, PI: Rojas, co-PIs: J. M. Landsberg, Paulo Lima-Filho, Laura Matusevich, Frank Sottile), conference proposal, NSF, DMS-0915235, 4/1/2009-3/31/2010
NSF CAREER Award: DMS-0349309: Complexity, Reality, and Rationality in Large Nonlinear Equations Solving (9/1/04 - 8/31/09)
Robust Output Sensitive Algorithms for Subanalytic Geometry: NSF Grant DMS-0211458 (jointly funded by the Computational Mathematics and Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics programs), 2003-2005.
Degeneracy Detection for Curved Solids (co-PI with John Keyser): Incubation grant DMS-0138446 from the NSF CARGO (Computational and Algorithmic Representation of Geomtric Objects) program, 2002-2003.
NSF grant to co-organize (with Paulo Lima-Filho and Hal Schenck) a CBMS Lecture Series Conference during May 17-24, 2002.
Journal of Complexity 2000 Best Paper Award (to be awarded at FoCM 2002).
College of Science Grant (Texas A&M University), 2001-2002
Complexity and Geometric Recognition (University Grants Council, Hong Kong), 2000-2002
City U Grant (Co-investigator, with 10 other faculty from the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments): Group Research in Learning, Theory, and Applications
Joint France/Hong Kong PROCORE Grant (Co-PI with Ioannis Z. Emiris of INRIA Sophia-Antipolis): Efficient Numeric and Symbolic Methods for Solving Sparse Polynomial Systems and Their Applications in Economics, 2000-2001
Polyhedral Entropy and Random p-adic Varieties (University Grants Council, Hong Kong), 1999-2001
Toric Geometric Methods for Large Real Solving (University Grants Council, Hong Kong), 1998-2000
Algebra, Algorithms, and Applications (City University of Hong Kong), 1998-1999
Polyhedral Algorithms for Fast and Stable Equation Solving (City University of Hong Kong), 1998-1999
National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (1995-1998)
1992 SIAM Best Student Paper Award