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J. Maurice Rojas Professor	e-mail: lastname atsign math.tamu.edu Office: Milner 206 Office Phone: None* 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

Math 648 (Graduate Introduction to Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry and its Applications), Fall 2011
Math 311 (Undergraduate Topics in Applied Mathematics I), Fall 2011
My Teaching Before Fall 2011...

Editorial Boards

• Houston Journal of Mathematics

Conferences Organized

Seminars of Interest

• 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, 9/1/2009-8/31/2013.
• 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

Postdocs

• Harlan Kadish (Ph.D. 2011, U Michigan), co-mentored with JM Landsberg
• Mounir Nisse (Ph.D. 2010, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6), co-mentored with Frank Sottile
• Martin Avendano (Ph.D. 2008, U Buenos Aires; now a tenured associate professor at University of Zaragoza, Spain)
• Scott Zrebiec (Ph.D. 2007, JHU; now a statistical project manager at Lexis-Nexis), co-mentored with Emil Straube

Current Students

• Kaitlyn Hellenbrand (Ph.D. Student)
• Korben Rusek (Ph.D. expected May 2012)

Former Students

• Rohun Kshirsagar (Ph.D. student, research assistant Spring 2011)
• Ashraf Ibrahim (Ph.D. in Mathematics 12/2009; now a postdoc in the Aerospace Engineering Department of Texas A&M University)
• Swaminathan Sethuraman (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 5/2009; now at Credit Suisse)
• Michael Muzheve (M.S., 2006; Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, 2008)
• Theodoros Kyriopolos (M.S. in Mathematics, 12/2007)
• Casey Stella (M.S., 2006)

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