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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 Full Vita

Teaching

Math 470 (Communications and Cryptography), Spring 2013
My Teaching Before Spring 2013...

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; now at Ab Initio
• 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

• Alperen Ergur (Ph.D. Student)
• Emma Owusu Kwaakwah (Ph.D. Student)
• Roman Kogan (Ph.D. Student)
• Kaitlyn Hellenbrand (Ph.D. Student)

Former Students

• Korben Rusek (Just successfully defended! Ph.D. expected May 2013)
• 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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