Curriculum Vitae
Frank Sottile

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX   77843
USA
Email: sottile"at"math.tamu.edu

1401 Post Oak Circle 
College Station, TX   77840
USA
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~sottile
Citizenship: USA

Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry (MR 14) and Algebraic Combinatorics (MR 05)

Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, August 1994, University of Chicago.
Supervisor: William Fulton
Dissertation title: Enumerative Geometry of Real Grassmannian Varieties
CPGS, Mathematical Tripos, Part III (with distinction), Cambridge University.
Honors B.S., Physics, summa cum laude, Michigan State University.
Awards and Fellowships
  • Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences' Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, 1--3 December 2007, Kanagawa, Japan.
  • Clay Mathematical Institute Research Scholar January 1--June 15, 2004. Report on Activities.
  • NSF CAREER Award, "Computation, Combinatorics, and Reality in Algebraic Geometry, with Applications" 1 August 2002 - 31 July 2007.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
  • Winston Churchill Foundation Graduate Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1985-1986.
  • Employment
  • September 2006 --     Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
  • August 2004 -- August 2006     Associate Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
  • November -- December 2005, Professeur invité, Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris.
  • September 1999 -- July 2004 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
        On leave September 1999 - August 2000.
        Paternity Leave Autumn 2001. One reason.
  • June 2001. Maître de Conférence invité, IRMAR, Université de Rennes, France.
  • juin/juillet 1999.Visitor, Université de Genève, Suisse.
  • May/June 1999. Maître de Conférence invité, IRMA, Université de Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
  • January 1999-May 2000, van Vleck Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • August - December 1998, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
  • August 1996 - June 1997, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
  • July 1994 - July 1998, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto. (Leave of absence August 1996--July 1997)
  • Research Grants
  • Co-PI with Professor Luis Garcia-Puente of Sam Houston State University on a Texas Advanvced Research Projects grant 010366-0054-2007, "Algebraic Geometry in Algebraic Statistics and Geometric Modeling", 15 May 2008 -- 14 May 2010. Proposal.
  • IRTAG travel grant, "Bounds for real solutions to polynomial equations", April 14--May 9 2008. Proposal.
  • NSF Individual Research grant, 1 September 2007 -- 31 August 2010. DMS-0701050
  • NSF CAREER Award, 1 August 2002 - 31 July 2007. DMS-0134860 and DMS-0538734.
  • Co-PI on U Mass SCREMS grant, 1 September 2000 - 31 August 2003. DMS-0079536.
  • NSF Individual Research Grant, 1 June 2000 - 31 July 2002. DMS-0070494.
    Real and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry.   Proposal.
  • NSERC Individual Research Grant # OGP0170279. April 1995 - July 1998.
    A Geometric Approach to the Combinatorics of Schubert Polynomials.   Proposal.
  • Conference Grants
  • NSF conference grant, "Enumeration and bounds in real algebraic geometry", April 21--25 2008, Bernoulli centre, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. DMS-0800253
  • NSF grant to fund additional participation in the 2007 IMA PI Summer Graduate Prgram on Applicable Algebraic Geometry at Texas A&M University, 23 July -- 11 August 2007. Co-PI Prof. Laura Matusevich. DMS-0704355
  • NSA conference grant to fund US participation at the Coloquio Latinamericano di Álgebra in Colonia, Uruguay, 1--12 August, 2005. Co-PIs: Prof. S. Montgomery, University of Southern California, and J. Wolf, University of California at Berkeley.
  • Texas A&M University grant for ``Year of the International Student'', to help fund participantion of two graduate students at the Coloquio Latinamericano di \'Algebra in Colonia, Uruguay, 1--12 August, 2005. Co-PIs: Professors Marcelo Aguiar, Hal Schenck, and Sarah Witherspoon.
  • NSA Conference Support, Algorithmic, Combinatorial, and Applicable Real Algebraic Geometry 12 - 16 April 2004, MSRI.
  • NSF Conference Support, MSRI Workshop on Real Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling, April 3-4, 2004, MSRI, Berkeley. CCF-0412858
  • NSA Conference Support, Discrete Mathematics in New England, 1 September 2002 - 31 August 2004.
  • Five Colleges Lecture Fund to support first Valley Discrete Math Day, 12 October 2001.
  • University of Toronto Connaught Fund Committee for International Symposia Grant
    (for Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 1998). March 1997.   Proposal.
  • Advising
  • Chris Strader, Senior Honors Thesis, University of Massachusetts, 2003. Singular Algorithms for Wu's Method  
  • Yuval Sivan, Undergraduate Research, Summer and Autumn 2003.

  • James Ruffo, Graduate Student at U Mass and Texas A&M University. PhD August 2007.
  • Corey Irving, Graduate Student at Texas A&M University, Since August 2006.
  • Abraham Martin Del Campo Sanchez, Graduate Student at Texas A&M University, Since September 2006.
  • Nickolas Hein, Graduate Student at Texas A&M University, Since August 2007.
  • Mariana Pereira, Graduate Student at Texas A&M University. 2001 -- 2005 (December 2006 Ph.D. w/ Sarah Witherspoon).

  • Gregory Warrington, Postdoc at University of Massachusetts, 2001--2003.
  • Evgenia Soprunova, Postdoc at University of Massachusetts, 2002--2005.
  • Frédéric Bihan, Postdoc at MSRI, January-May 2004.
  • Seongchun Kwon, Postdoc at MSRI, January-May 2004.
  • Luis Garcia, Postdoc at Texas A&M University, January 2005 -- August 2007.
  • Christopher Hillar, NSF Postdoc at Texas A&M University, beginning September 2005.
  • Aaron Lauve, Postdoc at Texas A&M University, beginning September 2007.
  • Zachary Teitler, Postdoc at Texas A&M University, beginning September 2007.
  • Thesis Committees
    External Examiner for Kuimars Kaveh, Ph.D., University of Toronto, May 2002.
    External Examiner for Stefan Mykytiuk, Ph.D., York University, August 2002.
    Thesis committee, Seongchun Kwon, Ph.D., Michigan State University. Spring 2003.
    Thesis committees at Texas A&M University.
    Mariana Pereira, Ph.D. (2006), 2004--2006.
    Waqar Malik, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. (2007) 2006--2007.
    James Ruffo, Ph.D. (2007) 2004--2007.

    Luke Oeding, 2005--
    Svetlana Poznanovik, 2006--
    Walter Moreira, 2006--
    Xiaolong Tang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2007--
    Phong Sy Nguyen, Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering, 2007--
    Teaching
    Publications and Preprints
    Invited Mathematical Talks
    Selected Talks All Research Talks (Conferences, Colloquiua, and Research Seminars)
    Outreach Activities
    Other Professional Activities
    Departmental Activities
    Conference Organization
    Editing, Refereeing, Reviewing
    Professional Societies



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