Curriculum Vitae
Frank Sottile

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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--

Selected Talks All Research Talks (Conferences, Colloquiua, and Research Seminars)

Outreach Activities

Departmental Activities

• Co-organizer of the Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Autumn 2006 and Winter 2007.
• Member of Departmental Executive Committee, TAMU, 2006--2008
• Member of the Graduate Affairs Committee, TAMU, 2004--2005
• Organizer of the Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Autumn 2004.
• Chair of the U. Mass. Colloquium Committee 2002/3.
• Co-organizer of the Valley Geometry Seminar Winter 2001 -- Autumn 2003.

Conference Organization

• Member, Scientific Committee for "Métodos Efectivos en Geometría Algebraica" (MEGA09) in Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
• Co-organizer (with B. Shapiro), Workshop on "Enumeration and bounds in real algebraic geometry", Bernoulli Center of the EPFL, 21--26 April 2008.
• Member, Organizing Committee for CombinaTexas 2008 in El Paso, Texas, Spring 2008.
• Co-organizer (with I. Itenberg, V. Kharlamov, and B. Shapiro), "Real and tropical algebraic geometry", a research program at the Bernoulli Center of the EPFL from January through June 2008.
• Member, Scientific Committee for "Mathematics of Computer and Information Sciences" (MACIS07) in Paris, France, December 2007.
• Co-organizer (with L. Matusevich and T. Theobald), IMA PI Summer Graduate School on Applicable Algebraic Geometry. Texas A&M University. 23 July -- 10 August 2007.
• Co-organizer (with I. Emiris, R. Goldman, and T. Theobald) of a Workshop on Non-linear Computational Geometry in the IMA thematic year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry. 28 May - 1 June 2007.
• Co-organizer (with J. Carrell) of a Workshop on Schubert Calculus and Schubert Geometry at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada. 18 - 23 March 2007.
• Co-organizer (with M. Aguiar, D. Ferrero, and C. Yan) CombinaTexas `07, Texas A&M University, 24 February 2007.
• Co-organizer (with A. Ram) Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory at the Fall Central Section meeting of the AMS, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 3-4 November 2006.
• Co-organizer (with S. Kuhlman, S. Lall, and V. Powers) of a workshop on Positive Polynomials and Optimization at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada. 7 - 12 October 2006.
• Program Committee, SIAM Meeting on Discrete Mathematics. University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. June 25-28, 2006.
• Co-organizer (with Ezra Miller) Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus at the 2004 Fall Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS, Northwestern University, Evanston, 23-24 October 2004. Speakers. Schedule.
• Co-organizer (with N. Bergeron, L. Billera, and S. van Willigenbburg) of a conference on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada. August 28 - September 2, 2004
• Member, Programme Committee for FPSAC 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 28 June-2 July 2004.
• Co-organizer (with Pedro Luis Del Angel R., Isidro Nieto, and Emma Previato) Special Session on Algebraic Geometry at the Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting, Houston, TX, 13-15 May 2004.
• Co-organizer (with S. Akbulut, G. Mikhalkin, B. Shapiro, V. Powers, and O. Viro) MSRI Semester on Topological Aspects of Real Algebraic Geometry, January - June 2004.       Report on the Program.

  Co-organizer, Introductory Workshop, January 12-16, 2004 MSRI, Berkeley.

  Co-organizer, with Rimas Krasauskas, MSRI Workshop on Real Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling, April 3-4, 2004, MSRI, Berkeley.

  Co-organizer, with Vicki Powers and Lalo Gonzalez-Vega, Workshop on Algorithmic, Combinatorial, and Applicable Real Algebraic Geometry, April 12-16, 2004, MSRI, Berkeley.

• Co-organizer (with Frank-Olaf Schreyer and Christoph Lossen) of the Oberwolfach-Seminar on Computational Algebraic Geometry, Mathematisches Forschunginstitute Oberwolfach, 17-21 November 2003.
• Co-organizer (with Carlos Andradas, Antonio Diaz-Cano, and Victoria Powers), Special Session on Quantitative Results in Real Algebra and Geometry, Joint RSME-AMS international meeting in Seville, Spain, 18--21 June 2003.
• Member, Steering Committee for MEGA 2003, 11-14 June 2003, in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
• Steering Committee, Discrete Mathematics in New England conference series, Supported in part by a grant from the National ecurity Agency 1 September 2002 - 31 August 2004.
• Co-organizer (with Chris Woodward) Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus at the 2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS, Northeastern University, Boston, 5-6 October 2002. Preliminary list of speakers. Schedule.
• Member, Programme Committee for FPSAC 2002 in Melbourne, Australia. July 8-13, 2002.
• Organizer of the Valley Discrete Mathematics Day at U Mass on Friday, 12 October 2001.
• Co-organizer with Serkan Hosten, Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and its Applications at the 2001 Spring Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS Hoboken, NJ, 28-29 April 2001.
  List of speakers. Schedule
• Co-organizer (with Jesús De Loera) Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics at the 2000 Fall Western Section Meeting of the AMS San Francisco, CA, 21-22 October 2000.
  List of speakers. Schedule.
  
• Co-organizer (with Nantel Bergeron) Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus at the 2000 Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS Toronto Ontario, Canada, 22-24 September 2000. Schedule.
• Co-organizer (with Robert Lazarsfeld) of A Workshop in Algebraic Geometry in Honor of William Fulton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 14-16 April 2000.
• Organizing Committee, 10th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC'98, SFCA'98), 15-19 June 1998, Fields Institute, Toronto.
  
  

Editing, Refereeing, Reviewing

• Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
• MathSciNet Reviewer. My reviews.
• Reviewer for Zentralblatt, since June 2002.
• Grant Review for NSF, NSA, NSERC (Canada), ISF (Israel), FONDEYCT (Chile) agencies.
• List of Journals served as a referee.
• Editor, with Ioannis Emiris and Thorsten Theobald, IMA Volume on Non-Linear Computational Geometry, IMA Series, Springer-Verlag.
• Guest Editor (with Jesús De Loera and Bernd Sturmfels) of special issue of Discrete and Computational Geometry devoted to Geometric Combinatorics. 27 No. 1, (2002). Table of Contents.
• Guest Editor (with Nantel Bergeron and Ian Goulden) Special issue of Discrete Mathematics, 10th Conference "Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics", Toronto, Canada, 1998. 225, Nos. 1-3, (2000). Table of Contents.
  
  

Professional Societies

• Member of AMS since 1990, AWM since 1998, and SIAM since 1998. These dates are approximate. Member of ACM Special Interest Group in Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (SIGSAM), since June 2002.
• Young Mathematicians's Network, Editorial Board. August 1994 - August 1999.
  I used to run yearly surveys of the academic job market. I have collected them into an archive.
• Ran unsuccessfully for position of member-at-large of the AMS council in the 2001 AMS election. Results. Statement for the AMS Election Materials. Statement for the AWM Newsletter.