Andrew Sommese

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Andrew John Sommese (born May 3, 1948 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who studies algebraic geometry .

Sommese graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his PhD from Princeton University under Phillip Griffiths in 1973 ( Algebraic properties of the period mapping ). As a post-doctoral student , he was Gibbs Instructor at Yale University from 1973 to 1975 and at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1975/76 . In 1975 he became an assistant professor at Cornell University , an associate professor in 1979 and a professor at the University of Notre Dame in 1983 . From 1988 to 1992 he headed the mathematics faculty there and from 1987 to 1992 he was co-director of the Center for Applied Mathematics . Since 1994 he has been the Duncan Professor of Mathematics there.

Sommese deals with numerical algebraic geometry (solution of systems of polynomial equations) with applications e.g. B. in robotics . For this he developed software (like Bertini ) and cluster computers with others . He also deals with the numerics of nonlinear systems of differential equations.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Göttingen (1977) and the University of Bonn (1978/79) and visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

In 1993 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 1979 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1986 to 1993 he was editor of Manuscripta Mathematica and since 2000 of Advances in Geometry . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

His PhD students include Mark Andrea de Cataldo and Jaroslaw Wisniewski.

Fonts

  • with Charles Wampler: Numerical solution of polynomial systems arising in engineering and science , World Scientific 2005
  • Editor with Alicia Dickenstein; Frank-Olaf Schreyer: Algorithms in Algebraic Geometry , Springer Verlag 2008
  • with Mauro Beltrametti: The adjunction theory of complex projective varieties , De Gruyter 1995
  • with Bernard Shiffman: Vanishing theorems on complex manifolds , Progress in Mathematics 56, Birkhäuser Verlag 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Sommese, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommese, Andrew John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City