Andrew J. Sommese, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrew J. Sommese

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-May-1948

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Andrew J. Sommese

  • Andrew John Sommese (born 3 May 3 1948 in New York City) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.Sommese received in 1969 from Fordham University a bachelor's degree and in 1973 from Princeton University a PhD under Phillip Griffiths with thesis Algebraic properties of the period-mapping.
  • As a postdoc Sommese was from 1973 to 1975 a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University and was for the academic year 1975–1976 at the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • He became at Cornell University in 1975 an assistant professor and at the University of Notre Dame in 1979 an associate professor and in 1983 a full professor.
  • At the University of Notre Dame he was from 1988 to 1992 the chair of the mathematics department and from 1987 to 1992 the co-director of the Center for Applied Mathematics.
  • Since 1994 he is there Duncan Professor for mathematics. Sommese deals with numerical algebraic geometry (solution of polynomial equation systems) with applications, e.g.
  • in robotics.
  • For such applications he, with colleagues, developed software (such as Bertini) and cluster-software (i.e.
  • software for computer clusters).
  • He also deals with the numerical analysis of systems of nonlinear differential equations. He was a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen (1977) and the University of Bonn (1978/79) and a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 1993 he received the Humboldt Prize.
  • In 1973 he was a Sloan Research Fellow.
  • From 1986 to 1993 he was a co-editor of Manuscripta Mathematica and since 2000 is a co-editor for Advances in Geometry.
  • He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. His doctoral students include Mark Andrea de Cataldo and Jaroslaw Wisniewski.

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