Dipl. Math. Timo de Wolff, M.A.

Research Assistant and PhD student of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Theobald

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

CV

Research Interests

• Algebraic Geometry
• Tropical Geometry
• Discrete and Algorithmic Geometry 

Teaching

• Summer term 11:
  • Seminar "Geometrie und Kombinatorik von Spektraedern"; (joint with Prof. Dr. Thorsten Theobald) (Seminardescription).
• Summer term 10:
  • Tutorial for "Tropische Geometrie" (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Theobald)
• Winter term 09/10:
  • Seminar "Grundprobleme der Induktion und Wahrscheinlichkeit" (joint with Prof. Dr. Wilhelm K. Essler; Institut für Philosophie)
  • Tutorial for "Symbolisches Rechnen und Gröbnerbasen" (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Theobald)
  • Lecture for Introduction week: "Das Art Gallery Problem", 8th of October 2009 (Lecture as PDF (German))
• Summer term 09:
  • Tutorial for "Gitter und Kryptographie" (Prof. Dr. Claus-Peter Schnorr)

Upcomming Events

• September 17th - 20th 2012: "DMV Jahrestagung" at the Univ. des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken
• June 3rd - 7th 2013: "MEGA 2013" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main

Publications

• "Separating inequalities for nonnegative polynomials that are not sums of squares" (joint with S. Iliman), in proceedings, ArXiv 1201.4061.
• "Amoebas of genus at most one", (joint with T. Theobald), in proceedings, ArXiv 1108.2456.
• "Approximating amoebas and coamoebas by sums of squares", (joint with T. Theobald), in proceedings, ArXiv 1101.4114.
• "Polytopes with Special Simplices", in proceedings, ArXiv 1009.6158.
• Master thesis for mathematics (Diplomarbeit): "Polytope mit speziellen Simplizes", 2008, download as PDF (German)
• Master thesis for philosophy (Magisterarbeit): "Goodman's "New Riddle of Induction"", 2010

Talks & Posters

• "The Configuration Space of Amoebas"
  • Workshop "Tropical Geometry", ICMS, Edinburgh, April 2nd, 2012 (Poster presentation; download Poster as PDF)
• "Contemporary Key Problems in Amoeba Theory"
  • Université de Genève, February 1st, 2012; (informal talk with discussion session)
• "The Configuration Space of Amoebas with barycentric Simplex Newton Polytope" (Talk as PDF (English))
  • "4th PhD Students Conference on Tropical Geometry", Technical University, Kaiserslautern, July 30th, 2011
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt / Main, July 5th, 2011
• "Approximation of Amoebas and Coamoebas by Sums of Squares"
  • "MEGA 2011", Stockholm University, May 31st, 2011 (Poster presentation; download Poster as PDF)
• "(Co)Amoebas: Different Aspects of Approximation, Boundary and Homotopy"
  • Courant Research Centre, Göttingen, October 27th, 2010; (informal talk with discussion session)
• "Amoebas of Genus at most one" (Talk as PDF (English))
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt / Main, December 18th, 2009
  • "1st PhD-students Conference on Tropical Geometry", Technical University, Berlin, December 11th, 2009
• "Polytopes with Special Simplices"
  • "Kolkom 2010", Max Planck Institut Informatik, Saarbrücken, November 12th / 13th, 2010
  • "DMV-Studierendenkonferenz", Ruhr University, Bochum, October 2nd, 2009

Some Past Events

• April 2nd - 6th 2012: Workshop "Tropical Geometry" at the ICMS in Edinburgh
• July 29th - 31th 2011: "4th PhD Students Conference on Tropical Geometry" at the Technical University in Kaiserslautern.
• May 30th - June 3rd 2011: "MEGA Conference 2011" in Stockholm.
• May 5th - 7th 2011: Workshop: "Discrete, Tropical and Algebraic Geometry" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main.
• January 28th - 30th 2011: "3rd PhD Students Conference on Tropical Geometry" at the CRCG in Göttingen.
• November 12th / 13th 2010: "Colloqium on Combinatorics 2010" at the MPII in Saarbrücken.
• July 16th / 17th 2010: "2nd PhD Students Conference on Tropical Geometry" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main.
• May 31th - June 4th 2010: EIDMA Minicourse "Algebraic Optimization and Semidefinite Programming" at the CWI in Amsterdam.
• December 11th / 12th 2009: "1st PhD Students Conference on Tropical Geometry" at the Technical University in Berlin.
• August 24th - 28th 2009: "Introductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry" at the MSRI in Berkeley.

geändert am 10. April 2012  E-Mail: Timo de Wolffwolff@math.uni-frankfurt.de