Martin Ulirsch
Professor for Algebra and Discrete Mathematics
Paderborn University
Office:
Room D2 241
Address:
Fakultät für Elektotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik
Institut für Mathematik
Universität Paderborn
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
Welcome! I am a Professor for Algebra and Discrete Mathematics at the Paderborn University.
I am a Principal Investigator at the SFB 326: GAUS. My research program is also funded by DFG-Sachbeihilfe Grant Project No. 456557832 "From Riemann surfaces to tropical curves (and back again)" and by DFG-Sachbeihilfe Grant Project No. 539867663 "Rethinking tropical linear algebra: Buildings, bimatroids, and applications" within the SPP 2458: Combinatorial Synergies .
My research interests are in arithmetic and algebraic geometry as well as in combinatorics, with a particular focus on tropical geometry and moduli spaces, logarithmic and non-Archimedean geometry, matroids and buildings, as well as on vector bundles and combinatorial algebraic geometry.
Research Group
Ph.D. students
Postdocs
Andrei Bud (jointly mentored with M. Möller and A. Werner)
Karin Schaller (jointly mentored with A. Küronya)
Former members
Barbara Bolognese (jointly mentored with A. Küronya)
Inder Kaur (jointly mentored with M. Möller and A. Werner, now at University of Glasgow)
Matthias Nickel (jointly mentored with A. Küronya, moved to the University of Pisa after)
Felix Röhrle (now at University of Tübingen)
Alejandro Vargas (now at University of Warwick)
Short Bio
From May 2018 until March 2025, I was a Research Group Leader and Junior Professor for Number Theory at Goethe University Frankfurt. During that time, from October 2018 until March 2019, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Warwick, hosted by Diane Maclagan. Before coming to Frankfurt, I was a Postdoc Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, mentored by Mattias Jonsson, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences within the thematic program on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, as well as a Hausdorff postdoc at the University of Bonn in the group of Daniel Huybrechts. During Summer 2017 I visited the Research Group in Nonlinear Algebra, led by Bernd Sturmfels, at the Max Planck Institute of Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig.
I completed my doctorate at the Department of Mathematics at Brown University with a thesis on the Tropical geometry of logarithmic schemes. My doctoral advisor was Dan Abramovich. I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics with a minor in Physics at the University of Regensburg, where I wrote an undergraduate thesis under the guidance of Klaus Künnemann. During this time I also spent a year as a visiting graduate student at Brandeis University.
For a more detailed version of my CV click here.
Mathematics is for everyone!
I strongly support the axioms laid out by Federico Ardila.
Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
News
There is an open Ph.D. student position in my new research group in Paderborn. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2025. See here for more information.
A regular afternoon seminar series on tropical geometry and neighboring fields (currently held via Zoom).
My co-organizers are Andreas Gross and Dante Luber. Check our YouTube Channel for videos of past talks.
Alex Küronya, Diane Maclagan, Karin Schaller, and I are organizing a workshop on March 31 - April 4, 2025. More details to come.
Raman Sanyal and I are organizing a short workshop at Goethe University on Dec. 4-6, 2024. More details to come.
Andreas Gross, Hannah Markwig, and I are organizing a workshop on Oct. 7-11, 2024.
Martin Möller and I have organized the CRC-conference on Feb. 26-March 1, 2024. Videos of the talks can be found here.
Alex Küronya, Andreas Gross, and I have organized a workshop on Oct. 9-13, 2023. Videos of the talks can be found here.
Kenny Ascher, Dori Bejleri, Qile Chen, Angela Gibney, Brendan Hassett, Steffen Marcus, Jonathan Wise, and I have organized a conference at Brown University on June 12-16, 2023. This is also in honor of Dan Abramovich's 60th birthday.
Luca Battistella and I have organized a small workshop on Logarithmic geometry and moduli space on Feb. 22-24, 2023. See here for more information. Videos of the talks are available here.
We have organized a workhop on Newton-Okounkov bodies and tropical geometry on Nov. 14 - Nov. 18. See here for more information
Jennifer Balakrishnan gave the inaugural Ruth Moufang Lectures on July 13-16. Check out our YouTube-Channel for videos of the talks.
A workshop at Goethe University Frankfurt, originally scheduled for Sept. 14-17, 2020. My co-organizers are Lorenzo Fantini and Annette Werner. This is now a series of virtual and hybrid afternoon workshops starting on Oct. 1, 2021 similar to the TGiZ.
A virtual Mini-Workshop organized together with Alex Küronya and Duco van Straten on June 11, 2021.
Check our YouTube Channel for videos of the talks.