alex
fink . finka en berkeley
Sightings of Alex Fink reported over the last one and a half years
have
clustered around Berkeley, California, particularly in the vicinity of
Evans Hall. The species apparently displays migratory tendencies: it's
been known (bizarrely) to spend parts of the winter near its (far
chillier) fledging grounds in Calgary, Alberta. Easily recognisable by
the broad drooping flaxen plumage on the back of the head.
I've just taken up with Bernd Sturmfels as my intended PhD thesis supervisor. Plans, as of yet essentially uncommenced, are to work on some topic near the meeting of tropical geometry and matroid theory. That said, my mathematical interests are fairly diverse, including very many topics of algebraic or discrete nature, and bleeding into computer science. Outside of mathematics (there's an outside?) I'm into constructing languages, and am part of a team composing the Second Google Puzzle Hunt.
This is my second time cross-registering in one of Federico's courses (and how can I resist: electrons cross the bay-- or Central America-- so we don't have to!). Last year I took matroids, and my final project with Felipe Rincón and Santiago Saavedra blossomed into a paper now on the arXiv. I look forward to another project with equal potential.
| Cached May 11, 2009, from http://math.berkeley.edu/~finka/ Alex FinkI'm a graduate student, currently in my third year, in the math department at Berkeley, under the joint supervision of Bernd Sturmfels and Federico Ardila (of SFSU). My main interests are in combinatorics and its interface with algebra and geometry; I'm looking in particular at matroids and tropical geometry. My office is 1045 Evans. Write me at finka math.berkeley.edu with an at in the usual place. Publications
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