Welcome to my website!
This winter term (2009/10), I am giving a lecture on mathematics for computer scientists (part 3) at Saarbrücken. While I am currently Frank-Olaf Schreyer's assistant at the Saarland University at Saarbrücken, I spent the summer term 2008 at the university of Erlangen as a visiting professor (,,Vertretungs-Professor'').
Research interests: Computational algebraic geometry, computer algebra, numerical algebraic geometry, real algebraic geometry, special varieties (e.g., hypersurfaces with many singularities), geometric modelling, visualization of algebraic geometry, algebra and geometry software.
Moreover: Applications of the preceeding, e.g. in computer science, architecture, and didactics of mathematics.
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In 2008 (the so-called German Year of Mathematics), I organized the interactive exhibition Imaginary 2008 together with the Oberwolfach Institute of Mathematics.
I was mainly involved in the mathematical content and the concept of the software surfer used during this exhibition to allow non-mathematicians to experience algebraic surfaces intuitively. surfer is inspired by my software surfex which is not as easy to use, but more powerful than our new software surfer,
Several user-contests which searched for the most interesting surface took place. See, e.g.: Die Zeit, Spektrum der Wissenschaft.
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Please, feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions,
Oliver Labs
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Recent & Upcoming
- July 2009: Talk at the university of Hannover, Germany: Real surfaces with real singularities and applications
- May 2009: Talk at the architecture department of the technical university at Cottbus, Germany: Algebraic Geometry in Architecture?
- Feb. 18, 2009: Talk at the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium at Saarbrücken (Germany): Von Pythagoras zu aktueller algebraischer Geometrie (PDF)
- Nov. 3 - Nov. 7, 2008: at the Maths Research Institute at Oberwolfach (Germany): Organizer of a teachers' training course on the use of algebraic curves and surfaces in school (in German).
- Oct. 24. - Nov. 16, 2008: Ausstellung IMAGINARY 2008 in der K4-Galerie in Saarbrücken.
- Sept. 2008 at Kassel (Germany): Talk at the AKMUI meeting.
- Sept 2008 at Erlangen (Germany): Talk at the DMV Conference. I am also one of the organizers of a Mini-Symposium there.
- Sept 2008 at Oslo (Norway): Talk at the CMA seminar.
- August 2008 at Saarbrücken: Talk at the Kulturmeilen-Fest: Über die Schönheit der Geometrie(in German). PDF-Download. Mathematische Animationen zum Vortrag: Barth-Fläche, Enriques-Flächen, meine 99-nodale Fläche.
- January 2008: Our paper on surfaces with many solitary points on arxiv.org.
- December 2007 at Paris (France): Invited Talk at MACIS 2007: Visualization Challenges in Real Algebraic Geometry
- 2006, December 1: Together with Hans-Christian Graf von Bothmer, I present an advent calendar of geometrical animations: www.Calendar.AlgebraicSurface.net
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