Welcome to my website!
I am spending the whole summer term 2008 at the university of Erlangen as a visiting professor. I am giving a lecture on Foundations of Dynamic Geometry and a seminar on algebraic plane curves. More information on these courses is available from my webpage at the university of Erlangen (in German) . Together with A. Sarti and F. Knop, I organize an algebra and geometry research seminar called Emmy Noether AG; A. Sarti has a list of the talks on her website.
From August on, I will be back at my position as Frank-Olaf Schreyer's assistant at the Saarland University at Saarbrücken.
In 2008 (the so-called German Year of Mathematics), I organize together with the Oberwolfach Institute of Mathematics the interactive exhibition Imaginary 2008. I am mainly involved in the mathematical content and the concept of the software surfer used during this exhibition to allow non-mathematicians to experience algbraic surfaces intuitively. surfer is inspired by my software surfex which is not as easy to use, but more powerful than our new software surfer,
Research interests: Computational algebraic geometry, numerical algebraic geometry, special varieties (in particular: hypersurfaces with many singularities), geometric modelling, visualization of algebraic geometry, algebra and geometry software.
On this page, I present my publications, talks, software, websites, and more.
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The subject of my Ph.D. thesis was the very classical problem of classifying hypersurfaces with many singularities, or more particularly nodal surfaces.
E.g., I constructed nodal surfaces of degree 7 and 9 with 99 and 226 nodes, respectively, which improved the previously known records.
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions,
Oliver Labs
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