Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig

Fachbereich Mathematik
Algorithmische diskrete Mathematik
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dolivostr. 15
64293 Darmstadt, Germany

Phone: +49 (6151) 16 - 2959
secretary: +49 (6151) 16 - 4703 (Mon-Fri 8:00-11:30)
Fax: +49 (6151) 16 - 3185
Room: S4|10 119
email: lastname at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de

Office hours: Wednesday 10-11, or by appointment

Public PGP key.

Research

I am interested in algorithmic and discrete mathematics, in particular geometric combinatorics, discrete differential geometry, combinatorial topology, discrete optimization, mathematical software, and related areas.

The mathematical software system polymake

polymake is a software system for convex polytopes, simplicial complexes, and more. Co-authored with Ewgenij Gawrilow and kept alive with additional help by many people [BibTeX-Entry]. If you are interested to see how polymake can be used, see the tutorial section of our Wiki or this extra page with references.

The alpha version 2.9.7 (from September 2009) described on the news page is stable enough for serious usage. The documentation is about to be improved.

Click on a picture below for an example application.

All polymake releases can now be downloaded from the here.

Other Projects

Branched Coverings and a Combinatorial Holonomy Theory

Project JZ in the DFG-Forschergruppe Polyhedral Surfaces, with Günter M. Ziegler. Research assistant: Silke Möser.

Electronic Geometry Models

Electronic Journal for discrete and differential (and other) geometry. With Konrad Polthier.

Publications

• complete list of publications
• publications according to Mathematical Reviews
• publications according to Zentralblatt MATH
• Preprints via UC Davis front end to the arXiv

Teaching and Seminars

Current:

• Discrete Mathematics [04.6072.1], VL 4+2
• Tropical Combinatorics [04.6472.1], VL 2
• Coxeter Groups and Hecke Algebras [04.7342.1], with Jan Hendrik Bruinier, SE 2

Look at ...

• Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, October 12 - 16, 2009
• Casimir Force, Casimir Operators and the Riemann Hypothesis, Fukuoka, Japan, November 9 - 13, 2009
• International Congress of Mathematical Software 2010, Kobe, Japan, September 13 - 17, 2010

This is me (same picture as above), transformed via Christian Mercat's conformal web cam.

Previously there were ...

• The 63th Séminaire Lotharingien de combinatoire, Bertinoro, Italy, September 27 - 30, 2009
• Saturday in Discrete Mathematics, Erlangen, July 18, 2009. Small conference organized jointly with Friedrich Knop, Volker Strehl and Thorsten Theobald.
• i-Math Winter School DocCourse Combinatorics and Geometry 2009, Centre de Recerca Matemŕtica, Barcelona.
• Research Seminar: Tropical Mathematics, FU Berlin
• 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, June 9-11, 2008
• A Saturday on Discrete Mathematics in Frankfurt am Main, January 26, 2008, a small conference organized jointly with Thorsten Theobald.
  
• International Congress of Mathematical Software 2006 in Castro Urdiales, Spain. In particular, see the Special Session "Software for Optimization and Geometric Computation", co-chaired with Komei Fukuda.
• Discrete Mathematics on a Saturday in Darmstadt: November 26, 2005, a small conference organized jointly with Thorsten Theobald.