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Kamillo Ferry

Behold, the ferry best mathematician!

Hey there! I’m a mathematician and computer scientist (what they call ‘Informatiker’ in Germany). At the moment, I am a Erlangen AI Hub postdoc with Anthea Monod and thus hold a position as Research Associate at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London.

My email address is “kafe (at) kafe (dot) dev”.

Roughly speaking, I’m interested in tropical geometry, computer algebra and algebraic statistics. Also frankly, I do like computing things. If we can take mathematical theory and make a computer produce an answer or a picture, that’s where the fun is for me. For example, I currently work on the following:

To go into more detail, my mathematical interests lie in algebraic geometry, where I enjoy resolutions of singularities and enumerative problems, tropical geometry with its tropical linear spaces and algebraic statistics, where we use algebraic geometry to describe properties of statistical models. Especially exciting is when tropical geometry and algebraic statistics come together (which we should be calling tropical statistics then).

On the computer science side, I’m very interested in computer graphics with raytracing as a nice test bed for mathematical programming, operating systems where you have to control every single piece of a computer, and formal languages for their connection to anything you might want to do with a non-commutative monoid.

Besides those, you can get me very excited about complexity theory from all the way down at circuit complexity, along parametrized complexity in the middle and all the way up to computability, and arithmetic geometry with the integers as a fun curve over the field with one element.

I obtained a doctorate in Mathematics from the Faculty II - Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Technische Universität Berlin. There I was a PhD student with Carlos Améndola at the research group of Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Data Analysis and part of the research project Likelihood Geometry of Max-Linear Bayesian Networks of MATH+. I was also a part of the Discrete Mathematics/Geometry group of Michael Joswig.

Before that, I obtained a BSc in Informatics at Leibniz Universität Hannover under the supervision of Arne Meier and MSc in Informatics and Mathematics also at Leibniz Universität Hannover (with two degrees-fer-one thesis supervised by Emre Sertöz).

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