silviana amethyst
Visualizing & computational scientist
Mathematical artist
Maker
Current roles and contact information ¶
Research Software Engineer, Staff Scientist
Algebraic Systems Biology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, Germany
Emails:
- Professional email: amethyst [at] mpi-cbg.de
- Long-term institution-free email address: silviana.amethyst [at] gmail.com
Pronouns:
- she/her in English
- sie/ihr in Deutsch
Invitations ¶
- Peruse my galleries of artwork.
- Explore my professional life – research, teaching, and reading guides.
- Browse my computational projects and software.
- Please check out my work blog.
- Read some of my preprints and presentations.
- Check out a recent-ish recorded talk, Skeletons of Algebraic Curves, given at Philips Exeter Academy in October 2022.
- Enjoy a 3d anaglyph video of the Barth Sextic. We made a whole playlist of them!
- Find me on Github, and read more about the software I build.
- Discover my designs on Thingiverse.
- Read my cv.
- Here I am on ORCID
- If you are curious about who I am as a human being beyond a computational mathematician or scientist, read about me.
Professional interests ¶
- Application of nonlinear algebra and computational algebraic geometry to biology and the life sciences
- Numerical algebraic geometry
- Scientific computing
- Parallel programming
- C++, Python, R, Matlab, OpenSCAD, Grasshopper
- 3D printing
- Mathematical art and illustration
- Real algebraic geometry