silviana amethyst, PhD
visualizing & computational mathematician
mathematical artist
maker
Roles and contact information
Research Engineer
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, Germany
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Professional email: amethyst@mpi-cbg.de
Long-term institution-free email address: silviana.amethyst@gmail.com
Pronouns: she / her
To my American friends and family, I am sunsetting my US phone number. If you txted or called me after Sept 1 and I didn't respond, I'm not trying to ghost you, I have just left the US. Please use my German number. Email me to get it.
A typical week
For an appointment with me, please email me, and I'll reply with a link to my scheduling system. Thanks!
Links to my most recent...
- "About" story (cw: probably transphobia, maybe self-harm)
- Gallery page
- Work blog post
- Curriculum Vitae (updated May 2022)
- Resumé (updated May 2022)
Invitations
- If you are curious about who I am as a human being beyond a computational mathematician or professor, read about me.
- Check out my most recent recorded talk, Skeletons of Algebraic Curves, given at Philips Exeter Academy in October 2022.
- I invite you to peruse my galleries of mathematical artwork.
- Please check out my work blog.
- Read some of my preprints and presentations.
- Enjoy this 3d anaglyph video of a decomposition of the Barth Sextic. We made a whole playlist of them!
- Find me on Github.
- Discover my designs on Thingiverse.
- Read my CV or my resume.
My current leadership activities
I have resigned all my leadership positions in Eau Claire and UWEC to make way to leave the US.
(last updated July 2024)
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
- 3D printing
- Real algebraic geometry
Thanks for visiting!