silviana amethyst, PhD
visualizing & computational scientist
mathematical artist
maker
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.
Roles and contact information
Roles:
- Research Engineer
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, Germany -
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Emails:
- Professional email: amethyst@mpi-cbg.de
- Long-term institution-free email address: silviana.amethyst@gmail.com
Pronouns: she / her
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.
I eagerly am looking for leadership opportunities in Dresden. For this, I must learn German.
(Last updated 9 Sept 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!