Michael Stillman Professor, Mathematics Cornell University Email (please use email to contact me): <mes15@cornell.edu> Office: 503 Malott Hall Math Office: 607-255-4013 Fax: 607-255-7149 Mailing address: Malott Hall, Mathematics Dept Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Teaching

• Fall 2024, Math 4310, Linear Algebra. Course is on canvas.
• A list of (many of) the courses that I have taught at Cornell.

Teaching awards

• The Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, received in April, 2013.
• Top ten at Cornell
• Department of Mathematics Senior Faculty Teaching Award, awarded in 2002.

Research and Macaulay2

My research interests include computational algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. My applied interests include applications to string theory, statistics and biology.

• Curriculum vitae(includes list of publications)
• PDF copies of my papers and preprints
• Macaulay 2, which I have written with Dan Grayson, is a computer program designed to support computations in algebraic geometry and computer algebra
• Try Macaulay2 online without needing to install it
• Macaulay, an earlier computer algebra system for computations in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, written with Dave Bayer

Conferences and special years

Former Doctoral Students

• Alyson Reeves, Ph.D. 1992, The combinatorial structure of Hilbert schemes.
• Hal Schenck, Ph.D. 1997, Homological methods in the theory of splines.
• Leah Gold Stella, Ph.D. 2002, Homological results in commutative algebra.
• Chris Francisco, Ph.D. 2004, Hilbert functions and graded free resolutions.
• Jeff Mermin, Ph.D. 2006, Lexicographic ideals.
• Steve Sinnot, Ph.D. 2006, Results in Computational Algebra of Bayesian Networks.
• Achilleas Sinefakopoulos, Ph.D. 2007, On some classes of Borel fixed ideals and their cellular resolutions.
• Mauricio Velasco, Ph.D. 2007, Monomial resolutions and the Cox rings of Del Pezzo surfaces.
• Gwyn Whieldon, Ph.D. 2011, Betti Numbers of Stanley-Reisner Ideals . Assistant Professor, Hood College.
• Kristine Jones, Ph.D. 2013, Generic Initial Ideals of Locally Cohen Macaulay Space Curves . Microsoft.
• Radoslav Zlatev Ph.D. 2015 Implicitization of surfaces.

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Director of graduate studies

I was directory of graduate studies July 2019 - June 2020. For information about our graduate program in mathematics at Cornell, please see our web site