Jan Draisma
Professor of Mathematics
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April 2026: I was a guest in Fokus
Forschung, a series of interviews about the sciences. Lisa
Kattner and I discussed the necessity of curiosity-driven math
on the one hand, and of an open eye for applications on the other
hand. After that, I illustrated what I do by explaining the notion of
Euclidean distance degree
for a general audience. You can find a recording of my interview on youtube.
It's mostly without image, but in the second half there are two slides
explaining the ED degree.
Spring 2026: After a break, we are re-starting the Intercity Seminar.
Fall 2025: My group's new seminar webpage is up.
March 2-March 20, 2026: Bernoulli
programme on algebraic aspects of metric and integral geometry. We
welcome applications for the school (March 9-13) and registrations for
the converence (March 16-20).
3 November 2025: Schläfli
lecture by Kathlén Kohn.
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Teaching
Discrete Mathematics
This course is taught for the seventh time in Spring 2013,
by Benne
de Weger and myself. See also the course
information and Benne de Weger's
page. Also, I'll put things on Oase.
My half of the course concerns computations in polynomial
rings. This fits well with Benne's topic (algorithmic number theory),
and also connects very well with research done in the group of Discrete Algebra and Geometry.
My half of the course requires
- access to the book Ideals,
varieties, and algorithms which you can find in the TU/e
library;
- hand-outs that I will put on the oase page; and
- Mathematica running on your laptop.
There will be voluntary weekly hand-in homework (for which some of the
exercises are from the book above) and an oral final exam (for both
halfs simultaneously).
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