Almut Burchard

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, June 1994, Georgia Institute of Technology: Advisor: Michael Loss; Thesis: "Cases of equality in the Riesz rearrangement inequality"
Diplom (M.S.) in Mathematics, August 1989, Universität Heidelberg: Advisor: Willi Jäger; Thesis: "A chemostat model for the degradation of a complex substrate by a mutualistic association of two species" (in German)

Employment

University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics: 2008- Professor; 2005-2008 Associate Professor
University of Virginia, Department of Mathematics: 2005-2006 Research Associate Professor; 2004-2005 Associate Professor; 1998-2004 Assistant Professor
Princeton University, Department of Mathematics: 1997-1998 Assistant Professor; 1994-1997 Instructor

Honors

: 2005 ACM Sigmetrics Best Student Paper Award (with Jörg Liebeherr and joint student Florin Ciucu); 1999-2003 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; 1995 Sigma Xi Ph.D. Thesis award; 1984-1988 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship

Funding

: 2005- NSERC Discovery grant # 311685-05; 2005-2007 University of Toronto Connaught New Staff Matching Grant; 2004-2007 NSF grant # CISE 0435061 (with Jörg Liebeherr, PI and Stephen D. Patek, co-PI); 1999-2006 NSF grants # DMS-9971493, DMS-0308040

Students and post-docs

: Emanuel Milman (co-sponsored post-doc, since 2009.); Marc Fortier (M.S. student, since 2009.); Ehsan Kamalinejad (Ph.D. student, since 2008.); Marina Chugunova (NSERC post-doc, since 2008.); Greg Chambers (undergraduate research, since 2007-2009. Now graduate student at UofT.); Ben Stephens (co-sponsored post-doc 2006-2009. Now post-doc at U. Washington, Seattle.); Filomena Feo (visiting post-doc, July-September 2009. Ricercatore at Università di Napoli, Parthenope.); Florin Ciucu (Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2007, co-advisor w. Jörg Liebeherr. Now Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin.); Erin Valenti (Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 2006. Now Investment Analyst at Monticello Associates.); Mu Cai (undergraduate research, 2005-2006. Now Ph.D. student in Statistics at Berkeley.); Aaron Smith (undergraduate research 2005-2006, co-advised w. Robert McCann. Now Ph.D. student at Stanford.); Oliver Cheng (USRA summer research, 2005. Now Ph.D. student at Brown.); Hichem Hajaiej (visiting postdoc, January-October 2004.); Kunal Kathuria (REU summer research, 2004. Now Ph.D. student in Physics at UVa.); Jon Handy (REU summer research, 1999. Now RTG Assistant Professor at Michigan.)

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July 2009.