About the Authors
Fulvio Gesmundo
Postdoc at QMath
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
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Postdoc at QMath
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
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Fulvio Gesmundo works in algebraic geometry and representation theory, focusing on problems originating in theoretical computer science and quantum information theory. He obtained his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2012 at the University of Florence (Italy) under the supervision of Giorgio Ottaviani, and his
Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2017 at Texas A&M University under the supervision of Joseph M. Landsberg. His Master's Thesis deals with the classical tensor rank problem in algebraic geometry. His Ph.D. thesis concerns the study of geometric and representation theoretic aspects of matrix rigidity, a problem originally proposed by L. Valiant in the 70s to
prove lower bounds on the complexity of the discrete Fourier transform. Gesmundo is currently a postdoc at
the University of Copenhagen, where his research focuses
on tensor decomposition problems related to quantum information.
Joseph M. Landsberg
Professor
Dept. of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
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www.math.tamu.edu/~jml
Professor
Dept. of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
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www.math.tamu.edu/~jml
Joseph M. Landsberg works on questions at the interface of algebraic geometry, differential geometry and representation theory. His current research is focused on geometric problems originating in complexity theory. Landsberg obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 from Duke University under the direction of Robert Bryant on minimal submanifolds and a generalization of calibrations. He has directed ten Ph.D. theses, is the author of three monographs,
Tensors: Asymptotic Geometry and Developments 2016-2018 (AMS-CBMS),
Geometry and Complexity Theory (Cambridge),
and Tensors: Geometry and Applications (AMS),
a coauthor of the monograph
Cartan for Beginners (AMS),
and has published over 75 research articles. In Fall 2014 he
co-organized the semester
Algorithms and Complexity in Algebraic Geometry
at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley.
At the same time he was also the Chancellor's Professor
at U.C. Berkeley and gave a
course on geometry and complexity theory.