Biography:Eric Katz

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Short description: American mathematician
Eric Katz
Born
Cleveland, Ohio
Alma mater
Known forHeron–Rota–Welsh conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsThe Ohio State University
University of Waterloo
ThesisA Formalism for Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants[1] (2004)
Doctoral advisorsYakov Eliashberg
Ravi Vakil
Websitepeople.math.osu.edu/katz.60/

Eric Katz is a mathematician working in combinatorial algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University.

In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and June Huh, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.[2][3][4][5] With Joseph Rabinoff and David Zureick-Brown, he has given bounds on rational and torsion points on curves.[6]

Education

Katz went to Beachwood High School, in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. After earning a B.S. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University in 1999, he pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2004 with a thesis written under the direction of Yakov Eliashberg and Ravi Vakil.[7]

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