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 Ohio State University.
Eric Katz | |
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Known for | Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Ohio State University University of Waterloo |
Thesis | A Formalism for Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants[1] (2004) |
Doctoral advisors | Yakov Eliashberg Ravi Vakil |
Website | people |
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]
Katz went to Beachwood High School, in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Ohio State University in 1999, he pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 2004 with a thesis written under the direction of Yakov Eliashberg and Ravi Vakil.[7]