Department of Mathematics
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70569 Stuttgart
Germany

phone: +49-711-685 653 28

fax: +49-711-685 652 93

office: 7.551

e-mail: feichtne at igt dot uni-stuttgart dot de

Latest News:

I have moved to the University of Bremen as of October 2007. This webpage will move shortly.

A half year program on Tropical Geometry at MSRI proposed by Ilia Itenberg, Grigory Mikhalkin, Bernd Sturmfels and myself has been approved for the fall of 2009!
Check out the official announcement here.

Recent News:

In the fall of 2006, I have spent 2 months at MSRI as a research professor within the program Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology.

While at MSRI, I co-organized a 1-day workshop on Tropical Geometry with Bernd Sturmfels. The result is a list of the top ten open problems in Tropical Geometry from an algebraic and combinatorial viewpoint. Have a look!

• Ten Questions in Tropical Geometry
  compiled by F. Ardila, M. Develin, E. Feichtner, H. Markwig, T. Markwig, H. Meyer, S. Payne, B. Sturmfels, J. Yu.

I was co-organizing a workshop at MSRI in August 2006: Recent Developments in Arrangements and Configuration Spaces. It was dedicated to Sergey Yuzvinsky, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Our daughter Esther Yael Feichtner was born on August 9, 2006 in Zurich!

My graduate student Emanuele Delucchi has defended his thesis at ETH Zürich in July 2006. Congratulations!

PS: The picture above is not taken at my graduation. It is from spring 2005: ETH Zurich was celebrating its 150th anniversary and each department sent a representative to the traditional spring celebration Sechseläuten of the guilds of Zurich.