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Edward Swartz
Professor
Malott Hall, Room 592
ebs22@cornell.edu
607-255-1443
Educational Background
- B.A. (Mathematics), University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1981.
- M.S. (Mathematics), Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1999.
Website(s)
Departments/Programs
- Mathematics
Graduate Fields
- Mathematics
Research
Combinatorics, topology, geometry, and commutative algebra
My research centers on the interplay between combinatorics, geometry/topology and algebra with a special emphasis on matroids and combinatorial properties of simplicial complexes.
Courses
Fall 2019
- MATH 3040 : Prove It!
- MATH 4410 : Introduction to Combinatorics I
- MATH 4900 : Supervised Research
- MATH 4901 : Supervised Reading
Spring 2020
- MATH 4420 : Introduction to Combinatorics II
- MATH 4900 : Supervised Research
- MATH 4901 : Supervised Reading
Publications
- Projection volumes of hyperplane arrangements (with C. Klivans), Discrete and Computational Geometry, 46 (2011), 417-426.
- Socles of Buchsbaum modules (with I. Novik), complexes and posets Adv. in Math., 222 (2009), 2059-2084.
- Face enumeration: from spheres to manifolds, J. Europ. Math. Soc., 11 (2009), 449-485.
- Topological representations of matroids, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 16(2003), 427-442.
- Matroids and quotients of spheres, Math. Zeit., 241 (2002), 247-269.