Faculty

Victoria Powers
Professor
Office: W418
Phone: 404-727-3636
Research groups: Algebra
Office hours
  • Tuesday: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
  • Wednesday: 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • and by appointment
Teaching: Spring 2010
  • MATH 190 (001): Freshman Seminar: Mathematics and Politics, TuTh 1:00pm - 2:15pm
  • MATH 250 (000): Foundations of Mathematics, TuTh 10:00am - 11:15am
Research
  • Real Algebraic Geometry, Polynomials, Symbolic Computation, Ordered fields, Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms
Recent publications
  • Representations of positive polynomials on non-compact semialgebraic sets via KKT ideals, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 209 (2007), 189--200. (with J. Demmel and J. Nie)
  • A quantitative Polya's Theorem with corner zeros, in Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computations, J. G. Dumas, editor, New York, NY, ACM Press, pp. 285--290. (with B. Reznick)
  • A new approach to Hilbert's theorem on ternary quartics, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 339 (2004), no. 9, 617--620. (with Frank Sottile, C. Scheiderer, and B. Reznick)
Education
  • Ph.D. (1985) Cornell University
  • B.A (1980) University of Chicago
Activities
  • Organizer, workshop on Positive Polynomials and Optimization, Banff International Research Station, Oct, 2006.