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Jan Verschelde

Professor

Contact

Building & Room:
1210 SEO
Office Phone:
312-996-4609

Email:

janv@uic.edu

Office Hours

2pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and by appointment

Teaching

  • MCS 320 : Intro to Symbolic Computation
    MWF @ 1 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
    2249F SELE
  • MCS 481 : Computational Geometry
    MWF @ noon – 12:50 p.m.
    215 LH
  • MCS 481 : Computational Geometry
    MWF @ noon – 12:50 p.m.
    215 LH

About Me

Jan Verschelde obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). After postdoctoral fellowships at the KUL, Michigan State University, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, he became a professor in the department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2000. The focus of his research is on algorithms and software to solve systems of polynomial equations, a problem in computational algebraic geometry. He is the main developer of PHCpack, a free and open source software package.

Research Interests

Computational algebraic geometry; symbolic-numeric computation; combinatorial and polyhedral methods; development of mathematical software; high performance computing

Primary Affiliated Research Group

Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 1996