Michael Joswig @ TU Berlin

Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig

Einstein Professor of Discrete Mathematics/Geometry
Affiliated Member, MPI MiS Leipzig

Institut für Mathematik
der Technischen Universität Berlin
Sekretariat MA 6-2
Straße des 17. Juni 136
10623 Berlin, Germany

Phone:	+49 (30) 314 - 75904
Room:	IMoS 3062
Office:	Erik Oor: +49 (30) 314 - 28643
Email:	`lastname at math.tu-berlin.de`
OpenPGP:	public key

Office hours: by appointment

DM/G seminar
DM/G Lab @ GitHub
Campus map

Attention: New office address @ IMoS 3062; see Campus map. Enter from Müller-Breslau-Straße (between "HF" and "L"; follow the signs). To enter the building you need a key (or contact someone with a key).

I am interested in all aspects of polyhedral, tropical and algorithmic geometry, and this includes topics in optimization, combinatorial topology, applications to biology and more. See here for an overview of ongoing and past projects. Moreover, I like to design and apply mathematical software, the main projects being polymake and OSCAR.

Letters of Recommendation: I am willing to write letters for deserving candidates, but please read Frank Sottile's note on this subject before asking me for a letter. Frank's comments apply to you and me as well.

short CV

News

OSCAR v1.8.0 [14 July 2026]
MaRDI funding extended [10 July 2026]
OSCAR video channel [30 Jun 2026]
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics [02 June 2026]
polymake v4.15 [30 Sep 2025]

Publications

complete list of publications
according to zbMATH
according to MathSciNet
according to ORCID
according to dblp
according to MaRDI Portal
preprints @arXiv
code @GitHub
datasets @Zenodo

Books (Selection)

(with Wolfram Decker, Christian Eder, Claus Fieker, Max Horn, eds.) The Computer Algebra System OSCAR: Algorithms and Examples, Springer 2025.
Essentials of Tropical Combinatorics, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 219, American Mathematical Society 2021; contents, additions and errata
(with Thorsten Theobald) Polyhedral and Algebraic Methods in Computational Geometry, Springer 2013, translated and revised from Algorithmische Geometrie [German], Vieweg 2008.

Teaching and Seminars

Summer 2026

Seminar: Discrete Geometry, SE2

Winter 2025/26

Discrete Geometry II, VL4+2+2

Past Teaching

The research seminar on discrete and convex geometry takes place each Wednesday at 16:30 CET/CEST; currently in EN 058.

Here are some general remarks concerning student theses (in German).

Upcoming Events

ICMS 2026, Waterloo, Canada, 20-23 July 2026
Annual Meeting SFB/TRR 195, Aachen, 21-24 Sep 2026
Symposium Diskrete Mathematik, U Wien, 09-10 Oct 2026
MaRDI Annual Workshop, Münster, TU München, 11-13 Nov 2026
"Geometric, Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics", Oberwolfach, 11-16 April 2027
Computational Algebra and Geometry, TU Berlin, 26-30 April 2027
Tagung der Fachgruppe Computeralgebra, TU Berlin, 03-05 May 2027
Geometric and Computational Methods in Enumerative Algebra, TU Berlin, 14-18 June 2027
OSCAR Summer School, TU Berlin, 12-16 July 2027
SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Osnabrück, 19-23 July 2027