Sven Herrmann
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Research interests

  • discrete geometry, especially subdivisions of polytopes,
  • computational biology, 
  • phylogenetics,
  • computational geometry,
  • tropical geometry,
  • mathematical software,
  • related topics in combinatorics, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, ...

Publications

Software

  • Several contributions to the mathematical software system polymake by Michael Joswig and Ewgenij Gawrilow
  • QuasiDec, polymake extension for computing the block decomposition of a quasi-median graph obtained from a set of partitions or a sequence alignment, 2012
  • CoMRiT (with Andreas Spillner), polymake extension for computing realisations of finite metric spaces (i.e., weighted graphs representing whose shortest-path distance represents the metric), 2012.

PhD thesis

  • Splits and Tight Spans of Convex Polytopes (download), TU Darmstadt, 2009, Verlag Dr. Hut. Supervisor: Michael Joswig.

Other past projects

  • WS 2005/2006: Delaunay triangulations for linearisation of non-linear functions as part of a industry cooperation project on Transient Gas Network Optimization
  • Diploma Thesis: Kombinatorik von Hypersimplex-Triangulierungen, October 2005 (supervised by Michael Joswig).
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