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Overview

David E Speyer is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Mathematics, spanning a total of 50 publications. Within this broad field, they have contributed significantly to several subfields, including Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Algebra and Number Theory.

Their scholarly work addresses various complex topics, notably Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics, Algebraic structures and combinatorial models, Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Polynomial and algebraic computation, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory, Commutative Algebra and Its Applications, and Advanced Mathematical Identities.

David E Speyer has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Selecta Mathematica
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
  • Algebraic Combinatorics
  • Journal of Commutative Algebra

Their recent papers include:

  • Grassmannians for scattering amplitudes in 4d =4 SYM and 3d ABJM, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Cohomology of cluster varieties, I: Locally acyclic case, 2022, Algebra & Number Theory
  • Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of matrix Schubert varieties, 2024, Selecta Mathematica
  • The positive Dressian equals the positive tropical Grassmannian, 2021, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Series B
  • Electrical networks and Lagrangian Grassmannians, 2025, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D Combinatorics Physics and their Interactions

Collaboration is an important aspect of their research practice. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Grant T. Barkley
  • Oliver Pechenik
  • Anna Weigandt
  • Thomas Lam
  • Alex Fink

Best Publications

  • The tropical Grassmannian

    David Speyer;Bernd Sturmfels

  • Tropical Linear Spaces

    David E. Speyer

  • Positroid varieties: juggling and geometry

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E. Speyer

  • Tropical Mathematics

    David Speyer;Bernd Sturmfels

  • Computing tropical varieties

    T. Bogart;A. N. Jensen;D. Speyer;B. Sturmfels

  • Perfect matchings and the octahedron recurrence

    David E. Speyer

  • The Tropical Totally Positive Grassmannian

    David Speyer;Lauren Williams

  • Cambrian fans

    Nathan Reading;David E Speyer

  • Weak separation and plabic graphs

    Suho Oh;Alexander Postnikov;David E. Speyer

  • Matching polytopes, toric geometry, and the totally non-negative Grassmannian

    Alexander Postnikov;David Speyer;Lauren Williams

  • Positroid varieties I: juggling and geometry

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E Speyer

  • A matroid invariant via the K-theory of the Grassmannian

    David E. Speyer

  • Uniformizing Tropical Curves I: Genus Zero and One

    David E Speyer

  • The Cube Recurrence

    Gabriel D. Carroll;David E Speyer

  • A broken circuit ring

    Nicholas J. Proudfoot;David E. Speyer

  • Computing Tropical Varieties

    T. Bogart;A. N. Jensen;D. Speyer;B. Sturmfels

  • Reconstructing Trees from Subtree Weights

    Lior Pachter;David E Speyer

  • Acyclic Cluster Algebras Revisited

    David Speyer;Hugh Thomas

  • Projections of Richardson varieties

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E Speyer

  • MATCHING POLYTOPES, TORIC GEOMETRY, AND THE NON-NEGATIVE PART OF THE GRASSMANNIAN

    Alexander Postnikov;David Speyer;Lauren Williams

  • Weak Separation and Plabic Graphs

    Suho Oh;Alex Postnikov;David E Speyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Lam
Thomas Lam University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lauren Williams
Lauren Williams Harvard University
Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology
Robert Kleinberg
Robert Kleinberg Cornell University

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