Angelika Steger

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Steger at Oberwolfach, 2011
Organizers of a 2011 MFO workshop on combinatorics, left to right: Jeff Kahn, Benjamin Sudakov, Angelika Steger Kahn Sudakov Steger MFO13483.jpg
Organizers of a 2011 MFO workshop on combinatorics, left to right: Jeff Kahn, Benjamin Sudakov, Angelika Steger

Angelika Steger (born 1962) [1] is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich. [2]

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Education and career

After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger earned a master's degree from Stony Brook University in 1985. [2] She completed a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures, [3] and earned her habilitation from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the University of Kiel, she became a professor at the University of Duisburg in 1995, moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1996, and moved again to ETH Zurich in 2003. [2]

Books

Steger is the author of a German-language textbook on combinatorics:

and a monograph on the Steiner tree problem:

Recognition

Steger was elected to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007. [5] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. [6]

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References

  1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. 1 2 3 Faculty profile, ETHZ, retrieved 2016-07-03.
  3. Angelika Steger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Steger, Angelika (16 August 2002). "Diskrete Strukturen konkret erklärt zum Ersten". Spektrum der Wissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  5. Member profile, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 2016-07-03.
  6. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2016-07-03.