About meI am Matthias Goerner (or "Görner" in native German spelling).I love math, programming and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I studied math and computer science at UC Berkeley and was really fascinated by hyperbolic geometry. I gave a talk for general audiences explaining my research as an informal thesis defense (there is no defense at the Berkeley math department). Since June 2012, I am working as a software engineer at Pixar animation studio. Here are some of our upcoming movies. I am currently on the Hydra/GPU team (twitter updates). Time permitting, I still do some math research. I am a maintainer of the 3-manifold software SnapPy. One of my long term goals is to make an interactive version of "Not Knot" to explore hyperbolic 3-manifolds. While attending the Illustrating Mathematics program at ICERM, I added the inside view of a hyperbolic 3-manifold (demo video) to SnapPy and have been adding features to it since. Another long term goal is to make a verified version of every computation in SnapPy - that is using intervals or exact arithmetic to ensure that rounding errors cannot result in an incorrect result. ContactEmail: enischte at gmail dot com |
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