Jose Israel Rodriguez

I am in the Department of Mathematics.
I also belong to the Institute for Foundations of Data Science and have a secondary affiliation with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

In Fall 2020 I started a tenure track position at UW Madison and was awarded the Nellie McKay Fellowship. Prior to my time at Madison, I had an NSF Postdoc with Jon Hauenstein and was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago with Lek-Heng Lim. 

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where I became a McNair Scholar with Eric Katz as a faculty mentor. After getting a bachelors degree in pure math, I began the PhD program at UC Berkeley. There I was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship and worked with Bernd Sturmfels, which is how I became interested in applied algebraic geometry. 

Here is a link to a talk at the Simons Institute about my thesis work. 

• • At UW Madison we run an Applied Algebra Seminar.
    We meet at 11am Central Time on Thursdays. 

  • I co-organized the SIAM SAGA (recordings).

  • I am a member of the SIAM Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry, which brings together researchers who use algebraic geometry in industrial and applied mathematics.
    Main conference: AG25, AG23, AG21, AG19, AG17, AG15, AG13.

  • When it runs, I attend the Algebraic Statistics Online Seminar. 

  • Algebraic statistics and our changing world: New methods for new challenges

    • This IMSI (Chicago) long program will be Fall 2023: September 18 — December 15, 2023 

      • The program will have four workshops spread out through the semester. 

      • There will be research seminars which run weekly for visitors and people staying throughout the semester. 

      • Students and postdocs are encouraged to apply to stay for the entire semester.

      • Applications are open!

• Fall 2023: IMSI Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World

• 7/29/21 (with Polly Yu): How to AG21?

• 08/31/20-09/02/20 (with Frank Sottile and Alex Esterov) Monodromy and Galois groups in Enumerative Geometry and Applications  

• 9/19/20 (with Polly Yu): WIMAW Meet and Greet 

• Applications of Algebra: AMS24 AMS19.

• Algebraic statistics: AMS20 SIAM AG19 SIAM AN18 JSM18 SIAM AN16.

• Likelihood Geometry and Maximum Likelihood Degrees SIAM AG17 SIAM AG15.

• Numerical methods in algebraic geometry SIAM AG23 SIAM AG19 SIAM AN18 JMM17.

2023

• January 2023: Polynomial systems, homotopy continuation and applications (AMS Short Course at JMM Organized by Timothy Duff and Margaret Regan) January 2-3, 2022, Boston, MA.

• Fall 2023: Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World: New Methods for New Challenges 

2022

• January 5-8, JMM

  • AMS Special Session on Latinxs in Combinatorics

  • AMS Special Session on Structured Polynomial Systems In Mathematics and Its Applications

• March 26-27 AMS Sectional, Purdue.

  • Special Session on Computational and Applied Algebraic Geometry 

  • Special Session on Nonlinear Algebra with Applications to Statistics

• April 7, 2022. Online at Purdue . 

• May 16-20 Algebraic Statistics, Hawaii

• May 27-29, 2022. Macaulay2 Conference, Cleveland State University, Ohio, 

• June 20-24 Kraków, Poland, MEGA 2022

• June 27-July 1, CCAAGS (Combinatorial, Computational, and Applied Algebraic Geometry in Seattle)

• July 4-7, Lille, France, ISSAC 2022 (Not attending)

• July 7-9, Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference 2022, UCLA.

• September 17-18, 2022 (Saturday - Sunday) University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX (Fall Central Sectional Meeting)

• December 4 - 10,  Algebraic Structures in Statistical Methodology, Oberwolfach, Germany.

2021

• August 16-20,  2021, AG21

• July 29 (Thursday 11:30am Central Time) How to AG21?

• July 26 -30, IFDS 2021 Summer School

• July 12-16, and 19-23, MCA (Mathematical Congress of the Americas)