Freie Universitaet Berlin
Institut fuer Mathematik
Arnimallee 3
14195 Berlin
Germany
Room 115
Tel: +49 30 838 75427
rbirkner[at]mi.fu-berlin.de
I am a PhD student at the Freie Universitaet Berlin in the AG Algebra. My advisor is Professor Klaus Altmann.
I am a member of the Berlin Mathematical School as a Phase II student, as well as a member and scholarship holder of the International Research Training Group Arithmetic and Geometry of HU Berlin, ETH Zuerich and Universitaet Zuerich.
I am the author of the Macaulay 2 package "Polyhedra" for computations with convex polyhedra, cones and fans.
Research interests