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General Information
| Full Name | Elisabeth Leonie Kayser |
| Languages | German, English, French |
Education
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2023 - 2026 Ph.D. in Mathematics
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences - Member of the Numerical Algebraic Geometry group
- Research under the supervision of Simon Telen
- TAC mentor Fulvio Gesmundo
- Thesis Computation and Complexity in Algebraic Geometry
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2021 - 2022 M.Sc. Computer Science
Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany - Focus on theoretical computer science and machine learning
- Thesis on Gröbner Bases and Their Complexity, supervised by Heribert Vollmer
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2019 - 2022 M.Sc. Mathematics
Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany - Focus on Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Number Theory
- Thesis on The Waring problem for polynomials: Geometry and applications, supervised by Matthias Schütt
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2017 - 2021 B.Sc. Computer Science
Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany - Thesis on Geometric Complexity Theory, supervised by Arne Meier
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2016 - 2019 B.Sc. Mathematics
Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany - Thesis on Del Pezzo surfaces: Geometry and Arithmetic, supervised by Klaus Hulek
Honors and Awards
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- Dissertation with magna cum laude
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2024 - 2025 - External PhD Representative at MPI MiS
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2023 - Affiliated with the Dean's list of the EE-CS faculty at LUH
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2020 - President's Prize for Excellent Students at LUH
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2018 - 2021 - Stipend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
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2017 - 2018 - Stipend of the Deutschlandstipendium
Academic Interests
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Mathematics
- Commutative Algebra with a view towards computation
- Algebraic Geometry, specifically Hilbert functions, combinatorial aspects,
- Tensor decomposition
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Computer Science
- Computational Complexity and efficient algorithms
- Complexity of matrix multiplication
- Algebraic Complexity Theory
- Machine Learning