| Eric Katz | |
| Birth Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Thesis Title: | A Formalism for Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants[1] |
| Thesis Year: | 2004 |
| Doctoral Advisors: | Yakov Eliashberg Ravi Vakil |
| Known For: | Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture |
| Field: | Mathematics |
Eric Katz is a mathematician working in combinatorial algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University.
In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and June Huh, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.[2] [3] [4] With Joseph Rabinoff and David Zureick-Brown, he has given bounds on rational and torsion points on curves.
Katz went to Beachwood High School, in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Ohio State University in 1999, he pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 2004 with a thesis written under the direction of Yakov Eliashberg and Ravi Vakil.