About meI am Matthias Goerner (or "Görner" in native German spelling).I love math, programming, animation, Tango, and the San Francisco Bay Area. I studied math and computer science at 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. I am currently developing new features for Pixar's in-House animation software that will be used in the next Pete Docter film "Inside Out". I am happy to be surrounded by so many smart engineers and talented artists. I occasionally still do math research with Christian Zickert and am still developing and maintaing the ptolemy module that allows one to study PGL(N,C)-represenatations of 3-manifolds. There is video of the talk I gave about it at the "Topology, Geometry and Group Theory, Informed by Experiment" conference at ICERM, Brown University in October 2013. News (2014/10/03): The new trailer is out. News (2014/10/05): I will give another talk about the ptolemy module in June 2015 at "Representations of 3-manifold groups, geometric structures and exact computations" conference at Jussieu in Paris in June 2015. ContactEmail: enischte at gmail dot com |
 (Photography: Siyu Wu)
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