Edvard Aksnes

I'm a software engineer working for PwC Norway, working in the national Generative AI team.

Previously I was a PhD student in Mathematics at the University of Oslo, working in tropical geometry, under the supervision of Kris Shaw.

CV

Work experience

Manager, xLoS Generative AI team, PwC Norway, September 2023 - Present
Associate, AI/ML group, Risk Advisory Services, PwC Norway, August 2019 - August 2020

Education

Doctoral Research Fellow in Mathematics, Tropical Geometry, University of Oslo, 2020-2024,
Disputation presentation, Trial Lecture presentation
MSc. in Mathematics, Algebra and Geometry, University of Oslo, 2017-2019, Thesis
BSc. in Mathematics, Informatics and Technology, University of Oslo, 2015-2017

Research

Tropicalization of curve arrangement complements and arroids, 2024

Cohomologically tropical varieties, joint with Omid Amini, Matthieu Piquerez, Kris Shaw, 2023

Tropical Poincaré duality spaces, In: Advances in Geometry vol. 23, no. 3 (2023), pp. 345-370, ArXiv version, MathSciNet: MR4626316

Talks

Tropical Poincaré duality spaces, The Fields Institute Matroid seminar, 2023-03-02

"What is cohomology?", Young People Seminar UiO, 2022-06-07

The Grothendieck and Leray spectral sequences, Student seminar, 2022-05-20

The Hodge Decomposition, Student seminar, 2022-03-25

Tropical Poincaré duality spaces, LAGARTOS, 2022-03-25

Newtonian physics, special relativity and some general relativity, Student seminar, University of Oslo, 2021-04-15

Fundamental groups in real and complex algebraic geometry, Student seminar, University of Oslo, 2021-01-28

Events attended

Non-exhaustive list:

ICERM: Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, Feb 1 - May 7, 2021
Seminar series on basics of (Weil's) Riemann hypothesis, March - June 2021, University of Oslo
CAS Oslo: Real Structures in Discrete, Algebraic, Symplectic and Tropical Geometries, Oslo, 2 - 5 August 2021
Tropical homology and Hodge theory, 23 - 27 August 2021
Göran Gustafsson Symposium, Hodge theory and comb. of matroids, Mittag-Leffler, 30 May - 01 June 2022
Topics in real and tropical algebraic geometry, Sophus Lie Conf. Center, Nordfjordeid, 20 - 24 June 2022
Non-Archimedean and Tropical Geometry, Regensburg, 1 - 5 August 2022
Nasjonalt Matematikermøte, Tromsø, 1 - 2 September 2022
Real Algebraic Geometry, CIRM, 24 - 28 October 2022
Real Aspects of Geometry, CIRM, 31 October - 4 November 2022
MaTroCom, Workshop on Matroids and Tropical Combinatorics, QMU London, 9 January - 13 January 2023
Tropical Methods in Geometry, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 14 May - 19 May 2023
Regular attendance in the LAGARTOS seminar
Regular attendance in the UiO Algebra Seminar

Posts

How do you test LLM output?, 2025-02-20

Computing the boundary complex using Macaulay2, 2023-05-08

What is the sheaf of meromorphic \(p\)-forms \(\Omega_X^k(*D)\)?, 2022-06-10

Plotting complex functions with Julia, 2021-03-27, (slow loading)

Manifolds: Topological, Smooth, Complex, Kähler (Work in Progresss)

Links

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