matthias beck

current positions

• professor of mathematics, san francisco state university

education & previous positions

• staatsexamen mathematics and physics (secondary education), universität würzburg, 1997
• diplom mathematics, universität würzburg, 1997
• ph.d. mathematics, temple university, 2000
• robert riley assistant professor, binghamton university (suny), fall 2000 - spring 2003
• member, mathematical sciences research institute, berkeley, fall 2003 & spring 2008
• member, max-planck-institut für mathematik, bonn, spring - summer 2004
• assistant professor, san francisco state university, fall 2004 - spring 2009
• associate professor, san francisco state university, fall 2009 - spring 2013
• professeur invité, université d'evry val d'essonne, may 2012
• visiting scholar, cornell university, august - september 2014
• gastprofessor, technische & freie universität berlin, october - december 2014
• visiting professor, vassar college, spring 2015
• associate chair of mathematics, san francisco state university, fall 2016 - spring 2019 & spring 2021 - spring 2023
• gastprofessor, freie universität berlin, fall 2019 - summer 2021

research & writing

• books
• papers
• citations: mathscinet, zbmath, google scholar

teaching & mentoring

• undergraduate and graduate courses at binghamton, fu berlin, and sf state, including number system, proofs & exploration, number theory, complex analysis, algebra, combinatorics, linear algebra, probability & statistics, discrete geometry, computational geometry, communicating mathematics, capstone seminar
• adviser to numerous research students and postdocs at sf state, uc berkeley, fu berlin, and msri
• mentor for the national alliance for doctoral studies in the mathematical sciences (since 2009)
• research director for msri-up 2012
• research leader for reuf 2014
• codirector of the san francisco math circle (2005-1014)
• director of the (cm)² program at sf state (2009-2014)
• consultant for project next (2009/10, 2014-16, 2021/22)
• 2012 award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics, northern california, nevada & hawaii section of the mathematical association of america
• 2013 deborah and franklin tepper haimo award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics

grants

• national science foundation research grant dms-1162638 ($143,904)
• national science foundation gk-12 grant dge-0841164 ($2,960,937)
• national science foundation research grant dms-0810105 ($140,414)
• national science foundation conference grant dms-0963923 ($49,430)
• sf state presidential award for professional development, spring 2008
• sf state summer research grants, 2005 & 2006

editorial boards

• pump journal of undergraduate research (since 2022)
• combinatorial theory (since 2020)
• mathOA (since 2018)
• bhāvanā (2018-2021)
• maa textbooks (2014-2019)
• electronic journal of combinatorics (since 2013)
• online journal of analytic combinatorics (since 2013)
• expositiones mathematicae (2011-2012)
• journal of number theory (2004-2012)

conference organization

• formal power series & algebraic combinatorics 2009-2011 & 2015
• ipam workshop computational interactions between algebra, combinatorics, and discrete geometry 2025
• aim workshop ehrhart polynomials: inequalities and extremal constructions 2022
• banff workshop dedekind sums in geometry, topology, and arithmetic 2009
• ams sessions in san francisco (2006, 2009, 2014, 2018), san diego (2008), and claremont (2008)
• msri workshop great circles 2009
• ams-ims-siam summer research conferences 2003 & 2006
• msri/pims/banff summer school 2005
• bay area discrete math days 2004-2006

languages etc.

• german (native)
• american sign language (intermediate)
• spanish (californian)
• bread & brötchen
• music
• cycling (data)

detailed cv