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Dr. Anton Michael Dochtermann

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics

Biography and education

I received my undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley majoring in math and minoring in art practice. I did my graduate work at the University of Washington under the supervision of Eric Babson and Isabella Novik. I held postdoctoral positions at TU Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt research fellow), Stanford (NSF institutes postdoc), U Miami, and U Texas before joining the faculty at Texas State in 2016.

Research Interests

  • Yang, Yong (Principal), Keller, Thomas M (Co-Principal), Sun, Shuying (Supporting), Dochtermann, Anton (Supporting), Oh, Suho (Supporting), Shen, Xiaoxi (Supporting), Xiao, Jun (Supporting). REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, NSF, Federal, $271568. (Submitted: August 2024, Funded: April 1, 2025 - March 28, 2028). Grant.
  • Dochtermann, Anton Michael. Topics and in algebraic and geometric combinatorics, Simons Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $42000. (Submitted: January 2022, Funded: September 2022 - Present). Grant.
  • Dochtermann, Anton Michael. Renewed Research Stay, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal, $3200. (Submitted: February 2022, Funded: July 1, 2022 - July 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Yang, Yong (Principal), Keller, Thomas M (Co-Principal), Sun, Shuying (Supporting), Zhao, Qiang (Supporting), Dochtermann, Anton (Supporting), Oh, Suho (Supporting). REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, NSF, Federal, $305417. (Submitted: August 2021, Funded: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
  • Dochtermann, Anton Michael. Renewed Research Stay, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal, $3300. (Submitted: March 2016, Funded: June 20, 2016 - July 20, 2016). Grant.
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  • Cho, M., Dochtermann, A. M., Inagaki, R., Oh, S., Snustad, D., & Zacovic, B. (2025). Chip-firing and critical groups of signed graphs. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 39(2).
  • Almousa, A., Dochtermann, A. M., & Smith, B. (n.d.). Root polytopes, tropical types, and toric edge ideals. Algebraic Combinatorics.
  • Dochtermann, A. M., & Newman, A. (2023). Random subcomplexes and Betti numbers of random edge ideals. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2023(10), 8832–8871.
  • Coleman, M., Dochtermann, A. M., Geist, N., & Oh, S. (2022). Completing and extending shellings of vertex decomposable complexes. SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 36(2), 1291–1305.
  • Dochtermann, A. M., Meyers, E., Samavedam, R., & Yi, A. (2021). Integral flow and cycle chip-firing on graphs,. Annals of Combinatorics, 25(3), 595–616.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Teaching Award, Texas State Department of Mathematics. December 2024 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Service Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Texas State Alpha Chi Honor Society. April 12, 2019
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  1. Organizer

    Texas State Algebraic Combinatorics Reading Seminar

  2. Coordinator / Organizer

    AMS Special Session on `Geometric Combinatorics'

  3. Speaker

    NotSoMath Austin

  4. Coordinator / Organizer

    AMS Special Session on Topological combinatorics and combinatorial commutative algebra

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Discrete Math

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Algebra Combinatorics Discrete Structures and Applications

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