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Dr. Anton Dochtermann

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics

Biography and expertise

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.

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Mathematics

University of Washington, 2007

Master's Degree

MA in Mathematics

University of Washington, 2007

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Mathematics

Univ of California, Berkeley, 2000

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). NSF REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics (#: 2447229), 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). NSF REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics (#: 2150205), 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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  • Blanton, T., Dochtermann, A. M., Hong, I., Oh, S., & Zhan, Z. (n.d.). Parking functions and chip-firing on hypergraphs. Combinatorial Theory.
  • 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. (2025). 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.
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: Outstanding Research Award, Texas State Department of Mathematics. December 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Teaching Award, Texas State Department of Mathematics. December 2024
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Outstanding Research Award, Texas State Department of Mathematics. December 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2020
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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

    Transaction of the American Math Society

  6. Graduate Advisor

    Program advisor for Math PhD

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