Prof. dr. D. (Dirk) Siersma

Hans Freudenthalgebouw
Budapestlaan 6
Kamer 515
3584 CD Utrecht

Prof. dr. D. (Dirk) Siersma

Emeritus Professor
Mathematical Institute
+31 30 253 1475
d.siersma@uu.nl

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2023). Hooke and Coulomb Energy of Tripod Spiders. (pp. 1-8). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.09314
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432134/2301.09314v1.pdf?sequence=1
Siersma, D., & Panina, G. Y. (2023). Concurrent normals of immersed manifolds. Communications in Mathematics, 31(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.46298/cm.10840
Siersma, D. (2023). Extremal area of polygons sliding along curves. Journal of Geometry and Physics, 187, 1-16. Article 104786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2023.104786

2022

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2022). Polar degree and vanishing cycles. Journal of Topology, 15(4), 1807-1832. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1112/topo.12260
Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2022). Polar degree of hypersurfaces with 1-dimensional singularities. Topology and its Applications, 313, Article 107992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2021.107992
Karpenkov, O., Müller, C., Panina, G., Servatius, B., Servatius, H., & Siersma, D. (2022). Equilibrium stressability of multidimensional frameworks. European Journal of Mathematics, 8(1), 33-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40879-021-00523-3
Siersma, D., & van der Kallen, W. (2022). Subset representations and eigenvalues of the universal intertwining matrix. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 226(8), 1-6. Article 107024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2022.107024
Siersma, D. (2022). Extremal Area of Polygons, sliding along a Circle. Hokkaido Mathematical Journal, 51(1), 175-187. https://doi.org/10.14492/HOKMJ/2020-312
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/421015/2001.10882?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2021). Polar degree of hypersurfaces with 1-dimensional singularities. arXiv. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.05743
Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2021). Polar degree and vanishing cycles. (pp. 1-26). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2103.04402
Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2021). Area-perimeter duality in polygon spaces. Mathematica Scandinavica, 127(2), 252–263. https://doi.org/10.7146/math.scand.a-126041
Siersma, D., Steenbrink, J., & Tibar, M. (2021). On Huh's conjectures for the polar degree. Journal of Algebraic Geometry, 30, 189-203. https://doi.org/10.1090/jag/741

2020

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Siersma, D., & Panina, G. (2020). Extremal Areas of Polygons with fixed Perimeter. Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 247(5), 731–737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-020-04835-9

2019

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2019). Connecting cycles for concentric circles. Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, 13(1), 13-21.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/390195/02_Ximshiashvili.pdf?sequence=2

2018

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2018). Regular stars as critical points. Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, 12(4), 17-22.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407767/03_Khimshiashvili.pdf?sequence=1
Siersma, D. (2018). Non reduced plane curve singularities with b1(F)=0 and Bobadilla's question. Topology and its Applications, 234(Special issue), 104-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2017.11.029
Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2018). On the area of constrained polygonal linkages. Topology and its Applications, 238, 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2018.02.004
Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2018). Motion planning and control of a planar polygonal linkage. Journal of Symbolic Computation, 88, 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2018.02.002

2017

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2017). Milnor Fibre Homology via Deformation. In W. Decker, G. Pfister, & M. Schulze (Eds.), Singularities and Computer Algebra: Festschrift for Gert-Martin Greuel on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday (pp. 305-322) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28829-1_14
Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (2017). Vanishing homology of projective hypersurfaces with 1-dimensional singularities. Central European Journal of Mathematics, 3(3), 565-586. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40879-017-0151-7
Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., Siersma, D., & Zolotov, V. (2017). Point Charges and Polygonal Linkages. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 23(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-015-9286-3

2016

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2016). Equilibria of three constrained point charges. Journal of Geometry and Physics, 106, 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2016.03.006

2015

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., & Siersma, D. (2015). Equilibria of point charges on convex curves. Journal of Geometry and Physics, 98, 110-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2015.07.024
Siersma, D. (2015). Extremal configurations of robot arms in three dimensions. Journal of Singularities, 12, 180-190. https://doi.org/10.5427/jsing.2015.12m
Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2015). Cross-ratios of quadrilateral linkages. Journal of Singularities, 13, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.5427/jsing.2015.13h

2014

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G. N., Panina, G. Y., & Siersma, D. (2014). Coulomb Control of Polygonal Linkages. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 20(4), 491-501. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-014-9218-7

2013

Scholarly publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., Siersma, D., & Zhukova, A. (2013). Critical configurations of planar robot arms. Central European Journal of Mathematics, 11(3), 519-529. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11533-012-0147-y
Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2013). Critical Configurations of planar Multiple Penduli. Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 195(2), 198-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-013-1574-4

2012

Professional publications

Siersma, D. (2012). Poincaré and Analysis Situs, the beginning of algebraic topology. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 5, 13(3), 196-200.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/272371/Poincare%27_naw5-2012-13-3-196.pdf?sequence=1

2011

Scholarly publications

Professional publications

Khimshiashvili, G., Panina, G., Siersma, D., & Zhukova, A. (2011). Extremal configurations of polygonal linkages. (Oberwolfach preprints ed.) OWP.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/233977/OWP2011_24.pdf?sequence=1

2010

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & van Manen, M. (2010). Medial axis and a moment map. Demonstratio Mathematica, 43(2), 375-385.

2009

Scholarly publications

Birbrair, L., & Siersma, D. (2009). Metric properties of conflict sets. Houston Journal of Mathematics, 35(1), 73-80.

2008

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (2008). The nine Morse generic tetrahedra. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 22(2), 737-746.

Professional publications

Siersma, D. (2008). Visie op wiskundeonderwijs. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 5, 9(4), 282.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/315355/282.pdf?sequence=1

2007

Professional publications

Siersma, D., & Drijvers, P. H. M. (2007). Rijk aan betekenis, het visiedocument van cTWO in vogelvlucht. Euclides, 82(5), 169-172.
van Asselt, R., Beukers, F., Blankespoor, J., Broer, H., Drijvers, P. H. M., Garst, S., van de Giessen, C., Kaenders, R., Kleijne, W., Kollenveld, M., Peletier, M., Siersma, D., van Streun, A., & Zaal, C. G. (2007). Rijk aan betekenis. Visie op vernieuwd wiskundeonderwijs. Commissie Toekomst WiskundeOnderwijs, cTWO.

2006

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2006). Singularity Exchange at the Frontier of the Space (in: Real and Complex Singularities). Trend in Mathematics, 342.
Gusein Zade, S., & Siersma, D. (2006). Deformations of Polynomials and their Zeta Functions, Contemporary Mathematics and its Applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations (pp. 36-42)
Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2006). Stable Holomorphic Curves in Loop Spaces. Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, 173(2), 225-229.
Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2006). The Gauss-Bonnet defect of complex affine hypersurfaces. Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, 130(2), 110-122.

2005

Scholarly publications

van Manen, M., & Siersma, D. (2005). Power diagrams and Morse Theory. arXiv. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005math......8037V
Siersma, D., & Tiba, M. (2005). Lectures on the topology of polynomial functions and singularities at infinity. In J. P. Brasselet, J. Damon, L. E. Dung Trang, & M. Oka (Eds.), Singularities in geometry and topology (pp. 520-555). World Scienctific.

2004

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2004). Curvature and Gauss-Bonnet defect of global affine hypersurfaces. Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques, 130. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004math......7056S
Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2004). On the vanishing cycles of a meromorphic function on the complement of its poles. Contemporary Mathematics, 354, 277-289.

2003

Scholarly publications

Lindenbergh, R. C., van der Kallen, W. L. J., & Siersma, D. (2003). Configuration spaces and limits of voronoi diagrams. Banach Center Publications, 62, 183-195.
Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2003). Deformations of polynomials, boundary singularities and monodromy. Moscow Mathematical Journal, 3(2), 661-679.
Khimshiasvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2003). Remarks on minimal round functions. Banach Center Publications, 62, 159-172.
Janeczko, S., & Siersma, D. (2003). Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics2002. (Banach Center Publications ed.) Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics. http://journals.impan.gov.pl/bc/Cont/bc62-0.html

2002

Other output

Siersma, D. (2002). Deformations of polynomials. Paper presented at Unknown event, Asilomar, USA.

2001

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (2001). Singularities at infinity and their vanishing cycles, II. Monodromy. Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 36(6), 659-679.
Siersma, D. (2001). The vanishing topology of nn isolated singularities. In D. Siersma, C. T. C. Wall, & V. Zakalyvkin (Eds.), New Developments in Singularity Theory (pp. 447-472). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Siersma, D., Wall, C. T. C., & Zakalyvkin, V. (2001). New Developments in Singularity Theory. (Nato Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2000

Scholarly publications

Jiang, G., Oka, M., Duc, T. P., & Siersma, D. (2000). Lines on Brieskorn-Pham surfaces. Kodai Mathematical Journal, 23, 214-223.
Siersma, D., & Smeltink, J. W. (2000). Classification of singularities at infinity of polynomials of degree 4 in two variables. Georgian Mathematical Journal, 7, 179-190.
Khimshiashvili, G., & Siersma, D. (2000). Minimal round functions on Low-dimensional manifolds. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, 162, 3-7.

1999

Scholarly publications

Jiang, G., & Siersma, D. (1999). Local Embeddings of Lines in Singular Hypersurfaces. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 49(4), 1129-1147.
Sotomayor, J., Siersma, D., & García, R. (1999). Curvatures of conflict surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. In S. Janeczka, & V. M. Zakalyvkin (Eds.), Geometry and topology of Caustics - Caustics '98 (pp. 277-285). (Banach Center Publications; No. 50). Polish Academy of Sciences.
Siersma, D. (1999). Properties of Conflict Sets in the Plane. In S. Janeczko, & V. M. Zakalyukin (Eds.), Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics '98 (pp. 267-276). (Banach Center Publications; No. 50). Polish Academy of Sciences.
Siersma, D. (1999). Voronoi Diagrams and Morse theory of the Distance function. In O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen, & E. B. Vedel Jense (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Geometry in Present Day Science (pp. 187-208). World Scienctific.

1998

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibar, M. (1998). Topology of polynomial functions and monodromy dynamics. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. Serie 1, mathématique, 327(1998), 655-660.

1995

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D., & Tibăr, M. (1995). Singularities at infinity and their vanishing cycles. Duke Mathematical Journal, 80(3), 771-783. https://doi.org/10.1215/S0012-7094-95-08026-0

1991

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (1991). Variation mappings on singularities with a 1-dimensional critical locus. Topology, 30(3), 445-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(91)90025-Y

1990

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (1990). The monodromy of a series of hypersurface singularities. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 65(1), 181-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566602

1987

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (1987). Singularities with critical locus a 1-dimensional complete intersection and transversal type A1. Topology and its Applications, 27(1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(87)90057-5

1981

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (1981). Singularities of functions on boundaries, corners, etc. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 32(1), 119-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/32.1.119

1973

Scholarly publications

Siersma, D. (1973). The singularities of C-functions of right-codimension smaller or equal than eight. Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings), 76(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/1385-7258(73)90018-8