Diane Maclagan

I am a Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Warwick I spent three years in the Mathematics Department at Rutgers University. I have also spent time at Stanford and the Institute for Advanced Study. I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, where my advisor was Bernd Sturmfels.


  • E-mail: D.Maclagan at warwick dot ac dot uk
  • Office: C2.26 Zeeman Building
  • Phone: +44 (0)24 765 28333
  • Fax: +44 (0)24 765 24182
  • Address:

    Mathematics Institute,
    University of Warwick
    Coventry, CV4 7AL
    United Kingdom.


Research: My research is in combinatorial and computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with emphasis on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry.

My research is supported by EPSRC.

Seminars and conferences: Warwick Computational Algebraic Geometry Workshop/ K-stability learning seminar / Warwick Algebraic Geometry / CCAAGGS-22 / M_{0,n} learning seminar / LMS-Bath Summer School on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry / Warwick Tropical Day / Workshop on Algebraic Geometry of Matroids at ICMS / British Algebraic Geometry Meeting (BRAG) / Other Warwick seminars / Other conferences/seminars

Teaching: In Term 2 (2022/23) I am teaching MA252 Combinatorial Optimisation, and MA4L7 Algebraic Curves. Information about older courses is available here.