Eric Katz is a mathematician working in combinatorial algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University. In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and June Huh, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. With Joseph Rabinoff and David Zureick-Brown, he has given bounds on rational and torsion points on curves. Education Katz went to Beachwood High School, in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. After earning a B.S. in Mathematics from Ohio State University in 1999, he pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2004 with a thesis written under the direction of Yakov Eliashberg and Ravi Vakil. References Year of birth missing (living people) 1970s births Living people Ohio State University faculty University of Waterloo faculty Stanford University alumni People from Cleveland Mathematicians from Ohio Algebraic geometers Combinatorialists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni