Andreas Malmendier Ph.D.
Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor

Contact Information
Office Location: Animal Science (ANSC) 307Phone: (435) 797-5518
Email: andreas.malmendier@usu.edu
Awards
College of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year, 2026
USU College of Arts and Sciences
MAA Intermountain Outstanding Teaching Award, 2025
Mathematical Association of America
Mathematics Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2025
USU Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2024
USU Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Speaker for TEDx, 2021
USU
College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2020
USU College of Science
Mathematics Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2020
USU Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2019
USU Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Distinguished Capstone Mentoring Award, 2018
USU Honors Program
Speaker for TEDx, 2013
Colby College
Mochizuki Award for Outstanding Teaching Achievements, 2010
UCSB
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Shaska, T., (2025). Kummer Surfaces, Isogenies and Theta Functions. NATO Sci. Peace Secur.
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Williams, B., (2025). On K3 surfaces and orthogonal modular forms. Nagoya Math., doi: 10.1017/nmj.2025.10071
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., (2025). On K3 surfaces of Picard rank 14. Math. Nachr., 298:1, 6-52. doi: 10.1002/mana.202200197
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Roulleau, X., (2025). On projective K3 surfaces X with Aut(X)=(Z/2Z)^2. Indiana Univ. Math. J., 74:5, 1293-1325.
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Poon, F., (2025). On two-elementary K3 surfaces with finite automorphism group. Manuscripta Math., 176:3, doi: 10.1007/s00229-025-01634-x
- Malmendier, A., Schultz, M., (2024). On holomorphic conformal structures associated with lattice polarized K3 surfaces. Contemp. Math., Recent Advances in Differential Geometry and Related Areas., 821, 119-134. doi: 10.1090/conm/821/16440
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., (2024). On Neron-Severi lattices of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces. Manuscripta Math., 173:3-4, 847-866. doi: 10.1007/s00229-023-01486-3
- Malmendier, A., Hill, T., Clingher, A., (2023). Jacobian elliptic fibrations on the generalized Inose quartic of Picard rank sixteen. Albanian J. Math., 17:1, 13-28. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1908.09578
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., (2022). On the duality of F-theory and the CHL string in seven dimensions . Commun. Math. Phys., 393:2, 631-667. doi: 10.1007/s00220-022-04374-1
- Malmendier, A., Schultz, M., (2022). On the mixed-twist construction and monodromy of associated Picard-Fuchs systems. Commun. Number Theory Phys., 16:3, 459–513. doi: 10.4310/CNTP.2022.v16.n3.a2
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Shaska, T., (2022). On isogenies among certain abelian surfaces. Michigan Math. J., 71, 227-269. doi: 10.1307/mmj/20195790
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Shaska, T., (2021). Geometry of Prym varieties for special bielliptic curves of genus three and five. Pure Appl. Math. Q., 17:5, 1739-1784. doi: 10.4310/PAMQ.2021.v17.n5.a5
- Malmendier, A., Braeger, N., Spatig, S., Clingher, A., (2021). Isogenies of certain K3 surfaces of rank 18. Res. Math. Sci., 8:4, 60 pp. doi: 10.1007/s40687-021-00293-0
- Malmendier, A., Schultz, M., (2020). From the signature theorem to anomaly cancellation. Rocky Mountain J. Math., 50:1, 181-212. doi: 10.1216/rmj.2020.50.181
- Braeger, N., Malmendier, A., Sung, Y., (2020). Kummer sandwiches and Greene-Plesser construction. J. Geom. Phys., 154:103718, doi: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2020.103718
- Malmendier, A., Reid, J., (2020). The Biot-Savart Law for Parabolic Vortex Segments. Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 71:104, 20 pp. doi: 10.1007/s00033-020-01319-3
- Malmendier, A., Hill, T., Clingher, A., (2020). The duality between F-theory and the Heterotic String in D=8 with two Wilson lines. Lett. Math. Phys., 110:11, 3081-3104. doi: 10.1007/s11005-020-01323-8
- Malmendier, A., Sung, Y., (2019). Counting rational points on Kummer surfaces. Res. Number Theory, 5:3, 23 pp. doi: 10.1007/s40993-019-0166-x
- Malmendier, A., Shaska, T., (2019). From hyperelliptic to superelliptic curves. Albanian J. Math., 13:1, 107-200.
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., (2019). Nikulin involutions and the CHL string. Comm. Math. Phys., 370:3, 959-994. doi: 10.1007/s00220-019-03296-9
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., (2019). Normal forms for Kummer surfaces. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 2:459, 119-174. doi: 10.1017/9781108773355.006
- Malmendier, A., Clingher, A., Shaska, T., (2019). Six line configurations and string dualities. Comm. Math. Phys., 371:1, 159-196. doi: 10.1007/s00220-019-03372-0
- Doran, C.F, Malmendier, A., (2019). Calabi-Yau manifolds realizing symplectically rigid monodromy tuples. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 23:5, 1271-1359. doi: 10.4310/ATMP.2019.v23.n5.a3
- Malmendier, A., (2018). Elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces with large Picard rank. Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, doi: 10.14288/1.0369041 *
- Griffin, E., Malmendier, A., (2018). Jacobian elliptic Kummer surfaces and special function identities. Commun. Number Theory Phys., 12:1, 97-125. doi: 10.4310/CNTP.2018.v12.n1.a4
- Beshaj, L., Hidalgo, R., Kruk, S., Malmendier, A., Quispe, S., Shaska, T., (2018). Rational points in the moduli space of genus two. Contemp. Math., 703, 83-115. doi: 10.1090/conm/703/14132
- Malmendier, A., Shaska, T., (2017). A universal genus-two curve from Siegel modular forms. SIGMA Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl., 13:089, 17 pp. doi: 10.3842/SIGMA.2017.089
- Clingher, A., Doran, C.F, Malmendier, A., (2017). Special function identities from superelliptic Kummer varieties. Asian J. Math., 21:5, 909-951. doi: 10.4310/AJM.2017.v21.n5.a6
- Malmendier, A., Shaska, T., (2017). The Satake sextic in F-theory. J. Geom. Phys., 120, 290-305. doi: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2017.06.010
- Malmendier, A., Morrison, D.R, (2015). K3 surfaces, modular forms, and non-geometric heterotic compactifications. Lett. Math. Phys., 105:8, 1085-1118. doi: 10.1007/s11005-015-0773-y
- Griffin, M., Malmendier, A., Ono, K., (2015). SU(2)-Donaldson invariants of the complex projective plane. Forum Mathematicum, 27:4, 2003-2023. doi: 10.1515/forum-2013-6013
- Malmendier, A., (2012). Kummer surfaces associated with Seiberg-Witten curves. J. Geom. Phys., 62:1, 107-123. doi: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.09.010
- Malmendier, A., Ono, K., (2012). Moonshine for M_24 and Donaldson invariants of CP^2. Commun. Number Theory Phys., 6:4, 759-770. doi: 10.4310/CNTP.2012.v6.n4.a1
- Malmendier, A., Ono, K., (2012). SO(3)-Donaldson invariants of CP^2 and mock theta functions. Geometry and Topology, 16:3, 1767-1833. doi: 10.2140/gt.2012.16.1767
- Malmendier, A., (2011). Donaldson invariants of CP^1xCP^1 and mock theta functions. Commun. Number Theory Phys., 5:1, 203-229. doi: 10.4310/CNTP.2011.v5.n1.a5
- Malmendier, A., (2011). The signature of the Seiberg-Witten surface: Perspectives in mathematics and physics. Surv. Differ. Geom., 15, 255-277. doi: 10.4310/SDG.2010.v15.n1.a8
- Malmendier, A., (2007). Expressions for the generating function of the Donaldson invariants for CP^2. MIT, ProQuest LLC, 081868
- Malmendier, A., (2003). The eigenvalue equation on the Eguchi-Hanson space. J. Math. Phys., 44:9, 4308-4343. doi: 10.1063/1.1579548
- Malmendier, A., (1997). Visualizing Special Theory of Relativity. Praxis der Naturwissenschaften, Physik in der Schule, 35:1, 30-33.
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