Andreas Malmendier Ph.D.

Mathematics and Statistics

Associate Professor


Andreas Malmendier

Contact Information

Office Location: Animal Science (ANSC) 307
Phone: (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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Publications | Other

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Teaching

MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Fall 2025
MATH 5270 - Complex Variables, Spring 2025
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Fall 2024
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Fall 2024
MATH 5270 - Complex Variables, Spring 2024
MATH 4200 - Foundations of Analysis, Spring 2024
MATH 4200 - Foundations of Analysis, Fall 2023
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2023
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2020
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2019
MATH 7810 - Topics in Mathematics (Topic), Fall 2019
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2019
MATH 5810 - Topics in Mathematics, Spring 2019
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2018

Graduate Students Mentored

Austin Alder, Mathematics & Statistics
Austin Alder, Mathematics & Statistics
Cordell Blankenship, Mathematics & Statistics
Shantel Spatig, Mathematics & Statistics 2022
Michael Schultz, Mathematics & Statistics 2021
Thomas Hill, Mathematics & Statistics 2020