He is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and SIAM. Jonathan D. Hauenstein is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and SIAM. Andrew J. Sommese is the Vincent J. and Annamarie Micus Duncan Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematics Society and SIAM. Charles W. Wampler is a Technical Fellow at the General Motors Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Applied and Compuational Mathematics and Statistics. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of SIAM.