Karen Uhlenbeck
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Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Uhlenbeck received her B.A. in 1964 from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1968, in which she presented a thesis on "The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis." She participates or has participated in research in the fields of geometric partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, gauge theory, integrable system, Virasoro actions, non-linear waves, and non-linear Schrödinger equations.
[edit] External link
- Karen K. Uhlenbeck's home page. Accessed 14 March 2006.
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Karen Uhlenbeck". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Karen Uhlenbeck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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