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 1998 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science. In 2007 she won the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She has also been a MacArthur Fellow.
Karen Uhlenbeck has supervised 16 doctoral students including Georgios Daskalopoulos who is now a Professor at Brown University.
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 links
- Karen K. Uhlenbeck's home page. Accessed 14 March 2006.
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Karen Uhlenbeck”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Karen Uhlenbeck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
